EVE New Citizens Q&A

Is EVE harsh, Yes it is.
Can you be killed in space in EVE, Yes you can.
Is EVE build mainly around PvP, Yes it is.
Will you be killed in EVE, Yes you will eventually.

Will you be killed EVERYTIME you undock, No unless you want too.

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EVE can be very harsh and PvP centric. But there is still plenty of room to fly around "safe-ish".

Just keep in mind that in high-sec shooting someone without legit reason will mean CONCORD will punish the offender and he also gets a sec status hit (means if he does it too much he can't enter high-sec without being chased by NPC ships that want to kill him).

So unless you make yourself a big target in high-sec, you are quite safe to do what ever you want.

Here is a great example of how you make yourself a big target in high-sec. *Yes, that is me in my early game days*

Mining ships also tend to be targets of grievers but they have limited ability to do something. They can try to suicide gank you but it hardly pays off (unless Hulkageddon is active and they compete for the prizes). The other thing they might try is can flip you and hope you return fire, as long as you don't they can't shoot you.

On the other hand, low-sec and null-sec (0.0 & Wormholes) are quite PvP heavy and if you go there expect your ship to be lost (better expect to loose it and return home safely then think you will return and loose your ship).

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The golden rule of EVE:

Don't fly what you can't afford to loose.

This doesn't mean that you need to replace it. I fly certain ships that I by far can replace with my wallet. But I agree that using them comes with the risk of loosing the ship.

So as long as you have either the back up funds to replace a ship if it is lost (or already have 1 or more replacements) or are fine with the chance of loosing the ship, just use the ship.

Ships and modules are just tools to help you do what you like to do. And if you don't like PvP (or just want to wait for a bit to do it so you can learn the game mechanics) there are plenty of other things you could do.

Here is a nice site that lists what you can do in EVE. Keep in mind it isn't actually complete as EVE is player driven and players can do what they want to do. So you can even follow your own idea and make your own new profession.

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Ooh and above all, keep in mind in EVE bigger isn't always better. Each ship from frigate up to titans have advantages and disadvantages. Frigates are cheap, fast, nimble ships but with low punch compared to battleships. Then again, battleships have large guns that will have trouble keeping track of a fast nimble ship. So a BS vs Frig fight doesn't always mean that the BS wins (he can, but same can be said for the frigate).

See the size of guns as following:

Small guns in EVE are like pistols, if someone is driving a car around you, you can easily keep up with him and shoot him.
Big guns in EVE are like a tank, if that same person starts driving around the tank. The turret won't be able to keep up with him.

Heres another rule of EVE especially around JITA.

1. If it seems like a good deal it probably is...... but only for the other party.

Check your trade contracts. Really good deals tend to be a SCAM. Prime example is buying a PLEX for 385 mill thinking your getting a good deal right? Nope, check the exchange. Yeah you might pay 385 mill but if you look down you'll notice the other guy wants to swap a PLEX for a PLEX too so essentially you just gave him 385 mill isk for free.

Only problem with dying is that you have to go and get a new one; for me mostly because I'm so stingy with my wallet.

Though even more annoying is to forget to move your medical clone and wake up 40 jumps from where you died with nothing but a rookie ship and with a denied access to medical facility.

What about jumping into a PvP battle, only by a miracle get out alive in your pod (10% structure left on it) to find out you:

1.) Took your training/high-sec pod filled with expensive implants.
2.) Your clone limit has been long passed.

I laughed when I noticed it after I docked, and even more when I remembered I recorded it all

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Don't die, death is awful instead do everything you can to tip the odd's of the fight in your favour and when things don't work out to always have a get-out plan and for when that plan is put on halt by the arrival of a Rapier/Arazu on grid then you do everything in your power to die kicking and screaming firing at everything you can and making your death as unpleasant to the enemy as you can before you go down or the falcon jam's you (For moments like those you have local smacktalk) and when you finally do die then reship and do it all over again.

Also find some people from your country/timezone. EvE players tend to gather together in a national/regiona groups sometimes, perhaps that would make you more comfortable in the beginning. Then, go wherever you want, with whoever you want. Oh and yeah, don't worry about loosing the ships or even pod. It's a part of the game. Game on! :)

Welcome to EVE Online - one of the few gaming communities where the developers care enough about the newer players that they will occasionally throw up links to these forums on the login pages - just so you can get some advice from us :)

Don't be afraid of EVE. Everything is a learning experience, even death. It can be a hard transition from conventional MMOs where the sense of loss is heavily diminished. EVE makes you feel you losses... but that does not mean you cannot be the master of them.

I sincerely hope you get to encounter and encourage PVP to it's fullest.

The first time I died in EVE, I had accidentally wandered into low security space and was mining in my little Destroyer when I was murdered by a Loki (vastly outgunned but meh!).

The first time I went out looking for a fight, I died because I accidentally attacked a jumpgate, causing it's defensive guns to strafe me with violence (I failed hard!)

Yesterday, I led a fleet of 150 pilots as we ravaged another fleet and killed a dozen of their capital ships.

The longer you keep at it, the more you learn, and the better you get. :)

I'm disappointed in you guys. A new pilot post without mentioning the eve learning curve picture?
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/devblog/2011/eve-learning-curve.jpg

No, but that's the great part about Eve. Anything you do (staying docked in itself doesn't count, because you aren't doing anything) has a risk to it. What fun would there be if there wasn't risk? The safest things you can do are probably staying in NPC corps and moving market orders or running missions. After a time though these aren't really fun, there's no risk I recommend getting some experiance in PvP from Agony Unleashed or Red vs Blue and then move into a wormhole/lowsec/0.0 alliance



I had a hard time starting out too. I dabbled in 0.0, lowsec, and wormholes, but generally did PvE in those areas anyway because I was so horrible at PvP. Eventually you're just going to have to accept that you're horrible at it until you practice and get better, which means getting out there and doing it.

Like I said above, try some Agony Unleashed classes to get you started and maybe join something like Red vs Blue, which seems pretty polite as far as pvp standards go. Once you get used to that move up to something more serious, if you feel like it.