EVE New Citizens Q&A

Looking for some advice on where to head skill-wise. Currently at about 8m skill points, have yet to make a billion isk.
currently i cruise highsec looking for combat sigs to run in a Hawk, and wormholes for data/relics. I don't like mining or running missions.
I understand that it isn't feasible to do sleepers solo, at least according to what I have read. I am interested in factional warfare. Prefer destroyers and frigates.

Am I missing something in exploration that makes money? In FW do you have to run missions to make isk? How much isk should I have before embarking in FW if I plan to stay in small ships? Is low sec ratting/anoms (in a frigate/destroyer) a feasible way to support a FW lifestyle?

BTW caldari frigs, missile skills, main shield and fitting skills all 5s

Rat in low after you know how to fit and how to run. Get combat skills only until you can fire T2 guns and use at least meta tank with decent bonuses or lower drawbacks. Learn how to fit ships for pvp and then cap FW plexes for isk.

Train social skills specifically for concord and standings increases after combat is high enough to serve you, since you will want to improve standings much more quickly, and keep yourself from being too bad standing of concord to use high sec, unless you want to go full pirate mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvOB4KXYk-o

What you're missing is the fact that it's "high-sec", which by definition has very poor rewards, and is very crowded.

Missions are popular because they bring the bigger NPCs that you'd normally only find in low or null, to high sec, and thus the rewards are increased.

FW is a PVP "battlegrounds" game, mostly capture the flag, and the rewards are indirect: you acquire loyalty points (LPs) with your faction, and then you can spend those LPs to buy stuff from the faction's LP store. It is up to you to spend the LPs wisely, on the ships or implants or modules that are popular on the market, so you can make some ISK. So you buy these things with LP from the LP store, and you sell them on the market for ISK.

FW is in lowsec, it's a war game (you'll have war enemies allied with the opposite factions, able to shoot you - and you them - anywhere), and as you acquire ranks and standings with one faction, you LOSE them with the opposite faction, to the point where they'll start shooting you even if you get out of FW. You can fix your standings, but it's a grind, won't be instant.

Finally, to join FW, you can join the NPC militia directly, as a solo member, or you can join a player corp that then joins the militia. The advantage of being in a player corp is that you'll have friends right away, and "bring friends" is the best way to win in any kind of PVP in this game.

EDIT: Otherwise, for exploration, the rewards are not in high-sec. Best loot is wormholes and null, and the sites CAN be done solo or in a small group, but not with frigates; the NPCs / sleepers are too tough. You'll have to progress to T2 or T3 ships; the higher tech offers increased (battleship) firepower and defenses in a smaller (cruiser-sized) hull, and/or critical capabilities such as cov-ops cloaks, probe scanning bonuses, and so on. There are multiple ships to choose from, including SoE cruisers, T2 cruisers, T3 cruisers, etc.

There are wormhole mapping tools:
eve-scout.com
Tripwire
Pathfinder

And you can find full details about w-space sites and the sleepers in each, on:
eve-survival.org

That is 2 evenings in a mostly T1 fit VNI.

And this is why people shouldn't talk about stuff they don't understand. As Stated before, you make some 200-500 mil a day if you do it right, I've been doing it for years and I've been helping newbies for years explaining it and making YT's on it. Little while ago I tutored a week old newbie, 2 weeks later he has over 1 bil isk and is flying a Cynabal. Not the best ship for it but given his faction choice it's pretty good.

The guide is really simple. Know the sites (it's on uni wiki), know the faction target/structure, figure out the fastest way to get to that target preferably avoiding as much as possible (this involves high tank fits, not ****** kiting clown ships/fits). Destroy it, loot it, leave. Don't loot other stuff, don't salvage other stuff. scan for a new one.

The devil, as always, is in the details.

Just do what you like!

For some people though, Isk/hour = fun/hour.

not sure why accumulating virtual numbers is so great and fun, but oh wells.