EVE New Citizens Q&A

Okay well for one you;re in the militia unless I'm mistaken.

That is a primarily PVP based part of the game. You essentially joined the Gallente military to help them take over and defend space in lowsec from the other factions who have players doing the same.

There is SOME PVE involved but all of it is in the interest of eventually doing PVP.

For PVE I'd say you have 3 main routes:
- Missions - work for combat agents up to level 4
- Exploration sites - finding anoms and complexes to fight the pirate bases
- A branch of this you can try is going into WHs to kill sleepers
- Incursions - helping fight back against the sansha invasions. These are all fleet based and generally require some decent skills with a battleship or T2 logi cruiser before even starting.

Keep in mind though that PVE is largely a means to an end, it usually isn't the end itself. The PVE can get boring and tedious when left to itself... unless that's your thing.

If the OP is into PvE primarily is being in a fac war corp a really good idea?
Or might he be better served by finding a non- fac war corp tp join?

Mission running is a good starting place for PvE depending on how PvP averse you are there are other things you can do but mission running and incursions are probably the biggest PvE earning potential in high sec. Incursions while in theory early on you could run them you'd need to make some friends as they can't be soloed and most of the groups that run them regularly will want you in usually a BS with decent skills or a logi with highish skills.

You can make good isk in null sec running anomalies or through exploration and if you pick the right situation it can be with very little contact with players that are looking to shoot at you.

Wormholes can be good isk for PvE as well but it is much harder to avoid PvP in wormholes. Not impossible just takes more effort.

Null sec belt ratting can be decent isk as well but it's more of an RNG thing than anoms as you are counting on getting some lucky drops from faction spawns.

I'm not sure if minning is considered PvE but it does not involve much shooting at NPC ships more shooting at defenseless asteroids.

Or, he could pay attention and use a ship that's, you know, effective.

FW, as the rest of low sec is to get PvP fun, not ISK. At least from the beginning.

Go to Simela and run security missions for SoE. You will have to drop Gal mil for this. You can run L1 and L2 SoE missions in minmatar space as well, but for L3 SoE security missions you will have to go to Simela any way. After you get to +5 standing, you can go to Lanngisi and join Gal militia again. SoE LP store (you get LP for missions) is one of the best since you can always sell sisters core probe lauchners for insane money.

Or you can work for Astral mining inc. and sell nexus chips. Less money but you can stay in Gallente space all the time.

There is also possibility to work for Minmatar corps in sothern Sinq Laison (even better LP, than SoE sometimes), but it will require to accept each and every mission against amarr to utilise their LP. Your standings vs empire will be -10 in no time...

Your friends here are
dotlan map
How to run missions (what to tank, what to shot in what order, what kind of damage to apply)
LP Store (what to convert your LP)

Question to OP, what are you going to do with all the ISK piling up in your wallet while doing PvE?

Exploration in low-sec will let you earn isk with about the same risk of PvP as FW, without actually forcing you to stay in the FW areas. Many exploration sites are reasonably combat-heavy for the usual ship sizes and layouts as well if you like beating on the NPCs.

As far as 'more of the same, but escalating the difficulty gradually' like a normal MMO, though, higher-level missions are about it.

I guess if you want LESS risk of PvP than high sec you could sign on with one of the deep null-sec corporations, they're mostly just stationary NPC respawn farmers.

You don't need to point a venture, just lock and pop it.

True sansa will do it though if needs be.

Aww, J'Poll I thought you liked me :P. Seriously though, I am mostly a farmer at this point unless I am in a fleet. I simply do not have the skills to engage in solo PVP at this point.


So till then, I farm.

Oh I have learned plenty. And its not that I am adverse to getting into fights. If I am in a fleet, I am all for fighting. But one of the things I have learned about PVP is part of it is knowing when to fight and right now that is not often.