EVE New Citizens Q&A

I believe part of the problem we are facing here is the empire chat channels, if you run around with a herd of cattle, your going to see the world very differently than if your a sheepdog for the farmer.

The main questions that I feel need to be set right would be;


What can I do in Null?

The answer is simple, everything you can do in empire space + more. In essence Null is just a more content rich environment. Yes you will die, part of being immortal is death isn't going to stop you achieving your goals. You shouldn't be worried about death as much as profit and loss. If you make 60m an hour grinding anomalies (easiest form of isk generation in Null) getting caught and killed in a 40m ship means you only have to rat for an hour to turn a 20m profit.


Entering 0.4 and below gets you vaporized, not true

Your auto-pilot is your enemy when your planning to enter or exit Hi-Sec to Low-Sec, Low-Sec to Null. Certain systems are choke-points, often these will be popular travel routes by auto-pilot. Learning to properly use the map tools allows you to see hostile activity in the last 24 hours, last 30 minutes, players in space, ships destroyed as a heat map.

Once you understand these gatecamps are only in highly traveled routes and you start breaking out into Null you will find that a lot of the systems are empty, the ones that are used by corporations or alliances max out at around 10-30 people in space and its only really alliance staging systems that have 100-200+ members in system, of which 90% of the time they are all docked and afk.

The best ship to travel around in currently is an interceptor. They get into warp very fast, warp very fast and are immune to bubbles. The only issue you will ever have in an interceptor is a gatecamp setup to kill interceptors. These take a while to setup and often do not move for long periods of time, they use bonuses from command links combined with remote sensor linking to give their ships the ability to lock and point your interceptor before you can warp. If you decide to live in Null, often you will gain access to intel channels with the locations of such camps so you can avoid them, however as said they often show on the map tools due to them often camping chokepoints of the map.


"sounds dangerous and also sounds like a lot of effort. I'll just stay here 'till I'm ready'"

This game has a 50% drop out for new players, part of the problem is that until you join a real corporation (my definition of one would be one based in Null or Wormholes) your missing out on what this game is all about.

You will never be ready in empire. The more skill points you gain, the more expensive your clone costs to replace, so too will your ships (as more skill points means bigger better ships :P).

There are a lot of reasons you should head out into the unknown, the main one being, this is a space game and traveling into the unknown is kinda why you subbed in the first place no? :P The money is better, the landscape is molded by the players and not rigid NPC entities and the communities our in Nullsec are like family. Everyone works together with common goal, trust comes easier because your already blue and the punishment for cheating/scamming/shooting your own is extreme. Often involving that player getting black-listed from that entire alliance and its allies (which these days can mean 1/2 the sov map), not to mention often a full reimbursement of your loss from the corporation harboring them.

Simply put, in my eyes the game doesn't even start until your in a player made corporation working as part of a team towards a common goal. Hi-Sec is not a good place to be, its where your most at risk and entirely on your own.


With low SP, am I any use there? Can I survive / earn ISK there?

There is always something you can do. The game continues to make it even easier for new players to get in on the action. All you really need is the ability to fit a point to be useful in pvp (the module that prevents enemy ships from warping :)) as you can never have enough tackle.

For alliance "strategic ops" such ships as interceptors, even more so interdictors (the ones that drop in notorious bubbles!) will see you "useful" in every kind of fleet. Logistics ships are often the cheapest entry point into fielding a "doctrine ship" which will be covered by any alliances ship replacement programs (means you get a new ship for free if it explodes in combating the enemy).

However, its not ALL about the strategic, sovereignty battles. Many view these kinds of fleets as payment to their alliances for having free access to the space they live in and the roaming fleets they join. PvE is often done in small groups of like-minded individuals and is setup, maintained and run entirely independent. SiG (Special Interest Groups) maybe setup for content requiring larger amounts of people, such as incursions or black ops, however your free to pursue your own interests alone or with others as you see fit. Some people only play for the Strat Ops, sub with real money and with jumpfuel/ammo/ships reimbursable they never have to grind isk. Others build capitals in their private PoS, or dive into wormholes, run level 4 pirate missions which pay A LOT more than your standard empire missions.


Are you part of CFC ? cause if so, thanks but no thanks.

Do not so quickly draw a line in the sand, if your truly a new player. Remember that this game is about resource grabbing, espionage, asset destruction. There are no civilian pod-pilots, if your not blue to an entity your an enemy. Anyone blue has gone through an API check to see if their account harbors an enemy combatant or has any affiliation or ties with an enemy,

The CFC treats its members very well, internally they share guides, fittings and intel on hostile movements. Externally you will be set on fire, any alliance in null would do the same.

Bland

Are you just going to poke your head in for a look around or have you already gotten into a corp? If the former, you will be neutral to all and thus a target to all. If the latter, as I said earlier, the best and fastest way to get to null is to clone jump.

further to this: a blog of someone who did that~~

http://nosygamer.blogspot.co.uk/

Ideally you want an MWD to burn back to the gate if your tackled. So long as you don't aggro them you should be able to jump back, as they have an aggression timer for shooting you, they can't follow. However, I'm surprised they managed to tank the gate guns as shooting people at stations and gates in low sec triggers gate gun aggro.

I hope you enjoyed the experience at any rate, its all part of the learning process.

Does make me wonder if I'd be better off trying to get to null in a procurer

I had people give me free ISK, a couple of ships, and a ton of other stuff. I flat out declined to join anyone in space with a security status lower than 0.5. What was even better was their refusal to take back their ships and ISK

I wanted to learn the game on my own for a bit, in safety, before making any further decisions. I also understood that the feeling of not having lost a single ship would quickly vanish as soon as I entered null sec.

My question?

"Is there any way I could postpone your offer until I learned the game more in high sec, first?"

I still have a lot of pending offers, too.

On the other hand, what is more fun than learning how to travel in null, making perches, while also scouting ahead of a medium sized fleet on its way to cause some havoc? I'm in my third week or so and I got to watch a number of capital and supercapital ships appear out of a cyno and begin hammering a player owned station, which was amazing. Can't do that in highsec.