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My thoughts on 0.0
I've been living in 0.0 space for about a month now. I moved there with a battlecruiser and 2.5mil SP. A lot of what I read on the forums is very alarmist. But here's a little secret, 0.0 is SAFER than low sec empire space. You must be prepared to be a highly active team member though. Solo mining and ratting is out of the question for many players. That means if you want to mine or rat in 0.0 (me at least), you have to gang with others. For mining, you need the miners, protectors (tanking battleships) and haulers. Rats have a nice habit of spawning 15kms from you in the roid belts and they scramble you. Mining barges are pretty defensless against the rat spawns. So a BS or 2 is a must.
What about getting ganked?
Normally travel between systems is very safe. Everybody else around is on your side. When the occasional interloper or 12 does decide to drop in for bit of a party, people usually get a couple of system's notice. They pack up immediately and get back to the station or a safe point and wait it out there. Then all the players swap their rat hunting and mining ships for their pvp ships with 1 objective. Pod the intruder. Teams are sent out to camp important gates and kill squads are sent hunting. That's why 0.0 is safer than low sec for those who live there. We turn our little corner of 0.0 into a fortress.
How can you get into 0.0 without getting ganked?
You need to talk with the corporations or alliances who have soverienty there and arrange to have your standings changed. Once you have standings set (appear blue in the overview), you are generally safe. If you get ganked by someone, the corp/alliance who owns the space will quite often respond to your predicament. They live there too and its their own safety they are also looking out for.
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Yeah I learned this too.
Lowsec is more dangerous than 0.0
.5+ = Carebear country
.1-.4 = Pirate territory
0.0 = Alliance territory
Enter in a BS first and chain the spawn. That way your miners are virtually safe (at last until the spawn dissapears).
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Originally posted by Mandolin
Designers need to move away from the old D&D level-based model which was never designed for player vs player combat in the first place.
Enter in a BS first and chain the spawn. That way your miners are virtually safe (at last until the spawn dissapears).
That's exactly what we do. A decent tank can keep the rats off the others almost indefinately allowing a productive mining session.
Enter in a BS first and chain the spawn. That way your miners are virtually safe (at last until the spawn dissapears).
That's exactly what we do. A decent tank can keep the rats off the others almost indefinately allowing a productive mining session.
Ah oki, guess I misunderstood you then
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Originally posted by Mandolin
Designers need to move away from the old D&D level-based model which was never designed for player vs player combat in the first place.
Remember just after the patch when they made NPCs harder out corp (Rona) went mining in 0.0 at our old HQ in vernal!
Well anyways ALOT of NPC BS's spawned with cruisers
Destroid a few of our ships and we couldn't get back!
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