EVE New Citizens Q&A

You keep saying there are proper modules/ships to counter the speheres, but yet, all ive seen is 2 ship types (Interceptors and Tech 3 Cruisers(with Right sub-system)), and a longshot with the MJD Module (Only fits to 2 Tech 1 Ship types), Nothing to counter the Infinite Warp reduction.

I Would love to see a Module that could be fitted to Tech 1 ships that works against Interdiction bubbles. Even MJD's For ships smaller than BattleCruiser would be nice to.

I must say that I have found the thread fascinating. Having barely a month in game - and having never played before - I have some sympathy for the OP's experiences and his reaction. So far, I have lost a fair number of ships, and mostly to gate camps. It's frustrating, and one has to learn how to modify one's game plans to take account of the fact a particular gate is not going to be available to you. There is a natural tendency to object to 'Others' determining one's choices.

However, I have tried to approach it with a different mind-set. Almost all video games have some sort of conflict and challenge to overcome. When a computer controlled monster hands me my arse, I don't get angry at the CPU. For example, I know I'm not a great computer game player - they're a hobby, not a profession. I recall that the end 'boss' fight of Baldur's Gate (a game I enjoyed hugely) killed me over and over again. I simply couldn't get the wretched sequence right and there was no clue how to do it. After many, many tries, I hit on an off the wall idea that suddenly moved me forward and revealed a strategy that just might work. Eventually, I won that last fight and the sense of accomplishment - of being the 'hero' - was enormous fun. At no stage did I consider the computer and it's seemingly invincible pixels to be 'assholes'. I did question my own capability (and sanity ).

I chose EVE as a game to play because it reflects many of the core concepts proposed by Raph Koster as leader designer of Ultima Online about player conflict and community building. I liked his ideas for UO, though human nature is such that as with many ideals, it didn't work well. EVE is a sandbox that has the possibilities for community building and player content development that has long been missing in MMOs. I have no idea if I will be capable enough to survive and have fun, but the depth of the game is utterly fascinating, and as anyone can deduce from a man that can't beat Baldur's Gate, I have no illusions about my worth as a 'elite' gamer, so my ego is already taken care of.

I don't get too upset about being blown up because I consider those attackers to be part of the content - monsters, if you will. I'm not hugely interested in their motives, unless they talk to me. If they do - and due to extremely kind advice from this forum community, more and more do - they become human beings and part of the community in which I am trying to participate. Thus, I can only benefit and get the enjoyment from the game that it offers. If I'm not having fun - or can't because the option is denied to me as a new player, who is relatively powerless to affect people back, or work out how to beat the interdiction - I can log off and spend time doing something else. EVE is even more brilliant in this case than most - my skill levels can still increase offline!

I think that's a long way of saying that frustration and challenge is part and parcel of any game we like to play. The players who deliver that challenge in this MMO are no more assholes than the programmer who delivers the same frustration by the proxy 'monster' he/she wrote. However, the player might just interact with one during/afterwards and this can be special, or pointless, just as in real life.

They killed you because you let them.

Returning to the game after 3 years of not playing all i have got from it so far is nothing but assholes in space.
My activities and experience the month i have been back is so far:

High-sec mining: Sins i only had about 20mil when i log on i decide to mine for some buffer isk. But thanks to CODE i get suicide ganked and lose more than i gain from mining. No warning, No Chat, Locked, Scramed and Blown to bits, Podded.

Fine sins the player base don't allow for solo mining anymore i just do some exploring, I Buy a magnet and fit it for exploring, All fine until i accidentally pressed "want to leave highsec" and enter a low sec system, Locked Scramed and blown to bits, podded.

I Try again with exploring, this time i use wormhole to get to null-sec, first gate jump: Interdicted and killed, podded.

In summary i have lost on average 2 ships per day to players, and on average being podded half of those times and that's only because they can't use interdiction bubbles. Every time the bubble is there People pod for no reason other than its "fun" to be an *******.

My worst experience so far is when i finally got enough isk buffer to feel that i can buy an astero and covert op cloak. I get to a random null sec system and begin to look for systems with 0 people in it (couse thats the only way not to get killed) after managed to make 2 sites a small gang of 4-5 people start to what i experience as hunt me down. Begins with that only them being at a gate, i only survive the first gate camp thanks to my odd warp-in angle and warp-cloak, after they hunting me through 6 systems my luck finally runs out and i enter a system where a camp is already set up. Thanks to the ******* interdiction bubbles and how cloaking works i have 0 chance of getting away, one of the campers get a lucky align on the short while i am up on overview and decloaks me and 100mil down the drain thanks to random assholes.

During my month back in eve i have meet exactly 1 person in space t hats not been a complete *******.

CCP really promotes people being assholes with their "Don't Fly alone"-program and how easy it is to "Engage on your own terms".

"Engage on your own terms" is a bullshit sentence, if that really were the case i should be able to warp away on my own terms, but thats impossible, a single interdiction bubble cancels out every warp stabs you put on the ship, don't matter if you have 1 or 100, you will not warp away, heck even if you put 3x warp stabs on a ship you will get scramed down sins a single faction module negates it, and it one don't work just stack two and its done, Assholes will always get the upper hand sins its cheap to fit 1-2x scramblers vs 4xstabs (that don't work on bubble camps).

"don't go exploring then" "Don't go to low sec then" "don't go to null sec" "learn to d-scan"

EVE has alot of problem and majority of the playerbase is one of them, sites like zkillboards and eve-kill helps with adding fuel to the the fire.

Another bad experience i get is when running L3 Missions, and that's Assholes that hunt mission runners, Couse everyone knows that you have to have a pvp fit to do L3-missions in a battlecruiser, Scramed, dented the attacker shield before second ******* shows up and finishes the jobb. was lucky and managed to warp away before locked and podded.

Next time CCP makes a "this is eve" trailer, maybe they should show what the game is realy about: Gatecamps, podding, gang ups, warp scrambles, hauler bumpings, mission runner killing, and trick new players with the "help channel" and "eve univeristy" to believe that everyone you meet is not out to kill you.

I'm going to give this game another two weeks, if i continue to face nothing but assholes in this game by then i am contactin customer support for a refund of the subscription.

when i fly anything lower than 0.9 i feel like everyship i see in the overview is a singel lock away from scramble and killing me.

As soon as I undock, i feel like everyship i see in the overview is a singel lock away from scramble and killing me.

Edit: and shamelessly use throwaway NPC corp forum alts. Chances are someone is going to try and kill you simply for making this thread.

I really don't get the OP. From his knowledgeable discussion of game tactics, and his ships and fittings on the killboard, it looks like he would know how to work around most of the gameplay he's complaining about.

I suspect a troll.

I dare say that he's already been added to at least one posters watchlist for future shenanigans.

The Carebearium link is well handy, I'll be using that myself.