EVE New Citizens Q&A

Using http://myeveguide.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/eve-wtd.jpg as a base and excluding everything requiring player interaction, you can
-buy and sell NPC trade goods at a profit, or do courier missions
-buy BPOs from NPCs and manufacture T1 stuff using minerals you mined or melted down from npc loot drops
-set up a highsec Planetary Interaction colony, though you may not find much use for the materials produced
-explore wormholes and kill sleepers and take their stuff
-kill rats in anomalies, belts and combat missions. You could buy stuff from their LP store but any item that requires tags would be a pain in the ass.
-probe down cosmic signatures. Best ones are the combat sites that will drop faction gear you could use to upgrade from T1 or meta loot.

That's about it.
You'd probably want to set some overarching goal. Like building your own Orca from scratch, or completing the level 4 epic arc of your home empire with self-made/found items only.

Harsh, man. The "market" is impersonal. You should give yourself that, at least.
Just form your own corporation and play solo. Works for me.

No need to talk to anyone. Except maybe carrying around a bottle of the rarest wine ... to sweet-talk the prettiest girls by container-light.

I think this is hilarious and excellent.

When someone finds some way to suprise pvp you or demand a ransom or whatever, what's your stance on that re: interaction?

Ransoming another player = player interaction and thus not allowed.

Cool stuff, I'll check it out.



A handful of frigates and a destroyer from the career agents should be enough to get my first BPO. Punisher Blueprint is seeded at 2,587,500 ISK - hardly an impossible amount of money, even for a new character. And once I have that, I have my foot in the door so to speak.



Guess why I'm going Amarr? T1 lasers never break. As for the corp, I'll go with SoE since it's so easy to get high standings with them thanks to the Epic Arc. Will set up in Simela, 1-3 sec SoE agents there, plus plenty of 0.5 systems in the vicinity to rat in. First month's gonna be grinding Refinery and Refinery Efficiency to 5 so I can get 95% efficiency at 6.67 loyalty. With some luck, I'll hardly have to do any mining at all, since I'll be looting and refining everything from rats.

If I will have to do some mining, I will have two Ventures I believe(someone correct me on the exact amount you get from the tutorials), and their BPOs seem to be actually seeded in... Jita? I'll never need anything bigger since I'm only mining for myself. Full ore bay of regular Veldspar in Venture refines into what, 150k Tritanium? That's enough for a cruiser, or several Ventures.

Rarer ores - again, refining, or I could try to have Wormhole Adventures.



Well if I get ganked I get ganked so that's it - it's not like I gained anything from another player, is it? The real problem is wardecs(I'll be going "solo corp" to maximize ISK gain). By the way: the solo playstyle doesn't prevent me from trying to blow other people up, I just can't loot their wrecks afterwards.


And to clarify: I am not really a sociopath, I actually enjoy socializing in MMOs, and I plan on talking to people in local, rookie, etc. chats in the game when doing the solo challenge. Hell, if I get the chance I'll even try and help some noobs out, i.e. with Dagan and whatnot. It's not "**** everyone" gameplay, it's "DIY" gameplay, there's a difference.

I would jump all my current hisec ships into nearest lowsec and had 1 vs local. And then I would quit.

They're seeded in the ORE stations out in the Outer Ring (NPC nullsec). The BPOs on sale in Jita are sold by other players (NPC orders have a 365 day expiry).

The skillbook wont be your problem. The BPOs will. It will set you back by at least 1B and to get that you will need to run missions in a BC. That comes at a sporty 350-420M depending on ship type. Cruiser will be cheap with only 60ish. Minerals will be no problem if you pick some loot while you do the missions. If you make 1B in bounty + reward you will gain mineral worth the same in form of refinable loot. Since you can't sell anything you will end with piles of minerals. Salvage is rather pointless as you wont need more then 15 rigs in total (given you don't get your ships exploded). Researching BPOs is pointless as you will never sell any of the ships you build, nor the BPO.

There are a few items that wont drop at all. Like sentry drones. So you have to be picky that ship you want to fly. I would take an apoc and run for amarr to get a navy apoc because it provides a reasonable effective damage in missions. Some faction items require tags what means you have to run missions against factions. So sisters is a bad idea.

It is certainly possible and you will actually have to SP to fly the ship when you are able to buy the BPO.

Awesome link mate! Recommended reading.
Seriously.
That should be in print!
I don't go back that far, but lament the clear difference in the mood of the forums back then compared to the bitter resentment that clouds it now.

Especially if you make offensive remarks about their hair and ethnicity.
- Don't dis the 'rows man!!!