EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I am doing a lvl2 mission with my new brand caracal fitted that costed me around 18 mill.
I get a chain quest that gives massive rewards compared to the rest of lvl 2 missions i was doing (like x4), and i only have to scout !
I warp to the mission site, i spot an acceleration gate, and three red dots, two of them big ones. I target them and check the bounty... 250k cash. I say to myself, oh my god, i better try them out.

I start shooting them with my caracal, it seems like i am doing damage. Good good. I will keep myself on a 30km orbit, they are not even scratching me!

Then 4 more warp in, i have to reload, and in the time it takes for me to reload, the cruiser i was shooting gets back to full shields. I run to the hills trying to reach the acceleration gate, which is at 40km because of me orbiting so i warp out, and warp in to see if i get closer, which i do, 27km. I didn't get microwarpdrive neither afterburners on my caracal. It is slow as hell.

My ship explodes at 1.500m from the acceleration gate. So close, yet so far.

I was looking at the screen for like 1 minute thinking... what now ? Then i smiled and went to the market to replace my caracal. Atleast i was doing something good, never fly what you can't replace :D

So, i was already dead, i just didn't know it haha.

the mission (s)he ran was most likely recon 1/3. it is probably the most difficult (and most hilarious) lvl2 mission if you try to kill everything, but as the mission description clearly states, you do not need to. i usually run the entire recon chain in a frigate with a microwarpdrive and a buffer shield tank.

Oh, so time to go with the microwarp slasher then. Hope it survives. And yeah it was exactly that mission. You guys are pretty fast ;O

Edit - Yep the slasher made it easilly. Thanks guys!

If you absolutely must kill all the NPCs in a lvl 2 Recon 1/3, then a well tanked rat specific Battlecruiser is up to the job, or a Cruiser if you're feeling brave.

IIRC half of the first pocket is NPC elite frigates and cruisers, all of the second pocket are elite NPCs, bounties will probably hit 2 million or so.

Have you met Dagan yet?

Many newbies have lost ships to him, myself included, twice.

Mowkay, had i read that 5 minutes sooner, i would not even be there

Recon 1/3, warped in from the gate. I had the time to kill 5 of them, and i calmly warped out seeing my shield getting all bangd up.
So here I arrive at the station, dock in/out for the shield to charge up, and here we go again, and.... "WTFace"

My shields are being torn apart, i'm speechless, mouth open, jaw dropped, mind blank.
By the time i got to my senses to warp out, it was too late, adios caracalos.

I must admit I was on the way to "crazyme" but reading you guys, yeah it's right, just a ship, in just a game.

Thanks for the lesson.
Market, here i come.

Thanks for the advice !

I was sure missions space were kind of "temporary" for the mission duration or something like that.
Well its too late for my caracal wreck since i arleady finished the mission (AB kestrel and active tank, it was so hot in there, I though I would never make it through).

Thanks anyway ;)

Recon 1/3 ate a Corax and a Caracal of mine (Recon 3/3 got another Corax). With the Caracal I knew the rats were tough and I never meant to fight them...but those bounties were so tempting. lol whoops. Learned an important lesson about greed that day.

i faintly remember there being a level 3 version of recon, but strangely, it is not mentioned on eve-survival...