EVE General Discussion

move your pod to hek.
you might see me.

edit: that sounds worse than it's actually meant. :D

if your in safe alliance nullsec territory you can see all 3 people in local and know they are friendly

you have alliance intel so you know if anyone is near you at all to begin with

since its nullsec you assume anyone not blue is an enemy, therefore enemy in local = warp to safe spot and cloak, warp to a pos, or dock in a station

in highsec if someone is in local you can't assume he will kill you, or even can kill you it might be a frieghter or something

your mining, noobie frigate warps to your belt... is it a noob? or a suicide gank scout? you cant tell.. what if a guy warped to your belt cloaked? local has to many randoms to know if it happened.. then you die

many people have over 1bil isk
a tornado cost 50mil or so
a tornado can kill 2 mackinaws, or 1 hulk in 1 volley before concord kills them.. if a rich guy is bored, you can be killed even if your loot is worthless. in nullsec you have the protection of "don't know him, he is enemy"

finally, much of nullsec is empty... you can go days without seeing anyone if your in your blue space if you do see someone its a friendly.

nullsec is like a desert diamond mine, starved of supplies but money is great, sometimes random people try and kill you
highsec is like a city, some people make it big, most work minimum wage
lowsec is nullsec without the benefits. you CAN make more isk, but lots more people and worse mining and other stuff compared to null.

Hisec is dangerous because it's infested with CONCORD. One mis-click and your ship is toast.

I read this and thought "**** my life, **** this silly game"

Ok, noob questions:

How hard is it to gank a freighter in High sec?

Also, how can i know that a courier mission is a trap in the list of contracts offered? how to recognise them?

It is not particularly hard to gank a freighter in high-sec, and there's plenty of guides around for how to do it. If you put your mind to it, you can do it. The point is, due to CONCORD, you will always lose your ship / ships as a result, so it only makes sense to do it for profession if the loot will likely pay for your losses. Thus you are mostly in danger if your cargo is expensive enough (I am not sure what the current limit is, and the new exploit notification changes it). If you freighter stuff, you will want to know where the limit is and take a friend and not fly afk if you are above it. There are some grief ganking, where people do it just for the hell of it, but if you regularly trade in freighterloads of stuff and have some business sense, they incur a risk so small that it can be absorbed by your business.

The map view showing ships blown up in the last 24 hours is why it's considered dangerous.

You can argue all you want, but when it comes down to it the destruction speaks for itself.

Hi-sec is dangerous if you're outrageously stupid or careless. Because that's the natural state of the carebear they whine to have the devs make their play style 100% risk free WoW style, even though this would screw up the game in terrible ways. At it's heart the carebear's demands are pure selfishness because they have hundreds of completely safe MMOs to choose from which cater to their needs but they still insist the one or two that incorporate some risk must be reforged to their needs.

try to fly active tanked officer fitted tengu.
and broadcast your fit to everyone at every possible chanell with information about system you are in.. and then accept random people in fleet when they ask

???

problem solved.