EVE General Discussion

I'm a relatively new player (1 year in with about 4.5mil SP). Joined an alliance out in low sec and station traded/PI'd my way up to about 700mil isk. Now I'm rather bored of this and want to try something new (but keep in mind I'm not big on PvP yet due to my low SP). Any suggestions on a low sec career that I can try out for now while avoiding combat for a little while? I know its impossible to avoid combat altogether in low sec and that's not what I'm trying to do here, just minimize it while I train and create a steady source of income to fund my account each month as well as all future PvP activities. I was thinking about trying lowsec exploration in a cov ops ship like the Helios? Just hate scanning with probes, so tedious. Any suggestions?

I'm probably gonna suggest all the things you hate:

I would recommend PvP, get in a frig and become hero tackle, its takes low skills and is fun (you've probably heard interceptors are awesome now so train towards these). Also assault frigs dont that long to train for.
Definitely scan cosmic signatures in a cov ops because you can get delicious goodies from relic or data sites. Its really easy once you know how (pinpoint formation FTW).
Train missiles and start running combat sites for millions of isk per tick.

A combination of the above has made me into the 8 month 16 million SP character you see today.

You could do stuff with industry and blueprints and ship production but I have no idea about this magic...


Edit: also I hear you can enforce the code in highsec

I have been PvP'ing for less than one month, in frigates, and have been eating people's lunch while riding an epic adrenaline rush - lack of SP is a lame azz excuse. You are PvP'ing whether you realize it or not and regardless of whether you want to or not... consider your market transactions, all those times you ran from blinky ships etc ... PVP. All of it.

If you can afford it, and this is not meant to be a dig of any type [not everyone can PLEX] ... I highly recommend dropping the Industrial career and starting to buy PLEX ... you wouldn't be bored with PvP and you wouldn't need to worry about loot, because frigates are cheap, if you did.


**EDIT** For the record, I also started out as an Industrial player with the goal of funding a PvP character - newsflash - the amount of effort and organization required to fund another account [because your Indy alt will consume your time] is time wasted considering your goals of starting to PvP. A vicious cycle, honestly. Buying PLEX will free up so much of your in-game time and get you to where you want to be so much faster. True story. Best of luck!

Also, get comfortable with scanning... there is no way around the need for probing whether it's for combat or anomalies etc ... there are some great tutorials online and some crucial support skills that can really speed up your scanning resolution etc.

Jamwara's ProTip : ditch industry, switch your main to PVP training for frigates and onto Assault Frigates. Use another account to train your scout alt and work as a hunter/killer team. Amazing fun.

Mess about with frigate pvp. Its cheap and fun.

Then pick a ship and master it.

Since you are in brave newbies I assume someone has changed your mind about pvp.

I don't have the link handy, but JohnnyPew on youtube has a video where he shows how to fit a T1 frigate and do lowsec exploration. Your chances of getting exploded are pretty high, but the ship is cheap. Don't know what to tell you about the probing. If you don't like probing after the serious dumbing down it got in Odyssey then you must really not llike probing. It seems that CCP is with you on that as they move away from probing and actual exploration all together.

Faction Warfare! Learn PVP and get LPs.

Assault frigates. They are awesome.

At 4.5 mill SP (must have left his queue empty for long times over the last year), I doubt he has the skills to fly AFs and even if he does have racial frigates at 5 and trains AFs, he probably has huge gaps in supporting skills to be able to fly them well.

Based on 4.5 mil SP, I think factional frigates and go lose a heap of them is a good option.

Postponing pvp because you lack skill x or skill y is a very bad approach to Eve because you'll just end up using this excuse until you have 100k sp and a trillion isk and no experience at all.