EVE General Discussion

I - not even a mere month in EVE - just got *snip* podkilled for the first time by two *snip* player in low sec. I was traveling in an Imicus, minding my own business and merely jumping from one system to another when I was suddenly warp scrambled. I got into Local and plead for mercy but they attacked me anyway. I had no valuables on me, posed no threat and yet they murdered me.

Now, most of you will think “So what? Welcome to EVE.” and I would agree if not for the fact that I am ... or at least was roleplaying as a capsuleer who, similarly to Amarr royalty, refuses to use cloning technology. The financial loss and the subtracted skillpoints (I hadn’t upgraded my clone for aforementioned RPing reasons) are not what bothers me - they are minimal anyway. It is this devastating loss of purpose for this character. Right now I am considering destroying him and leaving EVE altogether because, fuck, this right here is a major joykill for me. Why are there malicious people like that?



tl;dr I need some serious cheering up lest I lose all my enjoyment of EVE :(

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ISD Dosnix

If you're going to RP someone who refuses clone tech, more power to you. If you don't want to lose SP as a consequence, I advise staying out of lo-sec, and even more I advise learning how to get your pod out. In Empire, the *nearly* failsafe method is to start spamming warp before your ship explodes; your pod will instawarp and you'll get away 99% of the time. It sounds like you were well aware that you were risking SP loss, and you must have clicked through the lo-sec warning, so I'm not sure what your problem is here? You made a gamble and it din't pay off?

More to the point the guys that killed you were roleplaying pirates; their thing is being merciless robbers who blow other ships up for the loot. Why should they believe you have no valuables? Why don't you respect their RP?


Anyway, don't quit. Dedicate your EVE career to a merciless and vindictive revenge (that's what a proper Amarr Lord would do). We'd be delighted to give you advice in this respect.

This, i mean whats the point of your rp otherwise.

I guess but I don’t know how to find the power to go on. I mean doing so would not only require me to start from scratch which is annoying enough, no, I would also lose essentially all contacts et cetera. As such, I was hoping that I would receive some consolation here with people encouraging me and giving me ideas on how to continue. Alas, it seems that all I can expect here is scorn and ridicule

The warning you get when you jump into lowsec.
The game you took by flying without an updated clone. Hell, the gamble you took by going into lowsec.

Neither has been shown to consistently coincide with not having any valuables.

What if they had no space for any of that? How would they know that you were unarmed.

For the same reason you demand that your RPing shold be respected.

Also, Jade, take your meds or go have yourself checked out so you can get some. Your paranoia is showing.

If your're doing the RP thing then why not make the new character a family member or someone hired to investigate the disappearance of the first character? You could go through his Rolodex and ask his contacts for information regarding his last known whereabouts, favorite restaurants and slave marts, etc.

EDIT: Thank you ISD Dosnix for returning my post from the bit bin.

Perhaps the killers were Rp'ing you as a self entitled annoying cruel, sadistic and tyrannical ruler, but also incompetent, naive, fairly stupid, cowardly, prone to rash outbursts of violence and perhaps even insane. They felt they were doing New Eden a service taking you down as you unwisely traveled alone without guard.

Well I did try to be encouraging, but the point is you cant expect all the other players to be aware of your RP, nor can you expect them to modify their game to suit you.

Really, your problem is an RP problem and we can't solve that for you. What do you want us to say?

RP a reason for your character to go on, or even create a new character. As such, merely losing a ship is a pretty trivial reason to quit.

By default, you start with all warnings enabled, including the warning pop up that you have to click through to jump into lo-sec. Either you ignored it or you'd disabled it.



People use alts in small or cheap ships to transport valuables all the time. It's hilariously common - ask about the guy who moved 74 PLEX in an unfitted Kestrel (T1 frigate). I say this from personal knowedge, as I did some pirating for a time. Let me tell you a bit about how it works:

You only have a second or two at best to catch any ship that jumps through. There is simply no time to check bios or read employment histories. Additionally, other, larger groups may appear at any time, so there's simply no point wanting time faffing about with scanners (let alone wasting a valuable mid-slot better spent on tanking mods or sensor boosters).

The simplest, safest and most efficient way to see what loot you have is to blow your ship up as quickly as possible and quickly loot the wreck. Equally, the best way to remove you from the area and prevent you scaring the other fish away is to pod you if at all possible. I might add that I was appalled by the number of podkills we got in just a couple of months.



You'll find this forum tends to be very helpful towards people who want to take responsibility for their own game, but very unsympathetic to quitters. I and all the other "psychopaths" will be more thn happy to give you as much advice as you can deal with once you've calmed down and decided to get even, not mad