EVE New Citizens Q&A

Research, industry, and planet stuff can double or triple by training each of your character slots with those skills. With research, industry and planets you just log on relatively briefly for each character you've trained.

If you want to get into industry or trading, you should create an industry/trading alt. You main can fly off anywhere on a whim, while the industry/trading alt remains where ever it is most convenient for trading and industry.

The alt can also avoid missions, maintain relatively neutral standings, and remain in a NPC controlled corp, and thus be safe within all of high security space, regardless of what you do with your main. Pirates basically NEED an alt like this to get stuff from high sec, and it's also useful if you lose lots of standings with someone, or get a war declaration.

Generally only your main trains for combat. Mining can be done with either your main or industry alt. The main might participate in big corp mining fleets, while an alt might be stuck alone. Though it can be great to log in with your alt who lives near a high-sec ice field, and then mine ice while reading a book.

I've removed some off topic posts. Please keep it civil and on topic please. Thank you.

Cyno:
Some ships have built in jump drives. To know where to jump to, someone at the destination has to light a cynosaural field. When you activate the cyno generator on your ship, it lasts for 5 mins. You can't do anything in that time. Now, the cyno can only be activated in low sec or null sec, and you are sitting there for 5 minutes. AND, the cyno is listed in everyone's overview, just like gates and stations and such. The result of all of this is that the person lighting the cyno dies a lot.

You don't want those deaths clogging up the kill boards of your main looking like you suck. So people will often use special accounts just for this.

ALSO, you may jump between two locations a lot. Rather than moving one alt between these locations, you can have an alt in each. light the cyno in one place, jump, pick up some stuff. logoout the first cyno, log back in on the other toon. Light another cyno in the other location, jump again.


hisec hauler:
Let's say you get into a PVP corp that does a lot of war declarations to be able to fight other people. Well, the last thing you want to do is move a lot of stuff around during war. So, you log into this other character, that is not in your PVP corp, so it not at war. He then moves the stuff.

OR, if you hang out in low sec killing people, and have a low sec status, then you can't go into high sec without the navy/police coming after you. So, you have a non-pirate alt that goes into high sec for you.



Anonymous forum poster:
That is what this is. I say things here that makes some people angry. I don't want them taking it out on me in game. So, this character exists ONLY to post things on these forums. I never actually play this character in game.


Anonymous Bounty alt:
If you want to put a bounty on someone, they will get an email saying that you did it. If you don't want them doing the same back, then you can do it with an alt that you don't really play in game.



Jita Market Agent:
Jita solar system is the main trade hub. If you want to get an idea how much you should buy/sell something for in other places, then the Jita price can tell you if the price you are asking/paying is reasonable or not.



I'll add one. Back when I was in null for awhile, we had a service that would move things from Jita to null for us. So, if I wanted something that was not available in my ares, rather than moving my main to high sec to get it, I would log in an lat, buy it, contract it to our service to move it for me. A couple days later, poof, it was jump freightered out to me in null.