EVE New Citizens Q&A

Embarrassing story out of the way first, so veterans can have a laugh call me noob. :)

I resubbed a month ago. Even if my character is a bit old I am still really noobish player. My first career was mining and then mission. Today I had some sort of unlucky stupid streak. Went in to mission "World collides" with my usual nightmare sniper setup. Did that mission a lot of times already with no issues. Well this time I got scrammed and webbed in second room. For the love of god I could not find that damn scram friggit it overview. So pop goes my ship. So I do next smart thing and bring my Navy apocalypse which I never used in this mission. Clean up second room, loot whatever left over from nightmare and decide to finish mission while I am here... Yup.... Same story in room 3. I did that mission so many times and this time everything that could go wrong, did.
Needles to say after this I went straight for a cigarette. Though when I came back, I realised it was time for me to do what I actually wanted to do in eve. I was training for exploration and cloaking for a while so I could finally get out off high sec for the first time. I always had an excuse to not do it. Yup, I was just too comfortable in high sec, just doing same level 4 missions over and over. Mindless grind, but safe...

My next step was go to Jita, buy 7 Magnate and 7 sets of fits. Then moved it all to location near low sec I had my eye on. Unpack. Final step: YOLO!!!
By the end of the playing session I managed to scan down some relic and data sites, learned mwd + cloack trick, learned to run away and see threats and most important - I am not that afraid of wilderness anymore!!! I managed to make 16mil in loot with a ship that costed less then 2 mil hehe( would have been a lot more profit, but my skills suck and at least half of containers exploded on me :( ) . On top of that I had way more fun while pooping myself in safe spots, while dude in hurricane camping me in a pocket system, then when I was flying battleship shooting npcs.

I know I made tiny money from my first venture in low sec, but I had a lot of fun and I have a lot more love to small cheap ships now. I still got plenty of isk left over even after my loss, I could buy at least 30 Asteros fully kitted, but I find a lot more fun now in making a lot more isk from something that costs less then a pint in a pub. :D

So now more training for exploration, more ventures to low sec and I finally will start looking for proper low sec or null sec Corp. :)

P.s. Yes, I know, I am an idiot, but at least something good came out of it. :)

Meh, no need to google. All the info you need is right here in this thread.

Step 1) click that link ^^
Step 2) click a link in the thread I linked, read it, learn it, love it
Step 3) repeat this process, read them all
Step 4) ??? happy feelings ???
Step 5) profit
Step 6) guide someone else to that thread.

The "ah ha" moment, you just had it. Welcome to the real EVE, step outside your comfort zone and suddenly the game stops being a boring grind. You might even become a filthy PVPer at some point *gasp*.

Cheers for that tip! I knew there should be something like this, but I could not find it hehe.


And cheers for good word lads, I was expecting a lot more slagging, but I guess not too many Irish lads here. :D


I still need to do few more things. Main thing will be to make an overview which would show up only player ships in D-scan. The stock PVP one shows way too much crap like Stations, gates, towers etc. I found that menu before, but I lost it...
Finding corp that lives and controls low or null sec area. I want to focus on exploration in dangerous areas, but being close to PVP would get me in to real action.
The other thing - getting 1440p monitor is back on priority list. I need a lot of stuff on screen, so extra space is not just handy, but vital!

As mentioned above, getting out of your comfort zone is the most important thing. The longer you stay in it, the harder is to get out of it. Funny enough yesterday I had the longest session of actual playing since I started eve. Lately I would just join for half an hour do some misisons and then do something else. I played a few hours straight yesterday!

You can lock the ship that is pointing/webbing you by holding control and clicking the little notification that appears above your capacitor when you are scrammed/webbed.

No one is going to slag you off for realising that there is more to Eve than missions and then venturing into the barren wastelands of the unknown.

If you enjoy exploration you may want to look into wormholes, spelunking is quite fun if you catch the occupants asleep or with only a couple online and preferably AFK.

The gas sites are good money even with a Venture or Prospect (cloaky is good) and the WH sites in a C1 or C2 are soloable in a cheap BC, it's been a while since I did WH's but I believe there's now relic sites in them too.

There's a couple of Irish players that I know of, one of them often posts in this subforum; he'll probably be along later.

Great story!

In missions I make the overview a lot wider so I can see where the ewar is coming from.

The good news is , you are doing it right.

The bad news is that your hooked for another 10+years .

I haven't done exploration in recent year but here's my two cents for what it's worth. If your scanning skills are poor it usually just takes you longer or getting more / better stuff and keep trying until you get it. If your hacking skills are poor then your loot goes bye bye. So to me hacking and archaeology are more important than scanning skills. Also keep in mind that the containers with better loot tend to be more difficult to hack so with poor skills you are cutting yourself out of the better loot.

Yes it's true that the better sites are also harder to scan but like I already stated you can always go get faction probes or rigs or implants and try again until you get it. Of course the faster you can scan sites down the more you can do so that figures in. I guess it's all just preference.

Also don't forget about: modules, rigs, implants and faction ammo that can help with both scanning and hacking. The sister's launchers are probably too expensive to take into wormholes but the sister's probes are cheapish. The rigs and mods are affordable iirc.

Enjoy your new life in low sec.

A small tip, if you ever decide to go back to those missions because of a momentary brain lapse due to the nostalgia flu bug fit a better tank that way being webbed and scammed simply does not matter you just tank your way through it.