EVE New Citizens Q&A

No the bounty makes no difference, it's a small bonus to anyone that shoots you legally or illegally and inflicts real damage, but does not give them the legal right to shoot you.

Your error in docking is that you used 'warp to 0' to the station (the 'dock' command warps you to 0 first, then docks) and in doing so, you are warped to a random location within 2500m of the station's docking ring, then you slowboat to the station, then you dock. Often your random location is inside the docking ring but this is not guaranteed. Warps always have a 2500m maximum random error.

If you use the station often, it is a good idea to set up an instant-dock bookmark (a location that is inside the docking ring by at least 2500m). Then you warp to 0 to your instadock and dock, and a predator cannot possibly lock you, let alone kill you during docking unless an interdiction bubble is deployed.

If you are in a 1.0 to 0.5 system then CONCORD will come and kill the offending ship (but will do nothing to save you). Unless you are at war. In which case you are fair game.

If you are in a 0.4 to -1.0 system then there is no CONCORD and you are pretty much on your own.


I can't say for sure what happened though without more info (like a killmail).


No. Bounties are a separate mechanic and in no way affect people's ability to engage you.

This is how the bounty system works;

If someone does not like you (for whatever reason) they can put a bounty on you.
When someone kill you, they will only get ~20% of the total value of your ship from the bounty pool or the bounty pool itself (whichever is less).

For example:
You have a 100,000 ISK bounty on your head. Someone blows up your ship worth 10 million ISK.
Hypothetically the person who killed you should get ~2 million ISK... but your bounty pool was only 100k so they only get that much.



Having not attacked another player or done anything "wrong" in EVE does not mean you will not be targeted at some point.

IF you really were in high-sec...
IF you were indeed flying a hauler...
IF the value of what was in the hauler exceeded the cost it would take to gank you...

Then you probably got suicide ganked.
The idea behind this tactic is to blow up someone with enough value in their ship or cargohold for less than it takes to gank it (because CONCORD will destroy the ganker's ship). Of course... some people also do it for giggles too.

You can protect yourself in the future by tanking your ship... using a different ship for different sized cargos (Frigate for small stuff, Blockade Runner for valuable stuff, Deep Space Transport for medium bulk, medium value items, etc)... carrying less value worth of cargo than it takes to gank you... or having a friend scout/assist you in evading danger.

They're essentially playing a game of roulette for loot. BRs are unscannable (and cloaky and tough to tank), so they're commonly used to carry expensive things.

If you're flying a shield BR, I'd strongly suggest tanking it. If you're flying an armor BR in HS, I would consider the merits of tanking it.

Fly well![/quote]

It's not for giggles, it's a lottery ticket.

8 out of 10 Blockade Runners have very little in them. 1 out of 10 has a good deal of loot, and 1 out of 10 is a jackpot.

You can't know in advance whether your ticket is a jackpot or not, so you blow up the BR and find out.[/quote]




Ahh, that makes sense, much better chances of winning than the real life lottery :P

If you fly a valuable but fragile ship, it might be a good idea to set up a "perching" bookmark some 200+ km off the station (ideally up or down) and warp there first to check if the station is camped, then warp to the station from there. This might also avoid you arriving at the station at a certain spot where gankers might wait for you and be able to shoot at you at point blank range.
Keep in mind that the average station is rather big and arriving from the other side will allow you still to dock and be 30+km away from a potential ganker.
For example Jita 4/4 is a rather big station and you can actually visually check this: There is large group of ships at the undock, of course, but also a visually discernible group at the Perimeter gate-Station arrival spot...

Yeah I have a 250km bookmark at one station that I often use as a reshipping point when suicide ganking. Warp my flashy red pod there, check out the station, then warp to my instadock and dock.

I've never seen anyone with a smartbomb trap on the station but it could definitely happen.

No it isn't.

Warping to 0 puts you within 2.5 km of the station. Docking range is 200m. [Stargate activation range is 2.5 km.]

The trick is that the station models are huge. You may have noticed you can approach a station to 0m then approach it some more, until you finally reach the collision surface (can be 10 km or more on some models). So you make the bookmark within that large 0m range.

I lost my Crane in Jita recently, because I accidentally warped to the station instead of my insta-dock bookmark. Completely my fault; I was distracted by looking through NES, and knew I had made a mistake as soon as I clicked warp.