EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey guys just wondering how you guys deal with big losses?

I have been having a good time with exploration as a new player in eve. Today I was doing my usual wormhole shenanigans and I scanned a relic site with a 1b faction blueprint.

You can tell by the title that I failed. It is REALLY discouraging as this was the first one I had failed the entire day.

I kind of wish I had just never found it haha.

Was it just bad luck?

I am currently using the what I think is the best t1 frigrate rig for relic sites (2x small emission scope scanner + imicus).

Its SO disheartening because the next skill level jumps that would have mad a difference in this situation are so far away. Archeology 5 is a 10day+ train, the skills require to fly a covop is 14day+ train. Astero is an option, but it just isn't even close to my budget right now.

Thanks for reading, I really appreciate it.

Yea I failed the site.

Thanks for linking that, I have extensively went through that page before, but maybe I will give it a second go.

I am trying to stay positive haha, the long skill trains + my recent loss is making it hard though.

You will find that one day a 10 or 14 day skill train is nothing .

Haha that is what I used to do but cargo scanning is so efficient.

Maybe I will go back to do that anyways. No time save is worth feeling like crap

Yea I know, its just as a new player who wants to do everything, and has little to work with, the training times seem large.

I thought I had sufficient enough skills for the kind of exploring I wanted to do, but this loss makes me reconsider. But then if I spend so much more time on exploration I won't be able to reach my pvp goal quicker, etc. A little overwhelming.

Yeah, it may be enticing to "try all the things" but try to focus on one area, then move onto another, etc.

You only lose the invested time in skills if a direction doesn't appeal to you after all. Once you have a skill you always have it and it doesn't get in the way of gaining any other skils.

Besides, you really didn't lose anything. You just missed being able to get something.

Just wait until you lose that 100 mil Astero with T2 fittings (making it more like 150 mil plus) and the loot (probably worth millions or more) in your cargohold when you get blown up by something (a Sleeper perhaps, or other NPCs, or site effects) or someone.

And if you can't afford such a loss then you're not ready to take the risk.

"Never undock in anything you can't afford to lose."

I've run combat sites and got most of the way in clearing it for the final room and possible very juicy loot drops only to have someone blitz past me and make the loot score.

It's Eve.

I did the exact opposite.

Went for a coffee and a smoke, forgetting my mission also had neuts in it.

Came back to 2 pods in locations my Tengu and Legion should have been...

That almost throw my coffee over the PC.

If you are a solo player like I am 80% of the time training frigate to V, Cloaking to IV, CPU management to IV, and Archaeology to V is the way to go. You can make a lot of ISK quickly running relic sites in null and wormhole space in a covert ops frigate. This will fund your PVP habit. Fit warp stabs to your covops frigate. Once you start making some ISK you can buy Asteros and be able to kill any covert ops frigates who are competing with you for relic sites in null and only have to run from Tengus.

Good luck.

P.S. If you go with the Astero train those drone skills. Hobgoblin IIs and drone damage amps are your friends.

EVE is a nasty game, OP.


One day you snag a 1 bil blueprint, the next day (or week) you lose it.

One day you get an epic fight, the next day (or week) you just blow up to gatecamps or roam for hours finding nothing.

One day you make billions on the market, the next day (or week) you lose billions, or maybe just can't find decent deals and get bored.


The more you play, the more you'll find that there's no limit to highs... and lows. And no way to predict them, too!


That's why we're all helpless addicts. Welcome to the EVE-a-holic club!