Warfare & Tactics

SO as a new player to eve and Faction warfare.
ALL I see are pirate corps set up on gates to low sec coming from High sec and insta poping and poding newbies.

As in all games where the masses are allowed to play there will always be "greivers", but that leaves me to 1 question

Why would anyone play THIS game if they are blown up every time they decided to go and try to plex a system, when your only route is thru the one gate where 10 pirates are posted waiting for you.

Sure isk is easy to make, after you have established time in the game and have the resources to earn it
Sure combat is easy, after you have established the time in the game to use the stuff that makes it easy.

I started with 5k isk and a ship that does lol 11 dps. so how am I to make isk in FW when I cant outrun, outgun or hold my ground from their assaults.

Not really seeing the fun in that.

You have to solve problems in this game. It's hard. That's why most people like it. As for your 'problems', they are far from insurmountable. Because I'm a lovely guy (ask anyone), I'll lay it out for you.

1) Enter low sec in a pod (pirates can't catch you)
2) Go to friendly hub system
3) Buy frigate
4) Find quiet backwater
5) Open plex
6) Run if someone chases you
7) Cash in lp

You can easily make an excellent income doing this which will fund your development as a player and increase your understanding of game mechanics.

When I started playing this game I ratted in low sec to earn isk. It took me about a day's grind to afford a cruiser. You could manage the same in about 15 minutes. In summary: quit whining.

Getting and being blowd up is actually the point of low sec. If you goal is simply to plex a system then im kinda glad you are having trouble.

One of the goals in EVE is to BE THAT CAMPER !
Another is to get into a fleet and KILL THOSE CAMPERS !

You're just not there yet.
When you do get there, the PvP part is much more fun than the PvE part.

Remember, 95% of the ships in EVE have guns...

One time, I watched a GCC PRoteus camping a gate jump into high sec to evade our gatecamp-killing fleet. That was a good haul for me.

if all you want is to plex.. plex somewhere else. WZ is quite large. Certain gates seem to attract camps more than others (hint).

camping gates isn't very skill intensive or honorable but a completely valid game mechanic and works while being drunk.

If you can't stand the group-centric PvP elements, don't go to a place where PvP is 99% of the life there. If all you want to do is farm ISK then stay in highsec and run missions.

There are several ways to bypass gate camps.

First is to travel-fit your ship; warp core stabilizers, nanofibers to reduce align time, a microwarp drive to burn out or back to the gate, maybe a cloak. Not 100% guaranteed.

Second is to get a buddy to scout the other side of the gate for you; if you're in a corp operating in the war zones, generally there'll be at least one or two guys who can fly covert ops or force recon ships, who will be able to tell you if the gate's clear or not.

Third would be to try alternate routes, checking kill counts on the EVE in-game map or on the evemaps.dotlan.net maps. For entering Black Rise, for example, systems like Tama and Akidagi are often extremely active, but Ishomilken and Ikoskio are much quieter, and make decent alternate routes (at the expense of longer journeys once you're over the low-sec threshold). Friends who are familiar with the local astrography can be very helpful in this regard as well.

There are probably more ways into lowsec than there are big pirate corps in the game.

That is all.

(I for example have never ever lost anything going from high to low.)

To get pass a low-sec gate camp:

- install warp core stabilisers in your low slots (immune to warp scramble)
- insteall low friction nozzles in your rig slots (to boost agility and reduce align times)
- install small/medium shield modules in your mid slots (increase your survivability if you do get locked)

Put all the other modules you intend to use in your cargohold and dock at a station once you're pass the camp. Swap the modules & rigs there, and pat yourself on the back. :)