This page is very much draft.
This is a collection of information for the new player taken directly from the losses and frustrations encountered by new players in our own corp.
Don’t let there mistakes be your mistakes.
1. Do not undock what you can not afford to loose or replace.
Eve is a nasty place. You will loose your ship. Make sure you can afford to replace it.
For hauling, put a limit of 10% your total net worth or how much you are willing to loose. There is no such thing as a safe limit.
2. Understand Ganking
This is the number 1 thing guaranteed to ruin your day.
You mine for a month, put 1b worth of ore into your badger to go sell at Jita. At perimiter you are ganked and you loose it all. You buy a new barge at jita, put some augs in, a nice strip miner and 10m of mining crystals in your hold. You undock and 5 seconds later you are dead and wondering what the hell happened!!
Ganking is another player attacking you, knowing concord will destroy their ship in the process. Its all about the maths of the profits. So long as your cargo/modules are worth more than their ship, they win. If the drop will be more than double the cost of the gank ship, then you are a potential target.
Gankers use many ships at many values, but at the low end a 2M catalyst fit can take out a T1 industrial ship solo, a 30 man 10M catalyst fit that can take out almost anything.
The very very basic version is here is 3M per 1k EHP. So if you are flying a ship with 5K EHP, you should not carry more than 15M in your hold.
3. Know the hot spots
- Jita 4-4 Dock / Undock – almost every ship is scanned.
- Use instant dock bookmark / undock bookmark to help.
- Perimiter / Jita Gate – every single ship is scanned on this gate
- Amarr Dock / Undock – most ships scanned and sometimes theres a corp that shoots things for the fun of it.
- Ahbazon- This is 100% a no go system. Do not enter this system. Its the shortcut between Jita and Amarr and is heavily camped
- Jita <–> Amarr pipe – There are several 0.5 systems here where gankers wait, the main one being
- Misaba – Lots of cheap stuff here, do not fall for it. This is the asset safety system for a lot goon space, and is camped by ARTON all the time. They shoot first ask questions later.
These locations are broadcast at https://www.twitch.tv/uedamascout so you can scout before traveling.
4. Use the correct ship for hauling
So what is safe? This is a very hard question. There’s a lot here including what system your in, concord response times, if you are likely to hit a fleet or solo gankers, if you have a scout etc. But here are some ballpark limits.
To be honest, probably 75% of the time, you loose your ship due to not paying attention, afk hauling or not doing the MWD trick when you should. The other 25% chance (or 100% if you are in a T1), there is nothing you could have done different.
- T1 Industrial – Sigil, Bestower, Badger, Tayra, Mammoth, Nereus, Kryos, Epithal, Miasmos, Iteron etc.
- Costs 2M to kill solo using a cat. Are killed as a sport for fun.
- 20 Million hard limit. Even then you are not safe.
- Blockade Runners – Prorator, Crane, Viator, Prowler
- If flown correctly, are hard to catch in Highsec due to ability to cloak and fast align time. Always fly cloaked.
- Can not be scanned. As such a ganker will take a chance as they are known for high value cargos. Being caught is random luck, not what cargo you have.
- They can be caught at jita dock / undock. This is your main risk point. At gates you should be cloaking.
- Due to the above, the max haul value is dependent on your personal risk. But remember you can loose it all. Stick to 10% net worth or 1b.
- Costs 60m to kill a 10k EHP BR using a single Tornado, or even a single cat could do it.
- Deep Space Transport – Impel, Bustard, Occator, Mastodon
- Are very hard to catch in highsec. Usually its because you made a mistake (afk, didnt use the mwd trick or didnt bother)
- Fleet hanger can not be scanned. So if you are ganked its always a random gamble for the ganker. But most will take the chance if they can.
- Do not put anything in normal cargo as this can be scanned. If there is something in here then gankers assume you are full.
- Always use the MWD+Cloak Trick. Don’t fly a DST until you master this.
- Due to the above, the max haul value is dependent on your personal risk. But remember you can loose it all. Stick to 10% net worth or 1b.
- Costs 100m to kill a 30k EHP standard DST using 10x 10m cats
- Costs 420m to kill a 120k EHP Bling DST using 6 x 70m tornados
- Freighters – Providence, Charon, Obelisk, Fenrir
- Max cargo – 500 Million. Max tank – 1 Billion
- Vogon often does afk overnight jita -> Amarr in a tanked freighter with a load limit of 500m, but wont go higher afk.
- Costs 200m to kill in 0.5 using 20x 10m cats
- Costs 700m to kill in 0.5 using 9x 100m Talos
- Null Sec BPO Running
- Use an interceptor or the Victorieux Luxury Yacht
- You need to be immune from bubbles, have a <2s align and fly cloaked. But even then a “superlocker” can get you so always use a scout!
- https://zkillboard.com/kill/85851709/ – Yes that is 16 billion.
5. Plex goes in your plex vault.
Its safe in your plex vault. No one can get it. If its in a ship you will be ganked.