EVE New Citizens Q&A

Regarding PvE:
My immediate thought would be exploration.

What little I've done of the exploration was enjoyable in a sense that there are 3 distinct "stages" that can all be done in isolation at a time of your choosing:

1) Planning routes/system paths and ship fits, researching where to sell potential loot for maximum profit.
2) Cloaking up, scanning down sites and bookmarking them.
3) Going into the actual sites, looking for competition through dscan and finally hacking the loot can things.

Now, I'd advice against waiting too long between 1 and 2 but in a pinch (diaper change?) you can easily walk away and return to where you left off if you stick to more backwater or less popular systems.

Perhaps hauling for one of the bigger corporations could be an autopilot things for minor contracts, no idea here so don't take my word for it.

Regarding PvP:
Much like yourself I've looked at RvB (although I actually joined) and solo fights can be difficult to get much of, but they do happen. Not without a lot of looking around (the system meant for only solo PvP is almost always empty of targets in my TZ).

I have tried a few pick-up fleets with RvB though and contrary to what I first thought it was quick to get going and resulted in quite a lot of kills over the span of an hour or so. Not always, but mostly.
Fleets were around 5-13 people and while I enjoy the solo PvP more, it seems like time and the commitment itself is your primary concern - these fleets had no problem at all with me leaving mid-way through.

As for FW, I have no real knowledge of these but they seem a little more time restrictive than what I've experienced RvB and exploration to be. Once you are in a location that needs to be capped, it probably is a little more difficult to just leave it for a few mins and come back, expecting to still be alive.

Then again, someone who actually knows what they are talking about would be better suited to help you out there.

Misc:
Ever thought of creating a spy character and infiltrate a company, selling information to rivals or wardecing corporations?
No idea if there is a market for these things but why not try - seems to offer more flexibility in terms of time commitment.

FW and RvB are very solo friendly. And the only 'arranged' part of RvB's 1v1s is that they have a system assigned where doing fleet stuff is prohibited.

Also, look at public roams. I know that both RvB Ganked and Redemption Road are very very RL busy friendly. They dont mind if you have to log off in the middle of a roam or what so ever (you might be logged off in deep null though and will have to get out there on your own the next time you log in).

I'm short on time too.
One thing you can do in Brave Newbies is join a Defense Fleet so you would likely stay in the local system. You can the come and go as you see fit and you won't have a dangerous journey home.

Okay choice.

When you join the Elmos or Smurfs, just set up your base in Nomaa and PvP as you want. Last time I flew with RvB on one of my alts, it was a "No Fleets Allowed" system and thus you could get nice 1v1 or free for all fights there.

I would join RvB until your skills improve to the point where you are killing people. Then faction warfare.

You don't need to only fight arranged duels in RvB - just go hunting the opposition. Remember that there are some really good players there but also a lot of noobs.

You shouldn't get podded by R or B players but war targets certainly will. Make sure you know how to get your pod away safely.

I'd recommend exporation, I've been doing a lot of it myself recently and it's a hoot. Sure it's like playing the lottery if it'll be profitable or not but it's fun!

Some corps will take players, even null sec ones. Not everyone does call to arms that requires participation. Some do just mining and industry. People come and go from those.

Piracy is a great solo activity and quite easy and fun. It works better with a partner and is also easy with a scanning alt but it can still be done on one account.

Just find a good low sec mission system and probe down the mission runners then dock up and get a combat ship. Any dual prop frigate with minimal tank can solo most pve fit cruisers battlecruisers and battle ships. You would be surprised how easy it is to kill a drake.

Edited for spelling

suicide ganking.
you could also make your own corp and wardec null sec alliances. you usualy get pretty funny hauler killmails.