EVE General Discussion

Go in blind, it's lots of fun.

Then why are you going to null at all?

You're going to lose both, if not instantly, then certainly later on.

nullsec mini-guide #1:

First, have at least one jump clone.

Open the map, color stars by My Available Agents, and look for pirate agents at the fringes of space. You'll find NPC nullsec around them - places like Venal and Stain (separated from empire by sov null), places like Curse and Syndicate and Delve (adjacent to empire). There are more.

You don't need the locals to actually like you, since ratting them is worthwhile too, but if you do want them to like you then you'll probably want Social V and Diplomacy V to help the grind (you can't do any missions above L1 without faction standing > -2), and you can also pick pirates that hate you relatively less. There are pirate epic arcs that can turn your empire faction standing into standing boosts towards Angel Cartel or the Guristas.

Once you've picked NPC null to go to, open the map again and color stars by average pilots in space in the last 30 minutes. Plot a route that avoids really obvious gatecamps, study it a bit, don't be too horrified at really high numbers of jumps between your empire staging and your nullsec destination, and fly out there in a covops if you have one or a fleet interceptor if you don't.

Fly out there in this manner: jump into a system, if there's nobody at the gate then burn at least 150km off it and set a bookmark (this scheme may be worth copying). If there is even one person in the system with you (or if it's a long warp even if there's nobody in the system), then get a scan on the next gate before warping to it. If it's clean, warp to it at 100km and burn off to set another bookmark. Bookmarking is tedious; the reward is when you ever go back or ever come this away again. (And since really obvious gate camps aren't that mobile, the route you come up with will probably be the route you want in the near future, as well.) Ways to get a scan on the gate before landing on grid: open up the solar system map and pick a celestial near the gate; use cap dumping to warp short of the gate.

If the gate isn't clean, or if you jump into a camp, use your own judgement. I've burned back, I've warped out cleanly, I've warped to a safe in the direction of a gate and then warped right back after they 'followed' me, I've overheated my MWD and burned out of a sabre's bubble, I've changed my route to avoid a direct and possibly camped path. But don't feel too bad if you die, even if you die in a really stupid non-pvp interceptor fit. All interactions with the enemy are learning experiences.

Once you're in NPC null, congratulations! Move your medical clone. If you want to bring in more jump clones (jumping to another point in a region is a fair way to avoid a nasty situation for a bit), then jump out and use your bookmarks to get back. Ways to reinforce your NPC null forward operating base include

1. http://black-frog.red-frog.org/jumps.php

2. Scanning down wormholes, jumping into them, scanning down five hundred Ladar sites and finally more wormholes, jumping into lowsec 8 jumps from Jita.

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nullsec mini guide #2:

1. Be in a player corporation.

2. Go to KBP7-G, confirm that you're not red.

3. Move in.

Providence has a ton of stations that are available to you, you can use the KOS checker to kill other people in Provi without running afoul of the law, you can base in Provi and fly out of it.

I've never tried this, but I docked in KBP7-G one time, set my medical clone there, and then podded off a gate while setting bookmarks for being red. So ask in local first. There's some some political channel you can join, a website, and other bother.

If you're going to be a Johnny no mates, you may as well be one with a bomb launcher.

Step one is to overcome the fear of losing ships and pods. If you ever make it into 0.0 and are still risk averse you will probably never leave the home system because "what if there are baddies on the other side of the gate?" This would turn living in 0.0 the equivalent of living on one of those open prisons in the middle of a desert.

Your gonna die alot, embrace it.

1 bomb is worthless.

7 bombs is dangerous.

See this is the problem, people just dont want to die

Just one reason I'll never be able to go to Nulsec, I won't hand out my full Api again.

All of the rest of this is sound advice though. /thumbsup

I recommended coming to Catch, we have cupcakes and fresh cookies.