EVE New Citizens Q&A

None of that makes any difference in your ability to mine.

The only difference it makes - is where you start out on the map.

If you want less congested space - then you'd want to look at the map and see where the most people were - then go somewhere else.

If you wanted more customers - but also more competition - then go where the people are.


The other thing you want to be aware of - is that a lot of the empty space is in Low Sec or Null Sec. Low Sec has a security rating of .4 and below. Null sec has a security rating of 0 (thus null).

Going into Low Sec is going to involve you in PVP ... if only running and hiding - as the people down there will try to blow you up.

Going into most areas of Null Sec pretty much requires that you belong to a member of an alliance - because if you're not - the ones who are will usually blow you up. If you join a corporation that is a member of a strong alliance that can protect it's space - then things are safer ... you've just got much bigger rats to worry about.

The higher the security level the smaller the rats -but the rats aren't your problem - other players are your problem.


Now - staying in Hi Sec isn't a guarantee of safety - it's just that the Police (Concord) will blow them up if they shoot you. They have war dec'd your corporation to avoid that if they want to shoot you but that is more involved.



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Jouron's point about Scythes and Ospreys as ships is accurate but that doesn't mean you need to BE Minmatar or Caldari to use those ships.

The difference between having access to one races ships as opposed to another for new characters is Training Faction Frigate I & II.

Takes a very short period of time.

People do train Caldari for that - and because most people are mission runners - the end result of which is that Caldari space is more crowded than the others ... or at least was the last time I checked. Of course - you can just fly someone from any one place to any other - most people just tend to do their schools with the career agents a few jumps from their starter station and often end up accumulating ships and stuff in that area.


The other thing is though - that if you KNOW that this guy is going to be a miner - you can skip any training for frigates or cruisers - as neither is a requirement for a mining barge.

Where you would need to train Cruisers for a miner - is so they could run level II missions - but if you had another account ... that account could put the miner in their fleet and run the mission, sharing it with the miner. That is another thing you can do - where the mission runner runs a mission, then if there are rocks in the mission, the miner comes in and starts mining them, while the mission runner salvages the wrecks - then the mission runner gets in his industrial and hauls for the miner. By mining in mission space you're less likely to be interfered with by other players as long as you're in a quiet system with no level IV Combat Agents to attract Ninja Salvagers - who scan people down a lot.

Of course - you have to have two accounts to do that - not just two characters on the same account.


In any case, whatever you fly or where ever you start - it's not that big a deal to get into someone elses mining cruiser or fly over to their space.

What counts in EVE - is not who you are - but what you do.

*shrug*

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