EVE New Citizens Q&A

First of all, you don't need a miner on your ship to attract NPC rats in asteroid belts, they just spawn inside them from time to time.

As for your question, each ship has it's designed "purpose" (it isn't fixed though), what ship you want to use is up to what you want to do. For instance a battleship inside a level 1 mission will not work very effective because it will have a hard time to shoot at the frigates in there.

As for safety, everywhere in high-sec (1.0 - 0.5 sec status) you are "safe" against other players. I say safe between brackets as the only real safe place in EVE is being docked in a station. Whenever you undock, you interact with other players and CAN be shot down. Being in high-sec means the aggressor will be punished if he shoots you without a valid reason, but like the normal Police, CONCORD can show up too late to safe your ship. If you go to 0.4 or lower systems there are other rules, anything between 0.1 and 0.4 is considered low-sec, means there is no CONCORD to punish offenders, but there are guns on stations and gates that shoot people who did an aggression act without reason. Both in high-sec and low-sec the aggressor also gets a GCC (Global Criminal Countdown) of 15min which means he is open season for all players.

If you even move lower (0.0 / Wormholes) there are no rules and safety features build in, anything goes in there and usually the controlling player alliance makes the rules.

Scanning down Grav signatures are only profitable is you want to mine, as they are mining sites.
What ever is most profitable depends on what you like to do, and also how the market is situated in EVE. Due to all stuff being player runned (and soon even more with the loot-drop / drone changes) the market is ever shifting.

One of the most stable forms of income will be missions and high-sec mining as they are low-risk activities. There are off course better paying things around, but like most things in EVE, better paying also means higher risks.

Please point me to the directions where you saw gate/station guns in null-sec as the list will be as short as non existing.

At 0.1 the builders of station/gate guns stopped as they were to affraid to build them in null-sec

Generic Salvage tips:

"Most people here who used to salvage there missions will tell you before the incursion expansion every one used destroyers as salvage boats. With small salvage tackle rigs a bunch of salvagers and tractor beams, a prop mod and cargo expanders. So you using a thrasher isn't going to set you back much, its just the Noctis is a big convenience.

The noctis isnt the be all end all of salvaging though. If people dont give you salvage locations you can probe down mission runners and salvage there wrecks during or after they run a mission site. Thats called ninja salvaging. A thrasher/frigate is much more agile and can get in and out faster something the noctis isnt as good as.

If you want big money for a little bit of risk you can attempt Clandestine salvaging. Thats where you use the star map to locate where major battles have taken place in low and null sec, and you run out to the location in a fast expendable ship(preferably cloaky) and salvage tech II ship wrecks(you will need a tech II salvager to do that). Tech II salvage makes tech II rigs and is in short supply so its really valuable.

The star map can show you all these details but something slightly more user friendly is
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/
Which can show you where huge amounts of ships have died in the past 48hrs and the number of npc pirate ships killed in systems."

I have a question regarding etiquette for salvaging wrecks. Obviously, if someone abandons a wreck (so it shows up blue) then it's fine to salvage.

I assume if wrecks are yellow, it is considered rude to salvage them. For example, pop into an asteroid belt and see 5 yellow wrecks around a ship that's mining, it's rude to salvage them without at least asking.

What if you pop into an asteroid belt with yellow wrecks but no one is around? Is it "rude" to salvage them? I know it's perfectly legal to do so (i.e., Concord won't care), I'm just curious as a new player.

It's allowed by the game mechanics to salvage any wreck. Keep in mind this is salvaging it with the salvager module, take in stuff from a wreck (looting) is considered stealing and the owner of the wreck may defend his property if you steal from it.

There's no ownership on wrecks anyway, only the cargo loot, no matter the color you won't be concordokken for salvaging a wreck. How the mission runner who popped the NPC reacts to you salvaging the wreck is another matter, though.

Best for salvaging is - noctis. Use it.

You can even join in some "free wrecks" chat channel and clean up behind missioners, many ppl will gladly let you.

As for losing a ship in hisec, let me tell you - noone is proactively after your 2M isk in cargo indy...
If you go to low -> prepare to be popped by first neut that catches you.

Last and most important -> doont fly something u cant afford to lose. Itll just make you rage quit once you actually lose it...

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I would like to point out that this is Eve and "rude" is new "polite" considering amount of usual grief newbies and shiny ship loverz have to put up with.

Also you should play as you seem fit: want to be polite then ask, want to feel da thrill take what you want and watch out for any sign of hostile reaction.

Of course you have to learn and know what will cause Concord or faction ships/gunz involved and what won't but once you get a grip on that play for thrills, that's how you will keep your Eve love fire burning.

You start risking your ship the moment you undock anywhere in Eve. 0.5 is the lowest security concord will still protect you in, but that doesn't mean someone couldn't kill you anyway.