EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi. I have a few questions:

1, Roleplaying: How common is it? Are there any major corps(Bonus if it has active Australian players) that I should look into? Any chat channels I could join?

2, Piracy: Sounds like fun, how should I try getting into this? Grab a ship with some crap glued onto it?(Don't worry, I'll use space age glue) and fly to low-sec to kill stuff?

3, Finding a corp: How should I go about doing this?


Thanks for any help you can give.

1. RP. There are RPers. I don't personally know many of them, though. I think if you poke around a bit in the RP section of these forums you will get a sense of how to get involved.

2. Piracy. There are as many ways to be a pirate in this game as you can think of. At the most simplified level, yes you can put some guns and a warp scrambler on a frigate, head to lowsec, set your safety to red, and try and tackle people mining and ratting in asteroid belts. Sometimes it works well, but can be frustrating when you spend all day roaming and can't find any good targets. Many new players get started in highsec as well, because there are many more targets and they have better stuff. There are various forms of highsec piracy which generally involve using some form of deception to trick people in expensive ships into doing something which will allow you to legally shoot at them. It can be a lot of fun if you don't take the game too seriously and enjoy playing the bad guy.

3. See J'Poll above.

Other activities that are associated with piracy include ninja looting, running an extortion racket, suicide ganking miners and industrial ships etc etc.

Some reading materials for you.

• Belligerent Undesirables These folks engage in general highsec asshattery, they're fun but never trust them with your stuff.


• Minerbumping James and his merry band of miscreants specialise in extorting money from highsec miners, with religious overtones. Non payers tend to have a problem with accidental explosions.


• Skullduggery 101 A general overview of the dark side from Eve Uni. Espionage & Piracy, The Dark Side of EVE Specific Eve Uni classes on the dark side, a little out of date but much will still be valid.

I don't have much experience with #1, but 2 and 3 I can help you with.

I've been a low sec pirate for most of my time in Eve and it's definitely my favorite playstyle. My alliance specializes in low sec frigate/cruiser piracy, mostly solo with the occasional small gang thrown in for flavor. The best advice I can tell you for learning how to pirate is to grab 20 or 30 of the same T1 frigate and learn the ins and outs of that ship by fighting as many people as you can. As you get further along you can change the fit as you want to, hopefully striking the perfect balance for you.

There are many blogs that document a pilot doing exactly as I described above. My blog (at http://lucaspadecaineve.blogspot.com/ ) is one of them, and a more well known one is Taurean Eltanin, no longer an active player, at http://flight-of-dragons.blogspot.com/ . Just be sure to start at the earliest post and read on from there.


Good luck finding out what you want to do and with your corp!

Lucas

Edit: removed recruitment stuff

Lucas. Recruitment, even linking it is prohibited here.

Oops, I forgot. Thanks for the reminder, I edited my post.

Though I personally have no issue with it, many eve players laugh at RP in eve. It's fairly rare and something most people don't advertise, lest they be ridiculed.

People RP in EVE without ever realising it anyway.