EVE New Citizens Q&A

You are too worried about faction standings. If you want to mission for the angels you can always start lvl1 missions regardless of faction or even corp standings. I suggest that you just go out there right now. There is a market to buy skill books, ships, whatever you need. Find a corp that is in the area, apply to join, ask if anyone in the corp will let you tag along on thier lvl4 missions to help grind your standings up.

Edit: What I meant by faction/corp standings is... go ahead and kill all the rats you want. The angel faction will hate you. Start doing missions for the angel cartel and the corp that you are missioning for will love you even if you have done a bunch of ratting.

Hi,

My goals are based around lore/character development as it is a good starting point especially if you don't know anyone yet who plays this game.



I don't think I'll be able to answer all of the responses, but I do thank people for their advice and helpful information, it certainly gives me more to think about in a positive way.

No need for standing: EACS

This is a game about consequences and choices. If you don't want to accept any consequences then this probably is not the game for you.

If you do missions for Caldari then Gallente won't like you. If you shoot Angels then the Angels won't like you. If you are not interested in anything: mining, trade, industrial or exploration based then you've eliminated pretty much everything but espionage and combat. Any PvE combat that you do will have consequences to other factions. So either strictly do PvP or forget about your OCD standing hang up or pick another game.

You never completely screw yourself in this game. Standings can be repaired. There are pirate epic arcs that you can do. Also level 1 missions are always open to you. The only reason that pirate faction standings matter is if you plan on missioning for them and even if you totally frac up your standing with a faction you can always do level 1 missions until you get north of -2.0 standing with them. Once your faction standing is over -2.0 then your corp standing takes over and by that time you should be able to run level 3's probably at least if not level 4s. Also keep in mind that faction standing increases are based on a percentage of your distance from perfect which is 10 so if you are -10 with a faction one storyline mission will make a huge difference.

Hi,

Just looked at a article on a website '10 signs you may have OCD'. result negative on all 10 signs so I think we can safely rule out OCD.

I know the game has consequences resulting from your actions. As for if its a game for me, well I subbed for 6 months so almost 7 with the trial time so I've plenty of time to find out.

Your last paragraph however is very informative so I thank you for that.

Your OCD comment didn't worry me, its a subject that although I'd heard about, I'd not taken much interest in it before. So I decided it was time to find out more.

Its not an obsession, more of an aspect that'll help define the character as a character.

I've tried most of those other professions whilst doing the career missions enough to know which activity I like the most. I realise those missions were done with basic skills.

Mining, seems to be a semi afk activity. Start lasers and wait until the hold is full. I don't play MMOs to be semi-afk.

Exploring, doesn't seem like fun to me, scanning seems easy to do and not sure what to call unlocking the containers, mini games I guess just doesn't seem fun to me.

Manufacturing, doubt I could be competitive especially as I wouldn't be mining.

Research, unless you are going to make something why bother.

Trading, just not my thing.

Hauling, pick up from one station 10 jumps drop it off at another station, not really what I want to do and doesn't really fit in with the character.

I'm sure a lot of players do like those professions but they're just not me or what I have in mind for the character. If I was trying to play the game and do other stuff at the same time then mining would be ideal, but I'm not.



Edit:

There was nothing wrong with the opening post, I'd already decided what the exclusions were. The problem was because I'd excluded so much I was unsure how to proceed in the short term mainly because I was unsure of how some of the aspects of the game work.

But the helpful replies in this thread including parts of yours have given me the information I required to move forward.

curse is a very populated area, but if you plan on moving there then no reason why you need to stay in highsec, depending on how old or experienced you are, i started in faction warfare to get the hang of pvp then moved to a Serpentis loyalist corp in nullsec very young, good idea would be to focus on getting into an interceptor.

once you get the hang of flying a ship there is no reason why you cant move to curse and get your Cartel and Serpentis standings up, curse is quite rough due to the pirate agents but being a bit more aware will help you out, there is a few corps who are loyalist corps which you might enjoy if you are into the rp side of things.

Lan

I started out the same way: exploration seemed like the least fun activity. An older player (Cara Forelli) suggested that I might change my mind. She was quite right.

When it comes to exploration, I still don't find hacking sites any fun. However, there is also combat exploration. And when done in low sec, it is, in my opinion, a great activity for a solo player (like me - without alts and everything) as it provides a bit of everything: isk, pvp, never-knowing what you'll find, and learning a bit more about your ship. You can go for days without getting anything worthwhile, and make 150M in a single site. Of course, that's merely my way of having fun when I have the time. I would suggest giving exploration and other activities a go, and see what helps you learn the game plus have fun at the same time.

PS: there is also FW, which can be a bit of fun, but all the off-grid boosts/gangs make it just a bit less so if you play completely solo like me. On the other hand, if you don't play solo and join small gangs/fleets, I imagine it can be much more fun.

Stillwater are a good bunch of guys i spent some time in that corp, Leo is very knowledgable and he will tell you alot about the Cartel if you jump into the public channel, you also have Coreli but they are Serpentis, but serpentis are close with the cartel and also based out of curse.

300k sp is pretty low, one thing i would suggest is to get into lowsec asap and start learning to pvp maybe through faction warfare, this will give you some good experience. maybe avoid the dramiel for pvp as its pretty expensive unless you have the isk to burn

You don't have to fire on Angels, Avvy! Fire on Guristas, Serpentis, Blood Raiders, Sansha, Drones. I'm a bit into the RP part too (all Amarr), so I get that part. But there are quite a few pirate factions, and one thing I know about pirates - they hate other pirates as much as they hate the authorities (or so say all those books about pirates I used to read!)