EVE General Discussion

First off this seems like the best place for this... if not forgive my ignorance and point me to the correct forum.

I need to find a good corp that will allow me to play EVE my way. I'm looking for an exploration / wh corp, but I don't mind scouting jobs as well. Currently I'm located in Heimatar/Molden Heath/Metropolis areas and would like to move into null sec.

I like to give background when I ask a question so people know where I am coming from and why I ask what might sound like an idiot question while being totally serious. Perhaps I am a noob in some ways EVE is big and I've never met anyone that knows every aspect of every part of the game.

Anyway I've played EVE off and on for years now. I started in 2006 while trying to finish my master thesis on AI, and I've loved the lore and the "world" of EVE ever since (my thesis was late because of EVE's influence, I calmed it was research.) I eventually rage quit EVE because I kept loosing ships and couldn't get ahead of my ISK consumption verse earning. PvP and pirates made it impossible for me to keep my low sec / null sec activities funded or viable, I needed a corp back then and never found a good one. I left with 4mill ISK in my wallet and feeling let down.

A couple years later I got the EVE itch again, and rejoined but only lasted a month or so. Maybe 8 months after that I jumped in and out again. Another year later I think I joined again, this time I was going to focus on skills for flying frigates and learning about the new probing and exploration that had just been released in a new expansion. I couldn't afford the Battle Cruises or Battleships that I could fly (or access the ones I owned safely and get them to where I planned to operate). I felt that maybe I could just try to focus on one aspect of the character at a time, make a better character and maybe move past the hurdle I was having. I made a couple of very dangerious trips into Null sec in a shuttle to sell my resources that I had been cut off from. Mostly I just reprocessed and sold off rather than trying to make anything on the junk I had acquired. Then with a chunk of ISK I went back to high sec via a new clone or two, to try and reinvent my game experience. I left eve 3 months later with only 50mill ISK.

So here we are, I'm back, my wallet seems to be flat after a month of exploring in high sec... (low sec lost me my cover ops and clone.) The data core seem to be moving very slowly and not worth as much as the market research says they should (selling both in major hubs and Jita.)

So I realize Solo is the wrong way to fly, I get it, but I have a very casual play style, I cannot ensure times I can be available for ops because of RL. I fly a couple hours or so a day during the week and a little more on weekends (when I can.) I need people that are cool with that, I'm willing to contribute to the corp and its ops, but I'm not a PvPer (just not my style, yet at least) and may have to leave during an op because of RL.

I want to keep playing EVE, but I'm teetering on this edge of quitting again, so I need to find a way to fund the play style I enjoy. I like exploration, combat sites are fun, I love finding wh space and seeing what I can get to in there, and really want to take on sleeper (almost lost my ruppie in a c3 though... so I'm not sure I am there yet, at least not solo). I need a corp or a group of people that will help me do these. I'd love to find a mid sized wh/exploration corp so I can get back out of high sec, maybe earn enough for monthly plex (not really a big deal for me though). I'm more interested in moving to null sec, but I'm open to most location if I can have some security against PvP (I understand there this is in all cases an illusion even in sovs, but if I'm in a system I'd like to know that other locals won't be looking just to pop me of giggles...)

is what any CEO who isnt an idiot will read.

No offense, just calling it as I see it

If you are that casual it's probably worth joining one of the bigger corps, BNI, Euni, RvB, TEST, something like that, where you can come and go as you like. Avoid any corp that does papstats.

Euni has outposts in all 4 secs, so you can move between them as you like, rather than being tied to one.

There's no security against PvP so, I'd just forget about that. Even a blue can awox you.

API's are usefull, but not for security purposes. Might just as well circle my PC with salt against voodoo witchdoctors and call that a firewall.

I mean, if it helps at all, any half-decent WH corp just added you to a blacklist based on your posts here.

This is exactly what I meant to say but written without my own patented brand of bile and hatred towards humanity.

Person, you are to be commended

+1

3 is so true i just split my coffee trying not to laugh.

Thanks Seraph, that helps alot. I'm used to the scanning and dying, I've done a lot of that in EVE already.

One more question though are moble depots worthwhile to bring with you into a wh? Or are you just painting a target on yourself with it?

This was why I moved into my own apartment when I was 18

And you never had any roommates... that is impressive Ramona, kudos. :)

Seraph you answered another question before I asked it so thanks. I will see if I can't just get this thread moved to the recruiting or closed, not alot of point to leaving it. I'll have to lurk the wordhole forum for a bit... can't believe I missed it.

I see I'm not on the offical indigo super black list there yet. Though that might just be because they haven't noticed this thread... yet. Thank you all for the brief education and exploration of my astronomical ignorance, even after I thought I knew what I was askimg about.