EVE New Citizens Q&A

Did/were you...

- leave behind a Mobile Depot?
- leave behind a Mobile Tractor Unit?
- shoot any of the above?
- loot a wreck that was yellow?
- shot at by a player?

Don't fly afk on autopilot, heh.

Next time they won't be so incompetent and they'll actually kill you.

Away From Keyboard


No.

"Autopiloting" typically refers to setting a course (usually a system or station) and then activating the "A" button on the lower left-hand side of your capacitor HUD.
The Autopilot function will fly your ship to your destination (including warping) for you. However, it will not activate any modules and when you warp to something, be a stargate or station, it will drop you 15km from it and "slow burn" towards it.

The reason for the Memphis' comment is that...
- Autopiloting makes you a very easy target to anyone looking to blow you up.
- a lot of newbies tend to rely on it too much to get places.


Double-click in the direction of space you wish to go in. The ship will attempt to follow that command as best it can.

Know that in EVE, you are playing more as a starship captain rather than a jet fighter pilot.
Except the "captain" (see: YOU) is directly linked to the ship via a neural uplink... which rests inside of a "pod"... with itself rests in the belly of your ship.


You can be attacked anywhere in the game. Even in 0.9 space.

However, attacking another player without...
- being at war with them (requires both sides to be in a corporation/alliance and one side paying a fee to the NPC law enforcement)
- being in a duel with the player (requires consent)
- being in a limited engagement with another player (shooting a player who is listed as "shoot on sight")

... will result in the offender being nuked by the NPC police.

However some players make a game or even a profession of this. They will shoot at other players in the hopes of blowing them up before the NPC police blows THEM up... then have a friend scoop the loot.
The hope is that the loot from your ship will pay off the offender's ship that was blown up (but sometimes it can be strictly for "funsies")

Bear in mind that this only applies in high-security space: 1.0 to 0.5 systems.

In low-security space (0.4 to 0.1 systems), null-security space (0.0 to -1.0 systems), and wormhole space (-1.0 systems) there is no police presence to discourage would-be attackers.


All in all... it looks like someone took a pot shot at you to see what would happen. And they most likely paid the price with their ship.

Your best defenses are...
- to keep moving at all times (makes it harder to apply damage against your ship).

- maintain a stiff tank (boosters or repairers won't help, you want to bulk up your HP with ship mods that increase HP and damage resistance levels).
NOTE: there are some ship mods that will decrease your ship's HP levels. These include Cargohold Expanders and/or Nanofiber Structures.

- don't fly with equipment or cargo that is TOO valuable (see: the value of your loot does not exceed the cost of the attacking ships required to gank you).

Thank you Shah!

That is really useful information for me.

I usually do not use expressions like "you rock", but you really do !

I am still too "chicken" to get out of hi-sec systems for now. I spend most of my time reading eveonline forums and many other resources (while mining), wherever I can find some useful information.

Did not even have a military ship until a couple of hours ago. Got a Talwar from Mike with his Magic school bus ! He encouraged me to get out there and be shot at !

Thanks again Shah!

Yep.

OP - just so you know, my friends in CODE. alliance *love* blowing up people autopiloting in highsec. We lose the ship we attack with, but if we kill you half your cargo and fitted modules will drop as loot.

Additionally, some big market manipulators and wealthy, bored nullsec players donate large amounts of ISK to our cause just to watch highsec burn.

Just a note - even as a rookie player you can quite quickly get involved in ganking if you want. The skills you will need to be able to kill mining ships in cheap Destroyers are accessible in just a few hours of focused training, and there's nothing quite like the feeling of blowing up a ship that's worth 10 times your entire wealth in EVE using a cheap low-skilled Catalyst.