EVE New Citizens Q&A

Take a look at DOTLAN for your area using the asteroid belts view

http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Verge_Vendor/Clellinon#belts

Choose a system in hi sec with a lot of belts.

Clellinon is a rookie system, really somewhere you should only live for your first few hours of active playing (which might be a week or two). Most fun stuff in EVE is either not available there, or outright disallowed (such as attacking players, under most circumstances).

Verge Vendor in general is a very quiet region. Few people live there, most just pass through. I'd recommend looking for somewhere busier.

I personally live in Dodixie. It's the third busiest trade hub in the game (so you can buy or sell anything except capital ships and the rarer limited edition items there), it is right near a few good lowsec systems (for when you feel like hunting people that are expecting you) and many miners (for when you feel like hunting someone that isn't expecting you).

I would recommend you look into the system Ney. It's close to Dodixie (6j IIRC), is next door to a very quiet lowsec system (Fasse) where you can shoot NPCs (if that's your thing) or mine the recently-buffed lowsec ores (if that's your thing). It also has its own resident miners who you can shoot at (if that's your thing).

Ventures can speed tank pretty much anything (EVE talk for 'be too small to effectively hit while moving', just like how IRL you can never kill a moving fly with a baseball bat despite the baseball bat being a very deadly weapon in other situations).

The few things you can't speed tank are mostly hostile players in short to medium range ships, and NPC frigates and destroyers. Conveniently, the NPCs are easily killed with drones. The hostile players require you to be dilligent and watch for anything suspicious - mostly the ships that are going to pose a threat to a Venture are Catalysts, Thrashers and Atrons.

I would suggest someplace like Anyed or Jarkkolen. Anyed has 39 belts, Jarkkolen has 50. No station in either, but there are stations in next door systems for both.

With new POS mechanics you don't really need a station anymore for mining ops.


Plant a tower, plant a compression array, plant a corp hangar....and compress and store while you mine and when done mining you start the collection.

Long time ago I used to live in Kasrasi a .6 system in Derelik. It was almost invariably quite. There was very little mining competition and the pirate activity was very low (expect for what i committed myself), despite the nearby lowsec systems. The surrounding systems are also very quite. If you want to really be left alone you can go to Serad which is a nearby highsec island, or if you have access to pos, you can go to buftiar.

Derelik and Devoid both live up to their name, they're pretty much empty.

Dropping you a like for the "potato has eyes" comment earlyier.

You don't have to move everything yourself in this game. Use a courier contract and make it worthwhile to run, but also do yourself a favour and set decent collateral. Just increase reward appropriately. It takes a bit of trial and error to get the pricing right, but it's worth the small cut in profits once you get above certain quantities.

A like for the Hitchhikers quote.