EVE New Citizens Q&A

Well, I've played the game since back in beta and have had a few extended breaks over the years. So, decided to return again after a couple year break and pretty much wondering what the state of play is now...

Obviously, my primary goal is to get the ol' isk coffers looking healthy again and remembering how to actually play!

So on that note (and in no particular order), here's a few questions:

1. What's the best way to get the coffers looking healthy as I re-climatise myself? Missions, bit of prodution, exploring?

2. Still being only Minmatar based (even after all this time), how much has the "nerf bat" been used on them?

3. Is 0.0 fun anymore or it still the blobfest it's always been?

4. Are WH's worth a look at? or am I better off waiting to see if I'm back for the long haul first?

5. WTH is with the sleepers on the gates now? Yes, I raise my hand to losing a T3 to one (The noob is still strong in me )

Once I've got myself grounded again, just deciding on the best course of action.. As you can imagine, I've had a go at most things the game has to offer (from the epic Blob wars down to a bit of production shenanigans, throw in a bit of carebearing to the other extreme of getting my sec status down to -10 in under 2 hours!)

Now if I'm honest, the pirate in me wants to go back to that again yet last time I found isk revenues were horrendous and was way too much downtime in between skirmishes & not being able to transverse high-sec was a royal pain!

Any ideas / thoughts would be greatly appreciated

Loot/salvage isn't so good on lvl4. So faster isk is blitz or clear depending on the mission. The other two isk options you mentioned I tend to avoid. But ded sites are a good break from constant missions if you already have the scanning skills to probe. imo hard to break into industry to get as much isk out.

While true that it's generally not worth doing yourself, it is worth contracting wrecks to Pro Synergy and getting a decent percentage of the proceeds; however I do make sure to loot things like expensive implants (AE 4 has a chance of dropping a 60-70M nav implant for example)

Welcome back to Eve.

Regardless of which career path you choose, I hope you have a long and rewarding one.

Fly smart and stay safe.



DMC

If you want advice on operating in highsec as a pirate, ask in a separate thread for it. With the exception of my corporation (we are the wardec wing) my alliance have largely refined those arts.

On your other questions:

1) ISK making - trading is where it is at if you have the head for it. If that's not of interest, exploration sites in wormholes have reasonable drops and can be done easily enough if you are OK with the occasional ship loss.

2) Minmatar aren't flavor of the month but are completely viable.

3) Subjective. I prefer highsec piracy. Some love big fleet fights. It's really lowsec that's in a bad way.

4) Yes. Try a daytrip in a ship and pod you can afford to lose.

5) LOL

Thanks for all the advice so far. Currently I'm:

• Faffing about with missions
• On course to lose my 3rd ship after returning (always do whenever I start playing again! Loki & Jaguar so far.... lol)
• Hitting the screen with a wet tea towel as the overview settings are all different compared to last time I played!

Still, getting there slowly and finding I'm spending more time on the forums seeing what has changed than actually playing!

Ooh.. one quick one to ask:

WTF is with the Anomic Agent mission (think that's what it's called) ? That's where my Jag went *poof* and the damn npc worm was running rings round me!!!

Peace out o/

i also just came back to the game after a 3 year break....

"Hitting the screen with a wet tea towel as the overview settings are all different compared to last time I played"...this

also intys not affected by warp bubbles say whaaaaaa!