EVE New Citizens Q&A

Okay so starting form the top...

- It's very likely that you bought cheap ammo in low sec and that right there is your lesson learned, there are ways to filter out low and null sec sell orders but it's your own fault there.
- Autopilot skips all the warning messages, this and the fact that it warps you only to 15km and then makes you travel with normal engines the rest of the way are reason to NOT use it unless you aren't at the keyboard and not routed through lowsec.

- I think you miss-understand the 'zoning' as you put it. If you only pick "Warp to 0" you will only warp to a gate, not jump through it. the Jump button will auto jump (even without autopilot). When you appear on the other side you will have a cloak that is maintained for 30 seconds provided you don't move. Since you were on autopilot it moved, you lost cloak, and they popped you.

- I would like to reiterate that NONE of the tutorials FORCE you to goto low sec, you went there cause of something you did.
- It is very much possible to get LOTS of affordable things in highsec, but almost the entire market is player run. There is inevitably going to be some cheaper stuff in low sec since people don't go there as often and demand is lower. It is also often to lure in new players like you.

Almost every thing you mentioned was a fault on your part, not the game's. You assumed that the game wouldn't let you die or lead you astray and it doesn't care. You let your guard down and didn't check things thoroughly enough.

That said you most likely didn't loose very much in the grand scheme of things and I wouldn't mind helping you along further from this point with knowledge and a little bit of change here or there. Usually, though, I'm of the school of thought "Give a man a fish and he's fed for a day, teach a man to fish and you've fed him for life" and so I'd prefer to teach you than to give you =D

That's the funny thing though. You keep "forecasting" a death of the game over the fact that people can kill you like they did today and other similar things (like legal scamming), but the fact of the matter is, this game has seen constant growth every year ever since it was released in 2003 and these kinds of mechanics have always been there, newbs have always been just as vulnerable was you were, in fact moreso then you are today.

And another thing that makes you VERY easy to flame is the way you keep stereotyping the people that killed you. A lot of the guys that play this game are people in a professional career, college students, or just people with families and kids; this is a game that has a bit higher age demographic then most other MMOs. With that comes a slightly higher level of maturity. Yes of course you'll still have the crowd of guys that go "lol nub" but I swear every other story I heard of a newb getting blown up in low sec results in the newb hitting it off with his attackers and making friends out of them, sometimes even joining them. You'll see that overall there is a much higher sense of sportsmanship around. For instance the tradition of both parties leaving a "gf" (good fight) in local after a battle.

When people kill you in EVE it could be for several reasons, maybe they were bored and wanted something to shoot, maybe they treat it like a sport and every kill is a higher score, and usually you'll find that maybe they own the space and are trying to keep it secure.

"Well then why kill a newb?! I'm no threat!"
Oh yes you are. This game obviously supports multiple character as you should tell by the 3 slots on your first login. Aside form that you can also have as many account as you can afford to subscribe. This means it is not uncommon for people to make brand new alt characters and using them to infiltrate their enemies both corporately and physically. When it comes to home defense, every character, young or old, is a threat.

That's a fairly fancy way to say: "blunt insults that would get you in front of a judge in any decent country on the planet".