EVE General Discussion

You just should have run to the gate an wait 30sec, eventually wait t'ill they get back and agrees you like noobs , then jump back anfdrun the feck of, that simple.

Gates can be your best friend if you know how to use them to spank asshats ass

Remember the 90% web bonus on a vindicator.


The moment that vindi glomphed onto him, he would have been doing a statue impression, even with a MWD.

Edit: and the geddon was likely remote sensor boosting the vindicator so that lock time was a second or 2 at most.

wat r u talking about. i was 15km away from the game after jumping. there was no way i could get to it with a bs before getting blown up

Yeah, I guess another thing you can say about "how does lowsec work", or how any area where people are free to engage you works, is that you can't win all of them. Even if he'd scouted, this gang, set up just for him, could've landed on the gate after he pulled the scout. Even if he'd had an alt to keep constant eyes on, a Redeemer could've uncloaked and killed him. So OP, think of it like poker - just as the entire game is not you playing one hand, EVE is not you flying one ship. Eventually you learn things about your opponents, and about the space you habit, and the otherwise mostly undifferentiated stars resolve into names that really mean something for you. This works even in nullsec when the systems have gibberish names - some gibberish names will come to have weight for you that others won't have.

The Vindi might not have had faction Webs or Gang bonuses (unlikely, sure, but that's why I said that he probably would have died anyway), and the range could have given OP time to crash the gate. It's still better odds than trying to warp away and hoping two battleships have some wacky hangup about going GCC on a gate.

I always thought they should flip the gates guns. Make them due massive damage to bs's but be tankable in a frigate. At least i would have more fun that way...

well you have these low and high sec pressure systems and when they mix you get a natural phenomenon called dead noobs... this usually goes along with forumthunder rage and obsessive epeen crying...

Sounds like you suffer from being naive. I will only enter lo sec in a cov ops or blockade runner, or if I have someone to scout ahead.

Having said that, I did what you did when my main was two weeks old and in a stabber. That was a cheap lesson about lo sec. And I asked about the guns in noob chat thinking that they should have protected me... Sorry you had to learn the hard way...

To answer your original question - how does lo sec work - the naive get ganked and their frozen corpses are desecrated.

A corp mate and I do PI, exploration, and ratting in a set of connected systems from 0.3-0.1, and we have never been ganked.
You need to use ships intended to survive there. For PI we use transport ships (blockade runners). For exploration and ratting I fly a Pilgrim (force recon) fitted for exploration, and I scout in my bud who is in a cloaky, passive buffer tanked Gila with drones plus Heavy missiles. (He does really well at speed tanking bigger ships and taking out frigates.)

The other thing to know about is system stats. We like our favorite systems, but we also work systems where there has been little or no activity recently. And as soon as we create activity, somebody will see that reflected in the system stats and will try to hunt us down in short order. So get in, do your work, and get out quick like.

There is much much more to learn and I suggest you call upon your corpmates at EvE Uni.

You have no idea how the game mechanics work.

Passive Alignment is a myth.

Short answer: Maybe.

Longer Answer: If you wouldn't normally get to Warp speed in the time it takes for an MWD to cycle, an MWD will cut your align time to roughly its cycle time.

Complete Answer: GTMFA (Thanks Dan Savage)