EVE New Citizens Q&A

Right answer. (Mostly)




Wrong answer. You don't gain experience by avoiding the places were you gain it. Sticking to empire will only allow you to develop bad habits and enforces the myth that you can only thrive in low-sec, null-sec and WH space after years of experience.

Instead of a new Raven buy 50 frigates, update your clone and get them all blown up doing dumb stuff in low-sec. Learn from it. You'll learn more and have way more fun flying a bunch of cheap ships than one expensive one. Try out low-sec PvP, PvE and maybe even some low-sec trade/ industry.

Also Eve-Uni or Red Vs Blue are great places to learn the ropes.

Yes, yes, and yes.
Ship insurance will take the "sting" off of any T1 ship loss you incur which allows you to get back on your feet that much quicker.
Your Pod and clone come into play when your ship has been destroyed; if you pod is ganked then you wake up at the station you have set your clone to be at (be sure to have a shuttle or ship there "just in case"). If you clone is not kept updated then you will lose a "small" chunk of skillpoints off of the highest tier skill (see: skill that has taken the longest to train) you possess. If your station clone is kept updated then there is no fear of this.



A danger... but not a major one unless you fulfill certain "criteria" that can best be summed up as "I-have-expensive-mods-on-a-low-HP-ship."
A general rule of thumb is to not fly around in a ship filled/equipped with mods that exceeds the value of the ship itself.
As for CONCORD... the speed of their response varies according to the security status of the system. In 1.0 space they respond in 10 seconds or less. In 0.5 space it takes a good 20 to 30 seconds for a response. 0.4 space and below will not see a response of any kind.

Other "threats" you might encounter in high-sec include, but are not limited to...

- can/wreck flipping
- war decs
- price fixing / market manipulation



Meh... not certain about this one... but I can tell you this: with only a few very rare exceptions, everything in EVE is not "one of a kind." You can sell an item you find useless now, find out you need it later, and purchase it back. If you accidentally destroy an item, no problem. Go to the market or Contract listings and your can probably find it... for a price.
There are also items that serve no real "tangible" purpose... a good example being Kruul's DNA thingy. It used to be an item you could turn in for a reward, but not anymore. Now it's just something fuddy-duddy to keep around.

If you are going to mission in low sec make sure to keep local open all the time when theres people jumping in spam your dscan ( their for a reason) also never be scared to pvp ive pvped sincer 500ksp an no sp is to low

Well, among other rules of EVE there's this little one: "Always keep your clone updated". Also there's a good note: "by undocking you are concenting to pvp".
Own mistakes are usually the best teacher, so don't be afraid to do them, as long as you get some experience from it. You already are familiar with "don't fly what you cannot afford to lose" and "always insure your ship if you expect it can get popped" rules.

Before attempting a journey to lowsec fly around the systems for a while in some small fast and cheap ship (covert ops, if you can fly it, shuttle/rifter if you consider yourself a total noob). Get used to d-scan (directional scan), add scan probes to overview, be very afraid of the Combat variety (Core ones are harmless to you unless you are doing an anomaly). Get familiar with the local before you attempt doing a mission there. Make notes of which people are likely to be flying by and which are usually there or around. In lowsec space character's security status can tell many things about him/her, but is in no way a definitive factor - sometimes +5.0 carebear can be as dangerous as -10.0 pirate, but -10.0 pirate is a guarantee to be dangerous. Basically, the lower security status of a character, the more likely him/her to be hostile, if he's neutral to you.

Make some friends. Do missions together. It helps in many ways - every game is more fun when you have company and it is general rule of a thumb - more players mean more safety. But not always. Joining a player-run corporation helps immensely, there are multitude of corporations specializing in different tasks - pvp, pve, mining, trading, teaching, scamming - find one that suits your likes.

And do not do missions in systems with many neutral players! The more players are in system the harder it gets to control the situation.

Learn to align. It can save your precious ship on multitude of occassions, in both pve and pvp.

Know your enemy, be it a rat, player or a peaceful miner in the nearest belt.

Always have stations and gates on the overview, keep a special setting with star, planets and moons as well, but try to keep yourself from warping to unknown moons - for all you know you can be warping straight into hostile pos.

Never ever jump into a lowsec system in a big ship (bigger than a cruiser) without having it scouting prior to it. Even then you are not safe, but it helps to reduce the risk of jumping straight into a gate camp. Friends can also help here - ask one to watch the gate for you while you jump in.

Travelling alone in a lowsec is generally a bad idea, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.

I've run out of ideas so far...

Hope it helps!

Anytime I see another ship near me I warp away. The times I didn't do this (and sometimes when I did try) I always ended up seeing a loading screen back at the Center for Advanced Studies and then made a sandwich while I auto-pilot'ed in a rookie ship back to Dodixie.

/shrug - it sucks losing implants all the time, but that's just part of the game, I think my focus is more on how many times can I survive rather than how many times I die. At least, that's my fun.