Eve Online
is the greatest social experiment ever undertaken and I love it for that even
though I’m a semi New Bro to the game. That being said let’s examine the realistic
option people have to remain relevantly safe in Eve while they make Isk.
1st and Foremost the NPC crop: In the npc Corps
you cannot be war decked. This keep you safe form wardecs as well as not
allowing people to shoot you without concord involvement unless you go suspect
in high sec.
2nd: Watching Local and D scan like a hawk and flying aligned.
This give you the opportunity to escape if you are targeted by gangkers. When
they pop up on d-scan or in local simply warp out. Any good pvper knows D Scan
is there life blood. IT is an amazing tool that will help keep you and your
fleets alive while taking winnable fights. The same rule can apply to high sec.
3rd: Tank your ship a good tank and a warp stab can
help your mining ships survive if you’re aligned. Ganker pops up and points you
warp off and laugh as he dies.
4th: If you want a private semi safe area to make
Isk in Rent. Rental space is filled with people who will feed you Intel of
hostiles and give you time to prepare for them also if a hostiles in Local don’t
undock / Leave the Pos. The down side is you’re paying for this safety to an organization
that has bleed for that space but nothing in life or eve is free.
5th: High Sec mercs are an option if you want
protection in high sec: Pay them the same as you would pay a rental fee and
they offer services to you for that Isk. No clue how much or how affective but
it is an option.
6th: Bravado isn’t helpful if you get gawked or
killed. Take a deep breath after you hopefully got your pod out and analyze
what happened. Was I flying a ship worth ganking? Was I not paying attention to
local/ D-Scan? Was I AFK and not docked/ Posed? If you answer Yes to any of
these questions learn from that and don’t yell / talk tough to the ganker it just
makes you a bigger target.
7th: If your alliance / crop is big enough and
you have influence within it station camp the gankers. Find where they operate
where their jump clones are and where they live and then use that for your own
ends suicide gank the ganker when there in an expensive ship. Fight Fire with
fire most gankers in my experience don’t want a fight in high sec they want a
kill within the allowed time frame remove the guaranteed win and they will not
engage.
Why is important to learn to fly safe and Why am I submitting
this to miner bumping. The first one is pretty obvious if you ask me but
learning how to operate safely in Eve is the first lesson any new player should
learn and while I don’t approve of the New Orders approach to save high sec and
Eve it’s a sand Box and they can do what they want. IF they fell the Need to
target me for this Please feel free I operate mainly in lawless space mostly but
do have an alt in High Sec. Also the Need to have an equal Risk to Reward
option is critical to eve. EVE is a game about Risk to Reward. Can I take that
Fight? Do I make enough potential profit to risk the Isk I have. Nothing In
Life is free or risk free so learn to calculate the risk and see if it’s
profitable for you to do if it’s not don’t do it.