EVE New Citizens Q&A

I'm finishing up the tutorials and moving on to the SOE mission arc and I've got a quick logistics question...when should I leave the Caldari Navy station and look to move all my ships and inventory somewhere else?

Really noob question - what's the most efficient way to move your gear as a newer player? How do you pick a "home base" if you are a noob....or do you just keep running missions from the initial starting station?

This map is your big friend in looking for a new home. The most effective way to move your venture and destroyer somewhere, where you will have fun is to scum character Maxx Run for few millions for expanded cargohold II modules, fit them into industrial ship you got from tutorial and move where you want to move.

Venture will let you find out if mining is fun enough (there are mining missions out there), destroyer will let you run security missions (interesting celestial objects to see and more shooting), your Heron with exploration bonuses will let you find out, if exploration is a game you are looking for.

Later on you probably will want to have more rewarding PvE (so - level 4 security missions) or some PvP without hours sitting and waiting for target (so - faction warfare). That means you probably will want some high sec level 4 agents next to faction warfare hot spot. It will take time till you get standings for level 4 missions. Use dotlam map and http://eve-agents.com/ to find the corp you want to work for. Check hwere it has security agents of level 2,3 and 4 - that way you will see, how your home should move.

Simela is really nice place to go, since sisters of eve missions give you loyalty points, that are easy to convert into the ware with one of the best LP/ISK ratio. But you will locked in far corner of the world for good few weeks or even months untill your standings will raise high enough.

Usual ganker fit is worth about 9 milions. Badger, 2 frigates and Cormorant together will hardly make the loss even. It would be poor ganking if they will try to shot this. Enough not to fly into low sec and you still can carry all your stuff with you. Simply because it is not that excpensive to make you gank object.

There are just over 50 missions in the SoE epic arc. When you get to the last misison bring a friend or upgrade to a cruiser as the npc at the end has very good repping. Alternatively you can leave your cache of ships and equipment where it is. Move over a few jumps and you always have a fallback should you need to start from scratch. A few players have these ''ammo dumps'' where they store a small amount of resources.

Really appreciate the feedback guys. I figured it was going to be a combination of sell and move.

I'll hang on to badger and my Kestrel. I've got 2 Merlin's, 2 ventures, 1 bantom, 1 ibis , and Cormorant. I've put most of my offensive skill into missiles and I'm a few days away from lvl V Cal Frigates finishing training so the Comorant has lesser value to me.

Should I reprocess the ships and sell the materials or just sell the ships whole?

I would recommend not moving out of your current system just yet actually. It should be close to Jita which is typically the best place to shop for new items, it is a high sec system, and it should be relatively centrally located to the center of the map. Instead, I would pick a ship to go exploring in and try out the various aspects of EvE to figure out where you want to go.

The most important aspect of this would be to find a corporation to join (in my view). EvE with other players is so much more entertaining than EvE by yourself. A couple of ones to check out are Brave Newbies, EvE University, Red vs Blue. Once you settle on one, you can think about moving your stuff to their home system.