EVE New Citizens Q&A

Here's a lesson to share: always make sure not to leave yourself unnecessarily exposed in open space when checking up on new marvels you discover as you fly through Eve. Dock up, cloak, find a safe spot, whatever it takes. For example, try not to warp to the sun and scan, or go to an anomaly or cosmic signature and sit there while you read up on it.

I had to learn that lesson again today. I found an oddly placed worm-hole that was way out of the solar system plane. So uncharacteristically I went with my Cheetah Explorer to investigate a worm-hole I've haven't seen before, a M555 class. The system is a quiet dead-end, wiith few in local - I got complacent as I sat stationary about 20km away from the worm-hole. Curious, I tabbed to my browser to read up on the M555. Came back to Eve... and WTF... I was inside far-away station. Took me a minute to figure out what happened


For those seeking an opportunity, Korben Kurvora has a quarter billion ISK bounty on his head and recently seems to hang around Kor-Azor / Ordion (0.5). He now has 30 day kill-right open to all.

By the looks of it he dident actually enter the WH but got blown up while he was still in high sec, but without checking im guessing he is in a war with that persons alliance since he lost both his ship and pod,unless you can actually gank both the ship and pod before concord shows up in 0.5?

Edit - Nm he wouldent have gotten kill rights on him if they were in a war. this is what i get for posting late at night when im tired

You can get ship and pod both with an illegal highsec attack if you are fast enough. Usually I can do it for Hulks, Covetors and Retrievers but not Mackinaws (assuming one relevant tanking module).

That works on tankers that fly expensive stuff at times. Most of us don't. (Edit: Gankers. I hate autocorrect)

The most expensive ship I have ever undocked in was an Ishtar or a Hyperion. Most people won't pay 50m to get a Hyperion kill mail.

Very good point.

So, yes, be paranoid if you fly around with something worth 70 millions that has barely more EHP than a pod.

BTW, his killer isn't normally a high-sec ganker. He seems to live in W-Space. He probably just came out of that WH to sell or buy something in high sec, saw the Cheetah AFK and took the opportunity to get himself some loot.
If the OP hadn't had fitted that sister launcher, he could probably have floated there until downtime without an issue.

When I used to spot for a sucide ganker, thats what he had me look for. T2 frigates with sisters launchers.

Here is a lesson for you OP. Always be cloaking. The only time to uncloak is to launch probes. Recloak as soon as the launcher has reloaded.

Did someone say paranoid?

You should definitely be paranoid in this game.

Never ever go afk, and never ever autopilot.

Bounty pay out is 10% / 20% (can't remember which it was) of the loss value.

So 250mil bounty means that the guy need to be flying a 2.5bil / 1.25bil ship to collect it all at once.

Just wondering but - why would you be sitting in a cheetah in space without the cloak running?

General rule of thumb on cov ops frigates is decloak to launch probes, recloak immediately. You don't keep that cloak off unless docked. Not even while flying around highsec. Keep using it so it's just habit to always turn the thing on.