EVE General Discussion

So I was messing around today, trying to get an alt into 0.0. Normally I would just use an interceptor and be done with it, however, the alt I was moving had never took the time to train those skills so I decided to see how interesting the trip would be in a rookie ship. Of course I ran into gate camps on my two tries, and the vultures waiting at these gates for prey quickly shot my ship and pod, as I would expect.

This got me thinking: this kind of situation makes recruiting newer players into 0.0 empires much more difficult than it should be. If a player's home station change is not available, or they do not have the ability to fly a ship that is interdictor nullified, then they have to travel by gates where they are surely will die to a gate camp along the way. Thing is, veteran players, who have the wisdom and knowledge to deal with gate camps and know how to fly through 0.0 safely, are able to hop in an interceptor and whiz through space unaffected by gate camps. The newer players, however, are fed upon. On top of this, gate camps, because of what they do, make 0.0 space closer to low sec that much more valuable, and make places like Cobalt Edge that mush more useless.

I think there should be some way that a player, who only wants to move just their character to 0.0. should have the ability to do so without being preyed upon by the vultures of 0.0. Allow players to get to their alliance's area of space so they can enjoy the true fun of 0.0 without becoming "the content" for some bored player who had enough money to put up a bubble at a gate and wait in a cloaky ship to pick off easy kills. How about making implants that you would put in your character that makes your pod interdictor nullified. It would have to be a set, so that veterans do not use the implant to get their expensive pod out of a legitimate fight after losing a ship (unless they wanted to have no additional bonuses in their pod form other kinds of implants). Or, if you want it to be just 1 implant, make it to where no other implants could be in the character while its plugged in. The implant(s) would be intended for just travel, and once the character reached where it was going, would be unplugged and a more useful implants used. The implant(s) would also NOT allow any ships the player is in to be interdictor nullified -- just the pod.

One way but is not easy get a wormhole connection to Low or High that connects close to your 0.0 station. Once you find a path , coordinate a move out. Have scouts good intel and move on. That's why this is a MMO.

I was going to say wormhole connection too.

Visit clone services in a station. Change your home station respawn point to one owned by your friendly new alliance's space. Undock. Self destruct.

Voila, gate camps avoided, and no expensive game-breaking implants had to be purchased.

The last time I tried null, I set my home station to my corp's station in null, terminated a jump clone with no implants, and woke up in null. I had my items shipped to null by the alliance.

Now, I like to try out a corp and an alliance, so I only sent one ship to null, I left the rest of my ships and equip in High Sec.

I made my own way. I'm starting in 0.0, having just bought this character (cap pilot). I figured out what ships to bring on my initial journey, and I bought the Archon to do it. Then, I planned out my jumps and made sure with my alliance that the move would be safe. It was. I did the legwork, which is hat null-sec entities want to see in possible recruits. They don't want to hold your hand just because you joined, you have to have some initiative to do so. If you can't show that you can do safe movement, then you don't deserve to be playing in 0.0. Stick to high sec and carebearing.

oop **** posted on my spy account

My record for jumps through lowsec & nulsec (mostly) in an Ibis rookie-ship is 43. Nearly all stop & pull bubbles are detectable and avoidable. The ones directly on gates are so annoying that they typically get destroyed by the first fleet that gets stuck in it.

[I could have gotten further, but there was an unavoidable small gate-camp with a bubble directly on the incoming gate, and though I made it through, my next decision was a bad one: warp around in-system until my shield recharged a bit. I then went for the exit-gate and was followed-through by the interceptor that attacked me earlier, which immediately locked me and finished the job. Had I just jumped through the exit-gate immediately, they would have had weapons timers and been unable to follow.]

aka: The scout.

Yeah, the not needing your hand held in the first place is the best attitude towards operating in nullsec.