EVE New Citizens Q&A

alt accounst are not only used; they are extremely common. While it is in no way mandatory (I only run one account and have been playing since 2007), plenty of people have multiple alt accounts.


That said, I would highly recommend against using a cap to solo rat in hostile space. You will pretty much just explode horribly and there is very little reason to. Carriers don't do enough damage to be useful in that capacity over, say, a BS...and dreads will not track anything smaller than a battleship (And sometimes not even those).

Capitals are not solo assets. You use them in fleets. Their combat abilities are generally PVP-oriented.



Er, how am I supposed to interpret "get right where the goods are"? You mean you want...to make a lot of ISK? Well, if it was easy to make bullshit amounts of ISK then everyone would be doing it and it would quickly lose value, such is the nature of EVE.

Dedicated traders can make bullshit amounts of money (billions a day, easy) but you have to be extremely good at this type of thing, having an eye for the market. Also, before you make dumb amounts of money you need a lot of capital. Manufacturing is similar and can also net a lot of money if you do it right.

Incursions are the flavor of the month, giving a lot more ISK than hisec missionrunning for almost the same risk, though these are likely to be nerfed soonish. Wormhole PVE is also egregiously profitable in the higher WH classes (E.g. stuff you can't solo).

0.0 exploration can make rather good amounts of money as well.


There're tons of ways of making money, so your question is a bit vague.




If you really want to solo you're going to need some sort of insanely bullshit passive tank boat (many level 5s and high-level DED plexes have neuting towers), like a rattlesnake or a tengu. It will be slow, though, due to poor damage output. Also, everyone and their mother will want to gank a Tengu/Rattlesnake.




I suppose in theory you could use a carrier to do these (it does have the tank) but I wouldn't recommend it. It might be easier than trying to get a rattlesnake into hostile space, but either of those seems suicidal to me.

If you already have a carrier, why would you need a second cap ship for logistics? Clone vat bays exist on rorquals and titans, but I don't see why these would be that necessary.

As far as a mobile base goes...carrier would be pretty decent at that. If you really wanted to go through with your plan I would recommend carrier loaded up with your PVE ships. I still don't think it's a fantastic idea. but it's your call.



...Can I ask why you insist on doing everything solo?

Losing ships is part of EVE. You will never avoid it.. and flying solo, especially with caps in 0.0, is far, FAR more risky than flying with an alliance. The chances that someone in your alliance is going to tackle you and explode your caps is infinitesimally small compared to the chance that you get tackled in a plex.

Trust has to be given at some point. You survive by being intelligent, not by being irrationally paranoid of everything.

Fortunately, you should be considerably less vulnerable by the time you get the skills to fly caps.




This isn't something you want to worry about in the short term (although a corp of some sort is always a good idea). You will not be flying caps for probably about a year or more. The skill ,game knowledge, and ISK requirements of caps are very high. Set your sights on something more...modest in the short term. Since you seem to really like the nomadic lifestyle, I suggest looking into exploration or maybe wormhole living.

TL:DR = You are rushing things in EVE, sit down, take a breath and relax. It takes more then just in-game skills to fly ships, it also takes actual skills you learn by playing EVE to fly ships, so start small and work your way up. Also EVE is a MMO and a lot of things in EVE are made to be done in groups. Also you should not even be near a carrier for the first months, train up decent support skills first and then take your time to learn actual skills how to fly such expensive ships around. *my most used example, when you learn to drive a car, you don't start in a racing car either, you start 'small and slow' and if you have the skills you work your way up*

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You will loose your ships in EVE, it's not a matter of IF you loose them but WHEN you will loose them. There are ways to minimize risks, first is have the actual skills to fly a ship around (real skills, not in-game skills) and also some ships (like capitals for instance) work best if you are backed up by a group of players. If people see that a carrier is solo ratting in null-sec, they WILL probe you down and tackle you. What happens after that is 2 options: first is a large sub-cap fleet jumps in and start shooting down your carrier or you will see a cyno pop up next to you and then a lot of (super)carriers, dreads and/or titans land on you (all with not so friendly intentions) this cause everybody in EVE wants a carrier kill on their killboard and PvE fitted ships aren't good in PvP. So take your time to get into carrier, start with frigates and work your way up. Get to know how EVE works etc.

On the massive ISK making spot: If there was one, all players would have been there and all I had to say, go where the others go. Luckily EVE doesn't work this way, EVE has a nice balanced market etc and also every thing you can do in EVE can make you a lot of money. All it takes is knowing what you do, some skills for it and mainly time investment. You can make billions from station trading if you do it right, same for missions / ratting or production. That is what makes EVE different from other games, there is no real ultimate thing to do, it's a sandbox, if you want to build castles, build them, if you want to shoot castles, shoot them, etc.

On finding a corp to join: Take your time, research corps that spotted your interest. Look up what they do, how active the are, what history the corp has, etc etc. Just don't rush into the first corp you see and also only join a corp when you have a 'good vibe' with that corp (only way I can say that, just follow your own feelings) Also keep in mind certain corps won't let you in as you are a new character (specially null-sec corps, as they are paranoid and think every single new character is a possible spy), so like with ships, start small and work your way up. If this means you have to switch corps a couple of times, that shouldn't be a problem. Only thing I can suggest, if you leave corps, do it in a nice way and try not to do it very often. Your corp history is public and if it is a huge list some corps won't accept you as you are a corp jumper, and also a lot of corp contact your previous corps to see 'how you were' when you flew with them.
If you in the future join one of the larger alliances (btw, you can't actually join an alliance as a player only corps that are part of an alliance) it will involve some sort of politics (wars against others, friendly and enemy alliances etc.)

Null-sec: when you go into null-sec you should consider all your ships lost already, they will be shot down eventually. Also SOV null-sec means you will be hunted till you leave or you get killed. NPC null-sec is possible but keep in mind even with local open and a safe-spot you aren't safe. In your safe, if the enemy has a decent prober he will have you probed in about 1 minute (specially if you are in carrier with high sig-radius). And warping straight to a station is also dangerous cause of the bubbles that are possible to deploy around stations. The only 'safe' way to hide is inside a POS, even when you are in a player corp you can put up a POS (when you have the roles for it) and only open it to yourself. They are safe as you are protected by the forcefield from direct hits and if they want your carrier they have to kill the POS first. If you stront the POS it will go into RF-mode so you will have time to get out.

Forgot the rest of my post.

Golden rules of EVE:

1.) Don't fly what you can't afford to loose (this means any ship you fly, your wallet should contain ISK to replace that ship 1 or 2 times, if possible even more).

2.) Don't trust anyone you don't know in real life. (EVE is harsh, this means trust needs to be earned and shouldn't be given to just everybody.)

3.) If it sounds to good to be true, it usually is. (Always read any screen you see, double (hell even tripple check) anything before you accept it (specially trade windows and contracts).

On your points:

If EVE can't be played solo it isn't my type of game:

Yes you can play EVE solo, but it IS a MMO, so the best (and usually best paying things) are made to be done with others. If you want to play EVE Online with the attitude to make best use of it, best to play it with a group. If you can't do it, yes EVE Online isn't the right game.

If EVE is purely base on screwing other over it isn't my type of game:

EVE is different then other MMOs, it is free with almost no GM involvement. So scamming is allowed, if you use an intelligent approach of the game, you likely won't fall for scams. Also it means that it is possible for spies and thieves to infiltrate corps and wreck havoc in there. This is part of EVE, if you don't like that it isn't your type of game. EVE is free, not a MMO that runs on rails and you won't be led by the hand of a GM.

Tip: drop the paranoid attitude and play a GAME and enjoy it.

Now you make me wonder what you had posted originally

To back some point up on this:

1.) Agreed, Sub-caps are way more fun to fly and if you can fly all 4 races up to for instance battleship you will be of much more use then when you can fly for instance an Amarr Carrier, being good sub-cap pilot means you can do a whole bunch of things, being a capital pilot limits what you can use it for. *Sub-caps are as good as a carrier in null-sec anomalies and low-end complexes, and like solo battleships they will struggle in higher-end complexes*

2.) Indeed, alts can take care of the negative sites of EVE (for instance salvaging while your main runs missions, haul while your main mines, etc), biggest point is being effective. Alts can help you be more effective in what you do, but you have to know what your main is going to do, and what your alt is going to do.

3.) Ships are just tools to achieve your goals. T2 ships with faction fits (how nice and expensive they look) will only get everybody after you. Like said, this counts double in high-sec, as all the suicide gankers will be after your tears when you loose the ship.

5.) Agree, grinding *unless you really like it* is utterly useless in EVE, EVE has no end-goal, EVE is what you make of it. Also I started as a miner, still happily doing it from time to time, but it will get boring if you do it day-in day-out. So I cross trained and now are a miner/industrialist who can do be a jack-of-all-trades in other things (I can run missions and PvP, just not as good as a dedicated mission runner or PvP guy does them).