EVE New Citizens Q&A

Greetings

So the ride has been fun so far.

I'm enjoying the game and I am becoming more and more impressed by the community and the interaction CCP gives. Dev's flying into their own game with "come at me bro" on their foreheads? When was the last time you heard that??

Anyway, just a casual gamer question. If you only had 1 hour to play EVE in a single sitting, what would you do? What's a satisfying way to play that still allows you to walk away content after an hour?

Also, are there any skills that allow you to bring your assets from one station to another?

Thanks again for being awesome

Veda

1h...station spinning of course....


And yes there is a skill, it's called "racial ship skill" and fly them over.

There is NO way other then transport stuff over to get them from A to B. It's either pack stuff in a big ship and haul them, move them seperately 1 by 1 or let someone else move them. Either way, it has to be moved by flying out in space.

Like in real life, you can't just teleport stuff from A to B, you have to bring them there yourself or let someone else do it.

EDIT:

Compared to your other threads, Veda I'm a bit disappointed in this question.

Still much to learn. Thankfully, your answers never disappoint :)

This thread came from 2 points.

1. Seeing skills like Procurment and wondering about moving items too. I understand that having to move items is part of the game. After all, you can always intercept someone travelling between stations. Was just wondering.

2. My playtime can be limited at best and I'm just trying to find a way to play that won't feel worthless. I really appreciate not having to 'grind levels' like I've done before and I'm working on how to approach the game better.

Veda

Well back before ccp decided to remove drop in enjoyment from the game i would have gone can flipping or suicide ganking. Now i will probably just suicide solo bs into camps.

I'd run a few missions in High Sec space or grab an inexpensive, fast ship and do some exploring in Low Sec space.

The nice thing about EVE is that you can find a starbase to log out just about everywhere in High and Low Sec space, which means that you can make almost anywhere your home away from home. Grab up some ammo and/or drone, grab your favorite ship, and drop off your supplies in a starbase before you go out missioning or exploring.

An hour? I have this a lot due to Outside Stuff, so when this happens I tend to try to run down an exploration site.

Most of the time I don't find a worthwhile site, but I give it a go nonetheless.

Good luck out there whatever you may choose.

- Myfanwy

Small-Gang/solo PvP can be done in an hour or so. The main thing that slows you down is actually getting your fleet together.

If you're talking one _scheduled_ hour, in advance, just having a few buddies set their schedules to the same time will give you an automatic small fleet and you can just go out into low security space and start a fight with whomever you find.

If you're talking less scheduled, join FW or RvB, you can get a small fleet together in a relatively short time-period comparatively, and in the case of FW the combat is focused around specific capture points with ship size restrictions, so you can pick your fleet's ship size and find a fight pretty quickly, or use missions to seed a fight.


Additionally, there are several PvE activities which can be done in less than an hour's sitting:
-- Mining, of course, has no real time requirement, you can zip out, do some, then zip back when you need to go.
-- Missions of L3 or lower can almost always be completed in less than an hour.
--Trading similarly has no minimum time dedication, same with manufacturing/research, really
-- Log in, see your friends, chat for an hour while doing chores like moving stuff around, cleaning inventory, checking buy orders, etc. More entertaining than it sounds if you're big into RPG elements.
-- Moving your stuff from place to place (see below)

Things that you probably shouldn't do if you only have one hour:
-- Large-fleet PvP/nullsec sovereignty fights. These can take more than an hour to even get a fleet together
-- L4 missions. Most can be done in an hour if you're good, but if you pull one that can't and you've only got an hour in a week you'll take a reputation hit for not finishing it.
-- Exploration in w-space or, really, anywhere buy high-security space. Even in high-sec, the sparseness of sites can mean you'll go an hour without finding anything good pretty frequently. Additionally, if you have to log out while doing something in w-space you may end up lost for quite a while. NOTE: if you just find exploration relaxing and don't really care if you get anything out of it, this doesn't apply. It IS pretty zen rock garden at the moment.

Moving your stuff around:
-- There is no skill/module that lets you automatically move stuff from station to station, having to do it manually is part of the risk/reward mechanic that underlies most of the game. If people didn't have to fly their stuff around, other people wouldn't be able to steal it.
-- Delivery contracts allow you to pay another player to move stuff for you. Put it in a secure container first, so they can't see what it is, and offer to pay some significant fraction of its value or supposed value or the delivery guy might skip out on the contract and steal it.
-- There is an entire ship tree, Industrials, dedicated to letting you move more of your crap in one go (basic industrials, capital industrial ships, jump barges), moving your crap more securely (occipator and co.), and moving your crap secretly (velator and co.). The highest cargo bays for the tech 1 industrials are the gallente iteron series, but if you push the skills high enough you'll have plenty of room for anything non-ship-sized, or even enough to move medium/large ships on a regular basis if you go all the way to the capital boats.
-- Generally, maxing navigation skills and learning how ship movement and warping works will help you move your stuff faster and/or with less annoyance. As a new player you can probably take your iteron 1, dump all your crap in it, and just hit autopilot, but as you get older and have more valuable stuff people are more likely to want to take it and that's decreasingly viable.
-- There's always the option of selling all your stuff, moving to the new station, and buying new stuff.

#2 I remember when I first started playing... being obsessed with keeping all of my ships/mods/stuff together in one home station. Wondering and taking the time to move it. You will get over it quick. My stuff is scattered all over the place. Someday I may even get access to my old 0.0 homes to move some of the junk out.

Conar 07

PvP is the only worthwhile thing in EVE anyway. You can definitely do a fair amount of it solo and in small gangs if you live in a region where there is a lot of action. Try NPC nullsec. Or do RvB, that is definitely a good option for people with limited game time and odd hours.

As for your assets, pretty soon you will accept that they will be scattered across the universe and give up trying to mange them.

I'd hop into a mining ship and visit a nearby asteroid field, while updating my PI stuff, market orders, production lines, research, etc. etc..

If I still had time (while still mining of course) I'd study/copy buy&sell orders and it's history details of some of the items I am interested in. I have this big & ugly spreadsheet slowly getting filled up this way..

Otherwise, I'd mine and lurk about the forums.. (occasionally tagging names and faces.. or whole corporations/alliances).

Did I mention that I just mine for an hour?