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You should see the rattlesnake I killed last night (link in Sig)

It's ironic how the "evil sociopath griefers" do more to advocate for newbies than the so-called newbie advocates themselves, isn't it?

The Caracal is amusing too, he had a missile loaded for every occasion, and a WCS for some strange reason.

One guy got me about 17 jumps away while I was doing security missions in Amarr space, I look at his profile and he joined the corp that day, and appeared in my backside. I get away with my pod and he sends me the message "GF bra" then proceeds to stalk the system I'm in until I log out for the night.

From experience I have noticed that many newer players do not follow any communications advice

ie they totally ignore evemail, local chat, even corp chat.....then start moaning because nobody gives them advice

I'm a relatively new player (20-ish days) and fell into a corporation that A: Had several of my IRL friends in it, and B: was very friendly and supportive of new people.

Anyway, another corporation, one that seems to be mainly made up of PVP players who have been in the game for several years, declared war on us. Well, they declared war on like ten corporations at once, all of them similar newbie type corporations to us. Well, it's not the first time this has happened, so we did our best to avoid them and try to go about our day.

These guys were absolutely merciless though. We had one player, maybe been in the game for a week, get killed (Not just podded, but killed) 5 times in the course of an hour. Pretty sure he quit the game. They camp out where we have our offices, they seem to always be lurking on our most common routes, and they even sometimes appear out of nowhere 20-ish jumps away from those locations and get is when we're in route doing missions. One guy got me about 17 jumps away while I was doing security missions in Amarr space, I look at his profile and he joined the corp that day, and appeared in my backside. I get away with my pod and he sends me the message "GF bra" then proceeds to stalk the system I'm in until I log out for the night.

However, the back-breaking straw is: The EXACT same minute we get the "retracts war" notification, we also get a "Declares War" notification from another corporation. We look, and it lists the same guys that've been beating the tar out of us as the admins of this corp. Looking at their employment history, it seems the entire group of them have been corp surfing between the same four or five names for a long time, and they use this as a way to "extend" wars and continue to torment the same people.


They don't even loot our remains. They pop in, blow us up, then stalk us. Also, sometimes the game shows them as "offline" in the contacts list (added them to get a "warn list" notification when they come online) but they still show up and kill us.


This is griefing. All they want is to kill new players in high sec, and the game is handing it to them. I honestly don't know what recourse we have left other than buy enough Plex to dump billions of ISK into bounties and hope they get the message.

First up, I want to take some time to thank everyone who commented here. Yes, even the people who had nothing but insults to bring. It's been an enlightening experience.


For the folks who straight up offered advice: Thank you. I've clearly (and held no illusions otherwise, but this sure did drive it home more soundly) got a LOT to learn about this game yet, including ship fitting and in-game awareness.

Secondly, for the folks who criticized, no matter how harshly, either my tactics (or lack thereof) or my ship fitting. Again, thanks. It's something I can learn from in-game.

Thirdly, the folks who brought insults or criticisms of my forum posting methods: Yes, even you I have thanks for. If nothing else, you've given me more insight into interacting with the community here.

I wasn't expecting this thread to explode like it did, perhaps hoping to glean a few slivers of advice, but what I've gotten is a wealth of knowledge, as long as I don't have the ego to keep myself from benefiting from it .