EVE New Citizens Q&A

1#- You can get your Gallente rep back up just by running missions for a Gallente corp. However you will loose standing with Caldari and Amarr. If you want to raise Gallente without loosing much to Caldari / Amarr you can run Sister's of Eve missions. Yes there are ways to raise faction standing with dog tags through cosmos missions but those are one time deals. You can not do it repeatedly. I've never taken this route but I hear it can be somewhat expensive. Also the level 4 epic arcs allow you to raise faction standing without taking a hit to opposing factions but you can only run those once every 3 months.

2#- I don't believe there is that much difference between corps I could be wrong on this but I'm fairly certain the LP stores have mostly the same stuff with only a few differences.

3#- I've not flown the Navy Comet but faction frigs are typically much better than T1 non-faction frigs so it will certainly be fine for level 1's and should be good for level 2's. Level 2's are more intended to be run by cruisers but you can do them in frigs and dessies.

4#- All of the 4 main racial ship line ups are very comparable and fairly well balanced. It really comes down more to what your piloting style is like and damage / resist types. Typically speaking you are fine with using local ships for local rats meaning Gallente ships in Gallente space but often the other races will do fine as well. Amarr ship can't tank explosive all that well and lazors can only do EM / Therm damage so using Amarr ships to mission in Minmatar space where the local rats are angels would not be ideal. Similarly the Hybrids of Gallente are only kinetic / therm however you can passive shield tank most Gallente ships pretty well and if you choose a drone boat you can do explosive damage so they aren't so bad in Minmatar space but aside from bad match-ups like that you can pretty much mission anywhere in any race without much issue.

As far as PvP goes while I am not a PvPer I think most of the players that are will tell you PvP is highly situational and all about match ups. There is no race that is clearly better or gimped at PvP be it fleet or solo that I am aware of. More importantly I think cross training to give you more options to adapt to situations is probably the key.

I don't have a navy comet fit to link, sorry.

Thanks for the good answers :).

Just to add some details here: storylines are offered every 16 regular missions assuming you don't already have a storyline from that faction in your journal. I'm fairly certain you can't have 2 storylines of the same level for the same faction at once. Not sure about other levels.

You always have access to level 1 missions, however if your faction standing is below -2 you will only be able to do level 1 missions for that faction. Once you get above -2 standard standings access rules apply.

Also standings gains are based on a percentage of the distance from perfect ( 10 ) to where you are, so the lower your standing the faster you can raise it.

Missions usually have an icon of the race that you will be shooting at in the mission description so you can look for that. Mission reports on eve-survival.org I believe is the site he's talking about. Some companies like a faction's Navy for example are more likely to give opposing faction's kill missions than others. Storyline missions gain you faction but a percentage of that gain is counted against you by the opposing factions.

Level 5 missions should always be in low sec. Level 4 missions I believe have the potential to be anywhere in the constellation so if there are no low sec systems in the constellation that the agent is in I don't think you'll get low sec level 4's. You may want to read up on that to confirm on that.

I've heard people do War Decs against industrial corps in High Sec and it sounds very fun :P.

he means mercs,
though its worth noting that the first thing we would tell him to do is to get the standings to the minimal "don't get killed by the faction navy's just for being in their space" level as pretty much all mercs operate everywhere.

Thank you for the advice Cara Forelli :).

I will begin searching for a corp soon and hopefully i can find a British/American Corp in Gallente high sec which does High sec Wardec. (I am terrible with understanding Accents so pure English speakers is best for me lol)

Sadly i missed 6 days of skill training because i had no Internet and i had planned to begin searching for a Corp when i hit 1mil SP. (3 of those days i had my +9 Attribute booster :(... Sad Times)

(I know some corps will let me join even if i have under 1mil SP but id rather be some what useful so training a bunch of skills while doing Missions is fine with me... i'm act enjoying the missions while i try new ships)

Not to harp on it, but remember joining a corp isn't a blood contract. If it's not the right group for you then you can always try again somewhere else. It may take a few tries before you find a corp you really get on with. So don't be afraid to take a shot and try something out once you've met a few people and done some research. You can make an educated guess, but you never REALLY know how it's going to be until you join up.

Now that you've announced ownership, careful with that Orthrus.

Even so, it's not safe. Never undock in anything you aren't prepared to watch burn to ashes within seconds of leaving the docking screen. Now, yes, there is generally less overt danger in HS, people have a few hoops to jump through if they want to kill you, but they still can, and they WILL if they think it's worth it (ISK, or fun wise). Personally, once I purchase a ship, I consider it dead already. The ship will fly until it's my turn in the queue to space hell.

Now, when it comes to jumping from corps, it really isn't a big deal, especially when you're new. No reasonable person is going to assume the worst (if that's what you're worried about) of a character your age jumping from corp to corp a few times when starting out. Now if you have a list of 100 corps in under a year, yeah, that may make recruiters paranoid, but do not sit in the NPC corp because you're worried about 'reputation'. You make a reputation for yourself by interacting with people, which can be done in an NPC corp, but you'll be missing out on some of the best EVE has to offer IMO.

Basically, don't worry too much about having a bad reputation for switching corps a few times, it's not something to worry about. Only the overly paranoid and or stupid are going to be weirded out by a newbie switching corps a few times.

Sorry for double post.

Soon i will be moving all my assets over to Dodixie but as a new player i don't really understand the whole Clone thing.

I Have not died yet so i don't get how it works, i know if my clone is destroyed i spawn in my home station but my home station is in some station in Caldari space so how do i move my clones to Dodixie and make Dodixie IX Moon 20 my home station.

Is there anything i should know about switching my home station or changing my clone location?

Any mistakes i could make and screw myself?

Help! lol.