EVE New Citizens Q&A

You can train for any race's ships on any character and use them with no penalty. Your character's race is mostly cosmetic and has no effect on your performance in game.

As said. Train the ships you want to try. 1 single character can do anything in EVE if you really want it, given you put enough time in the game.

Your character race only sets the following things:
1. Your looks, and even those are more similar now a days.
2. Where you start in New Eden.
3. What default skills you have pre-trained (which can be cross trained by anybody in a day).
4. What your NPC corps (both the one you start in and the one you end up in if you leave another corp).
5. Which rookie frigate you get when docking in a station without a ship.

A character race/bloodline or starting condition gives you no benefits or penalties over ships compared to others. The skill, ship and module bonuses are the same for everybody in EVE.

As an example:

One of my characters can fly all Tech 1 subcapital ships in EVE and a good amount of Tech 2 ships up to cruiser size.

The same character can also use all the Tech 2 guns there are in EVE (but not capital weapons).
And be sufficient in both armor tanked ships and shield tanked ships (though shield is a bit better).

This took me 3 years to get there though.

Eh? Explain, please.

You can install a medical clone in any of the following:

1) Your current station (if it has a medical facility).
2) Any of your corporation offices.
3) About a dozen NPC stations decided by your bloodline.

You can quickly move to wherever your medical clone is installed by undocking in a pod and selfdestructing (or getting someone to kill your pod, which is faster and yields your helper a killmail). So if you want to move to a battlefield quickly, and you happen to have a corporation office nearby, you can set your medical clone there and kill your pod. You will respawn in the clone station. This process is called "podjumping" (or deathcloning).

By renting corporation offices in strategic locations you can use this tactic to quickly move from one edge of the universe to another without having to wait the 20-24 hour jump clone timer. But renting offices costs money, and in highsec and especially close to trade hubs a LOT of money. This is where option 3 from the above comes into play: you can always install a medical clone in (and therefore podjump to) a couple of NPC stations in your race's highsec territory.

There are a few ways to use this to your advantage: from simply being able to go Jita shopping in a moment, to getting skillbooks injected without having to run the null/high chokepoints, to quickly bouncing a trade alt between Jita and your home system.

Learning, learning, all the time.

All my characters have their med clones in the same station, which at the time they were moved there had no connection with any of them. I must have just got lucky and did the move while docked there, I guess.

But I'm a bit mystified about the NPC corp situation. My main is in Aliastra which has offices and medical facilities all over New Eden, but only one of those stations is listed as an option for moving his clone. Same goes for my trader who is in Native Freshfood (except that her corp seems to have only 2 stations).

[Edit] Doesn't that podjumping lark get a tad expensive? I'm assuming a new clone has to be bought each time.

Actually, to be more specific, it's any of your starting NPC corporation offices (your "school" corp). Of course, your starting NPC corporation is affected by your bloodline, as is what NPC corp you land in when you drop from a player corp.

For example, one of my alts started out in Republic Military School NPC corp. Eventually I moved that alt to a player corp. When I dropped that alt out that player corp, it ended up in Brutor Tribe NPC corp. That alt can use Republic Military stations for pod jumping even when it was still in a player corp.

Hopefully that makes some sense...

GG

EDIT: Podjumping gets expensive the more skillpoints you have :)