EVE Evolved: Is EVE Online's death penalty really that harsh?

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I find it is at certain times. My biggest problem is when you are transitioning between newbieness to low level actual player. You have the basics down and you are starting to go around. At this point you are usually still doing missions but they often send you through 0.4 or lower space.

At this point you don't have the money to replace a ship but you can't sit around in safe areas either because there is no longer the income you need.

This is the weakest time because there are plenty of people out there camping, waiting for the next low level pilot to come through.

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It's definitely true that it's the players with a little isk and experience that have it worst. They tend to be able to afford at most one replacement ship as the average new player trains for bigger ships much quicker than he can make the isk for them. I do think players are given a false impression of lowsec though. Missions in lowsec only pay marginally more and mining there isn't much better than highsec.

I think players are much better off sticking to highsec and joining a corp that will help them out and back them up. Not only can other members of a corp probably help you make isk a lot faster to replace any losses, the older players have a wealth of knowledge you can use to help avoid dying in the first place.

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