EVE New Citizens Q&A

@Ekhss Nihilo

I will work on keeping my eyes on local chat and using the directional scanner. I like the fact that eve is difficult, but I guess as a new player and throwing all your eggs into one basket (mining barge) and losing it can cause some frustration.

@Gizznitt Malikite

EC-300 drones, this sounds very useful. I needed a way to generate isk to support that expensive pvp habit that is the reason I worked my way up to a mining barge. I have looked on battleclinc and found a more appropriate fit, and will go with the procurer. I like the increased odds of suvival.

Remember, EC drones are chance based.... and do not come with a guarantee of success.

At 25% chance of success (every 20 seconds), you'll get away from that thorax once out of every four attacks... That's not a big chance, and if they bring two ships or more, it is extremely unlikely you'll survive.

Also.......most (but not all) wardecs involve the agressors sitting at trade hubs (Hek, Rens, Jita, Amarr, Dodixie) or within a jump or two, looking for soft targets.

If you aren't looking for a fight, stay away from trade hubs when at war, sell your ore for slighly cheaper at quieter high-sec systems.

Your 1st mistake was mining while at War. Of course you know that now.

Second mistake was flying a Ret with no tank at all Some will say that it is impossible to tank a Ret against being ganked and they are partly correct. You can tank it so that it takes more than two really cheap Cats to kill it.

I don't gank procurors simply because it is too much of a pain in the backside. I will gank anything that I can do with 2 cheap Catalysts however. Heck, even if a miner has made a concerted effort to tank their barge, I'll usually give it a pass. I like to gank stupidity.

@Snaggletooth Slackjaw
I did some more research these guys are based out of Rens, I plan on avoiding these hubs in the future. Excellent advice

His alliance is called Flying Dangerous... What's in a name eh?

Just another newb observation.

I've been getting in the habit of looking on my star map for ships killed in the last hour and I've noticed a pattern.

There's a LOT more dying going on in HIGH SEC than low sec.

Zoom out on the map, and you'll see some nasty null sec hotspots (which I presume are from the big alliances pummeling each other). But the big hotspots are mostly in high sec. Trade hubs like Jita are particularly bad.

I suppose some of this can be attributed to suicide ganking, and trolling nonsense like can-flipping and the like. But surely not all of it. Some of those high sec systems show big numbers like 73 kills in the last hour. That can't just be suicide ganking.

Then it occurred to me that I was probably looking at the results of war-decking. Corporations getting war-decked and then massive slaughters. I could be wrong, but that's the only idea that makes sense to me.

If this is true though.... It makes me think that high sec is probably the most dangerous space in the game to have a little corporation, or be a part of one.

Just another reason to get into low sec or wormholes as soon as I can.

Worth noting: It is called Hek for a reason, because it is only one jump away from Hell. What is the security there, 0.5? Hek is a trade hub, yes, but it is also the de facto trade hub of low security pirates precisely because of it's appalling security. So anytime you fly anything into or out of there you are, by default, entering a very high risk zone. Therefore one should either fly things with massive amounts of hitpoints or very little value, because you can assume that the criminal element is going to be scanning everything going in and out of there. The gankers there are also a particularly toxic bunch and will attack things of no salvage value simply because it was shiny and they can get away with it. In other words they are not so much professional pirates as "tear collectors" that hang out there.

If you want the safest docking port then go to Amarr. 1.0 Security means minimum CONCORD response time, and being deep in Empire space it is slightly more difficult for the -10.0 types to get into. Amarr is the bulk goods trade hub, with quantity taking precedence over quality. In other words, the opposite of what pirates want to find in a wreck. All factors included, getting ganked whilst shipping to & fro Amarr practically requires either a special kind of stupidity or very determined personal enemies.

Dodixie would be your second best bet for similar reasons. Prices might be a tad higher, but if it is closer than Amarr or Jita then by all means use it. It is also one of the more interesting social hubs as well, and a good place to recruit pilots for various projects you might endeavor to undertake. All in all a very pleasant shopping experience.

Jita has high security but it's sheer mass draws in the more clever pirate types anyway - your real safety in Jita is simply the ease of disappearing into the perpetual cloud of ships already there. Of course ganking still happens in Jita, so there is still no excuse to try to bring in a billion ISK worth of items in an unescorted freighter. However the gankers there usually will not bother with anything less. Unlike Hek, the Jita pirates are professionals and thus are purely profit driven.

Rens is popular with Faction Warfare PvP types, but that does imply that they are actual pirates. Still far safer than Hek, of course, and acts as an unofficial border trading post between the Republic and the Empire. Prices are pretty horrifying, however.

Pator is still the hands-down best place for buying skills books of all kinds.

For those few of us who live in the Ammatar Mandate, Tanoo is the place to go for everything, assuming you're not a pirate. It's also incredibly safe, though that is more due to a simple lack of interest by the gankers than anything else. There is another, tiny system on the nullsec border that pirates like to shop at, but the name escapes me.

Thank you for this very useful post. This represents a ton of information that would otherwise be hard to come by and only through hard-won experience. This is the sort of thing that is tremendously helpful to relatively new players like myself.

Corrollary: you have to want to know these things in order to profit from them. EVE doesn;t favor he incurious or the impatient.