EVE General Discussion

In some out of the way high sec systems with only 4-5 people in the whole constellation people get to know each other via local after a while. Most of high sec is full of scams , idiots and the shallow. Talking in local in those places has no feedback and no upside.
Joining a decent corp is IMO a subset of the options available. (although always a good idea).
Joining one or more communities is how you get to chat in eve. The community might be your corp or alliance. It might be industrial or Minerbumping. It might be belligerent undesirables. It might be role playing or some kinky sex fantasy based. Doesn't matter. Find one or more you like and join them. Much better success rate than random people in local

Silence in highsec is very common. Always keep trying to initiate conversations. You can use whatever means you deem necessary.

It's always good to know the locals. There will always be silence, but if you stick to a system, then you can break it.

When someone say o/ in local I usually answer to it. Sometimes there are even cool, but rare, convos (I had one Friday).
Out of that, including some scam and hiring messages, it's pretty silent and dead.

Most of the time I use local as an intel tool than a chat.

I actually agreed with the op and then decided fck it ima go hang in null. Went through Solitude, cloud ring pureblind and fade and wow... I'll never moan about hi sec being quiet again.

Whats funny is the Pro 20+ man fleets flying through. I mean why on earth would you do a fleet op in dead space ? These areas used to be a hive of activity and it's sad to navigate the area like this.

Maybe high sec is not as quiet as people think it is...

I've landed in hisec anomalies with L5 level tanked ships and helped out people that were shooting, I've sat on belts picking off rats, I have even let people ninja-salvage in missions while I was doing them, and generally speaking, people are very cautious.

Sometimes landing on grid with a ship that kinda-sorta looks like it's not supposed be the type of ships that should be there, makes people warp off instantly, and I rarely get people to answer if I say hello in local.

To the OP: Now, if YOU landed on grid and said hello, I would take a look at the name, the pic, and then warp the hell off. Sorry, but you can look like whatever you want, and you want to be friendly, but you broadcast a whole "I want to eat your babies" vibe, so yea, not surprised. I fully realize that toon pics and names don't generally mean much, but after coming across names like "WarpOutASAP", it's better safe then sorry.

I avoid local like the plague. If anyone is talking it's ******* kids waving their dicks in each others faces.

My chat is always set to Eve Radio. The people there are generally friendly and funny. They are all over the universe so I can get some intel on goings on elsewhere. They often do events like 1v1 PVP or mining ops. Ha! One of the 1v1s saw a Battle Badger vs. an Incursus. That one had to be called as neither could break the others' tank.



Truer words, spoken not.

Shhh they want you to think their afk and not ratting, mining, or trying to convince people to stop making isk to hunt you

Sometimes I chat with the people in local trying to strike up a conversation about anything. Sometimes I do not. Sometimes it's about showing off your blingiest pve boat (and I must admit I did link my all-A-type Daredevil L4 fit (which has been disassembled since) to wave a bit of my e-willy too), sometimes it's about beating a guy from the SoE Epic Arc. Sometimes it's about "that f***ing ganker", sometimes it's about mining. I'm not interested in all topics, and I don't always feel like chatting, so I keep my mouth shut when I don't feel like talking.

That said, I secretly have fantasies about making a new corp and exclusively recruit people by probing their ship down, taking out a shuttle, and private convoing them while I orbit their ship.

Newbie here, only been in the game for about a week now, just wanted to offer my perspective on this, coming from someone who is still running L1 missions and mining Vesp in a Venture.

I'm coming into Eve as a refugee from another MMO that's gone downhill pretty badly in the last couple of years, I was told about Eve by those that prefer a challenge, and just on the learning curve, Eve is that, which is very good.

Before coming in, I did my research on the game, read up on it for a couple of weeks before downloading the client. Heard a lot of stories of the epic long cons, the huge fights started over trivialities, read about market activities that could rival stock market day-traders activities. Read up on Intel stories, about what sorts of things tend to tip people off.

Yeah, they're the exceptional stories, but at the end of the days, 'news' isn't about the boring mining runs. That's what we hear, and what a lot of newer players have heard about, and are cautious as a result. We're busy learning, knowing that we're an easy mark for scams involving some game mechanic that we're struggling to comprehend (contracts are a great example of this) , so there's a heightened sense of caution.

Often, local chat in hi-sec areas is either useless for mass spam (eg: Jita), or 101 other newies that don't know what we're doing either, which is why Rookie Chat is there for.

Plus, talking in there either gets you bountied (also happens in NPC started Corp chat), which can be off-putting - the tuts don't seem to refer to those sorts of game mechanics, took me ages to realise that the minimum bounty on me generally means squat.

The only local chat that was actually helpful that I've found is the one around Arnon, where the SoE 'encourages' fleeting in order to to the Dagan mission.

Aside from that, the general impression that I've come away with from reading up on the game is that if you fly under the radar, you'll be fine, if you're noticed, you become a target. Which is why newbies are also somewhat discouraged from going to low/nullsec initially, because when they jaunt into the system on their newly acquired frigate, they die rapidly, often as an afterthought. Hell, I've seen people in Rookie Chat not wanting to do the SoE simply because they have to route through 0.5 space.

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