EVE New Citizens Q&A

"Jacob Farron" challenged me to a one on one duel. I accepted, and was winning. Then 4 or 5 more pilots locked onto me, and "Plank Helugo" got the kill on my ship, with Jacob Farron getting credit for the kill on my pod. See zkillboard.com, fyrkat. What am I not understanding about duels, that a one on one suddenly turns into a 5 on one?

I am not familiar with the crimewatch mechanics but it used to be that other characters could use modules to aid the attacker that has a concord sanctioned combat flag with you with themselves taking on the wrath of concord. They could not directly attack you but they could help the guy that you are dueling. Now they would get combat flagged to you so that you could attack them but if you do then they can attack you back.

If the other character did attack you illegally then he did get concordokken and you will have kill rights on him. If you do not have kill rights then he did what he did within the rules of high sec engagement.

I don't know much more about dueling so sorry if this did not help but that's pretty much the extent of my knowledge of high sec engagement rules.

Which brings up the usual point. Turn off autotarget if you pvp. Many people are religious about this. Personally, I think as long as you aren't in a fleet battle and one has good habits this can be useful when transiting. But autolock can result in shooting friendlies so it's normal to turn it off in any kind of fleet, or always in case you might forget.

You shouldn't be losing pods except to bubbles. When you hit structure spam the warp button.

People who "duel" in trade hubs have plenty of skills - most of these skills of course revolve around getting unwitting other players to commit to combat.

Evil is self propagating, good has to work at it. Evil is easy, simple, and to those that like it, fun. It's human nature laid bare and if you only care about yourself, evil is the result. That is a major reason why EVE is the way it is. People happily spend lots of money to do things to other people they can't ordinarily do in a civilized society. One of the problems EVE has is that when people immerse in this behavior, they can take it out into the real world with them and it's essentially anti-social and generally frowned upon. I've been reading about some really big EVE players have gotten into large trouble over it.

Honor is neither good nor evil. Honor is adhering to a code of conduct that is recognizable (<= Wow... two Yankee typist giveaways in a single post!) and rational. Here's an example using two groups in EVE:

CODE has an established code of behavior. Some folks like it, some don't. They are essentially a racketeering organization that theoretically provides safety and safe passage if you buy one of their 'licenses' (read: blackmail, shakedown, etc.) The reality is, there is no penalty if a member of CODE kills someone with a license (it happens regularly if the reports are to be believed) and this is what makes them a racket and not an actual 'fee based police' organization. It lacks honor because it doesn't enforce its code of conduct.

CVA has an established code of behavior. Some folks like it, some don't. They religiously (pardon the pun) keep to that code of behavior and actively punish members or want to be members that don't follow the code of conduct. This is honorable because they do honor their code of conduct (the root construct of the concept of honor).

So, NBSI organizations (3rd giveaway!) like CODE are very common because they are easy to be in and are pretty much out for whatever gain they can get and use their code of conduct as a thin sheet to cover up their actual behavior.

NRDS organizations like CVA are very rare in the game because they ARE hard to belong to and hard to keep that level of honor.

You have to decide for yourself what kind of player you want to be. The game is actually a very clear reflection of the players that play it. You could put out several human psychology thesis papers on game issues in and out of game.