EVE New Citizens Q&A

Firstly please excuse the grammar, my keyboard is broke and I will get bored of hitting keys until they work. You may pick on other grammar/spelling mistakes :)

Okay I just subbed for a second month, for one! month, despite the extra cost of doing so. I hope to explain why here.

The game feels like a normal MMO after a while, why do we have insurance? seriously..... if I lose my ship I lose it, or I pay another player for insurance and hope I get it, keep out of our sandbox, I love the don't fly what you cant lose aspect. this dilutes it. I like to PVE but I do want!!!! the cause for concern, or else I would play WOW ect.

I am a casual player, but again, I come here for thrills not a job, make ganking more profitable. Make me watch my ships!!

At this point I would like to ask a CCP employee to confirm I have not so much as looked sideways at another players ship :P.


Also 0.0 sec. I cannot think why I would go there... I don't want to join a big alliance, i cant harm it as a single player, nor as a small group.....POS (structure things) take days to take down? WHAT THE (INSERT SWEAR WORD). How is that danger? seems like defenders have all the advantages to me......make them destroyable in 2 hours with 50 ships with no defenders and we will talk. To easy to defend to make 0.0 anything but highsec for big groups. Make people work! for their space.

Also increase 0.0 income, don't decrease highsecs, and make more isk sinks, losing insurance would be a start. Get rid of drones too.....insert sansha (sp?) space instead? all i found was bots and free minerals lol.

Everything i have not mentioned I love lol. Keep it up. if I make it out of this month still happy I will get 3 months next time. Then you have me for life :P Along with others I hope. Its a great game, but looks slightly like its heading to try and kep everyone safe and happy. I for one want destruction and unsafe space, with a kick out the CQ door to boot. (get rid of the door? lmao)

Also thanks to the pilot, after i started to try salvaging, blued the mission even though i forgot to ask first. 12 mil is a lot to me still lol. many thanks.

Posting with my main to confirm newbyness.

Ill informed rant == troll?

It takes days now to bring down a tower? Actually it takes hours of play time to take down a stronted tower - if people want a tower down it goes down. Add more isk sinks and remove insurance? With decent FCs insurance is an ISK sink, try insuring a capital ship and you will see why. Hell without decent FCs capital ships is also an ISK sink (try buying one ).

Also don't pay insurance, problem solved.

We lack statistics to know if insurance is an isk faucet or a sink.

How many are insured? How many of those insured are lost vs those insured that are repackaged or the insurance expires?

I had 6 ships at one point, all insured, all insurance on them expired. I've run across dozens of folks with similar histories and others who don't insure at all or who only insure if they are fairly certain that ship won't make it.

Without full numbers on insurance, we can't say if it is a faucet or a sink. That just isn't a known at this time.

Yeah ... OP is a troll. No doubt. It's the story that gives it away. Trolls always have a story. They think it makes them more believable - but the story is the key to spotting a troll.



Now - the reason people respond to troll threads is because new people coming along and reading the thread can get some use out of it if people explain some of the things covered.


For real new people - think about what you insure.

When I first started I insured everything. I insured shuttles. I would have insured my rookie ship if they had let me.

After a while ... I began to realize that it was costing me a lot more in insurance premiums than I'd have ever lost in uninsured ships.


When you first start - if you don't know what you're doing - then it might be prudent to insure ships you use on missions or mining if you had trouble scraping together the money for them in the first place. But - once you've got a good feel for how the game is played and built up an income such that a cruiser isn't expensive any more - then you can stop insuring any of your ships unless you pretty much know you're going to lose them.

What that means is - if you PVP - insure your ships if you can.

If you are in Hi Sec, doing PVE, Mining or Hauling ... mostly ... don't bother.


Also - note that T2 ships are largely uninsurable. Typically, if you insure a T2 ship and it is destroyed - you get about the payment you would have gotten for the T1 version of that ship.






Also, from the title - complaint about losing posts - ALWAYS - right click in the post, select "select all" then right click on it and select "copy" - before you hit "post" or "preview" below.

If you spend any time at all composing your post - YOU WILL LOSE IT - on these forums.

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Yeah, if it takes longer than a couple of minutes to compose or if you switch to a different browser tab and then back again. Either way, that's the way to handle these new forums..



As for having more risk while doing PvE, besides all the other options that were posted, can always do higher level missions in a Frigate. Start off doing a level 3 mission with a Frigate in high sec. Not enough risk? Do it in low sec. Need even more risk? Move up to level 4 mission.


My 2 isk worth.

Yeah ... that too.

What I do - is start typing it in here - because this has a spell checker and Word Pad does not.

Then, I make a copy and paste it into Word Pad before doing the submit. That way the copy's not just in the buffer.


*shrug*

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Ahhh, thanks for the tip but I never claimed to be a Pro forum warrior.