EVE New Citizens Q&A

Oh, and do this immediately

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Thanks for this, I've been trying to figure this out on my own already, this made my life easier now!

Also thanks all for the advice, the game is complex and I know I'm a noon at it but I'll learn it soon enough. I just hope I learn it before these things can happen to me again.

OP - The absolute best way to learn how to avoid being ganked is to gank for a while. Learn all the tricks of the trade, then develop counters for them. If you look up my combat history you will see a lot of me ganking miners - what you will not see is me losing ships when I transport expensive goods, despite me often carrying billions of ISK worth of blueprints around highsec.

A lowskilled newbie can take out Ventures, Endurances and Prospects just fine, and with a little training you will be able to hit Retrievers, Covetors and the (now quite rarely seen) untanked Hulks and Mackinaws.

Just think of your ships as consumables. You will lose lots of them in your EVE career - some to cunning ambushes, some to your own carelessness, some in the name of defending or assaulting a greater objective.

There are many lessons best learned in a cheap ship like your Venture.

If the system was your startersystem then you can petition it. You´re safe from so called "content creators" in there.
While mining in 1.0 you can go back to a starter system to feel nice and cozy :).

Getting started in EVE Online can be somewhat daunting for new players or rookies. A number of system in which new players typically start are deemed 'Rookie System' and in these systems (listed below) a measure of protection is offered to new players.

This protection also extends to systems in which 'Career Agents' are located and as well as to systems associated with The Blood Stained Stars - Sisters of EVE Epic Arc.

Attempting to abuse a new players lack of knowledge of the game and its mechanic for your personal gain or simply for their harm is prohibited in these solar systems. This includes, but is not limited to; tricking new players into situations where you or others may open fire on them freely or scamming ISK or assets from them. Players are advised to reconsider any aggressive action against new players in the following systems:

Starter Systems
•Amarr ◦Chaven
◦Sehmy
◦Emrayur



•Caldari ◦Kisogo
◦Todaki
◦Amsen



•Gallente ◦Duripant
◦Bourynes
◦Cistuvaert



•Minmatar ◦Ammold
◦Ryddinjorn
◦Hulm


Career Agent systems
•Amarr ◦Deepari
◦Pasha
◦Conoban



•Caldari ◦Uitra
◦Jouvulen
◦Akiainavas



•Gallente ◦Couster
◦Clellinon
◦Trossere



•Minmatar ◦Hadaugago
◦Malukker
◦Embod

There was a lot of good advice here about how to fit you ship for more tank and how to use movement to reduce or even eliminate incoming damage. Also lots of good advice about choosing the right high sec system to mine in.

I would like to highlight and draw attention to the intel aspects of tilting the odds in your favor. DMC touched on this:


But I would like to take it a bit further. Knowing who the gankers are and where they typically hang out is very good intel to have. You can set standings like DMC said to groups known to gank like CODE. Also if you have local in a separate window as other's have suggested and you are in a low population system you can look up any new pilots in system on the killboards. This works especially well if you run two monitors.

When you do find pilots with lots of mining ship ganks in their kill history you can also look at their corp and Alliance and see if the whole group needs to have negative standings set. This way you will know immediately when a ganker is in system before he has time to warp to your belt.

Also this is probably a good time to point out that high sec is not safe. I know that conceptually you are aware of this but many players even ones that have been playing for years still think that high sec is the safest space in Eve and it is not. High sec is far more dangerous than sov null that is blue and well defended. What I mean by this is that if you are in or friendly with the group that owns the local space and involved in the local intel channels you will know when local is safe and when it is not. You will also know when reds are coming from several systems away.

That type of group intel and group defense can make null sec far safer than high sec. Keep in mind that I am not saying that all null sec is safer than all of high sec. I am just saying that in the right situation null sec can be safer than high sec.

Something else worth pointing out is that you should have kill rights on the pilot that ganked you. There is also such a thing as locator agents that you can use to find out where a pilot is currently located. You will need to do a little research to figure out how to make it all happen but you already know what he likes to fly and can probably figure out how he likes to fit it through the killboards via losses he has of that same ship. So you can hunt him down and extract revenge on a one time basis if you are so inclined to do so. Read up a bit on activating kill rights before you attempt this. Also keep in mind he will be able to defend himself so you need to have a ship picked specifically to take him out.

Probably better this happened to you three days in rather than three months, when you would've invested a lot more time and energy into the game. Keep at it; try sampling both sides of the coin, and others have said.

I don't mine anymore, but I've played long enough to say that if you fly a tanked procurer, stay in a low traffic system (5 people or less), and jump out if someone else tries to share the same belt with you, you will pretty much never lose a mining ship. Just don't go AFK (doing anything in EVE, not just mining).

The permit thing is a very, very successful racketeering scheme

Ugh, I wish you posted 10 days ago.. I did the total opposite

btw, ty all for all the advice, I've been having a blast so far and making decent ISK for a noob. Now I have all this ISK and such low skills that I really can't buy anything with it yet.. Soon (58days soon) I'llbe sporting a skiff all tanked out

Indeed, a Procurer is enough to make all but the most determined of hisec gankers look for another target; even with a T1 fit it can soak up an absurd amount of damage in the time it takes Concord to drop the doughnuts.