EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello all :)

New to EvE, have really enjoyed the Exploration Agent missions at the start of the trial and want to advance this to get going in EvE. Having finished i now have the Probe.

I have read lots of guides and am finding the 3D puzzles that are Astrometrics good fun!! I have a good idea on skills to queue and where to aim in future from other guides, but i have a few questions about ships....

For high-sec stuff to start will i need 2 ships? One to scan/probe and bookmark, and one to kill and collect?? or can i get away with one to do it all?? Would prefer one ship but advice is advice. Are there specific sites that need either option? For example would salvage/archaeology need 2 ships or get away with doing it in 1??

I plan on doing the tutorial Agent missions for the few other "careers" i still have to do, so getting my Astrometric skills up in the meantime. Aside from the Astro skills that will follow once i get to Astrometrics 4, It will be the Covert Ops/Cloak skills and the skill i forget for the grav capacitors?

Thanks for reading if you got this far!!! Quite a few questions really but this game is HUGE!!!!!!!!

You can do it all with one ship, but if your just starting off, it will be difficult. To be honest your best bet is to find a group that operates in Wormholes to help you out.

Thanks for the replies :)

I am guessing a BC will let me fit the probe launcher, some weaponry and any analyzers etc i need? So i can probe/scan, kill any pesky npc's and then collect any goodies? Any advice on a good Minmatar BC?

Thanks Phantom,

This gives me ideas to head towards. I tried just flying off to a random system ( was only 0.9 i think) and found a hostile camp. Thought i would check it out....... oops....... 2 seconds later my ship became a shuttle!!!!!! Oh well.... live and learn haha.

Would definitely prefer a 1-ship-can-do-it-all approach for starters, although i will be avoiding any hostile camps i find for the forseeable future!!!!!!!!

I have my merlin and one thing i found is i couldnt have all my gear online at the same time. but it works fine.
I go in, blow everything up, and i have a miner 1 or salvager 1 offline. then once the fight is over i put my shield booster ofline and wait a min for the power to come back up to 75% and go to work.
WHen i scan i have the probe launcher but i park my ship near the staion, thn its just a quick dock to take off the probe launcher, since i can bookmark all the sites I found. ive found my merlin is working for everything i need, from exploring to ratting to missions, but then agian i haven't moved up into more demanding missions yet. going from a bantam to a merlin was so epic, nothing like clickng a pirate and cackling as you wait for them to get into range and they go BOOM before they even scratch me.

Exploration is a great career and one of the more fun ones imo, especially if you like the spatial minigame of probing. Here's a few guidelines that will help you out, since it can be very hard (and expensive when you die repeatedly) to figure out the basics by trial and error.

1. Exploration is a combat career. If you can't kill the baddies you find in a site, you can't exploit the site either. This is especially true when you get into the lower sec spaces with harder sites.
2. The sites you mostly want are magnetometric and radar. Grav sites are valuable to miners and you might be able to sell bookmarks to them.
3. Mag and radar sites despawn within a couple minutes of leaving the grid if you have interacted with any of the spawn containers. Kill everything first, THEN open your cans in case you have to warp out. Alternately, before engaging, use a MWD and make an on-grid bookmark 200km from the center of the site. This gives you a point to warp to in emergencies (or if you need to cloak up, if in hostile space) without despawning the site.
4. Mag and Radar sites respawn instantly at a random location within the same region. This means there are always sites out there to find, and it also means they tend to collect in the lowest traffic areas of a given region. Use your f10 map to see where the fewest pilots are and work those constellations.
5. All in one ships are not only possible, but very convenient and will increase the amount you can do in a certain amount of time. They are skill intensive though. Drone boats make the best ones, since you can rely on drones for killing and leave your ship fitting free for tank and the probe/salvage modules you need. Vexor and Arbitrator are good entries, Myrmidon is a great step up, and the Ishtar is simply amazing. Pilgrim is a good cloaky option for lowsec, but not 0.0 because it's tank isn't strong enough. The king of all-in-one ships are tech 3 cruisers, so you definately want to skill toward one them.

I used to do this in nullsec in a myrmidon and eventually a legion. My record was 150m from a single site, although average was closer to 50-70m. Have at it and enjoy.