EVE New Citizens Q&A

As another option, if you want to stay in hisec space for whatever reasons but hate the overcrowding there are many pockets of hisec surrounded by lowsec that very few people call home. I used to live in Solitude and now live in another region and am surrounded by lowsec which keeps out the bears.

There are some logistics issues. You usually have to run to "proper" hisec to do your shopping and now and again the gate to hisec will be camped. But if that area becomes your permanent home you quickly pick up on the problem spots and learn ways to detect/avoid the camps.

Also when you get to the point where you want to stretch your wings on lowsec, the exit points of your low pop hisec will rarely be camped because it's just not worth the time to do so. So it makes for a pretty easy crawl down the back pipes.

But in either case you really need to spend some time to figure out where you want to call home. Different regions and areas all have their own personalities.

Typical exploration site grinding in Hi-Sec is not worth it, if you compare it to Low/Null as others mentioned before. Unless of course you are betting on the covert ops or sleeper sites, both of which are rare. Average income from Data/Relic hunting (and the occasional rare ones) in HS nets about 20-50mil per day with relevant skills at lvl3-4.

For Hi Sec I would suggest focusing mainly in combat sites and anomalies. Get a cruiser you can fly with decent skills and skip any lvl1 sites since you cant use the gate in most. Damage and tank fit it depending on the rats you fight of course. Bounties will get you an average income of 5-20mil per day. Drops are a gamble with huge margins.

Typical lower end faction or deadspace drops will get you 1-10mil per site. If you get lucky with the loot fairy this goes up to 50-250mil per site. (At least my top was about 250. Could be more). And of course if you get a good escalation you may roll higher, getting up to 400mil drops. Escalations/Expeditions are the main reason you should do anomalies btw.

Note that you could get lvl5 escalations from Hi-Sec sites which are hard for a new pilot and need good skills and a good combat ship.

Thank you for all the helpful advice, it has really helped me progress. Unfortunately a trial account can't train cloak, so my trip to lowsec has been delayed, fortunately I have timed my trial account to time out past Christmas so I'll definitely have some $ for PLEX. In the mean time I'm sending an application to EVE UNI and hopefully get taught the things I need to know.

But you cant train the cloaking skill needed to use it on a trial.