EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I recently started playing a day or so ago, ran some missions, did some mining, I enjoyed it all. Today, however, I was in the mood for something a little more exciting and decided to make up my own mission. I decided - mostly as a challenge - to see how far in space I could get before getting killed.

Now, I understood that this mission would entail losing a ship, so I created an alt just for this purpose. Random character, free starter ship, no real loss. I can say I was pretty excited and a little paranoid for the first 15 jumps, especially as I left highsec and went into lowsec, as I was told people are usually waiting at the gates to gank incoming ships. "Bring it on!" I thought, that was my mission.

Anyway after about 40 jumps with little sign of life, most in low and nullsec, I was getting rather bored. I was told that Delve space was very hostile and could head there. I Well after about an hour of bouncing around Delve space with no excitement I docked at some random corporation's station and logged off. Maybe tomorrows trip back to highsec will be more exciting.

Although I didn't actually complete my mission and it was rather boring, I did at least learn how to fly a route without using autopilot. I also saw some player wreckage and several warp field disruptor bubbles, and flew through each one just to see what would happen.

So, is nullsec normally this boring?

Not particularly. I've been told you can't make it through lowsec gates due to gate camping, and was pretty much challenged to see for myself. I was just expecting a bit more hostility. It's all for fun anyway.

Flying randomly through 0.0 and lowsec in a rookie ship is like the worst thing you can do if you want to see some action.

Not to mention the current war in Delve, that might be concentrating most nullsec players in this region these days.

I did a trip to low/null in my early days, hardly saw anyone in low, but the second jump in null I ended in a warp bubble and got podded back to highsec. Further visits in low were just similar, hardly any life sighting. Only time I got in null since, was when we had a K162 to NC sov space, but the nearby systems were mostly empty.

I recently auto piloted through 49 jumps in nullsec and came across a total of less than 20 people in local. It's said that only about 15% of eves population live in nullsec. The vast majority live in highsec.

There's plenty of valid reasons for this, but that just means nullsec is very empty. If you can sneak a ratting ship out there, you could make some decent money.

Those tech II wrecks floating in space are pretty damn valuable.

Next time you head out there bring salvagers a mwd and cloak.

See what you come out of null sec with next time.

BANK.

The threat of gatecamps is fairly overrated and I'm pretty sure is merely an excuse made by those with an irrationally high sense of risk aversion.

So you can dock in null? Thanks, I didn't know that either. I spent a while trying to find a place to dock and figured Maybe it just want allowed in /0

That depends.

NPC owned station = Dockable

Player owned outpost = Depends if the owner lets you dock.

It depends on which alliance owns the station. Most alliances who own the local station(s) can deny access to non alliance members. If the station is owned by NPCs then anyone and everyone can dock.

Most of those 49 jumps did not have a station in the system. They're expensive to set up and can be taken over by an opposing player force. It's often easier and cheaper to take someone else's station than pay for one themselves.