EVE New Citizens Q&A

Heh, this sounds so much like my first pvp experience. Except I ran into some Goons. I was also surprised by how fast they locked me, so I sent them an email. However, they were nice and gave me tips.

Looks like your attacker was flying an incursus, his loss for the incursus doesn't show any sensor boosting, but he could have been boosted remotely. Also, your inexperience was also a factor no doubt, if you were expecting the lock times to be comparable to a mission.

There are skills that improve your lock speed. But, in general, a pod at least should be able to get away.

Things you could have done different.
1. Go to market options and uncheck lowsec/null so they don't show in the market window. This should help prevent you from buying out there without realizing it.
2. Never autopilot.
3. If in random space...When you start taking fire, if escape is your priority and you are expecting to die, then you want to pick a celestial more-or-less directly ahead of you and start spamming warp-to-zero as your hp gets close to zero. If you are spamming warp then the instant your ship blows up, you should initiate warp and "should" get away.
On the other hand, you had just undocked and found someone camping your station. In this case. ctrl-space to stop the ship. Click on the station and redock. You have a few seconds after undocking that makes you invulnerable. ctrl-space is the only command you can make that does not affect the invul state. You want to ctrl-space because some stations kick you out at top speed and you'll quickly find yourself too far away to re-dock during your invul period.

To answer your questions
1. He has high skills I'm sure, he might have been remote boosted.
2. He was only attacking targets he could expect to beat, and warp out before the guns wore him down. There is no concord in .4-.1 space, just sentry guns.

Thanks Iria & Dreadchain for your tips. They are very very helpful.

Cheers!

don't think too much of killboards. they are a good way to find out if a pilot has combat experience but not much else. for example, one of the best ways to improve your efficiency (ISK destroyed versus ISK lost) is to suicide gank mining ships in highsec. while oftentimes hilarious, it is hardly a measure of how much of a 1337 pvp'er you are.

Concord will getcha no matter what. All high sec ganks are of the suicide flavor, only exception being maybe getting flagged as suspect for like can flipping, then camping a station, gaining limited engagement timer with some one whose flyin a t1 mission cruiser, then blowing em up with your pvp fitted anything.

Tl;dr: If you attack someone for no reason in highsec you lose your ship. Excepting circumstances like I explained above.

Since I have some experience doing this...


- you appear to have been killed in low-sec space (0.4 to 0.1). There is no CONCORD there to avenge you and Station/Stargate guns do not "insta-explode" offenders. They can be tanked by a sufficiently beefy ship (which the Incursus can do with some difficulty).

- always assume that everyone in low-sec is hostile. With no CONCORD around everything is "fair game."

- Sensor Boosters (or a ship applying a Remote Sensor Booster) can allow a ship to target MUCH quicker than normal (with Tech 2 equipment and high skills an Incursus has ~1200 scan resolution... that's Interceptor level targeting speed).

- For the next time you find yourself camped in at a station...
--- undock your ship and DO NOTHING (don't activate your modules or change course in any way). You have a 30 second "invulnerability timer" when you undock...
--- look around... do you see any planets or asteriod belts roughly in line with your ship's course? (we're talking within 5 degrees of so)...
--- if so...
------- dock back up, then undock, and warp to that celestial at range (not 50 or 100... something in between).
------- as soon as you land on grid, quickly warp to your destination. You don't have long before someone follows you).
--- if not...
------- dock back up, right-click your ship, and select "Leave Ship"
------- undock in your pod and warp to the destination gate (barring lag, you pod basically "insta-warps")
------- come back in an hour or so to collect your things.

Or... you can always insure your ship (always choose the highest premium) while in the station, fit for combat, and die gloriously in fire! Then buy a new ship when you wake up in your new clone with ~80% of the ship value you died in.

Yes. If you take no other action but ctrl-space. DO NOT decrease speed.
ctrl-space
select station
dock.

it should also be noted that once you hit the brakes, you become bumpable. i once lost a battleship to a vindicator undocking right after me.

This. Never ever.

And I'll lose my invulnerability after being bumped?

me never. In low sec, it's never warp to 0 (warp to safe spots first). In high sec it's never auto. 16 jumps I'll usually cov-ops it there if I can, which for a straight run that far is rare. No where in EVE is safe. Best to not pick up the habit early.

Need to alt+tab? get a cheap tablet? I use a nexus 7. Over ipad since android is a real operating system, runs processes even when it's sleeping unlike ipad which is just a device. Has third party EVE character monitoring apps and market tools etc (can see prices at all major trading hubs). Firefox to load forums and eve-survival etc. I only alt-tab if spinning stations, like now for regular keyboard typing. Otherwise, best to keep your attention close to the monitor when you are undocked.

I am the king... haha, he probably sat there 9hrs in pure boredom waiting for someone to say that to.