EVE New Citizens Q&A

Maxim 70. Failure is not an option - it is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.

Sometimes you lose. Sometimes it's not the fault of the tools. The tools did their job, the Astero did his. I don't care what game you're playing, if you're not paying attention, you're gonna get popped.

No worries. Im totally at easy with losing ships.

I see it like poker. A series of risks and odds.

You have to calculate ISK gained and ISK lost against
the risks when you go out of hi-sec.

It used to be tied to the overview present you were actively using, now you can set which one you want.
Though I believe it's set to this as default.

Probably prudent to make an overview preset specifically for use with the d-scan

There's nothing you can do to detect cloaked ships. And d-scan won't detect the ships that have d-scan invisibility.

Overview is not basic, but it's simple once you configure it properly. It just shows you all the ships that are on-grid with you, plus the stations, stargates, and beacons that broadcast their location system-wide. You need to configure 1 tab to show you all player ships, mission ships, sleepers / rats, etc., a few critical things like bombs and warp disruption bubbles, and stations and stargates. Then you can configure additional tabs for specific info:

- asteroids
- wrecks, containers, MTU, corpses, etc.
- drones and fighters
- nothing but stations and stargates, with no brackets shown in space, so that the Jita crowds don't freeze your screen

- various configurations of ships shown / ships not shown based on ship type and/or membership to your fleet

You also need to configure the icons and the colors. Typically you want stuff that can shoot you to be at the top, because those colors will take priority, so for example if a pilot has:

- criminal flag (red)
- sec. rating of -0.5 (yellow)
- is in your alliance (blue)

If you're repairing the guy, you may need to know if he's criminally flagged, so the red would matter more than the blue. However, the icon / blinky and the background color are sorted separately, so you CAN, if you want, put the criminal icon at the top and blinky red, but also switch to the backgrounds tab and put the corp and alliance colors at the top. So what you'll get is a blinky red criminal icon but on a blue background (alliance).

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D-scan has two purposes:

1. Give you a few seconds of advanced notice when someone is in warp towards you, so you can try to warp away BEFORE they land. Cause once they land it's often too late. For this purpose, you want to see player ships and probes, and you want to scan 360 degrees as far as possible, constantly. You also need to keep track of the ships you see; in high-sec you'll see a lot of ships and only a few may be actually a threat to you.

2. Let you sit at a safe spot and aim a directional scan towards a stargate to see if there's a gatecamp there. This is a scouting ability so you don't land in a trap. You typically warp to a nearby planet and try to scan the gate near it using 5 or 15 degrees. You need to see ships, drones, warp disruption bubbles, wrecks, containers, corpses (these can decloak you by proximity, and also are an indication of recent kills).

So, basically, d-scan provides a chance to see a threat before it hits you, but it's imperfect because CCP wants PVP to happen, so basically they didn't want you to be perfectly safe as long as you had d-scan going. Which is why you can't see cloaked ships and certain recon ships and anything in the vicinity of a mobile scan inhibitor that has been deployed.

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You should open Overview Settings and play with the settings yourself. Try to figure out how they work. You can always re-import that Z-S pack if you mess anything up.

Not exactly... a cloaky ship will be decloaked a few seconds upon enterring and exiting systems (whether by gate or WH), it will be decloaked a few second when logging on in space, and it will be decloaked a few seconds when undocking (whether from station or citadel)

When in wormholes, if you click d-scan a LOT, you may spot the cloaky guys. I have d-scan bound to a mouse button, when hacking I always click nodes AND press that mouse-button at the same time, and I watch the d-scan window more than the hacking window.

I was recently popped hacking in WH space by 2 interceptors that had pre scanned the relic site down. They came in system and warped to me and killed me. I missed them on d-scan because they were quick. Some times there's nothing you can do.

Just wanted to add that you must D-scan at least once in 5 sec to have a greater chance of success. In W-space, it doesn't take long for a cloak ship to disappear, plus if the wh is farther than the D-scan max range, it's impossible to spot. But if a gang is warping on you, you may be able to get them and warp out. We try harvesting gas/ farm sites in gangs. With many people spamming the D-scan, it's much safer.

Yeah I bet a cloaky dictor would be OP.

Moons: May have hostile Player Owned Starbases (POS)

Asteroid Belts: May have hostile NPC, and are a common place to go when you want to FIND A FIGHT.

Sun: Common place to go when you want to FIND A FIGHT.

Player Owned Customs Offices (POCO): Often located at the planet warp-in, so not unique, which can be a problem when in a panic. POCOs attract people looking for vulnerable industrialists.