EVE New Citizens Q&A

Ganking: In high-security space (the number in the upper left of the screen by the system name being 0.5 or greater, color coded yellow, green, or blue) there is an inter-capsuleer police force called CONCORD that will lock you down and blow you up if you shoot someone outside of some very restricted situations (basically, they stole some loot from you first).

If you decide "**** it, this guy needs to die anyhow" and just fit enough damage to kill your target before the police show up (and then laugh evilly as they destroy your ship, assumably) then you're ganking.

Scramming: There is a module for mid-slot called a warp scrambler. If you activate it on an opponent (and they're in range, and haven't fitted their own countermeasures) then they cannot activate a Microwarp Drive or their main warp drive, meaning they can't warp away unless they can escape the range of the module first. There is another module called a disruptor that has larger range, but costs more capacitor to use and is easier to counter.

The general term for using either module is "pointing".

War Decking: When your War has a lawn, and it's nice, but you'd really like a place to sit in your rocking chair with a beer and chat with a neighbour, you might want to install some war decking.

War Deccing: If an entire corporation has pissed off your entire corporation, you can file an official declaration of war with CONCORD. The space cops will respect this and will allow members of your corporations to shoot each other in high sec without their usual response of killing everyone. Since only one party has to pay the fees to maintain a declaration of war and it gets less expensive the smaller the target corporation is, a lot of very small, PvE-focused corps regard being war-decced as harassment, because a lot of PvE-focused small corps have a disproportionate number of stupid people, apparently.

DPS is damage per second (fairly self explanatory)

plexes (short for complex) are combat sites that are found in space

PLEXes are Player License EXtensions which are an in-game item which can be bought for ISK (from other players who buy them from CCP for $) and will add a month of gametime to your account when sold

The differences between different corps depends a lot on the different corps in question, you'll have to be more specific

And bumping is posting an empty response to a thread to bring it back to the top of the forum

Edit: as a later poster said, bumping is also a term used to refer to ramming another ship with yours to move it

And Slaves are a set of implants which increase your armor HP when used (fairly expensive though, mostly used on capital ship pilots). There are also loot items which are 'slaves', but they serve little to no purpose and are rarely mentioned.

Here are some more,

What is a wormhole corp:

Are people talking about actual thing in the intergalactic summit thread:

I am a little confused on the whole scanning and room thing, can someone elaborate?

Also, can someone like me who is Gallente learn things such as skills for Caldari Frigates? If so, how.

Thank you, and I would assure you, I am not trolling, if you notice, I'm still in the beginner faction and alliance. Also, I usually find it better to have an actual person tell me what something is about, instead of searching through tons of sites.

People so far such as lost grey beard seem truely intelligent about what they are saying, and are giving me an easy to the point way of explaining things.

Wormholes come in two flavors:

Inter-system: you go into a wormhole in normal space and you come out somewhere else.

w-space: you go into a wormhole and come out in an uncharted system with no jump gates.

In the case of w-space, there are still resources to be extracted, etc, but the only way in or out is through the wormholes, which occasionally disappear and reform in a different place in the system, and lead back to a different, randomly-selected other system that may be in normal-space or another w-space system.

Thus, if you want to really set up an industrial operation in such a wormhole, you can't rely on the stations or bringing things in through jump gates, and have to set up your own manufacturing and so on using PoSes, planetary interaction, standing fleets, and so on, and constantly be ready to defend if someone else in whatever random system you're connected to that day thinks your resources look tasty.

This is further complicated by the fact that you can only move a certain amount of mass through a WH before it collapses and resets, meaning that the usual blob/capital fleet tactics of 0.0 space don't apply.

I guess the short way to say it is that WH corps are end-game for small-gang PvP and self-sufficiency enthusiasts.

Unknown Space is only reachable via wormholes. Wormholes are temporary random connections between systems; they have a time limit and a mass limit before they collapse.

Unknown Space is called w-space (wormhole space). Known space (hisec, lowsec, and nulsec) is called k-space.

W-Space is -1.0 security. Sovereignty cannot be claimed. Neither ship jump engines nor jumpclones can be used to enter/leave w-space, only wormholes; there are no stargates. W-space contains no stations, and is populated by NPC known as Sleepers, which are the toughest NPC in EVE. Supercapitals can neither enter nor be built in w-space.

A wormhole corp or w-space corp is a corp that has taken-up residence in a w-space system.

"Two Step" of the CSM is a w-space resident. He got the second most votes in the last election.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Wormhole

Heh, I'm going to keep answering, and then save a link to this thread somewhere and just post that when there's a jargon question.

Room: A mission often is in sections separated by acceleration gates, primarily so that ship size restrictions can be enforced (so you can't bring a capital ship into a L4 mission, can't use a T2 cruiser to do level 1s, etc) and also to make it slightly harder for someone who wants to steal your mission loot to find you.

If you've gone through a mission acceleration gate, you're in a room.

Scanning: Can't really be explained without a huge wall of text. For a practical demonstration of what it is, look it up on youtube, there are several quite excellent scanning tutorials. For a theoretical explanation, look up quadrangulation on wikipedia or something.

There are two basic types of probes, generic scanning probes which will help you find exploration sites, and combat scanning probes that let you find people.

Training: Go to the market window, make sure it's set to show things in the entire region, and type the skill you're looking for into the search box. Right-click one of the results, choose "set destination". Your autopilot can now take you to where the relevant book is being sold.

More generally, you'll want to search in a caldari region to look for caldari skills, etc. At least yo buy them from NPCs, nice folks will also sometimes cart some books over and resell them in other regions (for a profit, of course).

Quick question,

I know mining ships have a greater hull space, but when two ships are mining, one mining and one bringing back to a station, shouldnt the one with greater slots do it, and do mining ships have more slots or something?

Also, are regular items more effective that civilian items, I know it is a stupid question but are they?

What do people mean when they drop a container, and then suddenly are allowed to attack someone?

How do you buy stocks?

Also, how do you use the mining planetary thing that is found in the captains quarters?

Can I also get some info about rigging, the wiki doesn't give good info on it in my opinion.

Just adding this on, how many ships does the average noob have? The reason I'm asking is because I have 7.