EVE New Citizens Q&A

Take it how you will which I'm sure it will get quite a few side remarks as all things posted of this nature on MMO forums generally do.

After days of trying to mine I found myself completely out of isk due to the actions of one corp that found it fun to target a corp full of new players and blow them up until they were completely out of isk.

No foul comments said, no attacks on them made, no anything other than declaring war on us and repeatedly hunting us down and blowing us up every time we leave station.

I know PvP happens but hell I would at least think things would favor a new player from being stomped by vets non stop just because they can.

Nothing lost as I haven't subbed and do not plan to. They won they ran off a group of 10 new players from Eve.


I'm not angry just disappointed I never got to flesh out and try more of the game but when you can't even leave dock without being blown up because of people camping you at all hours of the day well it just isnt worth the time.

I could leave my corp but I don't think I should be forced to because someone has too much free time on their hands.


On another note losing stuff is part of the nature of this game and I accepted that before I even made my account based on what I read so the deaths are the issue much less the total inability to play.

Well I wish you all luck in Eve and hope you had/have a better time in the game than me and my friends did.

Eve is a great game too bad a few bad apples spoil the bunch in this case.

you can get rid of wardecs bu dissolving your corp and forming a new one.

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To add to what Myriad has said, you could have moved your entire corp to a different region or to lowsec (not as scary as it sounds), or you could have looked for help. As a defender in war you can have as many allies as you want for free, and there are people out there who would gladly help you either by fighting or by teaching you to fight, you just need to find them. You could have even continued with business as usual, just with scouts and contingency plans.

EVE is a game about conflict, and what happened in your case was neither wrong nor unusual. It sounds like the only fault was your own - to give up in the face of a challenge rather than adapting and rising to the occasion.

Another very new player here.... The game is tough... Very tough... But I'm not going to try and sprint before I can run, and run before I can walk.

Surely common sense would have said to perhaps disband the corp to play solo for a while, until said heat had died down?

"I jumped off a wall and broke my leg"
"Ouch, how did that happen?"
"I thought I could make it, but the wall was too high for me to jump from without the proper training"
"So, what did you do?"
"I jumped off it again and broke my other leg"

LOL!!! This is funny. The thing is when the whole thing started you were probably "broke" out of isk...

If you came here looking for sympathy, you were as foolish as you were when you undocked in a mining vessel under a wardeck.

You and your friends should sub for a month and go join Red vs. Blue and see exactly how much fun pvp is. I'll bet after one month of RvB you'll forget all about wanting to mine. Can you hear the pirates song in your head? "yo ho yo ho, a pirates life for me" I'll bet that you can... YARR!!!... A scalleywag ye can be

Don't quit!!!

Var

I'm still not sure why you are leaving.

Brush yourself off, learn from what went wrong, and get back in there !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4tIrjBDkk

It's probably too late, but had you all simply dropped corp and reformed under a new corp name, you could have evaded the wardec. The reason you didn't know that is that you didn't do any research. EVE takes research to play well.

hi there
eve has bacon ,
dust has teenagers who smell of masterbation and have all had my mother
at least it got me here.

I remember my first war.

Nobody explained what it meant. I kept undocking and losing ship after ship. After about 5 ships, the wartargets opened a convo and did explain what was happening, how I could prevent it (ergo, drop to NPC corp and search for a better corp with vets that teach you stuff) and gave me some ISK to deal with my losses.

Just last week my alliance had its first wardec and the first thing the vets did is explain to the new players what this means. How to minimize losses, how to prevent stupid mistakes and help them get better prepared for the next one.

Wardecs arent something game breaking and are far from hurting new players (they hurt new players as much as old players). The thing is you need to do your research and it greatly helps if you are in a corp with people who know what they are doing.

Just because any new player can make a corp and have other new players join him doesnt mean he should or is capable of running a corp.

Tl:dr - The effects a wardec has on you can be tracdd back to 2 simple things:

A. How does your corp's leadership deal with it. Have they got rules and counter measures, do they know what they are doing. Where is the corp located, anything close to Jita + mining = higher risk of wardec. Living in some off the beaten path system is a whole lot safer, I know corps that are many years old but hardly get wardecced because they live off the grid.

B. Hkw do you deal with it. Do you know how to prevent or minimize your risks (dropping corp, keep an eye on local, no autopilot, no jita stops, watchlists). Do you take time to research gane mechanics and the corp you joined.