EVE New Citizens Q&A

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give. I'm wondering about what happens to your stuff if you die. I have so far five ships in my hangar, if I die in one of them do the others remain in my possession, as well as their contents? I know when you die you are given the rookie beginner ship so you're not stranded, can I then fly that back to my homebase station and have my other ships waiting for me? I've been keeping my most valuable loot and other stuff I don't want to risk losing in the holds of a ship I'm not currently flying, so I'm hoping if I get clobbered out there in the black I can just get back to that station and keep going in my other ships.

Thanks for answering this noob's question!

Yea got it in one!
You just lose what you were carrying and had fitted.
If you get podded, you lose the implants as well.

If you die in a specific ship, only that ship is destroyed. If your real lucky, you may even be able to salvage the modules that didn't blow up if you come back to your wreck.

Your stash is safe unless you contract it out to someone.

Ohh, that's good to know. I'll make a note to mark the location if/when I got blown to bits lol.

Be aware that going back to get your stuff after you get blown up can, depending on the specific circumstances, be an excellent way to get 2 ships blown up. Always remember rule number one of EVE - don't fly around with anything you can't afford to lose. And if you keep playing EVE, you will get blown up. Probably a lot. That is the nature of the game.

Good point.

If you we're ganked by players, Forget it. It's gone! They'll take the loot and wait to see if you come back for it!
But if you we're ratting or in a mission, reship and go get the stuff.

If you look at your character sheet, under combat log you'll see what was destroyed, and everything that was dropped is highlighted in green.

Last night I lost a Hound while honing my bombing run technique:

2013.03.17 00:49:00

Victim: Ovv Topik
Corp: Proposition Thirteen
Alliance: The Third Rail
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Hound
System: JUK0-1
Security: -0.7
Damage Taken: 1821

Involved parties:

Name: Angel Legatus / Archangels (laid the final blow)
Damage Done: 1821

Destroyed items:

Small Bay Loading Accelerator I
Ballistic Control System II
Nova Torpedo, Qty: 15
Small Shield Extender II
Quantum Co-Processor I
Experimental 10MN Afterburner I (Cargo)
1MN Afterburner II
Nova Torpedo, Qty: 15
Small Warhead Calefaction Catalyst I
Bomb Launcher I
Nova Torpedo, Qty: 359 (Cargo)

Dropped items:

Micro Auxiliary Power Core I
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Prototype 'Arbalest' Torpedo Launcher
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron (Cargo)
Prototype 'Arbalest' Torpedo Launcher
Covert Ops Cloaking Device II
Nova Torpedo, Qty: 15
Shrapnel Bomb
Prototype 'Arbalest' Torpedo Launcher

Oh. I thought that would just post a link. Nevermind. My point is the cloak alone was worth the time to reship, finish the rats and recover the stuff!

You can't post in game kill-log links on the forums

He means the in game Kill Report as a link

That doesn't work with the forums...it will automatically be copy/paste as plain text.

Oops. Didn't know that.
Hopefully the fact that it was just me posting me being owned by rats to explain loot drops will mean they let it slide.