EVE New Citizens Q&A

What's D-Scan, why do I need it, and how do you efficiently use it?
I stumbled on the menu for it the other day while out on a long mining trip with my small fleet of buddies. Didn't want to toy with it in case it would make CONCORD or any other NPC corp mad if I pointed it the wrong way.

Okay, I'll take a look at all that. Just wasn't gonna push buttons without knowing; that kind of stuff can get you crimflagged or blown up. Or both. (I've only played probably 16 hours and I've figured that out. I've also figured out to never tell a corp owner 'no'. Sometimes they'll throw a hissy fit and get their corp to work together to set a big bounty on you. Yes, that's where my 6mil bounty came from.)

I don't want my sec standing changing too bad or anything like that either. So I spend most of my time at a CONCORD-guarded area by the biggest ship I can find researching things I don't understand. Either that or I do it in a station, or right outside one.

It's good to be smart but standings can be fixed. Even at that I don't think that one mishap would be too terribly bad.

It is good to take your time and research stuff and learn at your own pace. However mistakes = experience or it could be said that you can't really learn how to do something until you first learn how not to do that thing.

You will loose ships in this game and you will make mistakes. If you'd like me to throw a handful of frigates at you so that you don't have to worry about replacing them just send me an in-game mail. That way you can loose my ships not your own. And if you insure them you could make isk on every one of my ships that you get blown up in.

Yep. I tend to fly Ventures and Merlins, and I'm an Alpha character. I've gotten shot to bits in a Merlin for a mission and used insurance money to replace it with 100k profit.

Not sure why you would need a big ship? Big ships have problems landing damage on a little ship. You should have no troubles finding fights in low sec. As long as you don't shoot first you won't take a standing hit. I'm not much of a PvPer so others will likely come by to speak more specifically on that.

The bounty payout is only 20% of the value of the ship that got blown up. No sure how much your bounty is but it could take a while to get rid of in cheap ships.

No one really pays attention to them anyway. People like putting them on new players because they have a tendency to freak out about it. But no on is going to chase after you for your bounty. It's best to just ignore them.

As far as harassing to get fights in high sec that should be simple. Either find someone jet can mining in a belt or scan down mission runners with combat probes. Either way steal some loot from a can that is not yours, they will show up as yellow in color to you. You will get a limited engagement timer which means that the owner of that can and his corp can shoot you for the next 15 minutes. However if they do then you can shoot back. This is called suspect baiting. I am sure you can find guides on mission intrusion / suspect baiting.

Kind of but you can't pinpoint something with D scan nor can you get a warp to point. However you can figure out which anomaly that they are in or which planet they are sitting on the WIP ( Warp In Point ) of. You can also tell which gate someone just came through or went through, what ship they are flying, stuff like that can be very helpful, especially in low and null sec space.

Again not sure why you are looking for a big ship and didn't really follow you much after that but most of that stuff is unimportant anyway.

K. I just don't like the idea of running from vultures, that's all. This knowledge will be useful in my future borderline mining operations. Mostly so I can D-scan EVERYTHING and run if I see anything bigger than my escort xD

Running out of ammo is not an option: I tend to have 2k-10k charges in my hold when I'm using my railguns. All of which will double my range, so I can hit like an idiotically built cruiser in a frigate.

Don't confuse player ships for NPC ships. A player can get under your guns or just outfly your tracking and railguns don't have good tracking to begin with. If someone gets under your guns, speed tanks your guns, or uses tracking disruptors, then you can easily run out of ammo and never hit the frigate.

For every fit there is a counter-fit. Be aware. If there is one truism in this game--gotta go add this to one-liners thread-- It is the safer you feel, the more vulnerable you are. Only one place is safe, inside a station. Everywhere else has an element of risk.

Many players have lost large sums of isk on typos and scams. Being docked in station is not without risk. Yes for all of those things require to you do something but it's not that difficult to misread a contract or misplace a decimal.