EVE New Citizens Q&A

This game is very entrepreneurial. Yes there are corps that you can join but it's more of a social thing than an actual business like environment.

That does not mean that you can't be hired for things. Mercenaries and contract haulers and various other services for hire do exist. It's just that this is a game and to me it's more about figuring out what you enjoy doing and finding people that you enjoy doing that with.

So try out different aspects of the game. Don't limit yourself. Even if you think that you might not like something give it an honest try and find your playstyle. Along the way talk to lots of people and make friends or enemies, which ever your prefer.

thank you. I kind want to do freelance work until I figure out where I am heading in the game. Freelance work would take me to other places with a reason and on the way I can explore what I want from Eden :)

Then I suggest skilling a few logistic skills up.

Logistics ... that's remote shield/armor boosting ... is always welcomed.

There aren't a whole lot of opportunities out there for what it sounds like you are describing. It seems as though you are hoping that player corporations go around hiring random neutrals to do random things. I'm not saying that never happens, but it's fairly unusual.

Players do hire random others for things like courier contracts. Anyone can run public courier contracts - but if you plan to do that you need to get good at recognizing scams - most legitimate contracts are directed to corporations like Red Frog Freight rather than made public. Other "freelance work" that players might hire someone for would be mercenary stuff. Again though, the normal thing to do is to hire an established mercenary corporation for that, not just some random person with no killboard history. Another example of "freelance work" might be suicide ganking for the New Order. They won't hire you, per se, but they will reimburse your losses, so you can turn a modest profit doing it. Or maybe you could go to a mission hub and spam in local that you want to salvage wrecks for people and someone might make a deal with you for that.

So there are opportunities out there for being a random solo person for hire I guess - just not very good or lucrative ones as a rule. Miner ganking could be fun, but courier contracts or salvaging sound dull as dirt. Frankly, I believe you are barking up the wrong tree and should just join a corporation like a normal person.

Ok, Solecist. I agree with you that opportunities are out there, or to put it more clearly it is possible for a motivated individual to make their own opportunities in this game. If OP has a creative idea for a service s/he can provide and is willing to put in the work to reconcile that service with game mechanics and then sell it to other players, then s/he could be successful as a freelance worker of some sort. That much is true.

It kind of sounded like OP was actually looking for some EVE equivalent of one of those places where illegal day laborers hang out waiting for some random person to come by and take them home to pave their driveway for $40 cash or something. I'm not sure if any such thing exists in EVE right now. Maybe it should, though.

How to find the right corp for you.

Think of a corporation like a club, not a company. It's a group of people that enjoy doing certain things together. Recruiters are looking for people with a good attitude that will fit in. They're not really looking for someone to do specific "jobs" (in most cases anyway). If they are, they're probably just exploiting you.

EVE is a game. Do fun things with fun people. Once you start "working" for them, it will feel more like a job than a game and you will get bored and quit. Sure there are unique opportunities for work - things like selling wormhole locations or supplying markets for groups that are too lazy to do it themselves. But these things are really more like "self-employment" than "freelancing", and you should do them because you enjoy them, not because someone told you to.

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Faction : Sisters of EVE
Corporation : Sisters of EVE
Agent : Sister Alitura
Agent Level : 1
Location : Arnon IX - Moon 3 - Sisters of Eve Bureau
Epic Arc : The Blood-Stained Stars

This arc will allow you time to train up your Core Fitting Skills while making some ISK in the process. Also give you time to figure out what career choices you'd like to pursue.

Welcome to Eve and good luck, may you have a long and rewarding career here.



DMC

+1 for Sister's epic arc. Good learning opportunity.

After that is completed, a player corp maybe ought to be your next priority. That change makes the game turn from a cold, bone-stale, black & white fog into a crisp image in vibrant color.
Or at least it can. Not all corps are equal, not by a long shot. Twice, when I was new, I joined corps that weren't very good, and the experience nearly bounced me out of the game.... (frankly, leaving me with a red-hot grudge against ill-conceived, small, disorganized, inexperienced, low-opportunity corps that recruit newbies and subsequently discourage them out of the game.)

Remember that if you're ever bored with Eve, and are struggling to find a reason to log in, that means you need to change things up. Something's not clicking, but it COULD click. Either you need to find new activities, or find a new group to roll with, or a new region of space to live. Whatever you've been doing: There's more to Eve than that.

If you want further help with examples of different things to try, ways to play, roles and niches to fill, just bump this thread and ask.

When I was a new player I on occasion had vets private convo me and ask if I wanted to fleet up and loot / salvage their missions and split up the isk. I was not even looking and I found freelance work. I've also been in mining fleets in the distance past. Yes you have to trust someone to take all the ore and cut you in but if they don't you've not really lost much plus if you are in fleet with them and having fun they'll want to maintain the friendship most likely.

Back on topic the point here is that if you are willing to talk to people and invest some minor amount of trust you can find work no problem.