Hey Koloblicin,
I feel that I have to explain why I tagged [n000b] as PVP before I answer. I am inspired by one of the golden rules.
So, yes, indeed, I would expect that people want to undock from time to time. Not more. Not less. However, that is not a strict rule either. The main point of [n000b] is to get better at knowing the game and the meta.
Execute a plan.
The difficult part is finding the right compromise between
and unprepared target. You need a plan to avoid getting blown up randomly. It may be as simple as stay in high-sec with a cheap ship so that suicide bombers won’t be profitable against you. Actually, I have not done my research on this. From my experience, getting blown up in high-sec is not likely. I am sure somebody has done the calculation of how likely it is to fall victim to pirates relative to worth of ship/cargo. Jita may be the outlier, but I have not done my practice for all the alignment tricks for quick warp as an alpha (Sunesis, bookmark, burn …).
Let us look at what greybill writes.
The ganking activity produced lots of killboard-entries and losses, obstructing the small gang activites in other areas to some degree.
So, it seems as if it is not that simple to have small gang operations going on a big scale. I agree it would be a fun way to get started and the problem of becoming too well-known is not a real problem. So, yes, it is one of the options that make sense, in general.
Change of topics incoming! I have some restrictions for how I would “play” the game: I think, most of the time would go into preparing for what to do in short sessions. I simply cannot squeeze in more than 1 hour at a stretch given that I also have a RL.
So, yes, best fun per single hour is a great measure to aim for, and even better if I can shrink the hour to 45 minutes.
Let me conclude this post with an observation. The real treasure of EVE online are a minority of extremely interesting people out there that don’t give up in believing that this game is great. Actually, I was toying with the though of adding “interview with EVE celebrities” to the n000b-forum. The first contact with one of them was when I got my n00b-ship from @Mike_Azariah . For now, I am just growing my EVE online “network.” You may be my first big catch 