EVE New Citizens Q&A

Google 'Black Frog'. I have no idea how you apply though.

Or join a mining corp. Safety in numbers. Nul sec is is often quieter than Hi sec for carebearing.

Carebearing = The art of doing stuff and go to the end of the world to avoid PvP.

Heads up: EVE is intended to be a PvP game, thus you will find that anything you do in space will put you in the risk of PvP, even in high-sec (for instance: Mine in high-sec and likely in time The New Order will visit you).

So, yes, technically in the end everything ends up in fighting. Specially if you want to increase your income as EVE uses a nice and almost perfectly balanced Risk vs Reward system. The more risk you take, the bigger the possible reward.

EDIT:

I know it's going to be borderline forum rule breaking but:

If you do not have any intention in PvP and do not like the part that you can always be pulled into PvP even if you don't want it, then EVE might not be the game that suits you and you might want to shop around for other games.

This is not to say that you should quit, but just to give you a honest heads up on the game.


Also, you say you do not want to PvP. Guess what you are doing when you sell something on the market....PvP.

Market is 99.9% player driven and thus you compete with your fellow capsuleers for best selling price of your items and lowest buying price for stuff you buy. So you are doing financial PvP.

Who or what is the New Order?

So even if i mind my own business and ant away, avoiding combat, someone will come by and shoot at me for it? WTF?

Something that's not Eve Online, I suppose.

Everything in this game comes back to pvp. Even if ships aren't directly exploding around you all the time, you're in direct and indirect competition with at least a few thousand other players for the resources, markets, and territory that you're using for whatever you're doing. So there is always, ALWAYS a completely valid reason for some other person or group to try to undermine you. Even if you're playing space trucker with the shipping contracts... no, ESPECIALLY then, because the only reason for someone to send something by shipping contract is if it's something valuable that their enemies would want to blow them up over.

So... yeah. The answer is pretty much "too bad".

You can avoid direct pew-pew by never undocking, though, and just trading from a station. That takes an unnatural love of spreadsheets, though.

As I said:

YES, you can be pulled into PvP anytime somebody wants.

When you undock, you automatically consent to the fact that anybody in EVE is allowed to shoot at you.

As I said, if you do NOT want to be in danger of the possibility of PvP (and with some small and easy learned skills the risk is very very minimal) then EVE just might not be the game for you.


The only way to avoid direct spaceship to spaceship combat is to never undock.
The only way to completely avoid any form of combat (including verbally chat combat and financial combat) is not logging in.

There is always the potential for some form of conflict in eve. Even trading is a form of pvp e.g. market pvp. But if you open the map you will see that there are many areas which are very quite. Even in null sec there are very quite areas and you have the benefit of intel networks. If you move to a quite area and mind your own business the chances of pvp happening are relatively small. Ofc by being pvp adverse, you are cutting yourself off from the best part of the game.

Basically, you can't.

Any game time added to an account is fixed to it.

You can petition CCP with a request for a reimbursement but don't be surprised if they decline the request. But as I'm not CCP, I can't tell you what their opinion on this is.

Avoiding folk like the new order and highsec gankers is as easy as moving to an out of the way system. Tank your mining ship and blue ball them if they come to you and you will never have a problem. Unless you are an asshat and make yourself a target by saying stupid things in the forums or in local, then people will hunt you down.

This is true.

If you want a quiet area with the protection of CONCORD, I recommend a system that is at least 5 jumps from every major trade hub and that isn't a major mission hub, trade route or multiple ice anomoly system.

Oursalert (someone can correct the spelling) comes to mind as a system worth looking into. It has enough of a local market to provide convenient market PVP, but doesn't have enough commerce to attract people like me.

Exactly

And if another player's vision of "do what you like" is blow you up...he can do that too.

Basically, you are asking if YOU can do what you like, but anybody else has to do as YOU want.