EVE General Discussion

EVE == Everyone vs Everyone.

EvE is a PvP game. There are ways you can explore and avoid PvP, but eventually you will lose your ship. This is simply a part of playing the game, whether you want to or not.

This TBH, you consent to PvP when you hit the "play" button on the launcher.

Hi op.

My corp mate find today in High sec, pith c medium shield booster and some of new implants blueptints + other crap of few decryptors, total value of items 150mil isk +- 20mil.

Exploring is like game and somtime you need luck, somtime you spent like few day and nothing other day nice profit, come on...

You can explore nobody said say you cant, but if you want better chance for nice profit you need to risk.

This is EvE, game for patient for people.

OP, you are not an explorer, not a 'real' one..

As someone else mentioned earlier.. explorers throughout history risked their life a zillion times, braving the unknown and coming back alive.

Another good one someone mentioned.. if you're out there in low/null, it's perfectly fine to just go look for space riches and go and grab them, but understand that you are the quarry that the people out there are looking for. They are the hunters, you're the prey.
However, a cornered rat has a nasty bite, and even the fuzziest bear has sharp teeth. Be as fleet as the deer, and avoid the predators, and if cornered, be as the cornered rat, or the bear and face your enemies, even if you go down, at least go down in flames.

I tend to spend a lot of time in low/null, usually in a covops, just flying around, without any real destination in mind. Looking for 'what is out there' and gathering the riches I find along my way, then when I have a sizeable booty, go back to my safe little home in highsec and divvy up me plunder, and spend it on blow and hookers. ( or more bling for whatever is striking my fancy at the time )

I had several encounters today during my daily round. I wanted to do a 'safe' round, so I just flew through about 10 null systems I knew very well, where I had bookmarks all over the place, and knew who to generally expect. about 7 systems, in I started noticing some people, and my spider senses tingled, they were tracking me. I hadn't made any big scores yet though, so I ploughed on, got some more booty, and kept a watch over my shoulder. Their forces were gathering.
Then in a deadend system, I finally found my treasure I was looking for, a very juicy relic site. I started hacking the place, and grabbing my loot as it spewed into space, while also watching local and D-scan. yes, the probes are out there, I have to be quick now..
Quickly I flew as fast as I could to 1 more canister, I scanned if it was worth it ( I knew from it's type that I could be a very valuable one ), and BINGO, there's 100M in loot in there. So I get to work hacking it, still eyes on D-scan, more probes showing around me, their prober is an amateur, but he's slowly getting a fix.
Damn.. bad luck with the hacking grid.. hack failed, attempt number 2, I check D-scan again, damn, his probes are all out, oh and crap, that's an interceptor he's on his way. So with regret, I leave the can, it explodes, losing that 100M in goodies just as the interceptor arrives on grid.
I quickly align to a celestial, kick in my cloak, as I'm preparing to warp, he's flying as fast as he can to where my approximate position is.. he's within 10km as I enter warp and get away from the place.
Quickly I go to my safespot on the gate to check if they have nasty ships waiting for me there, 1 regular cruiser, nothing to worry about. I warp to the gate, jump through, yup, as expected, 2 more of his friends waiting there, but no interdictors, no bubbles.
Align, cloak, warp, and I'm gone, a few more jumps and I'm back in my highsec home. My total booty for the trip, a shabby 50M in total. Not a total failure, but sadly not as much as I had wanted.
However, I'm alive, I'm back, and I have booty. I have successfully avoided the hunters, and stole the riches right from under their noses. ( the people who chased me live in that bit of space usually, so yes, this wasn't the first time I got chased )

Fast forward a couple of hours. I just had dinner, and I feel like doing some more exploring, this time I'm going to low sec, but I'm taking a bigger risk, I'm taking my shiny new Stratios, I want to look for some low sec ghost sites and grab booty there.
I fly through a bunch of systems, not much to see, at one point, I throw out my probes, just to see if there's anything of interest around, hey, bingo, a nice combat/hacking site. Not something I want to tackle with my Stratios though, this area has pretty heavy traffic, and there's people in local. So I fly on, to my low sec base, and I grab my usual ship for this, my trusty drake.
I go back to the system, warp to the site and commence hostilities vs the rats guarding the place.
I'm there for just a few minutes, meanwhile talking in corp with some people, so I'm a little distracted, and didn't watch my D-scan properly.. BAM, thorax and Caracal on grid, I know I can't align and warp out before they catch me, they are right on top of me.
I'm not going down without a fight you bastards! I kick in my overheat, lock onto the thorax who was webbing me and pointing me, and let the missiles fly. his shields melt, and I start taking serious chunks out of his armour, and I think.. wow.. this is easier than I expected, they're not breaking my tank. I guess they expected me to be using specific hardeners instead of my Omni setup I always use out here. ( in case someone comes and tries to shoot me ).
Sadly, then a Blaster Naga and a Falcon show up, I get jammed out and that was all she wrote, 20 seconds later I warp off in my pod, and wait at the station to dock up and get myself safe.

after I grab my rookie ship, relax a little, take a chill pill, and a nice cup of tea, I go back to my Stratios 1 jump out, and fly back to highsec, this time empty handed. The thoughts going through my head: Damn, now I have to get another drake down there again.

Lesson learned: The new residents of that area are more active than the previous denizens in hunting people down, so I should watch D-scan more often.

Think OP just needs to learn how to paly before crying about the game..

I commend to you dear sir, the interceptor. If you're unexpectedly transformed into random scatterings of gas and debris while flying one of these in Rubicon, it's likely your fault.

That's awesome.

You have an odd idea of what constitutes "safe"...

I saw your loss. you need to use covert ops cloaks. you can warp cloaked. come back in game and I'll make sure you can try again.

There are no PvP players or PvE players. There are just EvE players.

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