EVE New Citizens Q&A

Just leave them there. Come back and get them as you lose others.

You better get used to "stuff lying around" or you will have mental breakdown later on

courier contract it. by freight standards 45k m3 aint too much. Also don't forget to set collateral, I typically go 150-200% to motivate them to make sure it gets delivered. and if it doesn't you get a payday.

I'm interested in PvP so the advice I was given was to use them to get used to being blown up. I've insured them and tried to fit them with some of the free fittings and a few that I have selected based on looking at zkillboard, and am flying them to lowsec. Even the Ventures might yield a bit of ore before someone kills me! (And they were all free anyway)

Thans, ergher. I know that as a whole I'm being petty, but at -this- point of the game I'm wanting to lever what few resources to their maximum utility.

Once I'm well-footed enough to buy ships and fits by the dozen and expend them like ammunition, then I won't feel so bad about leaving stuff lying around.

One thing I didn't want to do, though, was leave stuff in a newbie station of all things. Rite-of-passage mentality, I suppose.

I was not trying to call you petty. I was just trying to prepare you for the insanely vast amount of stuff you will eventually be managing in this game.

I came to this game from WoW where we had very strict limits on how much stuff we could have. Every storage slot was limited as to how many items I could hold. In that game I had alts known as bank alts that were created just to store stuff.

So when I came to Eve, I initially was micro-managing my stuff. I'd go out and run a few missions and then come back and want to sort through my stuff and figure out what was worth keeping and what was worth selling. WoW had me hyper focused on "gear" and the sorting and managing of "stuff".

In Eve you will have mind-bogglingly vast quantities of stuff and eventually you'll develop methods of rapidly sorting or some other method of dealing with it. For now I just wanted to prepare you for it.

The way that I eventually wound up looking at Eve was that I took each task on it's own and evaluated it for how much time that I spent doing it and how much isk that it would net me per time frame. So if I am spending hours managing my stuff for less isk than I could make if I was doing something else then that task was not worth it isk wise.

I would use that information to help make decisions but the information alone would not be the decision maker. For example, long ago I figured out that looting and salvaging was not worth for me isk wise I could make more isk by just running more missions or more anoms or whatever I was doing. However I am a loot whore and I enjoyed looting and salvaging my deadspace pockets. I also enjoyed melting loot into minerals and building stuff with it. So I still loot to this day because I enjoy it.

So you will have to come up with your own playstyle. You will have to figure out which parts of the game you enjoy and which you don't and make your isk doing what you like while leaving to others what you don't.

You are not the only person to wind up with unwanted excess ships in rookie systems.

I place regionwide buy orders on Catalysts (Gallente destroyers that are popular with gankers) and many of them get filled in rookie systems. When I have a hundred or two, I get a useful idiot (courier contractor) to move them for me, or sell them locally.

You can sell them where they are and just accept a 35-45% haircut on fair market value, or you can expend the effort to move them and get 100%.

Over time you will wind up with assets everywhere. I presently have assets in 66 different NPC stations, plus assets in 2 player-owned citadels that are not mine, plus assets in my engineering complex and also in my player owned starbase.

My alt characters have less than this character but probably combined can add assets in another 20 stations.

That said my serious assets are all split between 6 locations - about 150 billion in assets in the Jita trade hub, and smaller amounts in the Dodixie trade hub, my POS, a station in that POS's system, my Engineering Complex, and finally a station in that EC's system.

It's good to keep fitted ships in strategic locations, once you can afford to. I have a logistics cruiser (think 'healing ship') in a place that me and friends often stage fleets out of. It is fitted, rigged, and good to go. As a newbie a logisitcs cruiser might not be something you can afford to lose, but a tech 1 support cruiser or tech 1 support frigate are always welcome and can be acquired fully fitted for 14m/2m respectively.

In a short period of time you will be able to treat that as a consumable.