EVE New Citizens Q&A

I say don't worry about declaring a home just yet. If you decide to mission as your career, then you'll be moving to where the agents are.

You can always access level 1 agents. If you want to mission for isk, you'll eventually want to work up to level 4 missions, but you'll actually increase standings faster than your ship skills do, generally, actually this may no longer be true....

So go into standings in your profile, and pick a faction, such as amarr. Then there will be member corps, pick them, and then open any that look interesting. Then go to agents, security. scroll down to the level 4. We want to make sure that your final agent will be in a location you can tolerate. Some corps have all their level 4 agents in null or low sec, if you don't want to do level 4s or 5s in ls, then it is better to find out before you start grinding faction.

Social skills get you access to higher level agents quickly.

There are different reasons to choose your NPC mission corp. I chose Emperor Family for RP reasons, many do it based on the LP store items. For example, many are missioning for Sisters of Eve, so much that the prices are pretty cheap and I'm not sure the profit is really there anymore.

A lot of corps will have more-or-less the same LP store, so choosing a corp because you like their logo is good too. Eventually, you'll want to blitz missions because there is more isk to be made in the lp store than in loot and bounties, but in the beginning, you'll need to loot for isk.

And if Trade and Missionrunning becomes a bit boring, then do some Sightseeing.

The loot of Level 1 and 2 security missions you should not count if you want to raise standings fast.
The fastest way to rise your standings to any given NPC Corporation is running Level 1 and Level 2 Distribution Missions in a frigate.
The m³ of the goods to transport is not very big, so you don't need a slow hauler with big cargo hold.
A frigate with a bigger cargo space just do it.

Each race own a frigate with a bigger cargo hold (about 650 m³ with 2 Expanded Cargo II Modules).
For your Race this ship is the Probe.
Fit it with Inertia Sabilizers and Expanded Cargo until you reach about 650 m³.
The Agent may give a mission which need more (about 850m³) but this is rare.
In this case you can swich the Inertia Stab against a third Expanded Cargo for this mission.
The Inertia Stab's make your ship entering Warp much faster.
Because of this I would not fit all Low Slots with Expanded Cargo if this is not needed.

Unlikely, but not guaranteed. No matter what you carry in your hold, there is someone out there that will blow up your ship for the lols. But since they will lose their ship too, most of the people that would blow you up want to generate a profit.

Never autopilot. There are very rare exceptions to this rule, so just consider it a hardfast rule and don't do it. Autopilot is seen as AFK, and nothing makes you a bigger target in HS.

If you're going to get into cross region trading, consider training the trading skills and making sell orders for your products instead of selling to the highest bidder. When you have low capital this might not work too quickly, but if you put sell orders at the end of your game day, and then sell at the market when you log on, you can sorta get the best of both worlds.

Keep in mind that going from one market hub to another, there are 2 routes: If you configure your route settings for "fast" you will go through low security space, and the pirates in lowsec will likely kill your ship for LOLs. On the other hand if you configure your route for "safe - stay in high sec if possible", you'll travel through high-sec of various ratings, with the biggest danger being in the 0.5 rated systems.

As explained above, in high-sec if they shoot you, Concord will come kill them (it's a suicide ganking). However, Concord takes longer to show up in 0.5 compared to 1.0, so the attackers will have more time to shoot before getting killed by Concord. For a defenseless transport ship (whether frigate or industrial), it's the difference between 1-2 shots (which may kill you), and possibly 5-6 (which definitely will).

Dante's intention was all good and I've been just as guilty giving dated info so I'm not trying to harp on him too hard. I just want to make some corrections



This may be somewhat correct if you are talking only high sec and even then if you are only talking about game mechanics associated to spawning. Jita for one does not even have asteroid belts. Also anything within 6 or 7 jumps of jita is typically picked fairly clean on a regular basis and it's not uncommon to find systems within a few jumps of jita that have zero or nearly zero asteroids a few hours after the DT respawn.

Systems without a station will typically have more and larger asteroids than ones nearby without. Quiter more out of the way systems will also have more. Theoretically the lower the sec status the higher value of the asteroids but that was originally true but in recent years with all the mining and ore as well as manufacturing changes that is no longer so clear cut.


This is very true but unless you are mining in an upgraded null sec system or a wormhole system you are going to have to buy minerals or ore to be able to build. At least to build anything other than ammo.


About 2 or so years ago CCP revamped skills and production. There is no longer any material benefits from skills. Skills only get you a time bonus on manufacturing jobs.

This is only if you don't have patience. There is isk to be made in jita if you are not trying to beat the lowest order constantly. Prices fluctuate. As you study the market you will learn these trends. I've had items that I put sell orders up for higher than market and buy orders that are lower than market and wait for the market to come to me. Certain items are more expensive on weekends other items are more expensive during the week. Some things cost more when ever there is a break in the school schedule.

If you study the market you can find ways to make isk that don't involve playing the .01 isk game, even in Jita.



I would say that this is good advice for many players but certainly not all. I would rather suggest that you try lots of stuff and do more of what you enjoy and less of what you don't. That takes a lot of the personal preferences out of it.

"Jita's a hole, Rens has a soul"

Close, running your mouth in crime & punishment sub-forum would be #1 ,followed shortly by afk