EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I just started playing last week, and I've basically just been mining in and around my starting system (Clellion, 0.8). All of my items and ships are in the Centre for Advanced Studies station, and I'm starting to want to move to another system, in lower sec with fewer people, so every asteroid belt I go to isn't mined out and I can mine some better minerals using anchoring and secure containers. So how do I find a decent system? Also how do I move all of my ships there? At the moment I'm just looking to do some mining and production, and I'll start PVPing when I get some skills up.

Sorry if these are stupid questions.

This is all true, but I just wanted to also note that if you can't fit the ships in one ship it is perfectly fine to fly a shuttle or pod back as you drop each ship off in its new destination.

(edit: I forgot how small iteron I is)

Cruisers are usually 10,000 m3 when repackaged, frigates are smaller. You probably can't fit 10,000 m3 item into Iteron Mark I, but others should not be problem.

Also when repackaging ships you will lose any rigs they have, so if you have expensive rigs it might be better to not repackage them, and just fly rigged ships one by one, or make courier contract for someone else to move them with bigger ship.

Non-repackaged cruisers take around 100,000 m3 space, and courier companies like Push Industries will move upto 900,000 m3 cargo at once. For Push Industries fee will be 400,000 ISK per jump on highsec.

As final option, you could consider leaving some ships behind and come to get them later if you need them. You can allways use Assets-button to show everything you have everywhere, so you don't need to worry about forgetting where you left them. However this also depends on how you like to play - do you mind having stuff scattered all over the galaxy, or do you want to keep Assets tidy and everything at one or few places.

You could ask if your corp offers cheap/free courier service for members.

Also it is possible to just sell the ships if you think it is not worth the efford to get them moved.

You could always just return to your old station and pick up the cruisers after you get the skills to fly them.

I must say, though, getting to cruisers in your first week is kind of overreaching. I flew a destroyer for about a month before I ever picked up my first cruiser.

Why the hell you choose Caldari cruisers when you fly Gallente ships?

To be honest, when you want to relocate to another station, just sell the ships you aren't using actively right now - or melt (refine) them and sell the minerals. Get in the habit early of not having sentimental value attached to a ship. You're going to lose pretty much all of them, either due to obsolescence or explosions, eventually. :)

Keep in mind if you've insured a ship, you'll lose the insurance when you repackage it, whether to transport or to sell. Depending on the ship, this can be a significant loss. But ask yourself whether you will really fly that ship much between now and when the insurance expires. Insurance already spent is a sunk cost that you can't recover, so if you're not going to be flying that ship, just liquidate it. You can always buy another one later, and in the meantime you can put that ISK to better use.

You can transport ships one-by-one by using your pod (or a shuttle, or a noobship) for the return flight. This gets old quickly if you're moving many ships a long distance.

There's no benefit in having umpteen different ship hulls in one location. You're much better off picking a small selection of ships for a particular purpose and keeping them on hand. There's also no reason you can't leave ships strewn across the galaxy, ready for use at your convenience. Ideally you'll have several bases of operation as you grow, each base with a purpose and a selection of ships on hand which meet that purpose.

First, I completely forgot I was Gallente for a second, and second they just looked a lot better than the other ships.

The far easiest/cheapest way is this:

Load up your Industrial with your items+a few Shuttles.

When at the new station, dump everything there and take one of the Shuttles back to your ships.

Once you arrive, you either sell the Shuttle or reprocess it into Tritanium and sell that.

Jump into a ship and fly it to the new station.

Rinse and repeat.