EVE New Citizens Q&A

For a while now I've been considering moving out of high sec into low sec. I was doing some scouting and decided to engage a rat I found In a asteroid belt. My little cheap fit punisher was doing well when I saw a ship pop up on my overview.

My first thought was ' Damn I'm popped for sure '. So I started taking damage when I managed to warp away to safety. To my surprise the attacker struck up a conversation and actually invited me to apply to a corp.

Low sec is turning out to be interesting and is shaping up to be a lot of fun.

I know a lot of new bro's and hisec residents don't read the forums but I would encourage anyone who hasn't to at least give it a try. You might be surprised at what you find.

Advice: for starters use cheap ships with cheap fits. And put on your thick skin, you will be popped. Don't let it get to you, the natives are just trying to say hello lol.

i dont understand where the " low-sec is instant death" stigma came from, but low-sec definitely offers a lot of freedom that high doesnt.

enjoy the low-sec life, its a good one.

I really don'y know. Tried to find fun in low-sec... But outside of pvp (which is fun but i don't want to spend all my game time to it) i simply see no reasons to be there.
For me high-sec presents a lot more interesting environment: enemies, "friends", neutrals (and neutrals are real - they won't attack you 'just because i can'). Even just doing RL stuff and monitoring local chat provides some fun.
It's like live in city in comparison to some battlezone or something like it.

aside from jita and other market hubs, i don't see any active local chats in high sec as well.

The offical "Help"-chat mostly, I would say.
You know, the chat where mostly Miners (for who else has the time to do so while playing EvE?) hang out and "advise" new players how to make money (with mining, of course) and what to avoid (Low-Sec = instadeath!)....