EVE New Citizens Q&A

Whoa dude. you are the guy who made the overview thing right? That thing rules the world for a newbie such as myself. IN FACT.....when I first escaped in my pod, I did it by using your travel tab. Basically just like you said in your description of how to use your overview.

I bow my head to you sir.

Since everyone thus far in my thread is a well of knowledge....lets keep going. I am like that robot from Short Circuit from back in the day. MORE INPUT. NUMBER JOHNNY FIVE IS ALIVE.

If I join a player run corp, can I still run missions for an NPC corp and still improve my standing with the NPS corp so I can eventually unlock higher missions? Or do you have to join the NPS corp in order to do missions? I read about missions today and I don't understand at all.

My plan for the game is to explore, do missions (for cash) and then do FW from time to time to learn pvp. Some advice I got is that FW is a good place to learn pvp...instead of just hauling ass to null and joining a corp there. I plan on sticking around in this game for a while....even got my first year plan on EvEmon, so I figured it is best to run around in high and mid sec before anything else.

You were in low-sec (0.4). There is NO concord there, no matter if your sec status would have been over 9000.
In low-sec you only take a sec status hit (and most that shoot you don't care about it anyway) and gate/station guns shoot at you.

The yellow blinky means he is a suspect.

The wanted part = bounty (not linked to the blinky yellow part).

Player had a reason to kill you...you were in low-sec and he likes to kill people...that is enough reason to shoot you. You gave him a target to shoot at, not everything in EVE has to have a great goal.

He warped to a safe spot that is 183 km from your location. You can manuall set safespots in EVE to bounce to. And it's a very common stategy, specially in low-sec and null-sec.

Top ranked no less!:

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someone in this thread sent me a private message and asked me to respond. But it costs 1 mill ISK to respond to you. Come on dude, I am new but I ain't that stupid. I even went to South Carolina public schools and I STILL ain't that stupid. My whole family including myself was born in the Appalachian Mountains.....meaning that when you call us "hillbilly" we don't get mad, we just say "Yeah...what do you want?" And STILL I ain't that dumb.

Tell you what....and you know who you are.....you send me two million ISK and then I will respond back twice to you. Deal?

I am just kidding by the way....don't stop the advice. I beg of thee.

That million ISK is called a CSPA charge and it doesn't go to the player.

Just sayin

Oops. I thought I was being scammed. I was also told during my first forum post awhile ago now to trust no one and beware of scammers. Where does the CSPA charge go if not to the player?

My advice is to look at the guy's kills and losses and put that into perspective. For the first 6 months of this year he's gotten 3,772 kills. That's a lot. But he's also lost 98 ships. If you look at his record for the previous year you'll notice much less activity, but still he was losing 1-3 ships a month and getting 10 times as many kills each month. In late 2011 he was losing almost as much as he was getting.

You can see the player's progression of skill over time. He's gotten good at flying a certain ship class. He's gotten good at winning a particular type of engagement, and developed a system for getting that type of engagement frequently. He's gotten good at avoiding engagements that he isn't going to win. We don't know what sort of behind-the-scenes toys he uses to get a bigger edge (bait accounts, scout accounts, booster alts, implants, etc.).

Even with all that practice and investment, he's still lost over 100 ships this year alone. You've lost 2. Ever.

Don't get mad. You've only lost 2 relatively cheap ships and 2 cheap pods. If you want to get good at PvP you have to get past the fact that a lot of PvP in EVE is expensive and fairly boring. Roaming the same 3 systems over and over and over looking for newbies flying exactly the right ship and doing exactly the same stupid stuff just to boost your BattleClinic stats is pretty boring most of the time. The upside is that after a while you get good at it.

So, as for advice (and please realize that I'm terrible at PvP because I'm too lazy to take my own advice). Find a ship that's good at killing a common type of ship that people fly a lot. Buy them in bulk, like 20 at a time including fittings. Get familiar with a particular area and what the people that live around that area do. Kill people your ship is designed to fight, and avoid fights with people your ship isn't designed to fight. The last part is probably the hardest part.