EVE New Citizens Q&A

Do you need some SoE faction to get their ships?

Where do you go to meet NPC that give SoE related missions?



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Yeah basically lots of players work for SOE and then build and sell the SOE ships to other players - so you can just buy them on the market.

They are not cheap though.

An alternative way to acquire a SoE ship is to find a Rogue Drone Nexus Chip in a Drone Combat Site.
The Chip can be exchanged for a BPC in the Loyalty Store.

You can easily purchase these ships off the market, but they are normally expensive ones. Their intent (my interpretation, that is) is to cover up the lack of skill training with some bonuses without being great as a proper recon or covert ops ship. What you should keep in mind though that this effect shouldn't be taken as granted.

I counted about seven Astero ships being killed recently where the user wasn't using a covert ops cloak, or possessing an adequate sisters probe launcher, and some odd fittings where the Astero apparently became a tank ship that needs extra armor to cut off on its speed.

What the Astero IS ABOUT

• A great exploration or recon ship with low skill cost. You can rush your exploration skills to level four, and use an Astero to compensate for not having level five skills.
• It's acceptable to have one or two T1 modules on the Astero. It allows early access to Covert Ops cloaking and allows it more chances to stay hidden or escape. (It's pointless to fly one without Covert Ops cloaking)
• Very expensive, and makes your life hard to reach break-even to actually start profiteering. It's also made out of paper, but it can escape from danger as long the pilot pays attention, and knows basic PvP escape methods.

What the Astero IS NOT

• A ship which you can fly without a Covert Ops device.
• An exploration ship to compensate for your sub level 3 or 4 exploration skills.
• Something that can get into a battle and survive.

Hopefully you can learn from others, and somewhat mine mistakes done in the past. The ship with proper fits can easily reach the quota of above 100m ISK, and it's quite deep in the pockets of new players. (or poor corps)

Honestly as new player it's not a good idea to mission to produce a new SoS ship. You be better off running SoS missions, exchanging your Loyalty Points for SoS launchers, probes, and/or blueprints to get isk to buy the ship. The main reason is you don't have the skills/rep to mine and refine, or purchase the requirements to build the ship for less than people who are specialized in building things. Nor do you have skills/rep to manufacture a ship efficiently.

And anything else that takes longer than the targetting delay after decloaking to warp off (or is too occupied to notice you) PI haulers are also great targets. Occasionally you even get to shoot a low sec miner, or a horribly fit ratting oracle.

I take issue with this.

It is a Vengence with slightly less tank and damage... but more utility, less of an issue with kiters, and cloaking capability.

With very good skills and one pimp armor repper you can tank most frigates, some destroyers, and sometimes even cruisers.

Everything in this game can be purchased. The market in this game is a huge part of it. There is nothing that being friendly with a faction gains you access to other than being shoot on sight with the 4 main race's factions if you get below -5 standing.

The 9 ships that J'Poll was talking about can not be purchased on the market nor on contracts because they can not be docked. So you would need to build them yourself or buy them from someone else who would hand it over to you in space.

So now that we have out of the way that everything can be purchased there are some things that can only be purchased in contracts. Blueprint copies is one thing that comes to mind.

So yes everything can be purchased and almost everything is made by players. The only two exceptions that come to mind are skill books and blueprint originals.

To me it would seem that mission completion and Items purchased from the LP store are player created in that they need effort from a player to exist in game. I've heard the Devs speak on this topic and I do believe if I understand them correctly that they share the same opinion.