EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi all,

I'm just new in this game (2 days) and i was exploring some systems (I know it was a stupid thing to do).
I flew to a 0.4 security system and got shot ;D (1 hit i guess).

So that guy that shot me talked to me and said he was going warp me home. So i teleported back to home (Where you can walk around).
But when i undock, i fly in my escape pod.
How do i get my Rookie ship back?

Thanks for all the help in-game and here on the forums! You are a big help to help me further in this beautiful game!

Thanks for your reply! So my old ship is set unactive?
And someone has my corpse? Haha, is that bad?

Thanks for the help Kehro! Hope to meet you online sometime!

And about that body.. I'll just forget about my dead body hanging around somewhere

Your ship was killed.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=17538177

No big deal, it was a noob ship and had no isk value, you had fitted two cheap modules to it and had some ammunition aboard totally 46000 Isk - a minor amount even for a new player. The blaster and some of the ammunition was destroyed with your ship. The Armor repper and some of the ammunition survived and would probably have been scooped up by your attacker. If he didn't take it, another player passing by may have scooped it or after two hours the wreak and anything in it would have despawned and been lost. It is possible someone salvaged the wreak too within that two hour period using a salvaging module. The salvage for a noob ship would have only been a single metal scrap most likely, which is worth about 3000 Isk.

The Freedom of Operation license was also destroyed - nothing to worry about, that is just a Role Play item.

After losing your ship, the most important thing you should do is 'save your pod' You didn't.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=17538182

However, in this case the pod was worthless. In time, you will fit it out with implants worth more than the ship, you really do need to try and save your pod when you are in that position. Basically, as your ship is dying you should have a celestrial object selected on your overview and be spamming the Warp To button. Then your pod will warp as soon as your ship pops and your attacker loses the warp scramble/disruptor point on you. If you hang around he will quickly target and re-point your pod.

So your pod was destroyed - what does that mean? First you respawn at your medical clone location. That can save you some time if you have set it to a place where you actually want to be - you don't have to slow boat back there. But generally speaking it is a bad thing, because you lose any implants as already mentioned and once you have more than 900,000 SP under your belt, you have to 'Upgrade Your Clone' after every pod kill. This basically means insure your SP so that they are retained from one pod kill to the next. If you are not adequately insured when your pod is destroyed you lose some of that previous SP. I believe it is 10% from your highest trained skill.

When you dock up or respawn in a station which is empty of your ships. The game gives you a brand new Noob ship with a Civilian Miner and Civilian gun fitted to the high slots, plus a single unit of Tritanium in the cargohold. However, you have to open the assets window and actually board the ship before you can undock in it. You will only ever be given the noob ship of your race, regardless of who owns the station. That is probably the most significant effect of choosing a race at game start. Everything else can be cross trained. But if you are Gallente, you are stuck with Velator noob ships for life. Unless another players gives you a different type.

You can own as many noob ships as you can be bothered to undock in a capsule and run to a neigbouring station to spawn one. Provided no ship is in the station your capsule docks at, you will always be given another noob ship and get a poorly worded concilitary EMail from Concord assuming you just had a ship destroyed.

Edit - Additional: As for your corpse - one is generated whenever your pod is killed and can be scooped like loot. It is completely worthless, yet some players get very paranoid about people having their corpses. I've seen players buy them back for 100 Million Isk+, others collect them and have containers full of them. Why I never understood. I once went to the effort of flying out to a nearby pod loss to pick up my corpse and then I destroyed it. But now I don't even think about them and I certainly wouldn't pay for one to be returned to me.

. . . or you buy a different type from the market, but you will never be given a different one free when docking your capsule where you don't have a ship.

Wauw! Thanks all for the nice responses!!
Really love this community! Nobody whining about me being a noob (World of warcraft experiences haha).

Really clear reply's, i understand what i have to do now, thanks!

@Tiberious Thessalonia: Thanks! I will look you up in the game, i look forward to it!

You will be overwhelmed with questions from me hahaha.
I really want to learn this game!

Also post your questions when you need ot. This section is super friendly to a good attitude. Plus you help all the people with the same questions but that are to shy to post.

We are a far cry from wow. We understand that players need help. Eve throws a lot at you.

Attitude goes a long way in eve. If you had acted all butt hurt it is likely you would have got a negative response here. However yourerecognise your error and want to improve from it. Keep this attitude and you will progress quickly not just in ability but in connections with other players. This is the real source of strength in eve.

I doubt this one in particular would have since he said he was going to warp the OP back to their base. He did, but not in the way that would be expected.