EVE New Citizens Q&A

Ok so I have 2 questions for everyone today my first is, what exactly is there to do in eve in regards to solo PVE? and second one is: what is the best ship for me to start with?

Every time I ask about ships I get told not to buy what I'm thinking of buying but I cant see why they would be bad for PVE... I'm confused to say the least and think I need some more attentive help because atm rookie chat is just making me more confused.


To make it clear I have no idea what is in the game for PVE besides missions.

EDIT: I recently sold plex so I have about 550m ISK so money not a huge object.

The new player/NPC corp chats are generally terrible for specialized advice. They're nice for basic help and fact checking, but if you want to get proper answers from people who actually know their stuff, ask it in the proper forum section.

First you should decide what you are interested in. Your goal in PvE will change what kind of ships and equipment are preferable and needed, since the content they offer varies quite a bit. Mission running and ratting is your basic steady PvE ISK grind, exploration resembles gambling with a small chance of getting good loot drops and wormhole diving is reliably rewarding, but risky and challenging.

Since you mentioned missioning, the basic mission running content really just requires a solid tank and damage. As the difficulty level of missions increase, so does the tanking and damage requirements, but the basic nature of missions stays the same. In general terms lvl1 missions are for frigate sized ships, lvl2 for cruiser, lvl3 for battlecruisers and lvl4 for battleships. Pretty much any ship in the proper category is good enough with decent support skills, but you can always use other ships to complete them. The size recommendation is there to give you some idea what level of tank and DPS is required to handle them. There are also lvl5 missions, but you will want to ignore them until you really know what you're doing.

Arbitrator is a T1 ship, not a recon... http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Arbitrator

Recons are: Curse and Pilgrim

Other then that...nothing to add.

PvE ships need a nice tank and the ability to do damage.

PvE tanking is centred around being able to sustain a stable amount of incoming DPS over a longer time period

OK, this needs looking at too. First because you specified PvP and second because you are just getting told about missions.

In PvE, missions are boring. You can make good isk doing them if you like it, but they are boring and you aren't expected to do them if they aren't your cup of tea.

You can also use astrometrics to find things like enemy bases, abandoned ancient stuff that has loot, or interesting things to mine.

You could mine. Don't mine if you don't like to, mining is the retail/fast food job of EVE, anyone can get started in it but it won't take you far.

Notice here i've just said what you can do in safe space. I'll come back to this again.

Next comes the whole business and industry thing. "Crafting" if you play other games. This is actually pretty huge. Some people make money just buying the ore miners dig up, refine it, and resell it, some buy metals and build components, some buy stuff people have salvaged from wrecks and make rigs, some people buy items that are underpriced, melt them down and sell the metals, some people just buy stuff that's cheap, wait till everyone starts building stuff again and sells it all back.
whew!

Bur EVE isn't a PvE game, it's a PvP game. So you're going to have to learn how to wander around in unsafe space if you want the good options. Out in lowsec and 0.0 those little red plusses that pew pew at you pathetically fly battleships, and the payout is yummy. The ores are fancier. People can build their own stations and be able to research blueprints to build things better, like those things that say "II" at the end or combat pills.

If you go there you might get caught up in a war or something. "Sorry, not safe to mine, do you know how to fly a logistics ship?" Or you might have to deal with pirate types who are flying around looking for a fight, and when they see you mining or whatever say "That's probably a trap.. yay! I like traps!" only to be a little bit disappointed when they find out you really were as squishy as you looked. So you need to learn how to not be as squishy as you looked, so you don't come back and be all "augh someone blew me up!"

..I think I got off topic there a little bit. You get the point.

The question you need to ask yourself is "Whose spaceships do I want to make explode?" When you've figured that out come back to us.

PvE in EVE has one singular purpose: to make you enough money to do something else you enjoy. All advice, fittings, strategies, etc. you receive will be focused solely on getting as much ISK per hour as you can, so you don't have to spend your valuable time grinding NPCs.

EVE is not primarily a PvE game. There is no end-game PvE content in the traditional sense, no instances, no raids, no epix lootz. (Okay there's incursions which are kinda sorta similar, but that's definitely not a solo thing.) If you've run a few missions and gone through the exploration tutorial, you've pretty much seen all that PvE in EVE has to offer. Everything else will be just a repeat with bigger NPCs. If this is enough for you - fine. There are many more people in EVE for whom it is. But if you are looking for a quality skill-based challenging PvE game, please save yourself a few months of training and try another game.