EVE New Citizens Q&A

I am having a difficult time figuring out which region is "owned" by who. I did a jump and found out I was in Caldari space. I tried jumping back out but lost my ship.

Using the map is not intuitive. Too many options, I don't get what all the different colors for the lines mean.

I see where you can click the Caldari button under sovereignty / faction, and I get blue dots, but I wasn't even near the blue dots. I ended up in a Caldari border zone. I wouldn't have jumped if I had known. The show info panel doesn't say either...

How do you plan your trips without going into enemy space. I get the whole hi -lo-null thing, but figuring out where enemy space is has me lost.

in the map color by Sovereignty -> Empire and pirate factions. each system should be clearly labled and when you mouse over systems it should tell you the owner in the mouse over tab. This works for the old and beta maps.

caldari border zone is a constellation and should show as caldari space on the map as it is part of the citadel region.

and when in doubt, always easy to post a screenshot showing what you are having trouble with. Looking at the flat map it looks very close into gallente space so I can see some problems there. http://i.imgur.com/bvQ5efe.png

or even just pass through them at some point. getting a really funky route unexpectedly, or finding out your route is 22 jumps, where your friends route is 8 jumps

personally I don't have any systems on avoidance. The jita nightmares from the olden days are rarely a problem, although they did build stargates that go around jita, so maybe leaving that on avoid isn't the worst of ideas. (I think if you set a route directly to a system it can't avoid that system)

also recent story where autopilot settings a) got me killed, b) nearly got me killed again:
I was flying late night on a destroyer roam and know that going from jita to amarr with preferences set on lowsec can be a decent route. well I did end up making it to amarr, and then turning around to go back into lowsec. Now on the gate out of lowsec I went through a camp, turns out my route back into lowsec went right through that camp, a destroyer doesn't really run a camp very well. Since it was an empty clone and clones don't cost anything I figured I'd just let them pod me...

Oops my med station is in thera, I want to get this clone back to Jita. Got someone to give me a warp to a wormhole out of thera and into amarr lowsec, so I headed back to amarr to grab a ship. From there it is a quick route back to jita. Make it a few jumps and guess where I end up, if you said the lowsec system with a camp that I just died to you would be right. luckily I was in a travel fit frig and made it out no problem. Forgot to set my autopilot to safe/shortest. afaik it is the same route either way from jita <-> amarr.

Thanks guys. I also learned that I can just quit the militia and that solves one problem

In the map (not the beta, shouldn't be using that one) go to the star map, select Tiles, then select Color Tiles By: Sovereignty. You can also check-box Show Area Outlines there. If your map is in flat mode, you can also color stars by region rather than security level which can help with a little bleed-over of regional/Sovereignty systems, or leave at security level and just keep in mind to check when you get near outlines.

It's not just FW, you can take hits from regular mission running if you don't avoid those certain missions... which can drop some decent tags.

Well they would be confusing if they were small, wouldn't they? Considering these npc empires are pretty large. I spent years mostly map flying back before the hacking mini-game garbage, free-flying w/o any rout, peek my head out the window once in a while mostly at sites using tactical view since sites had rats back then. Never had problems with map information.