EVE General Discussion

The OP was stupid in how he tried to go to nullsec. There's not much more that needs to be said.

Don't pay mercs, join a corp and learn the ropes, do the killing yourself. There are plenty of newbie freindly 0.0 based corps out there who'll take anyone so long as they can fly hero tackle and a cane or drake.

If you suspect their are people in the next system, next time don't go through anyway... wait, make a safe spot, log off and come back later. Check your map for intel, it will tell you the number of ship/pod kills in the next system during the last hour/day also the amount of traffic moving through it. Perhaps get an alt to act as a scout? My advise is to do missions in Hi-sec till you are doing lvl 4's ok, this will provide you with more than enough isk to start risking vessels in 0.0 If I was going to do what you want to do I would use a T3. Properly fit you have a good chance of suviving (evading) a gate camp and being able to complete the mission.

OP - group + scouts.
This is a multi-player game.

No, I'm right. EVE is for: cowards, heroes, leaders, followers, thieves, bandits, pirates, assassins, spies, saboteurs, kings, queens, philanthropists, cowboys, indians, winners and losers.

Personally I never much liked lag-fest fleetfights and the drama of nullsec.

But as far as avoiding the gatecamps and so on it's honestly not very difficult. As suggested, you can slam the MWD or the AB and race back to gate, then jump back into high/low sec where you have Concord / gate guns to help you.

Or you can send in a scout, i.e. an alt with no training, implants or anything but a shuttle. Then you know for certain what's behind a gate, unless they are cloaked, but then again you can see who is in local at least.

Optionally, you can use the starmap and the filter settings to display amount of ships jumping through a system, how many were destroyed in the last half hour, hour or longer as well as the amount of pods destroyed. Obviously, any system with several ships and/or pods destroyed should be avoided or at the very minimum be scouted before you jump in your main character/ship.

Also, you can equip warpcore stabilizers en masse if you are worried about being scrambled. As long as your goal is only to get from A to B, then you don't need anything other than being able to GTFO. A frigate or destroyer should align fast enough that you can warp out before taking any, or at least significant damage.

Unless, of course, they are sniping you from way back and actually lockon fast enough to get a volley off.

So, briefly summed up.

1) Burn back to gate
2) Send in alt to scout
3) Use starmap to check for activity along your planned route
4) Use stabs when crossing dangerous systems
5) Combination of all the above

Failing to do any of these, and just hoping your destroyer with (most likely) subpar training will be sufficient to keep you safe, well... it's just a sad fact that you had it comming. If not that day, it would have happened any other day when you are jumping blind into places where everyone (and you do get a huge warning plastered in your face when you try to jump to low/null) knows how dangerous it is.

PvP is not dead.

Solo-PvP is, arguably, alot less common. While the prospect of being a lone wolf flying around space just like good old Wing Commander and such sounds appealing and fun, it's neither safe nor recommended (especially not for newer players). Also, it's 100% guaranteed that sooner or later you will lose your ship and might even lose the pod. That's the simple rule of PvP and anyone wanting to do PvP need to face the fact that:

You WILL lose your ship at some point.

Sooner or later someone has a better ship, have just the fittings that counter yours, they are in a bigger gang or otherwise will destroy you. You can call it unfair and cry wolf and broken game as much as you want, but it's a simple fact in any PvP game (especially so in EVE).

People who do work together, in corps, gangs and so on are of course rewarded. I'm not really sure it should be called a reward to have an advantage if you take the time to organize and work together. Afterall, it is an MMO and teamwork should be obvious, at least if you want to get anywhere relatively safely.

Otherwise, go ahead and attempt to solo pirate (there are those that do it successfully). However, never think you are invincible.

Also... just for any new players reading this... bigger is not always better in EVE. A pack of cruisers or battlecruisers can easily defeat a battleship, despite it being a larger shipclass. I know this is obvious to most EVE players, but there are those out there that still think they will be safe as long as the ship is big enough.

Anyways... bottom line though... if you don't like the flow of the game, I guess it's not the game for you. CCP won't change the entire game structure at the whim of one lazy player who failed to scout his route.

Some tips for the OP.

1. When you know the other side of the gate is probably going to have someone waiting, hold your gate cloak until you decloak on your own. Don't move or anything else, just sit there until your cloak drops. You need to wait out the session change in this manner otherwise you will not be able to jump through the gate right away.

2. Lock up the other person to get him to aggress you, DO NOT FIRE ON HIM. If you do anything to aggress your attacker you will not be able to jump the gate right away.

3. Once he has aggressed, burn for the gate and jump through. You may or may not make it, you may get bumped off before making it back to the gate, but there is a good possibility in a small ship like that if you have a mwd that you will make it through. He won't be able to follow you right away due to having aggression. Hope there is no one left on the other side waiting to catch you when you jump back through.

10 pages of Obvious Troll Feeding? Seriously?

Yes EVE has glaring problems, however your post fails to describe one.

0.0 space has value because it is protected, divided up and alleigance is enforced. If anyone was allowed to putter around in null-sec and mine the good ore, farm the good anomalies, etc, then what would be the value? What would be the challenge? None. You would just have to point and click on the map, set the autopilot and you are there.

No, null sec is absolutely unapproachable for the single player except if you have your eyes open all the time, have a cloaking device and only make temporary visits. You need teamwork to hold and take advantage of null-sec and this is by design. Empire can be the single player version of EVE if you want it that way, but not null-sec.

Therefore get yourself in an alliance or at least a decent roaming gang and you will stop having these troubles. EVE is not the problem here - you are expecting something from the game that it was not designed for.

Omfg i didn't read many of the rest of the posts, this post made me laugh so freaking hard I couldn't see straight and people all over the room were looking at me weird. I just have to say bravo sir you have won the internets for at least a week.