Yep.

OP - just so you know, my friends in CODE. alliance *love* blowing up people autopiloting in highsec. We lose the ship we attack with, but if we kill you half your cargo and fitted modules will drop as loot.

Additionally, some big market manipulators and wealthy, bored nullsec players donate large amounts of ISK to our cause just to watch highsec burn.

Just a note - even as a rookie player you can quite quickly get involved in ganking if you want. The skills you will need to be able to kill mining ships in cheap Destroyers are accessible in just a few hours of focused training, and there's nothing quite like the feeling of blowing up a ship that's worth 10 times your entire wealth in EVE using a cheap low-skilled Catalyst.

big market manipulators and wealthy, bored nullsec players

big market manipulators and wealthy, bored nullsec players

nothing quite like the feeling of blowing up a ship that's worth 10 times your entire wealth in EVE using a cheap low-skilled Catalyst.

Your post sounds like a troll, but I'll bite regardless.

make a few safe spots and bookmark specific asteroids in that system, start mining and keep an eye on local chat. If someone enters the system, check info on their character and if they land on grid with you, warp away asap. Also get in the habit of running Directional Scan and if you see combat probes, warp to a safe spot or station.

Also set your contact status to red with known gankers so when they do show up in local chat you'll be able to see them very quickly. Keep local chat separated from all the other chan channels and make it able to easily view the bulk of players present in it. Set up various Overview tabs with different settings to easily perform different tasks without having to do excessive scrolling.

Train up core fitting skills asap so you can do better ship fits that are set up for defensive action. The point is to survive a suicide gank attack and watch Concord enact revenge on the gankers, then laugh at them in local chat while you collect their loot. If you're using the Venture mining Frigate, it can be set up for speed, agility, even cloak and still maintain the ability to quickly mine Ore.

Gank the gankers.
- There are some guys doing this. A white knight thing.
- It's also possible to use your mining barge as a "bait" with drone amps and kill the ganker. That will cost you the mining yield, but I belive it would be worth it. Laughing at him, stupid ganker.

If there where more guys thinking like you, maybe some more white knights would apear, and code wold lose some ships without getting kills.

To research a specific topic such as Tanking, I suggest viewing all of them to get a more complete understanding. You can also do a Google search to find even more info contained in other Eve Wiki's as well as Forum threads too.

Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance

Still trying to figure out why people that find mining boring keep on mining.

If it is only for AFK earning potential, then nobody should listen to them when they complain about getting ganked while mining.

When I'm mining, I'm way too busy to be AFK:
Mining Safely

I personally do not believe in AFK playing.

You said something about playing solo. This game is not meant to be played solo. It is a social game.

Mining is probably one of the worst active activities to make money in this game. Indy people swear up and down its a good way to make money

You are far better off, especially if you dislike mining, to invest your money in a combat ship

and run missions.

If you only want to go for the low-hanging fruit ..

market manipulators and wealthy, bored nullsec players donate large amounts of ISK to our cause just to watch highsec burn

there's nothing quite like the feeling of blowing up a ship that's worth 10 times your entire wealth in EVE using a cheap low-skilled Catalyst[/b][/u]

2). do the career missions.... maybe do pve missions after that to make a bit of isk............---> then go pvp

3). Not uncommon for brand new players to get into a frig and go pvp... maybe use one of your other slots to join a pvp corp and try it out... you might like it!

My first combat level 1 missions were in an Ibis with a single drone. The drone did most of the work. By the time I was doing level 4 missions, I think I was averaging around 10m per missions, plus salvage and sale of drops. These days I do a couple missions a month to earn LP for charters for my tower, usually level 3 missions using an Assault Frigate, because I find that fun.

I did not read your entire text wall

the gankers are not going anywhere

that trying to talk the devs out of it won't happen.

I moved to null sec

your response to Tau was a bit too well organized for a week old player

1. This is a PVP game, blowing up ships is THE FUN in this game.

2. Most of us started as solo players, but making friends is easy. Your goal shouldn't be to stay solo.

are you a code?

So, don't sweat CODE or other suicide gankers.

I'm watching my Dscan and actively listening to for warp ins

I just want to hit a few points here and there.