Out of Pod Experience

You learned EVE's harshest lesson first. A few years ago now I joined a nullsec alliance, I was completely new, had 120million isk to my name and a drake. I didn't know what jump bridges or anything like that was, I jumped straight into a gate camp and lost my drake, and foolishly paid the ransom for my pod. I had 1 million isk, and no ships. I literally nearly quit EVE.

What changed my mind? EVE is a game. Pixels can be remade. I now have 11 accounts, an 11 digit bank balance and plenty of spaceships to die in. EVE is hard, you live and you learn.

The problem is you made yourself a target, you might think you can trade peacefully but that doesn't exist in EVE. You have goals you want to achieve and that's great but you forget the other players around you have their own goals. Whoever killed you obviously wanted your cargo. You made two mistakes, firstly you where naive and believed you could "trade peacefully" and forgot other people would see a space piñata. Your second mistake was not preparing and taking precautions. Travelling a watched route in a flimsy ship and then going AFK was simply suicide.

The player that killed you, you said it yourself "out-smarting and out-playing your opponent." you made a mistake and the player that killed you took advantage of it and out played you,

I know its a hard lesson, many of us had that lesson to. What happens now is up to you, you can learn from it and pick yourself up and carry on. Do you want to be defeated and routed over some cargo? Dusting yourself and carrying on will make you stronger, you had your lesson and it was harsh but you will know better in the future.

You may want to quit but you can start again, you earned your ISK and learned trading skills and you can do it again and you will be more experienced. You might even make more ISK faster, you will also know you have to ensure your own safety and security.

Do not quit, try again and use the skills you learned and be even more successful in the future.

Most people have been positive because you didn't whine, in your post it was obvious you where disappointed but you didn't cry or whine. The players sympathise because they have been there themselves at some point.

Even when you have bucket loads of ISK and SP things can go wrong, ships can die, "friends" can scam you, cap ships can get bounced off a station because of a badly placed cyno.

EVE is like real life, you have to accept the ups and downs and live with the uncertainty. Check your contracts btw.

Only flying what you can afford to lose is a bs cliche. Fly whatever you want. Worst case scenario you have to take your insurance payout and run a few missions in a cruiser to make some isk back.

But if you are fine with that, then you can afford to lose the ship.

"Can afford to lose" does not mean "can afford to immediately replace out of your wallet". It means "can lose and go on playing". You might have a fancy ship you got from somewhere cheap and while you enjoy it you do not intend to replace if it gets blown up - you can easily afford to get it blown up, even if your wallet figure is way below it's total price. On the other hand, you might have saved your first Rifter evah and be so emotionally attached to it that if you lost it, you'd throw a tantrum and quit. You cannot afford to lose that Rifter, even though you could easily buy a dozen similar ones.

This is why EVE is nothing like other MMOs. If you feel that you've wasted your time playing this game then I'm sorry for you.

If you said that you've already quit the game and don't want to have anything to do with it anymore then why are you still posting on this thread? Trying to pick out a few freebies perhaps?

If you still want to play the game then my advise to you would be to join some corporation to your liking and get some help. After all, that's why corps are for right? To have fun and to help each other.

A lot of it depends on what you're hauling. I've made good money hauling 0.1 m3 items in shuttles. Know how to fly and what gates to avoid and you'll generally do okay.


Or when you need to answer the door, log out in space or dock up.


Always have reserves. ALWAYS. Don't risk more than half of what you have in a venture (until you know what you're doing and have the isk to spare...I keep about 75% of mine invested).
If you're spending months in T1 frigates, you need to find a better means of generating isk. There are a LOT of ways to do that and you should try more of them.

As usual, another victim not of non-consensual PVP, but of stupid ship loss.

Yes, PVP is expensive when you do nothing but blob and get blobbed. Eve, they say, is not like a FPS game where you lose nothing and respawn with everything, but why do so many people play like it is and fly into certain death?

Stupid ship loss is the root of many evils, the need to bot, grind incursions, RMT. All because people won't treat the sandbox like a sandbox and think outside of the box. It's like all those dumb yuppies being stuck on the same highway every day at the same time and it never occurs to them to try another route.

Yes there are lot of FCs and 0.0 overlords who run their fleets like 18th century aristocrats (whose real goal was to thin the population) but you don' have to be their fodder.

And yes, camp and blob tactics are a detriment to the game, but CCP appears to be working on that. The supercap hotdrop is on it's way out.

"My God, it's full of tears"

Hmmn well I have just upgraded a 60 day trial, so I'm a new player too.

All I can say is, there is no point quitting. You have learned a lot already, you made a hell of a lot of money for a new character, I'm a bit jealous actually XD

Quitting will probably only get a few laughs out of the guy that ganked you. You can make that money again. You seem to be just rejecting every piece of advice people are sending your way in this thread so if you really have your heart set on quitting, go ahead and don't take anyones advice. But people here are trying to help and encourage you!

So think about it- It's just a game, you will lose ships, you will lose money. But it isn't the end of the world.

I'm looking forward to playing and I am expecting a few losses along the way so don't feel bad, I think you did very well for yourself. Just don't spend all your money on one go XD