EVE Online is a game of player conflicts on multiple levels. One such level is open world PvP in the form of low/null sec. If you’ve never ventured into EVE before, the game is made up of thousands of solar systems. These solar systems have security ratings that give their level of ‘PvP’ protection. High security space is 0.5 to 1.0 and has Concord protection so players that do get ganked can know that their gankers are getting ganked by Concord. 0.4 to 0.1 is low sec — it’s still ‘Empire’ space but there is no Concord protection, save gate guns. Then null sec (0.0) which is largely player owned and no gate guns or NPC protection at all.

So, what does all this mean for PvP? It means there is PvP in all three areas, but that PvP tends to differ. Right now, I’ll got into a bit (emphasis on the bit) on Low Sec PvP.

Low sec is probably the emptiest part of EVE. Currently the rewards simply do not outweigh the risks involved, so targets can be a little scarce — at least easy targets. From my few trips around and OPs and solo play in low sec, I’ve found the majority of people out there are looking for PvP as well. Small gangs tend to roam long distances looking for it. Occaisonal gate camps exist (with larger ships to tank the gate guns) and carebears run and hide — if there are any around in the first place. Most of what I’ve been into in low sec has been frig/cruiser gangs that are built for speed and/or gank. Speed really is everything in this part of space. There are no bubbles so no easy gate camps, if you want to kill something you have to catch it first. If you don’t get caught yourself. Cat and mouse games are what really define low sec, from my experience. Does it make for a fun time? Like most EVE PvP there tends to be a lot of downtime, a lot of boring tasks to get to that burst of fun Pew Pew. But, it does provide smaller gang PvP that’s not gate camping and that can be very fun when the targets are plentiful.