EVE General Discussion

Newbseye view...

I will say as a noob that the Venture is my favorite hull. I have been slowly going through the T1 frigates and for a noob wanting to move around and just see and get used to moving around the Venture is great. Free to start. Warp stability. Agile and can be made more so. With very low fitting skills can still be used. Can be fit to be able to reasonably fight other T1 frigs, in part just because of the surprise and two Hob II's or whatever. You can put mining drones or salvage drones in the hold. You can do low level ratting, though the tiny hold becomes and issue for long trip salvaging. Can carry a mining fit in the hold. Cheap to lose, replace and refit. It's never going to be a dps or tank powerhouse, so it is easy to fit, and a lot of things can be crammed into the fit. It is a great 'under the radar' vehicle. It can be fit for evasion. It does not ring alarm bells the way an exploration or other T1 hulls might, so it can be used for scouting. I am beginning to have them stashed around here and there since I use them for 'transit' between places where I plan to do something else. Since they are everywhere at this point also not as distinctive. Very unlikely to be carrying anything of any value beyond another kill. Might make a decent smuggling ship?

Once I get real fitting skills I plan to lose them by pretending to be mining and trying to get T1 fights... I have only managed a version of this once so far in my illustrious 3 week EVE career. Or running, at which it can be pretty good, if (when) something meaner shows up.

I am not quite up to cloaking it, having it really scan ready and gas harvesting is a long way off, but for just tooling around in something fairly low profile, access to places I might not be able to otherwise go as a noob, pretend mining here and there should I choose for some obscure reason.... the Venture is great. I think 'ninja' gas harvesting will be a decent way of learning certain parts of the map and game. Heck... I think it even looks cool. Very 1960’s American muscle car with nifty lights. :)