EVE General Discussion

I recently got back into eve after quitting for a few years and I want to start heading into low sec (I used to be a carebear) but I'm afraid I don't even know how to travel out there let alone live there. I'm not sure how to decide what ship to use, how to fit it, the do's and don'ts of traveling in low sec, etc. Please help me out guys, I have jump clones as well and plenty of money so insurance isn't an issue. Every piece of info no matter how small helps.

Ok, will do. Thank you.

In general, travelling in lowsec is not much different to travelling in highsec and it doesn't take long to learn how to keep yourself safe.

Some simple tips:

- Avoid entry systems into lowsec that are close to highsec trade hubs (because they are often camped)

- Make at least 1 safe spot in each system you enter (even a midwarp safe on the way to another gate is good enough initially)

- If a system has a lot of suspects/criminals, don't warp directly to a gate. Warp at range to a celestial first and scan your outgoing gate

- check the in game map stats (pilots in space last 30 min, pod kills last hour, ship kills last hour) if you are unsure of the area and have no scout to jump ahead of you. That will give you some intel about the next system ahead

- check zkillboard for any of the systems on route that the map shows are active. That will give you an idea of how active those systems are being used for pvp

- with the new enlarged grids, make perches off gates while you are warping to them. Ctrl+B and then hit ok when you reach 10,000km off the gate. That will give you an on-grid perch that you can warp to in future to see what is happening on gate

- Gates and Stations provide more protection than celestials and beacons because sentry guns will engage people that attack you if you are not suspect/criminal or an outlaw (sec status < -5). Gates also give you the ability to separate enemies or escape from them by allowing them to agress and then jumping through. Don't be afraid of using gates to your advantage because of those mechanics

- if you regularly use some stations, create instadock and instaundock bookmarks so you can always get in and out safely even if the station is being camped by a fleet

Those are some very simple tips no matter what you are flying. Last one:

- Just fly a T3D and instawarp off any gate anyway. Lots of people will just run away from you, especially if you are in a Svipul, so you will be ok in one.

That last one is just a joke....sort of.

No problems.

The safes take a bit of time to setup initially, but never need to be setup again.

So while you might move a bit slower than you would like when you first go into lowsec, eventually you'll move just as quick as you do in highsec.

The biggest killer I face when just moving in lowsec is complacency. For all those tips, lowsec is really easy and generally quite ok to move around in. So mostly I just warp gate-to-gate, jump...rinse repeat. Most people do.

It occasionally gets me killed when I jump into a camp because I was lazy, but that's lowsec. PvP Mecca.

If you are just moving around (not looking for pvp), your chance of being killed is proportional to how lazy/complacent you are being.

However, once you do find yourself in a pod, being careful is a good thing.

Since Santo Trafficante is so successful with smart bombing on gates, there are a lot of copycat killers around.

So if you are in a pod and in an area that has high pvp activity (because Santo and other smartbombers tend to hang around places that will have a high number of pods moving around) warping gate-to-gate directly can be a quick path to a fresh clone. If your clone is empty, then doesn't matter. But if your head is full of implants, it's worth either warping to perches or celestials for every gate so your angle of approach is not direct and/or docking and getting a ship nearby.

Smartbombs are really the only thing difficult to predict, however if you do get smartbombed, just instantly make a contact out of that pilot so you will see if they are in system next time.

Good to know, thanks.

I wondering if you have a purpose to go there, or just want to go and look around?

Traveling/ratting mostly maybe some mining here and there but I know how to fit a mining ship for low sec

First thing I'd advise is turning off the daft message warning you that you are about to enter low sec, follow the advice about bookmarks etc, and then just get on with business

If you get shot you get shot - and in general - people are as frightened of you as you are of them

But how would you set up a bookmark so far away from everything? That's incredibly long and you don't have anything to warp to.