EVE New Citizens Q&A

I've had some of my best eve moments hacking in null. Playing head games with the locals, hacking a site with 20+ in local all from the same corp and seeing how many cans I have the testicular fortitude to hack before bailing, slipping through gatecamps and enraging people and subsequently getting hunted down only to make it back to my home station with half a billion in profits. A bit of adrenaline pumping, "Will I make it?" does the heart good.

If you really want to make a lot, set a route with ~100 jumps from your home, deep into null and then back through null a different way back to your home. It tends to be an all day adventure and can leave you pretty drained but you'll make a ton of money and I can almost guarantee you'll have a couple stories at the end of it.

I've done a lot of WH space too. They're pretty hit or miss, the paranoia factor is a little higher but I don't play during peak hours so most the time the wormholes I go in are empty, then there's the WHs with TONS of signatures, most of them gasclouds and other WHs and sleeper sites. There's a lot more scanning involved and from my own personal experience, a lot less isk per hour. I'm not saying WHs are bad, I love WH space, but for pirate faction sites it's not the best when it comes to isk making.

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Empty null sec systems are nice but there is nothing wrong with scanning in WH's too. Unless you are a coward.

Just keep an eye on Dscan and be ready to run or fight. And expect to eventually die at some point.

As far as mapping goes most if not all wh corps use a mapping software where your scouts report signatures, POS and all sorts of other things though a main function is to record the map of your wh chain as you explore it.

Thing with null is that as soon as you enter local everyone warps either at POS or station and/or logs off, usually before you even manage to hit a d-scan, so yeah not many will actually bother you in null sec no matter what ship you fly with.

Data and relic sites can be done up to C5 alone in a gila assuming you have a good fit, know your triggers and have a general sense of what you're actually doing, also many prefer to have a falcon alt so they don't have to bother with shooting the whole site.
Biggest risk in WH sites are sleepers that neut (and web and scram) you which obviously doesn't bother a passively fit gila or tengu all that much.

Thing with talocans are however that they don't appear on a site if you warp to it cloaked, so warp visible and immediately cloak (or die) to see if there is a talocan wreck and never ever warp to 0 on a site.

Other lucrative venture (pun intended) is to grab a mining frigate and suck WH gas, just be aware that sleepers appear in 15min approx and if they don't appear it usually means that the site has been 'opened' meaning someone else has bm'd the site, has shot all the rats and doesn't like seeing you there sucking his gas on a site that he has cleared.