EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi All :)

Completely new to this game. Hadn't even heard of it until a few days ago lol.

Anyways I've done a bit of reading and from what I can gather the game is pretty much total RPG/do what you want type of thing. I guess what I'm getting at is if I detail below what I want from the game could someone let me know if it is even possible to achieve?

I'm kinda wanting to be some sort of mercenary, but not a bad guy. Kind of a hired gun for the government. I want to be involved at this in both PVP and PVE. I also don't want to be the the person who has the biggest gun to get by. I love technology and want to be like a drone, jamming, electronic warfare type. A lone wolf, a person who sculks in the shadows, stalks my prey and only strikes when needs be.

I also want to be a kind of scavenger as in once ive killed a NPC or player to scavenge whats left. Maybe rummage around old warzones and ship grave yards.

Lastly want to know if I can make money and well survive this way.

If this is possible I would really love some tips and help with how I can achieve the above. I will be eternally great full.

Oh and when I say I'm new I literally haven't even got my newb ship yet :D was wanting to plan everything out before I start.

Muchas Gracias :)

Yes you can but it doesn’t work well solo (doable, but not overly realistic). The type of activities you are talking about tend to lend themselves towards piracy more than merc work. A ship, like mentioned above, which does many of the things you are talking about is a pilgrim.

When you say both pvp and pve, it kinda goes without saying, at least in your starting career. You need to pve to afford pvp (usually).

Yup, can even do it in a combat ship. Look into exploration and to answer your Q specifically, a salvager.


Yes you can. Look into the prilgrim, start with the arbitrator. Look into exploration and start doing it in high sec.

BEST ADVICE: find a player corp asap and don’t be afraid to move around until you find a good fit. You can always go it solo later but without a group to start with it always seems 150% harder than it should be

GL

Wow thanks for the tips :)

Its a shame I cant be what I hoped to be, but oh well. Kinda knew it was asking abit much =/

Not sure where I should start though.

What skills do I need to train to be the bounty hunter/mercenary who likes to be a techie and scavenge =/

Also a shame that those stealth ships look ugly as sin :(

T

It looks like others in this thread covered what you're looking for, but I'll give it a go as well.

This game is very much open ended. There is no "endgame" like in other MMOs. An "endgame" implies that there's nothing beyond that last bit of content and EvE has nothing of the sort. You're allowed to do almost anything you want ingame and out of game that involves EvE. There are some exceptions, but it's mostly allowed. You can run a podcast and give shoutouts or advertisement time for ingame ISK. You can run a bank ingame (though the game has no mechanics for this). You can run a lottery agency. You can sell out of game artwork for ingame ISK. You can rent out your VOIP to a corp for an ingame fee. You can hold other players hostage and demand ransoms. You can steal, grief, scam, lie, cheat and do just about every horrible thing imaginable ingame. You can be a spy (note most spies are terrible at gathering intel).

It's really left to your imagination. Only in the most extreme cases of bad player behavior will a GM intervene (and believe me, they really would have to be extreme for a GM to stop it).

There are mercenary corporations in this game, though most have either no street cred or bad cred. A solo mercenary generally doesn't fare out to well because typically this is a game of numerical superiority (aka blobbing). As for the other items, you can have up to 5 drones to do your bidding (10 if you're in a carrier), jamming and electronic warfare in various forms, cloaking devices, deployable bombs, and a myriad of other "goodies" to play with.

For scavenging we have something called Salvaging. It's basically the same way you described. When an NPC or a player ship blows up, it leaves behind a wreck and sometimes loot stored within said wreck. The loot "belongs" to whomever killed the ship, but wrecks have no ownership claims and can be salvaged by anyone without consequence. You can still freely take the loot too, but the owner may or may not attack you.

If you came from WoW think of it like Looting and Skinning, except in EvE anyone can loot and the Skinning is actually Salvaging. But the concept is very similar.

You can make money in all these ways if you're creative and good at what you do. This game is based around the acquisition of wealth and the denial of wealth to others. World of Greedcraft if you will. Your entire goal in this game is to build up your sandcastle (whatever that may be), protect it from getting stomped on, and if desired stomp on the sandcastles of your enemies.

A strange metaphor but you get the idea.

It's funny because EVE is a sandbox

You want to train Gallente Titan to Level V

You might want to take a look at the Caldari.

Not that much, if you dig the above mentionned skill and break it down to it's dependencies and the subsequent dependencies and so on... you'll likely have it all well covered.

You've been told about recon ships, covert ops ships, salvager mods... a show info on those in the market window would provide you with quite a few skills to train for beside the regular core, gunnery, tank and support skills.

Google and show info are your best friends in EVE, if something remains unclear, then ask in help channel, forums, etc.

You should check this:

http://www.isktheguide.com/

You can download for free in pdf.

No matter whether you are a beginner on a 14-day trial account or a veteran trader, maybe a fierce pirate, a determined miner, a pilot who has years of experience in mission running or a three-month-in noob - there is no pilot who has tried and done everything or knows all there is to know about EVE. Beginner or expert, this Guide - known as the Industrial-Sized Knowledgebase - is for you!

Well since I'm near to useless at pvp I'll be taking you up on that offer. Plus I've given up on the good guy role. Gonna be in it for me :)