EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey all. I'm a noob, trying to de-carebear myself a bit now. For that I'm going for data/relic sites in lowsec. So far I like it, the feeling of constant, looming threat in lowsec adds a lot to the fun---and, perhaps perversely, I like the tactical position I'm in: tiny ship without tank or weapons, strictly fitted to do exploration and to escape, only tanked by speed and cheapness (is cheapness-tanking a thing?) I know I can't fight, but I'm in the position of the prey: I need to be as quick, smart, and careful as I can just to survive. The prey can be victorious, too, no?

But some questions arose for me, and Id be grateful if I could get some bits of information from you:

---Not being so quick, smart, or anything I got myself killed the other night in a 0.1 system. I was impressed: I used my current routine of doing the trick to avoid being killed at entry, went to the sun, deployed my probes, and then cloaked. To my surprise, I was de-cloaked and killed no 15 seconds later. I tried to convo my killer, but he didn't reply, so perhaps someone here can enlighten me some: When I warp to a celestial to 0 km: will I end at a spot that depends from where I started, or is there just one spot at that celestial where everyone who sets 0 km lands regardless from what direction they are coming? I can't imagine any other way how he could come so close to de-cloak my ship. If that is so: should one, after arriving, just fly for some 50 km or so to be safe of this?

---When Im deactivating my cloak, two things are not in sync: the cloak button will almost immediately show it has stopped working, while my ship only becomes visible *to me* on the screen after about 6 seconds or so. What do potential enemies see? The immediate de-cloaking, or do they only see me after these few seconds when I can see my ship myself?

---Just a tiny annoyance, but a constant one: I have 16 probes, and auto-reload on---but most of the time it doesn't reload. Tiny bug, or is there a way to fix that for me?

---The mini-game: is there any tactics to it, or is the outcome strictly a combination of virus-strength and luck? And: does it matter how fast you are doing it (apart from generally wanting to do stuff quick and move on)?

---Far as I understand, asteroids are respawned during the server downtime---same for relic and data sites? Better chances if you explore soon after downtime?

---Finally: Do people in lowsec never speak at all, or do they just not speak in local? In all the time I've so far spent in lowsec I have never seen a word in any local chat apart from my own. Is everyone strictly only speaking in corp channels?


Lots of questions---Id be thankful for any answer.

First question - anything within 2500 m of you will decloak your ship, that includes your own probes.
Second question - dunno, sorry :)
Third question - if you activate your cloak it stops any reloads that are in progress including the probes.
Fourth Question - Virus strength and luck
Fifth question - Relic/Data/Combat anomalies all respawn when completed. They respawn somewhere else though, probably in the same constellation.
Sixth question - most don't talk

Hey.
Cheapness-tanking is a thing in highsec, not so much in low and null. And if victory is defined as you reaching your goal (not get destroyed), while denying your opponent the ability to reach his (destroy you), then yes, even the humble explorer can achieve great victories.

-It's possible he took a guess. He could be sitting at gate and clearly see you warp to the sun. He then warped to zero, and got lucky. It can be beneficial to choose a range not at either end, 0 or 100. 50's OK, better yet 30 or 70.

-You immediately decloak. The animation is just eyecandy.

-Cloaking up will stop the reloading. If that's not the factor, then I don't know.

-I don't apply much tactics to it really. I move along the edges. If i find utility stuff, i grab it immediatly before clicking neighbourng nodes. Other than that, I really don't know.

-Not sure about this. It doesn't seem to be as fixed as asteroid belts though; no fixed number of sigs in a system, etc.

-You don't want undue attention. Goes for everyone out there, I guess.

Wow---so many helpful answers in just half an hour. Amazing...and thank you all!
Most of my questions are already answered...with one exception:

"Relic/Data/Combat anomalies all respawn when completed. They respawn somewhere else though" vs "Sites respawn after DT" Which is it? Perhaps someone else can weight in?



LOL...oh, no, thats not what I ever said! I just said things like Hi, or Is there anyone alive here? and one time I offered to kill my pod for free cause I wanted to get home quick. Perhaps they thought the latter was a trap. ;)

Null I will try out in a while...atm I think its better to get more experience in Low till I have that halfways down.



Ah, ok...somehow I wasn't even thinking he came from the gate, but that makes sense.



Interesting...I do the same, not even being sure its really good, but intuitively it feels right.



Ah! Thats most valuable to know!



Could you explain this a bit more? You mean like making me a target psychologically? I pop up in local and people think: Lets kill this chick?

Thanks for all the advice, again!

"Relic/Data/Combat anomalies all respawn when completed. They respawn somewhere else though" vs "Sites respawn after DT" Which is it? Perhaps someone else can weight in?

I run combat sites exclusively and can say for certain that downtime has no effect on Relic/Data/Combat respawns. I've been in systems scanning and had new signatures show up during the scan.

Planets, moons, and the sun all have a common warp-in point. Anyone warping to 0 on one of these objects will arrive in the same location (give or take like a kilometer) regardless of what direction they came from. Don't warp to 0.


No it doesn't. If you press that while warping it will tell you that you can't do that because you're in a warp.

Ctrl-space while warping is still useful, if for example you pressed the "jump" button for a stargate or "dock" button for a station, and decide while in warp that you don't want to jump or dock immediately. Pressing ctrl-space there will cancel the jump or dock command but you will still finish warping to the destination.

The only way you can stop a warp before reaching the destination is if you didn't have enough capacitor energy to make the full warp. This is a trick you can use to your advantage, if you have a way of draining your own cap, but it requires setup, and isn't something you can do on the fly. Once you're in warp, your warp exit point is set and cannot be changed.

For your consideration, it might surprise you that going full r-tard and down to nullsec (properly fitted) may make you safer and more wealthy.

Notwithstanding, there are cloaking subtleties worth a look at the bottom of this.

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Ah, ok thanks for the clarification. I have only tried it a couple of times and it was during the initiation of warp, and obviously I over generalized it.

I can also confirm both cosmic signatures and anomalies will respawn in real-time. You can actually see this happening in your probe scanner when it refreshes. I know that at downtime, the sites will refresh and reset just like missions do. Common misconception.

I believe there's only one real tactical move with the minigame. Say you get a white node. That can be one of the bonus items or one of the nasty locks (sorry my terminology is bad). At that point you might decide to not open it, and open the path around it instead, risking to click a lock and making the white one unavailable. If you don't hit it, you are sure you can continue that way and later open up that node.

You don't need to obsessively make safe spot bookmarks in every system you explore in, just don't ever warp to the sun. Pick a random planet / asteroid belt and warp to a random distance from it, launch probes, and cloak.