EVE New Citizens Q&A

Yes plenty.

1.) Expect anybody around you that you don't know to be there to shoot you...99% of the times it's true.
2.) Null-sec rats are good paying but also a lot harder to fight then the high-sec rats. They come up to battleship size + elite rats. The positive site about it, there is only one type of rat in there (Providence only has Sansha rats) so you can tank accordingly and do their specific damage.
3.) Mining. Null-sec (specially the low true-sec) has better belts, so more profitable rocks in there. The point is that you need the ability to get it out.
4.) In SOV null-sec there is also the upgrades that a system can get in the I-hub that could make it a good place of ratting and/or mining.
5.) Be VERY careful with player owned stations. Some might deny the ability to dock or use station services. ALWAYS scout ahead in something cheap to see if you can use the station.

Might missed stuff that others will add (or I might do it in future posts).

EDIT:

I love the attitude of jumping into null-sec this early, more new players should do it. However most of your questions could be answered by a simple research by yourself and how to live, thrive and survive in null-sec.

Thanks for the advice and encouragement. I just found high-sec a bit boring.

D-scanner is something I never used or needed to use in high-sec. I guess I need to learn to use this pretty quickly. I was surprised to see rats at jump-gates. Is this normal for low/high-sec?

Can you get missions in Null-sec? I didn't think there were NPC stations in Null.

Not that I'll be doing much if any mining, but I presume a procurer would be preferred over a retriever for the extra tank? given the stronger rats to be found?

I have been invited to a CVA alliance corp so that's taken care of, and I'll be avoiding the HED system in future, as my last scouting run from high-sec to Providence via HED didn't end very well.

Don't warp directly from gate to gate (or from station to gate) if there is a hostile in local

Bookmark the hell out of space that you regularly use - 200Km pingspots off gates and stations, safespots, etc. Especially do this for those gates that are over 14AU away from any celestial. Get in an MWD/cloak fitted Frigate and spend a couple of hours doing this. Use a consistent bookmark naming system.

If you can't easily move your stuff (ie: you don't have a carrier or jumpfreighter), then don't accumulate more stuff into a player owned station than you can afford to write off.

Watch local.

Watch local.

Learn how bubbles work.

Learn how aggro rules work.

Stay aligned and at 2/3 speed unless you have a compelling reason not to

Don't give away information that you don't need people to know, even in corp chat and certainly not in alliance chat. Spies are a thing. Eg: Doing an escalation in hostile space with your blinged Machariel? Don't brag about it until your Mach and the X-type drop are both safely docked up.

All neutrals are just hostile alts. Or just hostile.

No rat is worth losing a ship for.

Neither are your drones; don't hang around waiting for them to saunter back to your drone bay when local spikes.

If you think something is wrong then it's a trap.

Have intel channel open all the time.

Keep a stash of consumables; cap booster charges, ammo, nanite paste

Keep a jump clone in hi-sec, or at the very least in NPC 0.0

If you're asked to join a fleet and you aren't clear on who the FC is, STAY DOCKED until you're confident that you and the rest of the fleet are sure who is. No matter what's going on outside, it's pointless to join an undirected mob; all you'll do is add to the size of the welp.

Yes in null-sec rats can appear anywhere, I've even seen them on stations.

Yes null-sec does have NPC stations, basically there 2 types of null-sec.

SOV null-sec. Space is controlled by player alliances, stations are players controlled.

NPC null-sec. Space is controlled by a minor NPC faction (Sansha Nation, Guristas, Thukker Tribe). Stations are normal NPC stations.

As for mining. Procurer isn't really much better then the retriever. What you more likely will see is MacKinaws and Hulks cause these are still kings of tanking vs yield.

^this + his next post. All completely true...

don't rat or mine in systems that belong to other people, your taking money away from them and they won't like it
**exception to above is if you get an escalation in your system that takes you to theirs, this is generally ok but be aware you are in someone elses back yard

avoid talking in local, if a blue waves or says hi the polite thing is to acknowledge them, but don't get chatty, a simple o/ will do.

use http://evemaps.dotlan.net/ to become familiar with your surroundings. printing out your region map as well as the surrounding regions is a good idea, make notes of the intersecting systems and all choke points.
Create an account and bookmark it in the in game browser, it has lots of very valuable features.

make undock and warp to zero bookmarks for all friendly stations

if you think you have enough safe spots, make more

If you think your bookmark locations are far enough away, add another 100km to them

if you have corp bookmarks available for gates and structures, make your own and avoid putting them close to or inline with the provided ones when possible. Use a safe spot that approaches from a different angle to make yours.

put your med clone in the station you will be living out of if at all possible and use the next closest station for your jump clone. A second jump clone in another station along with a scout ship and a combat ship ready to go is a good idea also.

make sure your clones are up to date

I totally agree, and I strongly urge more new players to make the leap. Low/Null isn't actually as scary it's made out to be. Yes, I got blown up and podded by a gatecamp on my first trip out to null-sec. But I learnt the lesson, and took a different route the next time.

It's a hell of a thrill when you do outwit a gatecamp.

I came back from a time in multiple SOV alliances (SOV is boring grinding + blob warfare mixed in with a lot of CTAs).
Let's just say, if you've been in null-sec/low-sec for a while, high-sec is really relaxing (you don't have to use your eagle eyes on intel+local+alliance+fleet+corp chat).

Like to go back in null-sec but under other circumstances and when RL is going more quiet. Both of these things won't happen soon™ so till that time, some relax time in high-sec.

On the bolded part: They will know, as soon as you jump into null-sec, expect your name to be linked in at least 2 or 3 different intel channels if there is someone else with you in system.

This is a very elementary question, but they say you will revert back to your childhood when you get elderly.

While setting up bookmarks and looking at a current system, it shows the orbit of celestial objects.

Do the planets, moons and gates actually "orbit" or do they just remain stationary for all eternity?

For if they did orbit, your bookmarks would eventually get better (ie, even more isolated) or worse (ie end up at a POS).