EVE Online: The visit to 0.0 space
Well, after 22 months in the game, I've finally visited 0.0 space.
For those who don't know, EVE has security classifications for space, which range from 0.0 to 1.0. In 1.0, shooting at someone for no reason is very dangerous. In 0.0, there are no consequences that are not player-generated.
So I checked the star map, and saw that there were a lot of ship destructions and pod kills over the last hour at the 0.0 location I intended to go. So I snuck in using a Covert Ops ship; these can easily fit cloaking devices. So I warped in (rather nervously), turned on the cloak, and looked around. There were two pilots camping the gate, and the wrecks of about 10 of their victims. Another person's ship was destroyed while I was there. The two campers buzzed around a bit, and one took off to check another gate in the system.
I warped to the other gate in the system (named PF-346), since there are no stations there to dock at. One of the campers was there, buzzing around; I was cloaked again, so he couldn't see me. I used the gate to jump to FD-MLJ, and docked at one of the stations there.
Well, that was all I did in my first trip to 0.0. The next day, there was no gate camp at the entry point (PF-346), so I headed back to 0.7 space and got a cruiser to bring back in. Once there, I tooled around a bit with another member of the corp, and we toasted a few NPCs for some dough.
0.0 is an odd place. I'm used to seeing lots of other pilots around, since I tend to hang out in a busy area of the Gallente Federation. While we were shooting the NPCs, we saw about 4 other pilots come through the system. They were apparently just passing through, since they didn't come hunting for us. Using the Local chat channel, they could easily see that other people were in the system, just not where. That's not many people to see in a half hour.
Of course, the current estimate is that only 9% of all EVE players are in 0.0 at one time. This means a lot of empty space with a lot of resources is controlled by a relatively small group of players.
This is neither the end nor the maximal extent of BM2's presence in 0.0. More to come...
For those who don't know, EVE has security classifications for space, which range from 0.0 to 1.0. In 1.0, shooting at someone for no reason is very dangerous. In 0.0, there are no consequences that are not player-generated.
So I checked the star map, and saw that there were a lot of ship destructions and pod kills over the last hour at the 0.0 location I intended to go. So I snuck in using a Covert Ops ship; these can easily fit cloaking devices. So I warped in (rather nervously), turned on the cloak, and looked around. There were two pilots camping the gate, and the wrecks of about 10 of their victims. Another person's ship was destroyed while I was there. The two campers buzzed around a bit, and one took off to check another gate in the system.
I warped to the other gate in the system (named PF-346), since there are no stations there to dock at. One of the campers was there, buzzing around; I was cloaked again, so he couldn't see me. I used the gate to jump to FD-MLJ, and docked at one of the stations there.
Well, that was all I did in my first trip to 0.0. The next day, there was no gate camp at the entry point (PF-346), so I headed back to 0.7 space and got a cruiser to bring back in. Once there, I tooled around a bit with another member of the corp, and we toasted a few NPCs for some dough.
0.0 is an odd place. I'm used to seeing lots of other pilots around, since I tend to hang out in a busy area of the Gallente Federation. While we were shooting the NPCs, we saw about 4 other pilots come through the system. They were apparently just passing through, since they didn't come hunting for us. Using the Local chat channel, they could easily see that other people were in the system, just not where. That's not many people to see in a half hour.
Of course, the current estimate is that only 9% of all EVE players are in 0.0 at one time. This means a lot of empty space with a lot of resources is controlled by a relatively small group of players.
This is neither the end nor the maximal extent of BM2's presence in 0.0. More to come...
posted by Almo at 8:49 PM
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