I am not an expert on flags as I've lived full time in null sec since safeties have been introduced to the game and crimewatch was redone. However I was under the impression that green kept you from doing anything that would get you a timer and you needed to be set you yellow if you wanted to engage suspects. I think yellow allows you to to do anything that won't get you concordokken.

As far as morals and things that are frowned upon in Eve no such thing exists. Players can scam other players. Ransom and extortion are totally fine. Ganking and theft are encouraged by the devs. I personally don't get involved in those types of things but that is a personal choice on my part and not some code of conduct that exists in game.

As far as your chances of winning the fight the player that you were shooting at obviously could have flown away since you did not have a point but he also could have just docked if you were close to the station. Also I am fairly certain that if he had friends near by that they could remote rep him. You could maybe alpha him out of his ship in one volley with a Tornado but I'd have to do some math to say that for sure.

That guy was almost definitely trying to "Bait n Switch" on you. To do this he sits motionless and suspect flagged within docking range of the station in a defenseless non-threatening ship fit entirely for tank. When you shoot him you are locked out of station for 1 Minute due to aggression timer, where as he is still free to dock having not aggressed you. His job is to dock, switch ships, pop back out, lock you and kill you before the end of your 1 min docking timer. This is not entirely risk free for the baiter since he is putting his blingy killing ship at risk of death when he pops out in it and aggresses you while suspect. It is entirely possible for a group to bait the baiter with a single ship, warping in the group once the baiter has up-shipped and aggressed outside station (trapping him outside station for 1 Min after last aggressive act).

The fact the Nereus was stationary, had loads of sheild HP and was not being engaged by other players on Jita undock basically means he is well known and is there often and is almost certainly suspect baiting with Logi backup from a fairly well organized group.

I wanted to say how useful and informative that answer was to this new player. Thank you, and everyone who has posted with their experience in the thread. Fascinating.

No problem at all mate, i'm generally happy to explain anything if a new player contacts me directly so don't be afraid to EvE-Mail me should you need anything else. It might interest you to know that a portion of my game time is usually spent abusing people who do not understand timers / mechanics, and that much like most other "bad people" in EvE i'm actually a nice guy who will help if spoken to nicely.

Don't be afraid to contact people doing things you don't understand to ask why they're doing it, especially if they just killed you :D The answer might be the most important lesson you learn that day

So I've been doing the tutorials and I have also done a bit of mining but I wanted to try out some security missions. I went to Jita to buy my ship of choice - The Caracal.

After buying and outfitting my new ship I undock and notice a suspect on my overview who is flying a Nereus. I decided to try to blow him up even though I didn't have a module capable of warp disruption. My skills are pretty low and it's my first time flying this ship so I didn't do much damage to him. He didn't try to fly away but I was really paranoid and afraid of somehow losing my new ship so I warped away after getting his shields down slightly.

So my questions:

1. Is this a scumbag thing to do on my part? Nobody else helped attack him even though he was suspect so I'm not sure if this is frowned upon. Do you ever see everyone just turn on a suspect and blow them away or do people just ignore them if they aren't the ones wronged?

2. Was it some sort of trick? I had my safety on but is there something he was trying to do to get some friends to kill me?

3. If I had somehow killed him would destroying a supsects pod be legal?

Thanks for any insight you can provide.