EVE New Citizens Q&A

It is a common and well known tactic of HighSec self proclaimed pirates and leet PvPers to warp in your mission area and steal or attack something you own. Their aim is turning "yellow" aka suspect and becoming a valid target for you. You will find out the hard way, or from reading several comments here, that this is a bait tactic. The want to be attacked so they can destroy your ship.

You will have zero chances of posing any threat to them. In any ship. Why? Well because you most likely are in a PvE mission running fit and they are in a PvP fit specifically chosen to counter your ship/fit. Unless you are using their tactic to bait them instead ofc.

Safer tactic is to warp out when they warp in. Pickup your drones and mtu or depot if you are close and leave. The loot/salvage from the mission is not worth your ship and implants. No need to panic. They can't attack you if you don't engage them first.

An exception to this case is suicide ganking. Not going to post a textwall for it though. Check the forums for this. Get lots of popcorn..

That's the spirit

Even if you are a high sec pirate trying to say "Hey don't run away I'm here to bait you" , you are correct. People should learn to PvP since its a PvP game that gets really boring when played as solo PvE. However the OP is talking about lvl2 missions asking about rules. So he doesn't yet have any way to apply what you speak of, because he simply doesn't know how things work around here. And we know very well that many rules and mechanics in EVE are bendy enough for people that have a better grasp of them to use them in their favor.

So to the OP : Yes Vimsy is right. But to do that you need at least some solo experience and skills or some friends / Corpmates or both. Don't rush yourself in anything. Learn and play they way you want. It's a game. And keep in mind that in EVE you can trust no-one.

Yes, because I have literally done that, because people routinely reject missions that take them more than one jump from their hub and because when scanning out mission runners you tend to scan out the same individual multiple times and you're more likely to get an engagement if you appear on multiple occasions because it gives people an opportunity to call for support or call you out in local and invoking a white knight response. Plus a suspect timer is 15 minutes long, so unless you have a good reason to let it run out he'll probably still be in space flashing himself at someone else.

In fact when someone warps out typically what you do is send your neutral scanner to where they warped to in order to see if they're coming back in a PVP ship, which I'd say about 10% of people do, you warp you main out and then warp back to the acceleration gate until you see him undock so you're not being engaged by NPC and have some idea about what is about to happen.

"He'll probably be gone so there's no point trying" is just a rationalization to appease the cognitive dissonance experienced by people who believe themselves to be space badasses but are actually enormously reluctant to engage in PVP activities.

Of course there are those people who are utterly terrified of fictional spaceship violence for some inexplicable reason and they're never going to shoot anybody and whatever they're free to do that if they really want to.

What upsets me is when people tell newbies who might actually like PVP that they should never ever do it because the evil scary bad highsec PVP instigators are either invincible (which is never true) or will run away if you even think about shooting back (which is rarely true *cough* marmite *cough*). That crap is totally false and convinces people to not even try things that they might otherwise have had enjoyed and been successful at.

A new player can do exactly what Vimsy said....

Get friends (it is a multiplayer game after all) and kill the suspect together.