EVE New Citizens Q&A

As the subject says. I don't get it, it's BS. At first I think it's some random boss spawn (I've seen random spawns mentioned in missions guides online) only to find out going through my character sheet it was a player. That makes absolutely no sense. Allow players to come into others missions just to blow up a ship they just spent an hour flying around and putting together for a few hundred thousand ISK?

I've lost ships not paying attention or getting in over my head in PvE and even to a few players out exploring but for something like this is nuts and really pushed me to the point of "What's the point?" I've been grinding Standing for weeks just to get access to Jump Clones so I can travel around faster and it's mind-numbingly slow.

Is the point to just stick to L1 missions for paltry levels of ISK for a year while staying in carebear space? As soon as you move into a ship capable of L2's you're suddenly a target worth taking out...along with a huge investment. If I hadn't done the buddy thing there's no way I could've had enough ISK to move into L2s without months of grinding.

I'm seriously questioning if I should even log back in again or just move on....300 hrs in the past month trying to learn this game and it's always one step forward, two steps back.

Edit: Not altering original post to preserve context of following replies.

It was pointed out to me my original post doesn't come off very well at all, and I apologize to the community for that, I intend only frustration to come through here, nothing more, so please don't read more into it than necessary. I've gotten a wonderful amount of feedback below and I'm very appreciative. For any other new players reading this, I don't want you to get discouraged reading this as I know certain attitudes can be infectious or give the wrong impression and the last thing I want is that. I simply had a less than fun in-game experience as a result of not knowing a couple things. That being said, I hope someone new reading this learns something from my mistake and the advice below.

Regards,

McSmith

And you are proving the point. ^^^ is he point. They want you to shead carebear tears because they find that form of game play fun. They want to hunt people down and kill them. Welcome to eve, the world is dark and full of terrors, not even the lord of light can save you.

just going to point this out, you're doing something wrong. I was able to do L4's within 1.5 months of starting.

Was doing L2's shortly after I did the SoE epic arc.

Aye, I've been aware of that point, it's the shock and subsequent anger that happening the way it did. Until this point I wasn't aware you could be scanned down this way. They can have their solitary tear. It's the last they'll get! (why isn't there a crying emoticon? Am I overlooking it?)

What I'm probably doing wrong is having not already trained into battlecruisers and beyond (trained into battlecruisers overnight to get ready for L3's) while instead stayed in L1's for so long trying to grind ISK. I moved into L2's after doing the SoE Arc as well but stayed in a Catalyst for too long, lost a few and thus any ISK I'd earned really to that point.

Well, stay out of lowsec until until you've learned how?

Or go lowsec on purpose and learn the ropes?

It will take losses, cognitive analysis and learning some skills, but not the skills that your character learns, the ones that you have to learn behind the keyboard.

I did just buy a new keyboard...I'll have to have a little chat with it about the skills it's supposed to be learning j/k. Thanks bro!

Answer to your question: they used combat probes. Nothing in Eve is instanced, and anyone can be found given enough effort.

1) Free jump clones without needing standings: Estel Arador Corp Services https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=8574

2) Hit the Sisters of Eve epic arc to get a boost in standings. Go to Arnon IX and talk to Sister Alitura to get started.

3) There are ways to make yourself harder to scan: use a smaller ship, or fit ECCM. Neither of them help you much, though, since you remain very much scannable.

4) If you find something boring, don't do it. Grinding missions drove me nuts. I quit it after my first few hours in Eve, and never looked back. Find a group of players who does something you want to do, join them, and have them show you the ropes. There is almost no area of the game where having an extra go-getter novice around is a bad thing.

5) What to do in Eve: http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/ Note there is a lot of stuff that is not missions.

I have every intention of joining a corp as soon as I'm able but RL makes that impractical at the moment, so I've had to do what I am able to for the time being, you would suggest I not even play the game? You're very welcoming. Not sure where boars comes into play here, this isn't WoW. I already said why I was grinding missions, for ISK and Standing, two things I've seen it generally assumed around here have to be done, unless you figure everyone should buy ISK and if you can't join a corp yet, again, what else are you to do? How can one ask a question here (as I've just done) about something like being probed out in a mission and D-Scan when to this point there hasn't been anything in game to point a player in that direction? So, while you come off quite snarky, I thank you for your input.

To summarize what's been said so far: you can be scanned down in a mission pocket with combat scan probes. This can happen in highsec as well, but since you were in a .4 system, they were able to engage you without CONCORD intervention (in high-tech he would have had to goad you into shooting first.

Before you ask why he did it, he did it because it's fun to blow up spaceships and you were there to be blown up. Raging about it is cathartic (though I wouldn't recommend doing it here), but it won't prevent it from happening again. So here's some ideas on how to prevent it in the future:

1. Don't do L2s in lowsec. This is the most boring answer, but the truth is the additional payout probably isn't worth the risk. There's good money to be made in low, but L2 mission running probably isn't it. If you have a highsec mission agent who keeps sending you into low, you might want to find a new one.

2. If you do go into low to run missions, practice basic lowsec safety. Don't bring your primary money-making ship in unless you can absorb the loss (financially and emotionally) and you know what you're doing. While you're in a mission, make use of the Intel you have available; watch local and your D-scan. If "CareBearHunter69" shows up in local, be wary. If you see combat scan probes on d-scan, it's time to go. This goes for other lowsec activity as well; if you're exploring or plexing, you live and die by your d-scan too.

3. When it all goes to poo (and it will), you can still save your pod. When you're in structure and you know the fight is lost, pick a celestial on your overview and start spamming warp. You should warp off instantly when your pod rejects, before you can be scrambled. Don't try to use the right-click menu for this; you'll fumble and die. If you have an aggression timer, keep bouncing off celestials until you can dock or jump. Throw a "gf" in local even if it wasn't; it'll help you remember it's a game.