Cupertino
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Posted - 2006.06.09 17:28:00 -
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I'm posting this so that other new players might not make the same mistake as me.
Pretty much as soon as you start in Eve, people will tell you you're not safe in highsec. You'll hear about suicide Kestrel alt accounts, and how they can destroy you before Concord responds. A shield extender and some hardeners, maybe even an armor plate is all you need to buy time for Concord to intervene against a couple of Kestrels, so you fit that stuff and you relax, knowing there's little chance that a big gang of Kessys will bother to gank little old you in the noob corp.
At this point, it's easy to get complacent. I did, and I don't want YOU to make the same mistake. Here's my own sorry saga as an example:
3 and a half months into Eve, after LOTS of mission running, I was doing pretty well for myself. I'd made a lot of friends, had a few ships in the hangar, and was starting to see the rewards from many, many hours of play. Pretty much all the ISK I'd earned was tied up in a Navy Issue Augoror, and some faction modules. Not wanting to lose them in combat, I ferried them to Jita to sell them.
2 jumps away from Jita, I got target painted and hit by the siege launchers of a suicide Raven piloted by a 3 year old player. My Badger was destroyed almost instantly (a med shield extender and some resist amps don't do much against that onslaught). Over three months of work disappeared in a few seconds - total loss in isk value around 350 million isk.
It was only then that I really thought about the mechanics of suicide ganking. A player can buy a Raven, insure it for a third of its cost, gank you while a friend or alt picks up your can, and then get back their original payment in insurance. These costs are very small to an experienced player.
But what about the security hit, you're no doubt thinking? The guy who ganked me had a sec status of 3.9 before, and 3.6 after. A drop of 0.3 is nothing in real terms, and will be made back by killing a few rats in 0.0
In conclusion, new players need to bear in mind that many of the vets can and will kill you for a very small outlay, wherever and whenever they like. Eve allows them to do this, and they will barely notice the cost or the penalty. Trust me, losing everything you worked for can completely ruin your Eve experience. Don't let it happen to you.
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