EVE New Citizens Q&A

Be active, be eager, be open-minded and be respectful. That is the best way to be valuable to any corp.

Wormhole corporations are always in need of people who fly covert ops and are good with scanning.

Nullsec groups are always in need of newbros who fly tackler frigates or interdictors.

Anything you want, it all just depends on what you enjoy doing. If you tell us what you enjoy then we can maybe suggest some possible paths for you that you can look into.

I've taken quite a liking to scanning, I plan on focusing on that.
Combat doesn't really suit me so much, however.

Where should I start looking, if I want to find a corp that might find a use for someone such as myself?

+1 Come join us. We have cookies.

You should definitely buy a 2006 or older character in the character bazaar and pass yourself off as an expert at Eve.

We've got a guy like that, and boy is he PRO!



On second thought, don't go that route. I don't think it's going to work out for this guy either. :)

Stick with UAE's uncharacteristically sound and sincere advice.

Welcome aboard

Id suggest salvaging for people, i know plenty of people who dont bother with salvage and will allow you have their salvage whilst you work on your scanning skills etc.

Join a large null sec alliance like Goonswarm.

All any null alliance asks is that you show up to PvP to take or defend their sov...this gives your PvP a purpose. You may die in every fleet- but you will do so for a reason. Maybe you hero tackled an enemy fleet in a Dictor. Maybe you held someone up at a gate so your fleet could escape. Maybe you defended their sov. No matter what you're undocking, fighting, living, and dying for something larger than just padding a killboard.

-In return you will get free ships (usually under an SRP you buy a ship initially and fit it to a doctrine standard, and if it is destroyed, it gets replaced with enough isk to buy another. In some cases, like Logi, often replaced with more isk than the cost of the ship so you profit).
-You will get free skillbooks (or at least cheaper) to help you advance.
-You get to sell loot and PvE stuff directly and let someone else worry about shipping it to Jita. For example, in my alliance (part of the CFC) I just sell all my PI to my corp at 10% under jita price. I do not haul it anywhere, I take no risk- so that 10% under Jita is well worth it compared to moving stuff out of null sec.
-Being useful in a fleet, I am usually just handed whatever ship I need at the moment. If I die in it, I just give the owner the replacement isk I get. Because ships are replaced, people will hand you nearly anything if you're willing to undock and fleet up. I have been handed billion isk ships. If I live, I give it back, if I die I just apply to the SRP.
-You get access to the high end of Eve's PvE. I am free to do anything I want in Eve...anything. All I do is fleet up when called- and since my only reason to log in is PvP, it's hardly a 'sacrifice' to show up to fleets. I can not only rat the best systems and Ded complexes- but I can ask for friends to join in and almost always get people to help. Moon mine, exploration, manufacturing...anything I want to do, I get to do in null sec and reap the rewards.
-GS in particular runs training fleets all the time. I'm not in GS itself, but I can join their training fleets.
-not being a capital pilot myself, I get my ships moved to combat zones for me- I usually offer to light cynos for the carriers.
- you usually get paid to run towers on behalf of the alliance.
-when I open the fleet finder, there is never less than a dozen fleets I can join doing anything from mining to bombers to gank fleets. If I create a fleet and FC, I can count on people joining.
-most null alliances will happily support your effort to FC. People will join because even if you welp them all, their ships are being replaced.

Essentially, I no longer have much need for isk at all. My needs are met, I have all the time in the world to do whatever- including not even log in if I don't want to- and all I have ever been asked in return was fleet up and die gloriously. Imagine having a billion isk and nothing to even spend it on.

It completely re-invented Eve Online for me. It gave my character purpose, it freed me from PvE. At this point I do PvE just to check out content, not because I need isk.

*Reads thread title* Hang out with rich players that don't play the market. They have a habit of throwing money around. /endthread