EVE New Citizens Q&A

pirate yes, , do i want to bait noobs into coming to lowsec so i can do piratey things to them? no, im telling it how it is that low and null is not bad if you excercise a bit of caution and the rewards are much better. im countering your "anti-lowsec afk highsec gameplay" advice with encouragement to explore different parts of space, i mean exploring is exploring right and the isk is given to you for taking the extra risk, and its quite fun

How can someone lose things when he learns and has fun?
You make no sense.

Your isk centric way of thinking only applies to greedy people.

If he dies in lowsec and is smart enough to contact people about his mistakes ...
... then most likely people will throw money at him anyway.

That's common procedure!

Reading through your previous post makes you sound exactly
like those people we need to warn new players about.

And one is never ready for combat until he starts doing it. Anyone who has an ounce of
understanding of it knows that one does not wait until he's "ready",
because that time never comes until he starts doing it!

Busted!

Looks like Fac War to me? Why not just find them in space?

Its ok it looks like he hangs around my pirate den yarr

Exploration made me some decent isk solo.

Thanks for all the helpful replies! (except the snarky one one that says Ill be quitting in a month--I just purchased a six month sub to see how immersed I can get into the Eve universe).
See you all out there!

imho you can solo play this game, play it quite extensively and well, do most all, and have as much fun as anyone.

This game shares much with real life, including no one knows how to really "play solo", who does not have a bit of the "lone wolf" mentality in their soul. There is a good chance anyone seeking to enjoy a game like EO mainly solo has that. Players who have that may see avenues as they learn and experience more of the game, that those who prefer social play simply do not notice or perceive.

I expect the comments about most who play solo are true. But it is silly to believe there are not a significant number of very knowledgeable, experienced and skilled solo players players here. Most such solo players do not want to attract any special attention to themselves. Meanwhile they weave their webs and grow their empire, invisible though it may seem to all who do not see more than one tentacle.

Multiple accounts are extremely useful, as is use of the maximum characters per account. This is one area where having a little real world money to use for having fun early on in your tenure in EO can be leveraged to your future in game benefit. There are a number of ways to use characters, and they only need the skills for what they are used for.

You can be doing PI, mining, hauling, invention, manufacturing, ratting, exploration, station trading, solo pvp, missioning, even group pvp, and more. You could be set up to mine ore, reprocess it to minerals, haul it to your manufacturer to use it to build items your scientist researches and copies, haul it to your station trader to sell, use it to equip your fleet(s), and to replace your loses, and each day see your characters only get better at doing what they already know a little about, and train for more things still new to you.

If you are a new player, go slow as to exercising your several characters' options, read and ask and listen a lot. Better to preserve your player use options until you have enough knowledge and experience to exercise them wisely. You are virtually certain to screw it up if you do not.

Just imo, but there is a lot to be said for planning. It is never too soon, and never too late, to interject planning.

But there are of course those who do great by boldly striking out and aiming high.

Long story short - - -> The only limits to your fun here, whoever you are and however you enjoy playing, are those you imagine, or let someone else put on you.

OP - Just a note on PVP.


EVERY interaction in EVE is a form of PVP (even if not all of it involves players shooting each other's starships). If you run a mission, loot three of the module "Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I" and post them on the market, you are engaging in PVP against everyone else that owns that module. That's low stakes PVP that comes out of PVE.

Higher stakes is when you run COSMOS missions and loot "Pashan's Turret Customization Mindlink" and try to sell it - you can see the stakes involved in market PVP over that implant at https://eve-central.com/home/quicklook.html?typeid=25868 .


So expect that even if you don't actively seek starship combat PVP, you will be involved in PVP.


I recommend you try a wide variety of activities. I started running missions with an eye on doing incursions, then realised that I could put all that I had learned from PVE to use hunting down and killing people who were running missions. Later game mechanic changes made that less effective, so I started ganking, then wardeccing. Now, I mostly take a back seat and provide logistical assistance to other people who gank miners.

Along the way I tried wormhole life, lowsec PVE, mining and a few other things.

I too am a fairly new, solo PvE player.

Some of the things I recommend/suggest most are:

• Don't be afraid to take risks. As a solo. player, it's sometimes easy to fall into the trap of forgoing tasty opportunity to protect your bubble of safety (because the rest of the world is out to get you ).
• There's no need to specialize into one "profession" right away, especially if you're doing PvE. There's a ton to do, and a lot of non-combat things (industrialism, mining, trading, etc.) involve a wait-time. You can do all of them simultaneously; in fact, I'd encourage it. I'd be really bored if I could only mine, or only trade.
• Keep in mind the importance of maintaining your ISK. Don't obsess over it (unless that's what you're into), but most of the people who're constantly talking about fun have enough ISK to sustain their version of it. If you have fun letting wormhole rats blow your unarmed ship up—that's good, but make sure to have some kind of semi-sustainable income.
• Keep your skill-queue sub Level 5 unless you really need it for something. It takes somewhere around 5 - 10 days to train a skill to Level 5. In that time, you can train 10 other skills to Level 3 or 4. It's also much easier to spread out this way (some people highly recommend specialization. I'm not one of them. )
• Research the **** out of everything. When I'm waiting for something to finish, I use the in-game browser to read up on one of the great many EVE related questions I have. A lot of my time is spent researching and planning.
• Most important: Explore every avenue. If you're interested in doing something, give it a try.