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Finno's cynical guide to NSC PVP, as learned the hard way over about 12 months.

While nothing that is written here is new to a bittervet, I hope this saves some newbies some months of frustration. I had a bittervet explain these things to me early on, but it took a long time for the knowledge to stick in my mind.

While nothing that is written here is new to a bittervet, I hope this saves some newbies some months of frustration. I had a bittervet explain these things to me early on, but it took a long time for the knowledge to stick in my mind. Every time I lost a ship/capsule, I didn't follow one of these rules.

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==PVP player strategy==

#You're in null-sec. You need to assume that every non-blue player is actively trying to kill you. If you see anyone on dscan or even in local that you're not exactly sure who they are or what they are doing, you need to run away. As you likely have a few seconds before they attack you and you die.

# Don't undock in a ship you would feel bad about losing. If you do, prepare to feel bad. Definitely buy max insurance. Definitely have another replacement ship/fit ready for when you lose this one.

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# You're in null-sec. You need to assume that every non-blue player is actively trying to kill you. If you see anyone on dscan or even in local that you're not exactly sure who they are or what they are doing, you need to run away. As you likely have a few seconds before they attack you and you die.

# Watch local. You should separate the local window out from the other chat windows. Often times you can just ignore the local chat; you just need the local player list. A useful thing to do is to hit "Ctrl-A" to highlight all names in local. Then when someone new appears it will be more obvious. My experience with ratting in PC9 is if someone new appears in local, you can pessimistically expect them to land on your grid within 15 seconds.

# Watch dscan. You should have the dscan window open, check your dscan/overview settings, and periodically (every 15s?) hit your dscan button. If anyone you don't expect suddenly appears on dscan, time to run. See next point.

# Be aligned. Generally if you're out floating in space, have your next warp already planned and already be aligned and ready to warp. This can be tough while ratting/mining. So think hard about it. Or at least know how many seconds it takes you to align back to station and warp off.

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 Finno's cynical guide to NSC PVP, as learned the hard way over about 12 months.
-While nothing that is written here is new to a bittervet, I hope this saves some newbies some months of frustration.  I had a bittervet explain these things to me early on, but it took a long time for the knowledge to stick in my mind.
+While nothing that is written here is new to a bittervet, I hope this saves some newbies some months of frustration.  I had a bittervet explain these things to me early on, but it took a long time for the knowledge to stick in my mind.  Every time I lost a ship/capsule, I didn't follow one of these rules.
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 ==PVP player strategy==
-#You're in null-sec.  You need to assume that every non-blue player is actively trying to kill you.  If you see anyone on dscan or even in local that you're not exactly sure who they are or what they are doing, you need to run away.  As you likely have a few seconds before they attack you and you die.
+# Don't undock in a ship you would feel bad about losing.  If you do, prepare to feel bad.  Definitely buy max insurance.  Definitely have another replacement ship/fit ready for when you lose this one.
-#
+# You're in null-sec.  You need to assume that every non-blue player is actively trying to kill you.  If you see anyone on dscan or even in local that you're not exactly sure who they are or what they are doing, you need to run away.  As you likely have a few seconds before they attack you and you die.
+# Watch local.  You should separate the local window out from the other chat windows.  Often times you can just ignore the local chat; you just need the local player list.  A useful thing to do is to hit "Ctrl-A" to highlight all names in local.  Then when someone new appears it will be more obvious.  My experience with ratting in PC9 is if someone new appears in local, you can pessimistically expect them to land on your grid within 15 seconds.
+# Watch dscan.  You should have the dscan window open, check your dscan/overview settings, and periodically (every 15s?) hit your dscan button.  If anyone you don't expect suddenly appears on dscan, time to run.  See next point.
+# Be aligned.  Generally if you're out floating in space, have your next warp already planned and already be aligned and ready to warp.  This can be tough while ratting/mining.  So think hard about it.  Or at least know how many seconds it takes you to align back to station and warp off.