EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey Mr Chili,

I am a noob 2 weeks in, and i have subbed. To get some income flowing i started a thread on noob PI. I have 4 planets in very safe high sec systems turning out ISK every day if i want. ISK is not hard to get. This PI could be left for a week if you wanted just producing ISK at miniscule risk, and for a noob it is a nice earner. I make t2 stuff on all 4 just for info.

Also, i am running lvl 1 missions like mad. Fly in, kill, loot, salvage. Easy money. Alloy bars and armor plate pay nicely from salvage. If i werent so dumb and did lvl 1's for different groups i would be on lvl 2's by now easily!!!

Basically, i asked a few questions on here, got some amazing replies and followed it.

Go out and do it!!! safe flying :)

You will have bookmarked it previously when you didnt realise what you were doing, if you bookmark near a can and the can disapears you still have the location marked until you delete it.

If it pleases you Chilli send me a brief breakdown of your online times (in EVE Time, its easier that way). I will endevour to meet with you and hook you up some money making ideas, as well as have you along on a few lvl4's (this will make you lots of cash but more importantly will let you play as part of a group which is what this is all about). If you have any salvage skills there are a couple of decent salvage sites i can take you to. Also i'd be happy to take you through the scanning system and show you a few of the hidden sites of EvE.

We regularly have low sp pilots helping us run lvl4's, them big guns cant hit the little scram frigs. Repair drones and logistics will ensure your relative safety, and if you do happen to lose a ship we'll russel you up another one.

Sometimes EvE seems all about making cash, but there are plently of easy quick ways to make it when you know how. Soon enough if you stick with it the cash will make itself and leave you to find the real heart of this game.

Hope to fly with you soon.

If you look inside a can and see a little push pin object in there - that is a bookmark.

Often times - people will leave bookmarks in cans simply to keep them open while they are mining - as the bookmark itself is probably worthless - if it was put there by a miner.

Anyone can create a bookmark anywhere they are at - by going to their People and Places tool and under Places, look at the bottom of the screen. There will be a button for Create Bookmark. Click on that and it will create a bookmark for the location you are currently in. That way - if you are at a location you will not be able to warp back to once the link that got you there goes away (say a mission agent gave it to you in a mission briefing, or you warped to it after doing a system scan) - by creating your own bookmark to the spot you're at - you'll be able to warp back to it later.

Drag the bookmark from your people and places into your cargo hold and you can then jettison it to a can. Someone else can open that can, drag the bookmark to their cargo hold and then drag it to their people and places to create a bookmark they can warp to. If you hold down shift when you drag the bookmark from you people and places to your cargo hold - you will create a copy. If you don't hold down shift - you will move it.

As to why that bookmark was in that can ... as I said it could be a miner was keeping his can open with it - or - it could be bait, someone wanting you to steal from them (it doesn't matter what) so they can blow you up. Now ... it also could be left there by someone's alt, where both alts are on the same account. One way of exchanging bookmarks between alts - is to leave one in a can at a known location (like a customs office) that both alts can warp to. The alt that leaves the bookmark then logs out - the other logs in - warps to the known location and retrieves the bookmark. At that point both alts know how to warp to that spot.

Possibly someone left it there as a gift ... so you could warp to that location and find ... stuff ... but probably not.

If the can is yellow - then if you take the bookmark - you are stealing it.

If the can is white - that means it belongs to someone in the same corporation as you - or in the same fleet - and you MAY be able to take this bookmark without being flagged for theft. If you get the message that you are stealing it - then you are.

If the can is blue - the person who owned the can has set it as free to everyone, giving up ownership of it - and you can take from it without being flagged.



Now - a Wreck - is a little down pointed arrow head - Wrecks can be salvaged. If the arrowhead is solid - it has loot in it.

Cans are little diamonds - they will always be hollow. Can's cannot be salvaged.

If you salvage a wreck - but do not loot it (if there is loot in it) then that will produce a can with the loot in it after the wreck has been salvaged.

Wrecks and Cans last 2 hours.

Giant Secure Containers - are not "cans" - they are GSC's ... these can be anchored in a .7 or below system and will last 30 days or so if no one accesses them. If someone does access them during that 30 days - it starts the timer over again and you can keep that Anchored GSC active indefinitely. GSC's are "secure" because they have a password. If you know the password - you can open it. If you don't you can't. If the GSC isn't anchored - it can be scooped to someone's cargo hold (they are 3,000m3) - then they can be taken back to a station and repackaged - at which point anything in them will be kicked out.

Jet Cans are created by a Player jettisoning an object (like a bookmark or a unit of ammo or some ore). You can take things in and out of a can you create. Jet cans are frequently used by miner/hauler teams to transfer ore from the miner to the hauler but can be "flipped" by someone wishing to get the owners to shoot at him so he can destroy them. Concord will blow him up if he just shoots at them - but - if he robs them - they can shoot at him without Concord attacking them - but he can also shoot back. The can's are not really flipped. What the guy does - is drop his own jet can - then move the contents of the other guys can's into his. At this point - if they take the stuff back - they are "stealing" their own stuff from him - and he can shoot them without Concord intervention.


How to Use Giant Secure Containers and Jet Cans.

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