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Peter Huebner wrote:
> The two guys I originally started out with, however, were both severally ambushed and podded while traversing .4 
> systems not too far from the Centre - in the Everyshore region mostly.

There's your problem right there. 0.4 space SUCKS for prats, because all 
the "anti-social pricks" hang out there, as they think it "safe". 
Everyshore's bad since the low-sec space is connected to Empire space; 
it's an isolated pocket, and it's ripe for prats looking for some grief 
action.

A real solution is just to keep moving down the low-sec ladder; you 
won't see hardly any prats in 0.2, and 0.1 is practically a wasteland; 
those that do venture out there are usually just passing through, or not 
interested in fighting with you (they recognize you as a waste of ammo 
and time).



> I am probably well enough equipped and skilled by now to give most griefers in 
> .4 a run for their money, but funnily enough I go there less now that I did as 
> a rookie, and I never go into .3 in anything other than a shuttle to do fed-ex 
> or pick up a skill book or s.th. like that - I tend to be a[n over]cautious 
> player if anything.

Ah, but caution killed the cat. The real money is to be made in 
low-sec/no-sec, and the real fun's out there too. It sounds as though 
you can handle yourself pretty well; fetch up some insurance and have a 
ball.

My best is being ore-thieved by a real rat bastard; a lifetime griefer 
if there ever was one. I caught him running back in a shuttle one time, 
and I took my ore outta his hide. That's what makes EVE such a great game.

> I have less problems with it if people/corps/alliances decide to have a war 
> over resources/territory/whatever -- it's straight up, it's open, and you can 
> decide if you want to participate or take a walk.

Actually, if your player corp accepts a wardec, you're stuck in the 
middle of it; you CAN be shot at WITHOUT penalty even in 1.0 systems, if 
you happen upon a rival warring corp member. There isn't any 
play-or-walk once you step into the world of player corps.

> Like I said, it's people in 
> battlecruisers shooting at Newbs flying Kestrels bearing mining lasers that get 
> my goat.

You'll always find them, anyway. It's part of the anonymous Internet 
that brings out the worst in socially maladjusted 13-year olds. And I'm 
sure you didn't mean it, but the Kestrel can't carry mining lasers. 
Plus, if you have it set up right, a kessie is capable of avoiding a Rox 
almost completely, and giving it something to think about while it 
strips the shields clean (most idiots just use extenders, it's just a 
matter of time until an equipped rocket kessie blows it away).


TheSmokingGnu