EVE General Discussion

So . . . your a carebear and are sticking to highsec because you ASSUME that low/null people just want to blow you up. Coming from a person who has been in just about every non modern CFC controlled space of nullsec I can tell you that there are plenty of corporations/alliances recruiting indy players and people who stock markets. They aren't that hard to get into but you have to seek them out in the recruitment forum and/or in game because they aren't coming to you. You have to look past the curtain of low sec and realize that null is actually safer that highsec, not just a more pvp-centric extension of low sec. Don't hate on a way of playing Eve just because you are ignorant of how it works.

Confirming candy is freely available in lowsec.

If I had to guess, you're not using your autopilot to take you through one of the three or four blood-soaked murder zones people try to take shortcuts through.

Speaking of lowsec and candy, I would like to recount an experience of mine from many years ago.

I had a problem. The problem was the old Prophecy sitting in my hangar. It was old, it was gathering dust, and nobody really wanted to buy it. Couldn't blame them; not only had the paint started to peel off from a lack of maintenance, but the damn thing was worthless as a combat ship.

I was just about to send the whole thing to the reprocessing facility, but then I paused. Why not take the thing into lowsec and get it blown up? This seemed like as good an idea as any (at least I would get some insurance money out of it) and would offer more amusement, so I decided to do that.

I took my Prophecy, named it "The Candy Van", filled the lows with nanofibers, istabs, and overdrives, the mids with shields and a MWD, and the highs with civilian gatling lasers. Comedy fit through and through. The Prophecy wasn't good for combat so why even pretend, right?

Well, I jump into lowsec. Nobody is at the gate, so I warp to the first belt of whatever system it was and wait. After a few minutes of nothing, I decide to tell the locals, "I am in the first belt and I am full of candy."

I wait. And wait. Nothing. Odd. Maybe they're all away at the moment, or busy using Somer to launder ISK. "I'm warping to the X gate, and I'm full of candy. Come kill this ship, it is worthless!"

And so I do exactly that; I warped to the said gate, jumped, and entered a new lowsec system. I repeated this stunt for nearly half an hour, until I run into a gate camp. A half dozen guys maybe. "Hey guys! This is a terrible ship and it needs to die! Plus, it's full of candy! Please shoot me!"

They leave.

Now, having gone on roams throughout lowsec before, and having been involved in multiple pirate operations in the past, I knew full well that the cesspit of Eve was a rather dangerous place. Bored pirates desperate to fill their holds with loot and tears should be crawling all over me for the killmail generating money shot. But it was not to be.

Had I found the secret of safe lowsec travel? It seemed so. I couldn't believe it.

So I set course for Amamake, all the while telling local exactly where I was going, that I had a poor comedy fit, my ship needed to die, and that it was full of candy. All the way to Amamake I was not accosted, not once, although a few people did seem to laugh at me. How rude.

Eventually I make it to Amamake. I warp to the first belt, declaring my honest intentions. I wait. Nobody comes.

But then someone in local started to talk to me. They wanted to know if I was a bait ship. After all the Prophecy was a well known bait ship - really its only use - but I swore upon what little honor was left in my cargohold (the rest was full of candy, you see) that I was indeed not bait, and that I really just wanted to see the ship explode.

It took several minutes of promises and questions, but I was instructed to warp to one of the gates; I did. I was greeted by the fine fellows of Heretic Nation and my Prophecy's fate was finally delivered.

The lesson of the story is this: When you want to move through lowsec, don't try to hide and dodge the locals. Just tell them you're full of candy and beg to be shot.

You know I keep asking what is an elite PvP'r and I never really get a straight answer.

Was Ginger Magician, Tiller, Miz, Evil Thug, Shaddo, Ribyjacksom, Phreeze...who exactly is an elite PvP'r in your estimation that is?

Because seriously, who are you to set the bar for elite pvp any way?

Elite PVP'er= Nerd with delusions of grandeur

Don't avoid pipelines.

I lived in hi sec for four years. I got bored and unsubbed for a few months, I wanted to come back, but needed something new. So, I joined a sov holding null sec corp. I love it out here in null.

Yes, yes.... good..goooood. Cling to the pipe dream which is a safe highsec.

The tears will be that much sweeter when your dreams of security are crushed.

Remove concord from mid sec. Faction navies and gate guns only please.