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I have some time until Paypal resolves my issue and I can start playing again. Since I never pick up on anything in-game I figured I would bug the resident EVE nerds to help educate me on the game. Despite having played for a total of at least a year, there are still some things I just don't know or get.

What do I want to learn? Anything relevant to PVPing and making money through combat/ratting. To give you an idea of how little I know I'll list some things I still don't know a damn thing about.

- POS Combat: What the hell is this? Fortified, what?

- True-sec: Endie says it a lot and with a cool accent.

There are more general things I know nothing of like EW. So, any resources, guides or literature you feel like bestowing upon me, please do! I have a 3 hour Industrial Relations/Unions class tomorrow and would hate to have to cramp my neck watching Naruto again.

Hey buddy, join goonfleet and spend days and days reading the wiki. Also, the links in the useful links thread.

I'd love to read the Goonfleet Wiki, but I doubt they'd let someone in who doesn't even have an active account at the moment.

Truesec: the real value of 0.0 space. Goes from -0.1 to -1. The lower the number the better spawns you get. Only shows 0.0 in game, but you can use Ombay's maps to see truesec.

POS Warfare works like this:

1) Corp puts up a POS, puts fuel in it to keep it running (power guns, other things)
2) Corp puts in stront fuel, which is burned while in reinforced mode (thus dictates how long POS will be in reinforced mode)
3) Bad guys shoot POS until the shields are down to 50%
4) POS goes into reinforced mode, lasting however long based on how much stront is in the POS
5) Corp waits for it to come out of reinforced mode so it can repair the shields above 50% and put more stront in/online guns.
6) Bad guys prevents Corp from repairing shields and blow up POS the rest of the way.

:)

Actually, it goes from -0.01 to -1.00, the hundredths can be important (the cutoffs for certain ores come at midpoints like -0.75 for Bistot and -0.95 for Arkonor).  It's also tied to the spawns and Exploration finds, with better/harder stuff being more likely in lower truesec.  Before they ditched fixed Complexes, it also fed into the levels of those (10/10's were only found in truesec -1.00).

--Dave

Came here to post this.

To be pedantic, the ore cut-offs vary according to what sort of space it is (Drone, Sansha, Angels etc).  In much of GF space, Ark spawns at something like 0.7 or so, and Bistot even lower.  Which is nice.