"i decided not to scout ahead, they must be tossers".
honestly, grow up.

why shouldn't they shoot you? they didn't know if you were here to kill their buddy, had valuable cargo, etc. you seem very upset considering you say you aren't.

don't think someone has to be upset to point out that low sec gate camps keep a lot of high sec people in high sec.

don't think someone has to be upset to point out that low sec gate camps keep a lot of high sec people in high sec

What ships where they in?
What system was it?
Was it the transitional gate from high to low?
Did you check map statistics for the route in advance?

The reason high-sec dwellers tend to think gatecamps are EVERYWHERE is because they naturally find their way to low sec from a hub system and end up jumping into the most notoriously camped systems as a result.

OP food for thought.

While it might be midnight your time for them they might be still waking up and slurping the coffee.
For all you know they could have been waiting on another target and you had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
For that matter maybe there friends where mining in the belts or doing something else in system and it was there job to guard it.

or maybe they really didn't have anything better to do.
At least they weren't hanging out in station.

As boring as gate camps are they only had 3 ships and they were willing to PvP in low-sec.
Nice going guys/ gals.

Gate camping the obvious gates is pretty fruitful, it seems.

I know I'm the millions noob to make this complaint. But not fussed.

I see barely 40,000 players online on weekends and half that number during the week.

One of the oldest, and I would have to say more interesting, MMOs seems to be stuck with low numbers whilst new comers like WOT etc grow substantially, the old rivals like WOW and LOTRO go from strength to strenth.

I've been playing a month and I couldn't put my finger on why.

Now I know.

Look, I took the bare minimum equipment with me and I was flying in a Vexor that I could afford to lose so I'm not bitter about the loss.

But on my very first time exploring outside high sec, the fact 3 idiots are spending their time at midnight on a Sunday next to a jump gate in a 0.3 sec system in the middle of nowhere and have nothing better to do than take out a crappy vexor in 3 shots then podkill the owner means there are clearly a lot of tossers playing this game.

And if the mechanics allow them to scare off new players, then 40k peak numbers is all there is going to be.

I was warned, I read all the reports, I am not surprised or shocked. I had just hoped things weren't as bad as everyone made out. Perhaps it was just bad luck and 9 times out of 10 I would have been fine. But I doubt it.

I'll keep playing for a while but all those whining that hi-sec should be nerfed should know why no-one goes null sec. I suspect most of us are more than happy to leave to tossers to their onanism and we'll fly space ships for fun instead.

I was on my way to the Christmas event with newbie ship and foolishly thought I would cut half of the travel distance by taking shortcut through lowsec. I ran into a gatecamp, about twelve strong, and my Ibis was blasted to small bits. Fine, no problems, it wasn't ship I was using much anymore. Then I got message from the Comedian-In-Charge: I would have to pay 75 million ISk or they would pod me. As my character is about month old, and I haven't spent any money on PLEX (and I have spent ISK as it has come), the demand just made me laugh. In fact, it paralyzed me with laughter to the point where I failed to heed to the order to stop and thus they promptly podded me. I did get to the event with another ship, so there was no harm done. I am just warmed by the thought that low-sec has such enterprising comedy groups.

don't think someone has to be upset to point out that low sec gate camps keep a lot of high sec people in high sec.

Sounds like somebody found Old Man Star. Somebody who evidently is more mad than they claim to be

There might also be a chance he was using auto pilot as his only loss is a pod worth 41 mil in a system called Parts.

But on my very first time exploring outside high sec, the fact 3 idiots are spending their time at midnight on a Sunday...

I know I'm the millions noob to make this complaint. But not fussed.

I see barely 40,000 players online on weekends and half that number during the week.

One of the oldest, and I would have to say more interesting, MMOs seems to be stuck with low numbers whilst new comers like WOT etc grow substantially, the old rivals like WOW and LOTRO go from strength to strenth.

I've been playing a month and I couldn't put my finger on why.

Now I know.

Look, I took the bare minimum equipment with me and I was flying in a Vexor that I could afford to lose so I'm not bitter about the loss.

But on my very first time exploring outside high sec, the fact 3 idiots are spending their time at midnight on a Sunday next to a jump gate in a 0.3 sec system in the middle of nowhere and have nothing better to do than take out a crappy vexor in 3 shots then podkill the owner means there are clearly a lot of tossers playing this game.

And if the mechanics allow them to scare off new players, then 40k peak numbers is all there is going to be.

I was warned, I read all the reports, I am not surprised or shocked. I had just hoped things weren't as bad as everyone made out. Perhaps it was just bad luck and 9 times out of 10 I would have been fine. But I doubt it.

I'll keep playing for a while but all those whining that hi-sec should be nerfed should know why no-one goes null sec. I suspect most of us are more than happy to leave to tossers to their onanism and we'll fly space ships for fun instead.