EVE New Citizens Q&A

As I putter about in my new Rookie spacecraft (It's like driving around in a suped up Ford Pinto, eh?) I was looking for an acceleration gate for a mission. I had four hours and 40 minutes to complete it (for extra cash bonus). I scoured an entire solar system looking for wreckage. With forty minutes left, I discovered that I needed to find the acceleration gate first, not the wreckage. So, I scoured the solar system and the overview menu for signs of such a facility. Then, as I went back through tutorials and mission details, I saw that I was looking for a place to "Warp to Location" from. With 20 minutes left, I found a link in the Mission Drop Down Box. It was in tiny faded lettering. It said, "Warp to Location". I accomplished the mission and got the bonus!

And now my question. In all of that solar system scouring I did, I noticed some canisters floating about. I even saw a few unattended drones just floating about. Are those random spawns of resources you can pick up, or did someone leave them lying around? I wanted to pick them up, but I din't want to get accused of being a thief (yet) by mistake.

They were left by others. Be careful about taking stuff that isn't yours though. It will flag you as a suspect, allowing any one who sees you to open fire without concord intervention.

In the other hand, if you want to shoot at people go ahead and bait them.

Drones you can scoop to drone bay or cargo without any consequences. Often people will ask in local first if someone forgot them, and then if there is no reply you dont have to feel "bad" about keeping them.

Some of the cans you saw were most likely jet cans, which will have a different color depending on weather or not it belongs to someone else (yellow), belongs to you (white), or is abandoned (blue).
The same colors will go with wrecks.
Yellow - If you pick it up you will become flagged for a certain amount of time (15 minutes?) and they can blow you up.
White - Its yours, do what you want with it.
Blue - Someone left it there and set it so anyone could pick it up without consequences for you.

You might also have seen come secure containers, which will most likely have been anchored in space. People use these for various reasons.
Either to write messages in space with (say a recruitment ad and leave the can at a gate or outside a station), or to mine in high sec without having to worry about hauling (not sure if anyone still does this after the changes tho).

Basically if you want to avoid accidents, keep your safety settings to green and you should be able to avoid doing something that can accidentally get you into a position you did not intend to be in

Edit - Guess its worth mentioning that you can salvage a wreck without getting flagged, and even if you play by the rules you can get blown up, even above 0.4

Unless you manually changed your security system from green to amber or red nothing would have happened.

CCP added the security function last winter to prevent accidental flagging (to some annoyance to older characters like me who think CCP is dumbing down EVE to suit stupid people).

So, as a new player with zero context as to the reason behind the change, I'm guessing you are suggesting that new players are just stupid people who need the experience dumbed down in order to make it more accessible (not enjoyable, just accessible) because we are just so stupid for not knowing this 10 minutes into the tutorial.

Yeah, sounds about right. I'm so sorry CCP has figuratively shrunken your epeen. Must be hard getting through life with the odds stacked against you like that.

I can also see how that change would completely ruin an older player's experience. There's so little to do, I can't imagine what you'd pay a subscription for without being able to gank unsuspecting players in order to teach them a good lesson about learning how to play.

HOW DARE THOSE NEW PEOPLE come along in their new ships and no knowledge into YOUR GAME THAT YOU SPENT SO LONG PLAYING and try to do anything without threat of ganking.

Yet you've offered good suggestions to me in my earlier Corp Suggestions thread.

You are a complex individual.

I'm not saying that every new player is stupid, never said that new players are all stupid or that there are no old people who are stupid. I'm saying that the safety is made by CCP so that those who are stupid can't make mistakes of picking something from a yellow container anymore. They have to rely on CCP to help them instead of learning from their own mistakes.

You are:

Stupid and deserve to be ganked. Do your research before your whining rage posts. A quick search will see that I'm not a new player killer, actually the opposite.

A very very fail troll.

while the safety button is really stupid and unEVEy, the aggression mechanics overhaul was a step in the right direction imo. the new mechanics are still kind of clunky but the old ones were a complete disaster.

I don't have a problem with this at all. You're reading me wrong. If I get ganked, I get ganked.

What I have a problem with is the namecalling. It's not necessary, and it smacks of pseudo bravery behind a mouse, keyboard, and monitor. There's just no legitimate reason to deride someone because its their first time playing.

CCP made the decision. Did legions of new players petitioned to have this aspect of the game removed, and CCP caved? Maybe they did, I don't know - it is after all my first day.

But these internet muscles irritate the **** out of me. It's just another excuse for judging someone else because they are not "like you". It simply isn't necessary.

You're doomed.

The invitation that I need...thanks. Locate running.