EVE New Citizens Q&A

I've been playing EVE for about 10 days now and I am really enjoying the game. I haven't done any PvP yet as I'm still doing the Career Missions and trying various Characters. I know that the character creation doesn't pay a huge role in the game, but I do enjoy the role-playing aspect also. One thing I am pretty sure of is I would like my character to be a hacker/explorer. I am having a difficult time trying to decide my race. I',m torn between Amarr and Gallente.

For me, the Pros for Amarr:
1. Ships use laser based weapons. (From what I understand no need to keep buying ammo.)
2. I like the older look and long hair option for the males.
3. Ships look pretty cool. :)

Pros for Gallente:
1. I lke the Activist ancestry.
2. I like the Politics.
3. Ships look cool. :)

I'm thinking I would like an Amarr living in the Gallente Federation. I'm just not sure how to best put this into the game. Would I have to travel to Amarr to purchase items for my ships?

How are the Gallente's going to react to an Amarr ship?


Ideas and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I currently have two characters: Malachite Ormand - Gallente which I created when I first started and Lostcore - Amarr which I created yesterday. Since I'm still new, I am not adverse to starting again completely from scratch.

Thanks.

You're in luck, the ship you want to aim towards for hacker/explorer is the Astero - which is a joint venture between Amarr & Gallente technology. Currently, in most situations drones are more useful than lasers.

The starting Race doesn't have any bearing on the game other than your character looks, starting system, and your own personal beliefs about role playing. If you get into Faction Warfare the side you choose will have repercussions with the opposing factions, otherwise you can travel and trade anywhere.

Welcome to Eve.

There are no differences between characters from different races from a practical standpoint - there are minor differences in starting skills - other than that, it's strictly role play. You can purchase ships and modules for any race anywhere in New Eden.

No one will care if you are Amarr in Gallente space or vice versa unless you let your faction standing drop below -5. At that point the faction police will shoot at you.

The aspirational ships for exploration are the Sisters of Eve ships - Astero and Stratios - they require cross training both Amarr and Gallente.

Lasers have the advantage of needing no ammunition but the disadvantage that they use a lot of capacitor and they only do EM/Thermal damage. Other weapons have different trade-offs. Amarr, Gallente and SOE use drones as a major weapon system - they should be part of your training plan.

Amarr and gallente ships also have skill overlap in that both races ships tend to be armor tanked several of both are bonused to drones.

Yep, just look at me. Wandered in a few years back and never got out again.

Seriously, a few general points. Since the only real consequences of character creation are for roleplay and immersion:

- It's no big deal to biomass a new character and start again. The longer you leave it, the harder you will find it and the more likely you are to stick with what you have. If you are not happy with your characters, scrub them as soon as possible.
- Explore all the options available. Did you know you can have a first, middle and last name? That you can change the shape of your nose and your stomach and ... other things? No need to rush the character creation.
- Get your character looking the way you like. You can change cosmetics at any time, but body resculpts later cost money.
- Choose a name you can live with. You are stuck with it as long as you play EVE.

Amarrians are the only one! Remember that. All other races are just like little kids.
They are lack of God's spirit and ispirarion. They have no religion in their blood.
The only true religuous Amarrian warrior got an extra bonus to his lazorz which grants him his dominancr on the Battlefield.
Be a proud Son of the Empire and kneeling down in a holy name of Emperor.

If Jita is the Mos Eisley of Eve, Hek is the dirty little back alley where you don't step out of the light.

Just throwing myself into the thread here;

ShahFluffers here is a Gallente Activist that is trained in every weapon system, defense system, and ship in the game (sans Titans).

I have lived, missioned, bought, and sold in the Gallente Federation... lived, waged war, bought, and sold in the Minmatar Republic... fought for the Minmatar Republic...waged war in Amarr... bought stuff in Amarr while waging war... and now live in Caldari space.

I am just as proficient in all weapons and ships as any other race with the same skills... I have never suffered a penalty for using ships and weapons that do not belong to my race... and I have been able to buy any and all ships and equipment from anywhere amd everywhere on the map.

By the way, you should bleach your hair white, and center your portrait so that background looks like a kickass sort-of-Einstein hairdo.

To be fair to Hek, as much as I hate the place, it is one-third the size of Amarr from a trading perspective. In other words, pretty big.

(Goods on market, approx: Jita 28 trillion, Amarr 8T, Dodi 5T, Rens 4T, Hek 2.5T).

On races, a character of any starting race can train the skills of any of the races, can RP as loyal to any empire, and can actually *be* loyal in game to an empire of their choice. Yes, you can even be a Minmatar character who RPs as a collaborator with the Amarr, flies only Amarr ships, fights for the Amarr in factional warfare, will be shot at by Minmatar NPCs if they enter Minmatar highsec, and is regarded by many Amarr NPCs as a national hero (my interpretation of what 9.5+ standings means).