Ships & Modules

**waving "New Player" flag**

So, I just started playing EVE about two weeks ago so I know very little about the game. I'm primarily doing some mining at the moment but I'm looking to do some more exploring.

I'm looking for a nice, fast/agile ship that I can safely take to low- and null-sec. I have seen videos of the cloak+MWD trick and would like to do this if it means a safer journey through these systems. I'd like to be able to go to various systems and not be podded after 2 minutes If it could carry some useful stuff like probes, that would be a bonus but survivability is my main issue here.

Please recommend a ship that a new pilot can fly safely. I've seen discussions here where the ships and fittings recommended are all T2 and the skills are assumed to be level 5. I'm about 20 years (+/- 2 weeks) away from that level so if someone can recommend something I can pilot in 20 minutes, that'll be awesome.

Thanks!

Welcome to EVE where the men are men, the women are men and the kids are suicide ganker alts.

- The Venture is a very good ship for mining in low sec. The pilot of the Nozy Gamer blog, http://nosygamer.blogspot.com has practically made it a lifestyle to mine in low sec.
- For exploration any probing frigate will do. Practive the cloak+mwd trick a couple of times in high sec and you'll be able to escape all but the most dedicated of ganks.
- For moving about on the cheap, any fast frigate (atron, slasher, condor, executioner) fitted with a nanofiber in the low, a cloak in the high and an MWD will be hard to catch by 90% of the stuff flying out there.
- No matter how safe you fit and fly, one day you will get attacked and podded. Don't fly what you can't afford to lose.
- Focus your skills on getting level 2 in all relevant skills and level 4 in all 'important' skills. Within 2 weeks you'll be >80% capable in your chosen role.
- Learn to use the ingame map (solar system and star map) and websites like dotlan and zkillboard. Intel is your greatest ally in not getting podded.
- In that vain, don't enter null sec by the most obvious route, try a far out of the way system to avoid the expected gate camps.
- Once you money and skills, T2 versions of the above mentioned ships (covert ops, prospect and interceptors) are even better in avoiding enemy ships.
- If you're on the ball, you shouldn't lose your pod in low sec ever, except for lag and very specialized gate camps (avoid Rancer)

Relevant skill is basically every skill that affects your ship somehow. Important skills are skills that affect your ship a lot.

Which skills to train for a Condor? Press 'Get info' on a ship and click on the mastery tab. For the Condor, you'll see stuff like 'Caldari target management', 'Core ship operation' and many others. Under each of those are skill lists with recommended skill levels.

For your Condor, set mastery II as your short term goal and mastery IV as your long term goal. These skills will get you started.

There's a list in game with all the ships, called ISIS. It shows you how well skilled you are for certain ships and how the various ships relate to each other. You'll notice that e.g. that the 'Caldari target management' set of skills apply to all Caldari ships. This will give you an idea what skills are usable for other ships and allows you to plan.

For caldari stealthy shenanigans you'll want to aim for the Buzzard. Not a combat ship at all, but a very good explorer.

The ship you are looking for hasn't been introduced yet or better you may need to wait a little longer then a week to get it.

It is called the Prospect.

Here you can read all about here:
Devblog about the Prospect

Spoiler, she requieres Mining Frigate V and Exploration Frigate I to fly.

She is a tech2 Venture andamong other things she can use a covert ops cloak.


Happy exploration!

There is now a delay between de-cloaking from a gate jump then re-cloaking. Abuse of 'Frag-Warping' which you have seen on videos is what caused this.

For exploration The Heron -> Buzzard is good way to go. Once you get past losec/nullsec choke points and gate camps your life becomes much easier.

There is one thing i recommend to all new players though: Get a combat frigate. Get the skills to fit it and fly it and that way you wont be bored. There are tons of corps who will take new pilots and do lots of cheap frigate roams.

I'd also say Assault Frigates have a really good skill-path for new players. They take weeks to train for, but the skill you train are excellent and will stand you in good stead for a long Eve career.