EVE New Citizens Q&A

Played for a few months this year after a few months last year, not a great deal due to RL, got a couple of 40m items and the rest giving me a pot of 100m, flying a harbringer with a handful of frigs and cruisers kicking about. Tired of constantly finding wormholes or 1/10 2/10 anoms I thought I was ready to go and look for some better things, so I examine the map and pick some dead lowsec systems to have a look.

Too slow to warp, you can guess the rest. Loads of people out of nowhere, reds in overview pretty much the same time as local ballooned as far as I could tell, though probably thoroughly distracted at that point! nothing can really prepare you for how quick everything is!

haven't even got to rebuying the modules yet and bought 3 of the 5 +2 implants I had, and I am down to 40m or something, so I clearly can't do that again without a few more months grind on my schedule, am I right? worse still I was getting standings with sisters of eve to get the probe launcher, which was on my ship... and they have very limited agents & repetitive missions. In fact thinking about it that's probably the only lvl3 I have access to.

So although it was a very unique gaming experience and I enjoyed it because of that, do I really have to go thru the same grind to get to that point again? sure, I have flown around lowsec in T1 frigates but it's not like you can do the sites that actually earn in them, is it? I got the impression BC is kind of minimum for 4/10.5/10,C1's etc. Is it possible to do the hacking and archeological sites in lowsec in a frigate? is cloaking essential outside of hisec for slow aligning ships? should I have fitted a warp stab to stop that first interceptor getting to me, or would the rest of his gang make that a wasted slot?

Much prefer solo, not really into the teamspeak business, and as I said RL is a big factor for me, I am the casual of casual players.

is there a place for me in this game?

One thing I learnt, is that the map statistics are not reliable

convos denied by my murderers... so I'm asking here

any help much appreciated, I do love the harshness of this game, just the time it takes to just set up to do anything is really annoying.

Yes, I believe so, and I think that timer also prevents you from docking. It is only like a minute or less however, so it's not the 15 minute timer.

Were you prepared you stood 0 chance of losing your pod.

Pods warp instantly and take a long time to target, even for a booster frigate your ability to warp out is faster than a frigate targeting you under normal circumstances.

Once you got podded you could have warped off to a planet, then to another planet, etc. until the 30 sec timer was done. At which point you could have flown to the nearest station or a gate, saving your pod.

Before you enter a new situation you should do a lot of reading up. It could have saved you millions in isk to know what happens when your ship gets blown up.

This might help clear things up: Combat Timers

You are not the agressor but you have an agression timer (60 sec combat timer). Renewed at every 'hostile' act.
After jumping into a system you have Session Change Timer (30 Seconds) as long as you don't move or do anything. You are invulnerable during this period.
So if you find yourself in trouble don't do anything and burn back to the gate after 30 seconds (turn on the session change timer display in your settings so you can see if you are still in the session change).
It's about 15 km back to the gate usually and chances are they will have webs so probably you will die anyway, but that's the smart thing to do. If you get webbed by someone, kill the tacklers (scamblers + disruptors) (make sure ewar icons are turned on in your overview) and warp off. Don't kill the webbers, ironically being webbed will make it faster for you to get in warp
Note that if you start shooting you trigger PvP Log Off Timer, so you will not be able to log off in space safely for 15 minutes.

Don't fly what you can't afford to lose. If 40M is a lot of isk for you fly frigates instead. For beginning PVP players this is of course always recommended as you will die a lot. Doing L4 missions will earn you 40 M in 2 hours if you are lazy.

Pro tips :
Learn to use your directional scanner like a boss. Never warp directly from gate to gate. Make bookmarks at > 150 km from gates so you can get at a warpable distance from the gate (>150 km) and you can see if the gate is camped at a safe distance. This is more important for 0.0 (bubbles) but good practice.

From bio of ISD IonCharge:
Lock time (seconds) = [40000/ScanRes] / [asinh(SigRadius) ^2]

To save a bit of money on implants, don't blindly buy all 5 after a podding just buy the two that you are using.

Taking this a step further, use different clones for different attribute sets. The most common attribute pairings are Int/Mem and Percep/Will. Have one clone with one pairing and another with the other pairing and then jump between them as appropriate.

Add a third attribute implant when you do a less common skill, but only if there is significant milage to be done in that attribute. You should never need more than 3 attribute implants in any one clone.

The main danger is crossing from highsec into lowsec or from lowsec into 0.0
Those gates are almost always camped. People will tend not to cross those borders unless needed. I'd set up a combat ship on each side of the border and fit a 'blockade runner' frigate for moving across the border when needed. Alternatively, you can use jump clones (which can be gotten for free) and just jump from highsec to whereever and back.

There is not much difference between regular lowsec and npc lowsec. NPC 0.0 is safer than normal 0.0 as you will be able to dock at NPC stations, but not at most player outposts.

There are plenty of corps out there who are happy to have casual/solo pilots on board.