EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi All


I am a few months in to Eve and enjoying what it has to offer apart from the removal of the jukebox ( .I Hit a brick wall with EVE a few weeks ago and almost quit but think i am over that now .Enjoying the PVE and Industry trade etc, In time i will explore and join a corp and PVP .I have done allot of reading and learning and the tutorial helped up to a point then it throws you off the cliff )) I Would be grateful for some help with the below questions as i dont think i can do any more reading my brain is set to explode ))


Q1 Why cant i do the research and development NPC missions ? The agent tells me i dont have the intelligence to do them.How do i get the skills i need to do them


Q2 How do i sell and set a price for a product i make and advertise them on the market place ? what are the requirements


Q3 My current clone covers two million skill points i will soon pass the value of my clone .I want to make a new clone but i cant seem to find the option in the station to do this its seems to have gone ?


Q4 I want to make a jump clone before i explore . I read that you have to have a standing above 7.0 with a a station are corp before you can do this .So is it a case that i have to run lots of missions for a corp and on get a high standing then the jump clone option will appear ?


Q5 Is there market monopoly's in EVE ? I started in Galante space and was looking to buy some rockets .I noticed the only place that was selling them within 10 jumps was Dodixie moon and the price was inflated by almost 200%.Now that set me thinking why is no one producing them and why is there so little market competition on the price of rockets in this area ?


Q6 What blueprint would you recommend for a new player to invest in for under two hundred million isk , were is the profit to be had?


I dont expect some one to answer all these question but i be grateful for feed back on one are two of them


Thank you )

Right click on an item you wish to sell... It will first try to sell that item to the highest buy order. Don't do that. Instead, hit the "advanced" button, and the popup window will change to a screen that allows you to place a Sell order at any price you desire. Included in the window are options for price, duration of the order, etc, etc, etc... Realize there are brokers fees in addition to sales taxes to setup a sell order.



You need to find a station with a medical bay.... Not all stations have them... and the icon that identifies it is a Hospital Cross. When in a station with a med facility, click on the cross and a window pops up. One window is for installing Jump clones (probably not for you yet), and the other allows you to upgrade your clone and change which station your clone's "home base" is at. The home base is where you spawn when someone destroys your pod. It's important to upgrade your clone to cover ALL skillpoints before someone destroys your pod, because if you get your pod killed and you have an insufficient clone, you lose skillpoints.



This is one option.... Other options include:
Player controlled outposts in Nullsec have Med Facilities that are Player Controlled. If you travel to one of those stations, and they allow you to use them (they can deny you access to even dock, let alone use the facilities), then you can install a JC without needing to grind standings.

Alternatively, some ships (titans and Rorquals) also have Med Clone Bays that can be used to create JC's.

Finally, there are some "Free JC Corps" that allow you to join the corp for a day. Those corps usually have very high standings with NPC's alread, so you can then go install a JC in the corresponding NPC stations. In short, you don't necessarily need personal standings if your Corp has high enough standings.




You can buy and sell goods from any station. Traders tend to self-locate to "market hubs". These are generally heavily trafficked stations that enable traders to move goods quickly. Sometimes people do market manipulations to inflate prices, sometimes you find people selling low to liquidate their assets. Most goods are Player made, player harvested, player transported, and player bought/sold. As such, it's like a real world market... You can travel to the discount superstore on the edge of town to get cheaper prices, or you can go to the convenience store near your home and pay more but travel less....



I recommend starting with Rigs.... Rigs are easy to Research up, not too expensive to produce, and provide a decent income.

For T2 Production, I recommend starting with Ammo...

Be sure to research your item prior to investing... not all rigs / ammos are profitable, but some are very productive...

R&D Agents pay out in RP Points which are redeemed for Datacores.... Each Research Agent has only a few "areas" of research. These are science skills, typically run 10 m / skill, and the level of the agent coupled with your character's skill level in the skill influence how many RP points you accrue per day. I'm pretty sure, you have to "start research" with an agent before you can run missions for them. Then, they give you a maximum one mission per day which, if you run it, effectively doubles the RP you earn from that agent in that day.

R&D agents used to prove a significant source of passive income, because, when you "start research" with an R&D agent, you earn RP points every day without even needing to talk to that agent. However, several game changes (like adding datacores to the FW LP stores) have substantial reduced the market value of datacores, resulting in a significant nerf to the passive income from R&D agents... At the same point in time, it's still a form of passive income and every little bit helps.

FYI: If you are getting involved in Industry, I also recommend taking a look at Planetary Interaction.... That's a good source of fairly passive income that's quickly available to a new player, and many of the components you can produce are used in manufacturing. .

Thanks fo all the feedback i appreciate it


I think i have a clear understanding on all my questions now.Looks like i have to train more of my skills to unlock the R&D agents.And yes i am interested in Planetary Interaction but truth is i don't have clue were to start .I will digest all the information above and try to put it in to use. And once i have the hang of all that i will look at planetary interaction .So much to learn when you first start it can make you dizzy I have to try and focus and set some goals.

Don't get to use my brain during working hours but EVE is keeping my brain pulsating , think that's what i like about it the challenge and learning not to mention all the eye candy in space ) Now time to put some of my over priced products on sale in the market

Again big thanks for the Help

1.) Each R&D agent has a special field of operation. It is listed in their information (right click helps as always in EVE). You need the relevant skills trained + the correct standings to start R&D.

2.) Nothing. As soon as you set an sell order it's on the market and people can buy from it...Other then spamming local (which won't help cause people just tend to go for the cheapest) there is nothing what you can do besides waiting and updating orders to match price changes.

3.) Not every station has a medical facility. Only at those who have a Med Bay Facility you can change stuff about your clones (Pro Tip: NEVER move your medical clone to a station without a Med Bay. When you get podded (yes, When NOT if) you will return there and have the basic 900.000 SP clone. You don't want to undock that to move it for an update, you can be podded at that time and will loose SP. So keep it in a station with Med Bay).

4.) Correction: 8.0 standings...Rest is correct it will involve a lot of mission running. HOWEVER there are other options:

A.) Rorqual / Titan with clone bay. These don't require standings, just an invite by the pilot flying that ship.
B.) Nullsec player controlled outpost. No standings involved, if you are allowed to use the Med Bay facility you can set a JC.
C.) Estel Arador Corp Services. Free jump clones, you train the skill, you join the corp, set JC and leave again - 100% free, 100% reliable.

5.) There are too many players for a full monopoly, but you can control a large portion of the market...And you will see that trade hubs can have bit higher price at some stuff (Supply vs Demand). If you go to Jita, those items are likely less expensive (more supply). It also depends on how many people are using an item in your region. If nobody uses Rockets, then the market won't be big for it as all the Rocket sellers would have moved to a place where their product sells better.

6.) Not going to give you this one...Do your own research...Also can't give you this one cause we don't know where you will be selling it and thus don't know your market (how big is that market, how quickly do stuff shift, how many competitors, etc)

Yeah Item drop is my fav DB cause it has tools like those :D