EVE New Citizens Q&A

I just want to keep my personal stuff page so it easily fits in the area I have set aside for that kind of thing when I have it up on the screen. If it starts getting out of that range, I hop in my Nereus and do a clean up run. Other than that, I keep stuff in HiSec and Null Sec.

As far as joining a corp goes, just find one that does what you enjoy and gives you the freedom you want to have.

It is, but do try to keep some level of organization and method to the madness of having stuff in different places. It's also not uncommon to hear tales of people waking up after a few years to junk stored everywhere. Like a messy closet or lol bedroom ... all in once-upon-a-time "chaotic"-order... but really just a total mess. That really should be sorted and organized. The annoyance of sorting it all, partially centralizing & / selling off junk is quite real. Something you probably want to avoid if at all possible.

Usually Tau gives great advice.

However using a shuttle to AFK through High Security space is not good advice. In fact, never use Autopilot travel through High Security space and definitely don't AFK at anytime. It's pretty much guaranteed you will be attacked.

Using an Interceptor or Cov Ops Frigate for quick travel is ok, as long as you don't AFK travel on autopilot. Using a Blockade Runner (with Cloak) to transport assets is the best option to do. Again, never AFK travel on Autopilot.

As for assets building up in stations, just do a general clean up once a month. I suggest having a few 'Main' Bases Of Operation set up in various areas and use those to stage with. As your assets grow in other stations, reprocess the low level loot into minerals and use a good defensive tanked Transport ship to move the high level loot and minerals to your nearest Base Of Operation. There you can go through the high level loot and either sell, reprocess or keep the items, depending on it's value.

Since the level 1 SoE Epic Arc takes you through all of Empire space (High Security) and if you plan on doing Exploration as well as redoing the Epic Arcs every 90 days or so, probably be a good idea to set up 4 to 6 Base Of Operations in each Factions controlled space (Amarr, Ammatar, Caldari, Gallente, Minmatar).

I had let my assets pile up over the years into massive amounts of loot spread all over New Eden. Over 300 stations located in 21 different Regions which took me over a month to liquidate and consolidate most everything. That was a job I did not enjoy doing.


DMC

All good advices. In addition, try to get some third party tool (mobile or desktop baed, there are many) so you can check the value of your assets from time to time. If you live chaotically scattered everywhere, one accidental benefit is that at some point in yout EVE career you realise that you actually have a lot of assets and can have big chunk of ISK while you've been thinking you are space poor all along :D it's very troublesome to liquidate but if you can consolidate and liquidate suddenly you get nice cash injection you didn't really plan for or counted on ;)

More or less I agree with Tau. Except in a Leopard. People will shoot your afk leopard. Normal racial shuttles with empty cargo, with no war decks, the chances of someone shooting a newbie shuttle in HS is very slim.

Leopards are the best ship from going from end of HS to the other fast, bar none. Unless another special edition ship came out to fill the same role.

Now DeMichael on the other hand. If he were to fly afk in a shuttle, of COURSE he would get shot down. I'd do it if I were flying something cheap for the lols. Once people know your name, going AFK, ever, becomes verboten. If people don't know who the f- you are, then you're relatively safe. Which is why it's perfectly ok advice, to a total newbie in an npc corp.

Plenty of shuttle losses in HiSec, hard to narrow down to AFK stuff though.

Take Tau up on his offer if you fly AFK and get vaporized. He's essentially correct, an empty shuttle is not a target for most gankers, but he's incorrect that it's not a target at all, in that sense DMC is right as well.

A FREE loot fit rookie ship can take down a shuttle pretty rapidly. It essentially would only cost the aggressor security status.

You'd probably be victim of boredom as much as anything else, but yes, your shuttle can go down in HiSec if you just autopilot it. You never know what blows peoples skirts... case in point:

You're almost better off capsuling it if you have no implants because the capsule is free and has nothing to loot, not even the wreck... unless you run into some kind of corpse collector weirdo, and I say that in the nicest way because I've flown with a few. It's fun to watch them panic jettison their cargo hold when they jump into a system with Seekers on the gate!

I have multiple bases of operation, all with ships and junk, and I use either shuttles or jumpclones to move just my character around. Having ships ready at each base of operation means I don't need to move ships with me.

Otherwise, ALL my alts can fly an industrial hauler of some sort, to carry all the junk around if needed. And I'm not adverse to creating courier contracts to have junk moved for me; paying the typical 500k per jump isn't a big deal.

I also spend a bit of time at the end of each play session to "clean up" - dump all the valuable loot into a station container marked for the purpose, and reprocess all the worthless junk into minerals. I typically accumulate stuff over the week and sell what's in that loot can on the weekend (or at the end of the month).