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So what's in this for me, the guy writing all this.

1. I love making groups that work well and that's the thing in EVE I find more fun than anything else.

2. I think it sux that all the military PvP guys seem to hate the big fleets so much. Isn't there some way we can do all this without them having to HAVE to do it?

3. I really really prefer the idea of oligarchy based on expert authority rather than the lone alpha male model. This way I get to have my cake and eat it too.

4. I want to write this. Script it. Put on a show. Be openly the Minister of Propaganda and be the head of the secret police secretly. (I've been waiting for 49 years to type that phrase and didn't know it.) Oh and the head of our diplomatic corp. Every one of our diplomatic corp are going to be spies. Just like in RL.

5. What I need is a TEAM. I need the folks who really want to do that other stuff I can't do myself no matter how much I might want to. The Merchant Prince. The Admiral of the Fleets. The Pirate Lord. The Minister of Hi Sec The Director of What I Don't Even Know About Yet.

My experience in nullsec so far is that industry takes a clear back seat to PvP, no matter what they tell you to get you to join their alliance. Most of nullsec is an active war zone. It is very rarely advisable for a business to set up production infrastructure in an active war zone. Unless you are allied with a group of PvPers who are good enough to keep the peace in their territory, or at least scouts where needed, you are better off buying ore in the nullsec markets and just shipping it to hi sec for production there than you are mining in nullsec for example. Your new alliance will almost always want you to go to their CTAs and if you want to that's great but if its a cost of doing business for you as a player, you have to measure carefully the benefits. There is some industry stuff that really doesn't work very well in nullsec. You just can't do the kind of mass market manipulation in nullsec that you can in hi for example. You can't play market games of any kind really. The alliances don't like that kind of thing except for whatever their leaderships are doing, naturally.

As far as I'm concerned the combination of your trade and hauling skills--your cloaky hauler/blockade runner and your jump freighter is the single most important thing to succeed in nullsec industry. If you can move stuff from hi sec to your alliance's (and their blues) marketplaces and back you are looking at the biggest margins in the game. You risk your ships and you lose your volume, of course.

What Skills and Ships are Recommended for the Starting Spy?

For the industrial character, any skill set will enable you to function as an agent.

For the military pvp player, the obvious recommendation is the covert ops frigate, and the stealth bomber while you are at it. The force recon cruisers are also excellent scouting ships. But as with the industrial player, any skill set will serve you well.

For the player who wants to specialize in corp thievery, the class of skills you will need the most are all in spaceship command. You don't need to get them to 4 or 5, just enough to grab the ship and fly it to where you can sell it. Tell anyone who asks that this is your first character.

X-rated Holoreel

wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/X-Rated_Holoreel

Some of the most popular titles in New Eden have been produced by front corporations owned by Smiling Friends Social Club.
Naughtybits And Princess Tingly Navigate the Sargasso of Culturally Sanctioned Sexual Illiteracy
Cannibal Stewardess Vixens Unchained and other Meditations on the Arts of Love
Some Holoreels produced by SFSC shell corps that are shown in health classes in Gallante space and illegal in Amarr space.
For kids:
Grownups Are Even Grosser Than Boogers (Professor Notyet explains why you were so much more right than you ever imagined, but that your parents love you anyway.)
Adolescents:
Puberty: And You'll Be Even More Of A Freak If It Doesn't Happen To You (There's no escape. Lay back and enjoy it or fight for your very survival, the outcome is the same.)
Adults
How Not To Kill Yourselves Making Them, and Not Kill Them Preparing Them To Make More (Warning: This holo is as much about the consequences of sex as it is about the beast with a billion backs itself and despite extensive editing the contents remain as confusing as the title.)

Prototype Nuclear Small Arms

wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Prototype_Nuclear_Small_Arms

The flagship product of the Hearts & Minds Vox Populi Weapons Systems Line. Not really a prototype at all. The name was a marketing ploy to make the weapons seem more "authentic" because even the plans for them had been stolen. Fantastically successful, they are favorites of both revolutionary movements seeking to free oppressed peoples and terrorist fanatics bent on overthrowing everything decent.