EVE New Citizens Q&A

First some elaboration:
I started playing about a month ago, i had a holiday which allowed plenty time of to play and because Eve has a steep learning curve I thought i would have a go at it at that time.

I joined a corps that was looking for newbies after one day , we got wardecced after one week.
Turning the gameplay to the station waiting game, since I still had the holiday I just wanted to play more.
I left the corps ( in good standing) after receiving a referral to another corps.

I joined the other corps and we got wardecced one day after I joined them , turning gameplay into another station waiting game.
There were some fleet actions for which I totally was not ready and I am a little ashamed to say I left them also.

Since I still had a holiday I applied to another corps of which I knew they were wardecced but thought atleast i would learn how to cope with a wardec then.
After a wardec related incident which led to in my opinion irreparable damage to my reputation within the corps, i left that corps with a very much bruised ego and returned to the NPC corps.

Now I have several options : I want to play the game more, I have not touched exploration yet which I know I would like.
Of course I can stay in the NPC corps for a couple of months, but being a rather social player I would like to join a corps again
But apparantly I am not suited at handling wardecs well.

How often does a normal corps get wardecced ?

Any corp that is actively recruiting is BEGGING for war decs. Especially if they are recruiting new players, because about 90% of new characters are actually experienced players creating spy alts, griefer alts, AWOX alts, etc.

Even if you are not actively recruiting, war decs will happen. My corp is just me and my alts, I never do any recruiting, and I still get a war dec every 2 to 3 months or so.


Unless you are a top notch PvP corp, the counter tactic to the war dec is not undock, or if the war persists, just to drop to NPC corp for the duration of the war, then rejoin the player corp. A new corp recruiting a bunch of newbs, trying to go toe-to-toe with an experienced PvP corp is asking to feed them kills. Feeding a PvP corp kills is a sure way to extend the current war dec, and bring even more war decs in the future.

Another thing you can do while wardec is active, if you don't want to drop to NPC corp, is to log into the test server and have mock-fights against your corp mates. None of the isk or stuff you get on the test server translates to the real server, but neither do the losses. Way better to learn how to PvP on the test server than on the real server against ecperienced PvPers.

It varies and structure of corp makes a different as well. Corps which are perceived to be large but generally weak are more likely to get war-decced. Unfortunately, these corps also tend to be the more newbie-friendly corps.

My advice is just stick with it. Unless the corp is literally flying apart under the war-dec, go out with cheap ships in as many fleet ops as you can. I remember the first time my main was in a war-decced corp and I made myself look like a buffoon on teamspeak with everyone forming up for an op and me being chased between systems by a hostile fleet.

Something like this:
CEO "How'd they catch you, you're in a thrasher! Have they got interceptors or something?"
Me "I kind of flew into Tama (low-sec system well known for its perma-gate-camp) because I thought they wouldn't follow."
CEO "Camped?"
Me "Yeah, took them a few seconds to lock me though."
CEO "...and they caught you how?"
Me "I tried to fly back through the gate on AB to escape the camp..."
At this point my friend literally face-palms and I become the object of mockery on teamspeak for the next few minutes.

Good times.

I'm actually wondering what you did that was so bad you had to leave.

Back on top though, I'd estimate about 1 dec per month or two for a smallish industrial corp but that's a pure guess because it doesn't happen consistently enough for me to say.

So feel free to get your feet wet in fleet ops. Even if you don't want to risk anything fancy, I'd be surprised if they turned away a suicidal tackle frigate that at least tries to follow orders.

Excellent strategy, if your goal is to get war decced more often and for the dec's to last longer.

This is exactly what the PvP corps want. If give them what they want, they are not going to leave you alone. The way to minimize war decs (duration and quantity) is to not give the war decers what they want.

HS corps are often the target of war decks unless they are the ones decking my best solution to avoid them is to leave HS but then you have other issues. I am not telling you to leave HS but it is the best way to avoid war decks as corps out of HS have ways around war decks should they occur.

The high-sec corps that get wardecs are getting those because they made themself a target for wardecs in one way or another.

Flying around with uber pimped ships and obvious behavior of a carebear and griefers will see that and wardec.

Ranting, raging or ******** behavior against another corp can give you a wardec.



A lot of corporations don't get wardecs because they are doing it right. They play while not making a big target out of themself.

BTW, you don't NEED a corp to be social. Plenty of public channels in EVE where you can talk and make friends. You don't have to be in the corp to do stuff together too, you can fleet up with anybody.


Also, if a corp is that upset because you lost something to a wartarget, they are clearly a **** corp and you don't want to be part of those corps. They take space pixels too seriously, instead of whining/raging about the loss they should have helped you in the war mechanics etc.

I'm not saying this isn't out there, but the vast majority of my engagements have very little communication between parties beyond a simple, "GF", and maybe some post-game analysis if the fight had an unexpected conclusion.

My apologies, perhaps I should've been more specific and provided more context for the above comment.

If your attackers are after good fights then having good fights or (admittedly more likely if your attackers are organized) giving them free massacres might prolong that period which non-pvpers might find unpleasant. In that case, feel free to make them miserable by confining yourself to stations and hoping they get bored and go away before the rest of your corp does.

My advice was based on the assumption that as the OP is obviously not a routine pvper, the corps he joined were biased towards industry. War-deccing this sort of corp is more akin to walking into a barn full of chickens with a big stick. Not good fights, therefore the attackers were more likely to be looking for easy kills. If you can find a decent FC and convince the rest of the corp just follow instructions then you stand a good chance of scaring them off.

From what I've seen, the last thing a corp looking for easy kills wants is for their opponents to turn the tables and destroy the attackers.

So if you want a qualifier, my original statment only applies if you don't mind PvP and your attackers are just preying on the week

Be prepared to spin ships? No. That is what NPC corps are for.

So you say...if you get wardecced just leave the corp...That will end up well...shitload of corps in your history, nobody will hire you eventually