EVE New Citizens Q&A

Wait...whut..

High-risk, high reward do NOT mix with non combat.


Pick one or the other.

All the skill points were given back for you to throw into anything else you want, all the attribute points you would have had are now rolled into the character by default.

I would suggest beginning at the beginning. I know, silly, right. But seriously, if it has been a while, then you must know things have changed. Start with a set of career agents then do the SOE arc. This should be enough to get acclimated, especially with exploration. From there, continue the re-learning but minimal isk loss while doing so. Get yourself into a frigate and/or destroyer, work your way up. I would also look to joining a corp. There are quite a few corps out their and I can sense one being perfect for what you describe, no not mine, but the other one. (I can't divulge here as it is against the rules) but message me in game and I will be glad to help and answer any questions you may have. But truly, the corp experience is oh so much better than going at it solo. The trick is finding the right one to not only suit your style but also your skills. And right now I would suggest pretending you have newbie skills and go forward as such, it will minimize isk losses which in turn will increase your fun/hour which really is the only important thing.

T2 scanning frig , hacking modules and null sec for relic/data sites.
once you have an area you are comfortable with buy something like a Tengu and run combat sigs. pretty easy to avoid combat doing this but most certainly some risk.

Wormhole gas mining or null sec data/relic sites sound like things you might be interested in. Both of these activities can be done within a few weeks of starting. You'll need a venture and the gas mining skill book along with probing skills for gas mining, or a covert opts ship for null sec exploration. If you want to do any pve combat you could look into the angels or guristas epic arcs. They require good core combat skills but are completable in a tech 1 destroyer.

I've just done the same, and am using this alt to relearn everything as it's a lot cheaper if I accidentally shoot someone or mess up with the trading interface. Also means I can train up a "cheap" clone for low sec as it's something I never had time/cash for last time around.

If you did any research then you might be sitting on several thousand research points. These now can be traded for Datacores - depending on what type they seem to be rather valuable.

I've kept the skill respec points as there are several new skills, but I don't yet know which to train. With time I'll use them. You may also have some stat respecs. Not entirely sure what they're for... But I assume I can change my stats a few times - might make training BS & Marauder 5 less painful (main has got balanced stats all of 23-25).

Otherwise it's pretty much the same game. New names, but similar levels of helpfulness/scams/etc

Any SP invested in the old learning skills and in some social skills that got deleted are refunded as SP that you can assign somewhere else.

You do NOT have to do this immediately or completely. You can hold on to them untill you know where they will be the most useful for you.

I was about to post the same thing as I was reading down the thread

Trading is one of the most rewarding activities and can be done in as much or little time as you have. Not everyone likes it though - it does require some effort, but it's not rocket surgery.

High risk and high reward trading would be a successful market manipulation.

The other suggestions are all good though, running all the tutorials and getting yourself re-acquainted with the game and maybe doing some wormhole diving / daytripping, or low / null hacking / data sites will get you some isk as well.

Good to know on the skill points. Since EVE doesn't have a 'true' skill point system, I figured I'd just select a skill to train normally, get all the points applied, then be asked to train a new skill, the upshot of which being that I can't log a skill to be trained in the normal way until I assigned all my old skill points. Will definitely be saving them, either for new things that enter the game, or if I come to a decision on what to do, and find I'm still a few skills behind a 'sweet spot'.

So gas checking and hacking are the skills associated with exploration? Okey-dokey. I'll start those skills training in the normal way as soon as I can log in. As far as the tutorials go, can I replay them on the same character, or will I be making a throwaway character to play them with? Just curious.

The one big question I have, however, is faction choice. Since each factions ships are trained separately, it's the closest this game gets to a 'class', wherein you have a dedicated investment down one direction, for which the 're-spec' cost in terms of training time probably isn't worth the difference. Judging by the "Caldari State" thing on the side of my profile, I'm guessing I'm specc'ed into Caldari ships. However, I'm willing to change that up. Is there a faction that is better suited to staying alive and running? Or is it merely a difference of how the difference factions achieve those ends (i.e. one is just plain faster, the other is better at deploying EMPs or other 'smokebombs' to cover escape, etc...) without too much of a practical difference?

Even if the differences are relatively minor and not relevant to what I'm doing, I'd still like a general breakdown of what each faction does well. Either for aeshtetics, or in case I do decide to take a more combat heavy direction later, where the differences might mean more.

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Oh, and what about my attribute respecs? I understand I get two to start with, and after I spend those, it's a year between re-uses. The two I assume is to give you two stages to 'starting the game'. First, you play on the default array until you know what you want to do, then you spend the first for your initial setup when you know what you want to do, and the second is for your first attempt at long term skill planning. So how should I use that first one? If I play for a week or two, and I find that I do indeed like exploring. Should I then go for a general purpose exploration focused attribute array (perhaps looking in the forums for a suggestion for that), and enjoy that, and, once I've finished up all the real short term goals, start planning my long term goals, research options, and use my second re-spec?

Was reading up on the ship differences, and I do like the Caldari, overall, but there was one thing of note. Namely, that it says that Caldari ships are generally the slowest. Does ship travel speed only matter when not traveling at FTL speed? If I get ambushed, and need to haul ass, is a Caldari ship going to take longer to get to FTL, and travel slower than anyone else trying to beat me to the gate?

Or is speed a stat that only matters in tactical positioning, that a Caldari ship is going to have a hard time maintaining it's optimal distance?

=== P.S.

After some more overview of ships, I'm not so sure about the Caldari ships. I'm not against them, but I think the initial source for summary information wasn't as good as I might have liked. As such, I'm back to not being sure which direction to take my ship skills. Can anyone point me to a nice detailed overview of what each branch has going for it? Or at least a guide for explorers that explains their own opinion on what good ship options are? I've only really got the cliffnotes here.