EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello I picked up the Amarr explorer starter kit via steam. I have the Sarum Magnate and no idea how to start exploring!

Thanks I'll check that out!

The Sarum Magnate is NOT a special edition ship. 1 million ISK extremely cheap in EVE, so you might as well use it.

To the OP: Have you done the exploration career missions? You can learn a lot from them.

I did see after the very early wave of tutorial missions I was sent to a new system for a new trainer and there are trainers of all vocations there. I am assuming that is the exploration starting point?

That's what I get for posting while at work.

Sorry about that, I was thinking there were a few more zeros, and that it was worth a couple Plex. My bad.

So I've done all the Exploration and Career missions from the academy. When using the agent finder the only exploration ones that I can find seem to be for the introduction. Is exploration something you just dive into after learning a bit about it?

Indeed the money appears to be in the loot! First adventure on my own I decided to take a few jumps away from where I had set up shop. Scanned down a data site and found something called an Occult Process listed at an estimated worth of 6.7million. Exciting!

Thanks for all the replies and answers guys. I have another question. I am really enjoying exploration and have come across astrometrics and the related skills. If I specialize in exploration will it lead to any bigger ships and or useful roles I could fill with a corp?

Yes and no.

Yes: exploration is useful, even if you hate it and want the people that designed it to die in a fire chances are you're going to be pulling out the old probe launcher at least a few times a year.

No: the problem with "is this useful for a corp" is that essentially every character you'll meet that's older than 3 or 4 months has sufficient exploration skills to find anything short of w-space sites. Get as many of the skills as you NEED to do what you want with it, then train up your combat skills if you're mostly sticking with exploring.


That said, the personal skills (as opposed to mechanical "skills" bought with sp/training) that you'll pick up actually doing exploration will serve you very, very well in many other parts of the game:

1. The pace is very slow and the rewards are sporadic, making it a profession where nothing happens, then nothing happens, then more nothing, then ZOMGSHIPSEVERYWHEREONFIRENOOAUUUGH, then nothing, then more nothing. This is kind of a summary of Eve's pacing in general, too.

2. Most of exploration isn't in scanning or fitting ships, it's performing three tasks at once (setting map points, scanning, and doing site puzzles or combat) while also looking over your shoulder constantly. This constant paranoia is a great habit for PvP or even corp warfare, plus the specific tools you learn to use (d-scanner, local list, the tag system) are invaluable for anyone.

3. Since exploration sites are so random, among other things you'll learn to fly several sizes and types of ships, because some days you WILL be so hard-up for sites that you'll run low-difficulty combat sites where the ship class is restricted. Since you'll be moving around a lot, chances are you'll get decent with shields, armor defense, and at least two major weapon systems to deal with player and npc threats.

Thanks everyone for your input.




This sounds amazing, I want to do that.

So I'm going to put a bit more into exploration to enjoy my roaming around low-sec trying to stay away from these people with bounties haha while afterwards I want to make myself competent in all the relevant skills and work my way from the Punisher into a Maller. The Maller sounds VERY me and fits my name after reading about it.

Now I have a plan at least! Become a great explorer, then be able to scan down other players, while working my way into that bruiser that seems to be the Maller after my reading.