EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey Op. I am so with you! I new to the game too. I spent about a week playing on my own in high sec until I found out a group I knew from another place on the net was starting up with a base in low sec. Before I joined them I read about hauling for trade and looked up some trade things on eve-central. I found a buy order for zydrine for a significant amount above what it could be bought for in high sec.

I went for it and loaded up 80 millions worth in a probe fitted with more cargo space. That was most of the isk had at the time. I sweated for the entire journey. Although I only made 6 million in profit which isn't huge I was hooked on taking more risk. Now I'm more comfortable in low sec and love it even though I've been blown up quite a bit.

The other day a corpmate found a wormhole to system in null which he said seemed relatively quiet. He suggested that if anyone wanted to try their hand at some ninja mining then this was a good chance. I thought what the heck and went in with a venture. First I had to find belts with no rats. I managed a couple of loads while running from rat spawns keeping my eye on local and jumped back to the WH if someone appeared. It was really quiet though. Then I made a mistake and alt tabbed to look up something about mining higher level ore. Of course that's when I got popped. Damn.

The next day the WH was still there and I decided to take an even bigger risk. I went in with a Procurer. I could barely fend off the rats but managed and had a corpmate occasionally jump over to help with the harder ones. On and off through the day I managed to get many loads back home in between jumping when someone came into local. It made mining quite fun. I really had to work for that good ore.

My day ended when my luck finally ran out. As usual someone appeared in local and I hit my warp. They were faster then me and in what seemed like only a few seconds a fleet of 13 covops battleships appeared instantly at my location. I later found out after sending them a message that they had hotdropped onto me. The whole experience was so worth it even though I lost my ship. The hotdrop scared the bejeezus out of me! It was great fun. I ended up not losing out isk wise and would have of course made out way better if I hadn't lost my ship but it doesn't matter. I would do the same thing again if the chance comes up.

I'm so glad that I chose to take some of these risks early in the game and would highly recomend doing so to other new players. You learn a lot. It makes accomplishing things much more satisfying. If you lose you can always get it back and when you win, you win on a number of accounts.

New player here, too.

After the tutorials and the sisters of eve arc I wanted to try something different, so I took up exploring, hunting for the hidden treasures of the galaxy. Got bored in HiSec and decided to try my luck in the oh-so scary LowSec. The place where newbies die the moment they jump through a gate. Where evil pirates gnaw upon our bones. Where there be dragons.

Three days later, I'm still alive and happily scanning away in my frigate.

Actually met quite a few nice people out there, including a pirate or three who actually gave me some good advice after a bit of cat and mouse play.

Sure, someday someone will get me. I'll learn from it.

And come back.