EVE New Citizens Q&A

So, I was happily practicing my scanning skills looking for nice site to mine in known space and oops. I found a wormhole.

How safe am I in my little Catalyst to hop in there and explore solo? Why solo? All those people talking at once in corporation chats - I can't follow the conversations or important threads.

Which then leads to the second question. Is a small 5 person corporation viable? I'd not feel so overwhelmed by the amount of information/random chat being thrown out.

Destroyers are anti-frigate ships. Going solo against a bigger ship is not very good idea if you're a new player. And in w-space, there are bigger ships, especially if you are aiming at scanning signatures. You can try and hope noone will be there, but you are pretty much toast if you come to say hello to Sleepers (they are nasty).

As a starting toon WH can be quite dangerous, it may be inhabited by other players (like mentioned before, local isn't reliable) and also the WH rats (Sleepers) are much harder then normal rats you find in known space. I say, yes you can explore WH as a new character, but be prepared to be killed as most WH require a decent amount of skills and usually a better ship to be done succesfully.

On small corps, yes 5 man corps are totally viable, keep in mind a 150 man Player runned corps usually has less spam-chat in the corp channel over the NPC corps as the NPC corps are more 'general' populated whereas the player corps usually have players who have the same kind of interests in EVE.

DO IT! Mostly because it'll be fun and you'll learn something (even if you asplode). Catalyst probably isn't the thing to go exploring with. I'd grab a frigate, the one for your race that gives a scanning skill bonus, a probe launcher, and some probes. Keep it cheap, I'm guessing you don't have a lot of isk. Then jump in. Like someone else said, bookmark the exit, and then see what you can find. Don't hang around hostile POS's for long, same with any sites you scan down or sleepers will kill you.

Normally I'd say don't talk in local. Like someone else said, it's on delayed mode, so you can't see who's in system until they talk (which means as soon as you do, anyone in there will know). However, you being a new player, and me expecting you to get blown up (WH space is harsh) you might get something out of it by introducing yourself and asking about wormhole life. Then again, maybe they'll be the suspicious type and hunt you down. Don't know until you try though!.

A 5 person corp is defiantly viable. It's actually really good in some ways. My last corp was really small. We did stuff like live in wormhole space. By the end of my stay in that corp we all knew each other about as well as you can via an MMO, I'm pretty sure every one of us either had directors roles, or could have had them if they had just asked. It's very tight knit if you get the right people. Now I wouldn't start out by giving everyone roles like that, it took a while to get to that point, just saying there are advantages. Even now, well over a year after that corp disbanded, we still all keep in touch via our own little channel.

Anyway, go live a little and see what's in that wormhole :P