EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey at least you had the stones to admit it unlike may on these boards!

*sniffs*

I smell an ISD person around here.

*sniffs again*

... close by... *frysquint* ...but no evidence was left behind...

*is suspicious*

Confirming, we all suck at eve, but some of us have been around long enough, and sucked hard enough to learn from it.

Oh you smutty git.

I've been playing only a couple of days and finished intro training, etc.
Why to seasoned players feel compelled to attack new players? What am I expecting and what/where should I avoid?
I just don't understand the purpose of PVP in this game yet.

The truth is, when someone attacks you, they probably aren't doing it aware you are a new player. This is especially true at gate camps. If you pop on their overview, they attack because you are there. The same reason people do pvp in FPS games. If anyone specializes in killing newbies, then they would get a ban. But the truth is, most people are not hazing newbies, so much as not giving newbies extra slack.

Follow the golden rules of eve. and you have to actually really accept them. If you do, you'll be fine. Accept your ship loss before you undock, the same as you accept your avatar death in an FPS when you spawn, and you'll do fine.

The problem for most people is getting attached to their stuff, then watching it turn into a ball of fire. Treat your ship as a consumable, the same as ammunition. Expect to be blown up. Expect to make mistakes. But also, know that every single time you blow up, there is something you could have done to prevent it. Ultimately, the players that get eve are the ones that blame themselves for whataver happens, and then learn and adapt. People who are busy blaming the other guy are never happy playing eve.

It doesn't matter that the other guy was to blame. What matters is was there something that you could have done different to prevent the other guy from blowing up your ship, stealing your stuff, or scaming you, or whatever other bad thing. And the answer is always, yes.

Yeah the whole Faction standing thing isn't terribly well explained anywhere in the client.
I absolutely tanked my gallente/minmitar standing early on (farming Faction police will do that to you).

Avoid missions against any of the primary factions.

Okay, the Faction thing makes since to me and something I'll be watching out for.
I did notice passing thru an area where all the police appeared red.

Another option is to move to low or null sec and run missions for pirate factions and don't care what your high sec standings are. Pirate factions don't have police.

Everything in this game is about choices and consequences.

Completely off topic... My cousin introduced me to this game. When I first started he was on ventrillo with me every night, answering questions and holding my hand through much of high sec living. Even with that, a year into this game I still felt like a complete noob and still didn't have the confidence to fit my own ship without running past 2 or 3 more experienced players. Even now years later there is still entire aspects to this game that I am completely ignorant too.

Gankers are cowards. They avoid Null/Low Sec because they can't fight people who fight back. The real PVPers are in Null/Low sec hunting their own, trying to conquer territories. Gankers, on the other hand are poor skilled players who rely on easy kills. They are the greatest carebears of EVE playing safe always, Even miners know they are risking in High Sec, but gankers, they have zero risk. Their cheap frigates/destroyers can be replaced instantly.


Some of them will make fun of you here, they will insult you, they will say "EVE is not your thing, go play Hello Kitty".

They have been saying this for a long time, they have been driving away players from EVE for years and the subscription numbers finally fell so low that CCP decided to go F2P. But what CCP failed to see is that this zero risk for gankers is what brought the game to need F2P. But F2P wont save the game because the problem didn't go away.