Warfare & Tactics

Hell, I've been stone cold drunk flying around in Syndicate, then the blackouts, and woke up the next morning after DT, logged on expecting to see the station my med clone was at and the insurance payout, but low and behold, ship was in one piece, all my guns were burned out, and had 10 exotic dancer in my cargo hold, and guess where I was at, right in the center of Provi.. So yeah, OP, good luck bro, but I really don't think you are going to find much sympathy around here when you are looking at getting in to PVP and can't circumvent a few gate camps. DOTLAN maps will be your best friend if you take a look at it and really study the route you take, like how many kills in the system, etc. GL again!

-One last thing, and really the point I was getting at is don't be a Dalto, because the best learning experiences I have had in Eve were always the expensive ones, story above is true, but I have died way more than lived drunk flying, or not scouting the way ahead, whether through 3rd party apps like DOTLAN or taking a look at the guys camping the gate to see when their most active times are.. there are a hundreds of ways to do it, and your gonna have to start learning. I find it sad that your Corpmates aren't giving you a hand, but sometimes you just gotta ask.

then you just found pvp. PVP is not being always the apex predator. Can't beat them? go around, go somewhere else.


The only real problem eve has related to newcommers and PVP is indeed lack of information. Some say use google, but you need to know that somethign exists to search for it.

Most peopel have no idea about gate camps, traps etc.

I remember the first few times i lost a cruiser I was enraged how unfair was T2 cruisers hunting my cruiser at the very first exits of high sec. At least I was lucky of going into low sec within 2 weeks of character creation. That allowed me to learn from the start that thigns are dangerous. I developed a sense that I was the PREY, i did not had any idiotic illusion that because i had ran level 4 missions i knew how to fight and could defeat the enemies ( i was still in level 2 back then). Since i had the mentality of being hunted by sharks, I soon learned valuable things.

I almost stopped when I lost 4 ruptures on same day, but luckly , I had payed 3 months in advance, so I decided to continue.. and then the learnign started to kick in.



The best way to make newcommers not SHOCKED when they die, is make them go to low sec with the "YOU ARE BEIG HUNTED, you are a NOTHING!"mentality on the first week.

The current advertisement of eve, that makes the newplayer think that he is almighty and powerful at the start is one of the reasons the frustration kicks in.


Eve must show at tutorial and introduction and advertisement that you are rich and IMORTAL, but you are just a tiny fish at the start and there is the adventure of trying to grab richness and slip between the jaws of giant sharks.




Another thing that helped back then, we did not had warp to zero. That meant that the gatecamp were in other side of the gate, they were not as much of a surprise. They felt less unfair back then because of that. I felt i coudl check for them and avoid them more

0.5/10

Get a corpie to scan down a wormhole in your area. Find a low or highsec entrance and go that way. I do it all the time, usually takes 15 to 30 mins to find a 1 or 2 jump route from high to my null sec area.

CCP should REALLY make ALL stargates regional size stargates. Which would make "Gate camps" a lot more difficult but, not impossible.