Can-flipping < Scrolls of Icarian Flight

After recently introducing a friend to EVE online, he received advice from both myself and a mutual friend about cargo containers. Namely, that before he would encounter any information within the game tutorials about loot rights on such, players would be trying to tempt him into taking items from the containers.

Unsurprisingly, a container bearing a comment about "free items for new players" tends to prove rather appealing to anyone who doesn't realize that the color-coding means that their taking of such items counts as a theft that can be retaliated against within game mechanics.

On my recent excursion through the new player experience of EVE, I saw many such containers, along with advertisements for corporations and services, scattered through the systems that the starting agents and Sisters of EVE epic chain will bring new players through. New players seem to make solid targets for padding killboards, at least, though most of them have little of value to loot from their wrecks.

The main issue, of course, isn't that players in a game with numerous opportunities for PvP are being destroyed, but that some of them are experiencing such in a fashion induced by mechanics the game hasn't introduced. Being blown up is much more tolerable when you possess some understanding of what mechanics allowed such to happen.

And I've seen some painful nerd-rage from new players who have been can-flipped.