EVE New Citizens Q&A

I have never been scammed or ganked of anything of worth because I am a cynical bastard an assume the worst.

I'm not sure how to get this across to other people, but the whole idea is to undock in something not worth ganking and not going to places where you can't be ganked and never leaving NPC corps.

Sure this gameplay upsets other people who are hot and bothered they can't kill everyone at anytime, but that's where I derive my enjoyement.

Simply put, to avoid emotional trauma you simply have to stop doing stupid things.

It seems odd how few people consider that even basic, T1 haulers have plenty of room for several Warp Stabilizers along side all of those hitpoint buffs. Unless they are camping with multiple heavy battleships then getting past your token hi/lo botcamp shouldn't be too difficult...

Wrong. This is not just a game. If it was "just a game" you couldn't lose $232 in RL money in a matter of seconds. But that's exactly what happened to my friend a few days back who got his freighter bumped, and wtfpwned in 0.6 system with 6 billion isk inside. My friend keeps playing EVE, but if it was me, I'd go spend my $232 on Steam sales instead. ; )

It occurs to me that some people who post here don't read all the replies: P

There is a lot of speculation to what exactly happened, so here's my attempt to make it as clear as possible: I saw a possible trade at Eve Central for Cargohold Expanders II, buying in Amarr and selling in Jita if I remember correctly. I would have made a couple of millions that way, which is A LOT to me (more on that later). I bought as much as i had money for. When i was moving the stuff to Jita my ship got blown up, i had no idea how to handle the situation, i ended up jumping in my pod to the next system on my route because of panic, when i came back with some ship that could hold cargo, i got to watch someone pick my **** up and warp away :P According to people here, i scheduled a route through low sec, i didn't notice it at the time. Which is weird because i have my route settings set to avoiding low and null sec?

What most people type here confirms my simple conclusion: i have not a single clue how to play this game.

You can make 100mln in an hour, what?! I've spent years collecting that money, starting out from a plex i got for recruiting. I find it really hard to make good profit on trades, if i make a million when investing a couple of hundred into cargo, that's a good trade according to me. I'm sure that's partially to the small amount of time i have to spend on Eve ( one hour on a good day ), and i mean overall, not just logged in and playing. If i want to read up on something or update my excel sheets, that's spending time on Eve.

As for other sources of income, I’m working on improving that. For now I’ve only got access to level 1 missions, and a good miner, but i find mining abysmally boring and a waste of the little time I’ve got. But i can always do it if i'm pressed for cash.

I understand that most of the things i write can be and is seen as whining, griefing and complaining.

But that really isn't my intention, i'm not jealous (well maybe a little, rich bastards :P) of anyone, i'm not saying this game is ****, it's awesome. All im trying to do here is to share with you my perspective and experience, and perhaps find advice on how to become better at Eve.

If people are interested in what i have been doing since the incident: I've kept playing, this is currently the only game i play, which is highly unusual for me. I believe i've managed to channel these emotions constructively, and that's what has helped me focus on Eve.

I've sold off some junk i wasn't using for cash, got a good frigate and destroyer, and did the Epic arc for SOE. Talked to a lot of people who helped me with advice, even got a free ship somehow, first time that has ever happened. I've also enjoyed playing with RL friends, we did missions and exploration with salvaging, i think exploration was my favorite. There is a Null Sec corp that is waiting for my application, but i've been waiting with that until i've got all my assets sorted, hauling them about and selling in a newly fitted industrial ship with MWD and Cloak. I'm aware that joining a null sec corp is essentially saying goodbye to high sec, so i figured i get my stuff in order and liquidated before i do so.