EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi everyone! So I realize I can find some, if not all of the answers using the search button. However I'd rather actually engage with the community when given the opportunity rather than talk to a search engine.

Anyway

So I'm fresh out of the tutorials (career tutorials, like exploration, advanced military stuff and whatnot, I did them all). This is my 3rd try at Eve and I'm finally getting into it.

But now what? I notice missions I can do at other stations (they seem, some of them at least, to be for one faction or another), they look fun and all, but I'm not sure about the faction thing.

I've applied to Eve uni, waiting for them to come back to me with the reply, maybe this'll be a start.

I've also got two of my RL friends to play the game but we haven't yet played together (several systems apart, and we were still doing tutorials up until yesterday), but obviously, I'd like to group and play with them. However I'm the only english speaking one of the bunch, will that be a problem later down the road? that they don't speak/read/write english?

I've read somewhere that actually moving to have a home station in a null sec system isn't that bad of an idea. But realistically, what does it take to actually get to a point where this can be a viable "way of life", being a null sec resident?
Actually, what does it take to even be able just to go there and check out those systems?

I enjoy the idea of being prepared for PVP, but not especially to actually "attack", rather to defend myself if attacked. I understand it has a lot to do with actually being smart, but gameplay wise, are there skills or equipment to favor over others?

Another question, say I just want to keep doing missions, build some ISK for now and keep learning the game. Are there any systems that would be better to go to in high sec space?

What timeline am I looking at for going to explore low sec? null sec? I'm guessing at least months.

I've also created other characters on the same account, but I can't seem to be able to train them, will they benefit from the same skills as my main? what's the deal with same accounts alts?

Oh, and lastly, what do I do with all my ships? I got maybe 10ish ships, all in one place, what if I want to move to a system closer to my friend's? should I go back and forth in a capsule? Sounds tedious, are there alternatives to bring my ships over to a system possibly dozens of jumps away from where they are now?

thank you all :D sorry for the noobish questions

Pvp can be done day 1 in eve, and while moving to null day one can be difficult, its definitely not impossible. The only caveat is that you join an active corp that has group activities for you to participate in, as you won't be able to solo most of the content out there.

First welcome to Eve!

Language thing: depending on what language thing you speak, there might very well be a corp for (primarily) members in your contry/language. I know there are Russian, Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish and German (pvp) corps for example. As for 0.0 I wouldn't maybe go there day 1 but you could move out to within a month (conservatively speaking). My pvp character moved to low sec week 1 doing missions and learning the area.

You can only train one character per account (without paying for it). And finally as for moving ships, it all depends on what they are. You could repackage them and moving them in a industrial ship, or else move them as you say - flying them between stations. Or find someone to move them for you (not anybody - you might risk getting them stolen - someone you trust); of pay for the service but it might very well be too expensive at this point).

E-Uni is all English as far as I know, would suggest you find a corp you all can be in. You taking a round in E-Uni while finding this corp, doesn't seem like a bad idea, learn some stuff you can pass on.

Sadly the language channels were deleted, not all languages have the same community as they had before. Depending what language you speak you might be able to find a player made substitute where everyone talk your language, try look for that. Hopefully it will lead to finding a good corp you can communicate with.

I can put you in touch with a french speaking PVP corp. As far as I know they will take on day 1 newbies and get them into fights ASAP if that's something that interests you. I'll track them down and put you in touch. At the very least they can perhaps point you towards other francophones.

Exploration in all spaces, high (not so much), low, null, wormhole, is a good way to find out about New Eden. This will get you some cash flow, teach you how to die gracefully, which is an important skill in EvE* , and to survive in hostile environments (you will likely get tips from those who popped you, when you convo them about). Probing skills are a must have for every capsuleer, to find hidden things and get around quick through wormholes. Enjoy the thrill of being hunted ... and eventually become a hunter on your own. If you team up, you should consider flying mixed combat and probing ships, ... hey, I never saw that before. If people would actually doing that, it would be much harder for us pirates to kill those "lone" explorers

* A ship in EvE is a tool, don't fly what you can't effort to lose (including cargo). Consider a ship you undock with as already dead, it may be just not visible to you yet.

Right now, I've applied for EVE university, I'll start there if they let me in.

But as an entrepreneur in real life, I like the idea of managing my own corp ingame as well

As a stepping stone to an actual tangible corporation, you could just create a chat room for now and limit it to your "corp" members.

This builds a sense of community without having to actually worry about the actual mechanical logistics of the corp function ingame (as this requires actual skills, books, money etc)

Once you're clued up, bit more SP and some starting capital, that's the time to go full into creating a corp using the official tools.

thanks for all the help; for now I'll keep my application for eve uni as a starting point. I'll see later with my friends what we do.

for transporting my ship, I got myself a mammoth freighter ship that may help me getting the job done.

I've done some random exploration today on my own, had fun but I still need to get to grips with how that probe thing really works. I'm probably missing something here.

anyway, thanks for all the help, I'll take all the advice I can