EVE New Citizens Q&A

It's true, some people enjoy playing by themselves. I think it's safe to say this is the minority of players, however. I'm actually quite introverted and I probably spend 85% of my time "solo pvping", but being part of an active corp still vastly increases my enjoyment. It's even more important when you're first trying to climb the learning curve. Sure it can be done with some (a lot) of googling, but it's much easier and faster to learn from others.

TLDR: You're right. I'm right. Yay.

Yeah just saw the dude got popped by war targets and not his own corp mates.

I don't know what makes people think I am buying PLEX. I'm not. All I did was pay for a one year subscription to the game. Nothing else. No extra for in-game ISK or anything like that. To date, I've never even had half the amount of ISK that you can buy PLEX for.

Yeah, Ok. I overreacted to the guy last month who put a bounty on me. According to the cinematic for the expansion that added the bounty system (I watched them all before deciding to play the game,) it appeared to me that bounties were added in to the game to deter bad behavior (You want to destroy ships? Fine. See how YOU like it not being able to enter friendly space without someone gunning for your backside!) That may have been the intention anyway. So, to me, having a bounty is a bad thing. But it turns out that players in the game turned putting a bounty on someone from a punishment to an expression of affection. "I like you. So, here's 100,000 ISK on your head." "Yeah. I love you too. Here's a bullet in your brain." Weird but I'm not surprised when game players distort an option to do something the developers never intended that option to do. Still, I'm of the mindset that if you have a large bounty on your head, you've done something wrong. I'm sure I'll get over it eventually. But there will always be a lingering doubt.

Perhaps I should invest in a jump clone that never leaves a station and put the +5's on that. They may not seem worth it to some. But I'm told that before too long, I will start seeing two weeks or more on training times. Possibly even more than thirty days to train a skill. If I can reduce that, I'd like to. I hadn't considered the jump clone idea. Sounds like a plan.

I don't know about corps / guilds. I've been playing MMO's for more than eleven years. I've yet to find groups of people who don't, at some point, break their own rules. I have a real problem with **** jokes. I have for longer than I've been playing MMO's. Recruiters have always assured me that "We don't tolerate that." Inevitably, someone will make a **** joke and if I complain even to the same person who assured me that "We don't tolerate that," I'm told that I need to lighten up. I've seen this so often that I just cannot take anyone at their word anymore. Maybe that makes me a total jerk. Maybe having morals is a horrible, horrible thing in today's world. But it's hard to have fun when something you feel strongly about keeps happening. Not to mention being invited to fleet mining and killed by those who are supposed to be your "corp mates." Even canines eventually run away from their masters if their master keeps hitting them.

I'll have to look in to directional scanning, kill boards, and such. It is a bit more work than I thought I'd have to do in a video game. But if it must be done, so be it. I've talked to lots of people who mine in the game. None of them have reported the losses or frequency of attacks I've had to endure for being such a "special snowflake." But it still surprises me that people blame the dragon when the dragon bites them after the person pokes the dragon with a stick. What do people expect the dragon to do, say "Please, sir, may I have another?" I'd like to think that I am fairly easy to get along with. Treat me with respect, don't insult me, and I respond in kind. I don't know why I'm expected to take being told I'm am the slang word for male genitalia as a compliment. *shrug*

Edit: the forums never seem to want to post my entries. I always have to hit "post" three times for the words to appear. I wonder why that is.

I just mined a lot of ore and didn't buy anything unless I had to. It added up over time.

Training Cybernetics V may not be everyone's cup of tea. But I liked the idea of reduced training times and I did it. If it was a bad thing, well, it's my fault then.

Please stop lying.

You were not killed by your corp mates.

You were killed and popped a few times by Albert Dexson and then ganked by another person.

This leaves me to think you were killed by war targets except for the last one which was as I said a gank.

Never mind just tanking your ship atleast fully fit it, rigs included. Go somewhere quiter and preferably away from Caldari space and learn your locals and use d-scan. Try not to respond to peoples verbal bait both in game and here on the forum aswell. Unlike most other mmo's EVE is nice and unique in the sense that out of game action can actually follow you into the game and vice versa. It's one of the more entertaining aspects of the game because it makes you somewhat more accountable for things you do and say.

If you asked me what I would do though... i'd move out of highsec, sure there's much more inherent danger but if you employ the necessary precautions and counter measures you will rarely die. Things become much more rewarding imo when you leave behind the artificial safe guards of highsec that most who hide behind don't fully understand anyway. Find a nice quite area of low/null and just have Black Frog do all your transporting. The game becomes a lot more fun and enjoyable.

Just adapt and move on. You have everything in this thread now to continue better prepared.

I feel evoked. Here the events from my memories.

As linked before there was verbal slur, that was repeated via evemail, coming from Ms. Altosoro targeting my close friend gfldex. As he was occupied elsewhere he called in a favour to provide satisfaction regarding Ms. Altosoro unexceptionable behaviour. Given the public note provided here, it was assumed that Ms. Altosoro was aware of the origin and nature of the hostilities.

War was declared and terms where excepted by CONCORD. To my knowledge CONCORD got in touch with the opposing party and briefly explained the rules of engagement. As any additional rules are public knowledge I did not see the needs to provide any communication to Ms. Altosoro.

For two weeks and one day nothing happened. I would guess that a third party recommended to wait the war out. My close friend provided me with virtually unlimited funds to maintain the wardec -- and so it went on. Another day into the war the opposing party Ms. Altosoro offered a formal surrender via CONCORD with the following wording.



Please note the lack of any offer of compensation or even a request to begin negotiations. The formal request was rejected and another week of waiting followed.

Finally, after more then 3 weeks of close observation, by a party I will not reveal here, Ms. Altosoro made a fatal move. The result can be seen here and here. I would like to add that between the call for me to enter my hangar and the attack at close range of Ms. Altosoro's retriever nearly 5 minutes have passed, thanks to me moving from one system to another and quite a bit of warping. Sleeping at the wheel is never best practise.

A quick look at the map suggested that the target might have been moved two jumps into a cloning facility. Those two jumps where done faster then asking a locator agent, so that part was skipped. Still being under surveillance Ms. Altosoro choose to repeat her earlier mistake and undocked with a new shiny Retriever. Did a whole jump, warped into a belt and continued mining. At that point I didn't know what to think of the situation but was not afraid about my destroyer. There was no trap. Again, my opponent didn't choose to leave the scene in time.

The next day I was informed by CONCORD that the war has ended because The Ornery Goat hit zero members.

As advice to Ms. Altosoro I would like to quote the immortal Billy Connolly and one unnamed sniper.

have a nice day

You must be new to the forums.

Killmails / killboard links are not allowed other then in 1 specific thread in Crime & Punishment, suggest remove them otherwise your friendly forum moderator will just delete the entire post.

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Removed killboard links out of quoted text

I stand corrected. Found the kill by Septagon Trans

I'll be honest, I stopped reading your wall of text right there. Want to be fulfilled and not drained? Stop mining, and pewpew. Buy a hundred Rifters and lose every single one in a glorious explosion. Learn from every fight. Analyze what you did wrong.

After that, you will know what to do.






And Dust, it's called Bust 514 for a reason.