EVE New Citizens Q&A

o/ there!

I'm the guy who writes Eve Travel, which was linked earlier in the thread.

The lifestyle of a tourist is definitely a feasible one. Heck, I do it essentially for a living. As a few others in the thread point out, its certainly not a lucrative career, but hopefully you won't be losing ships much so you won't need much of an income stream (I generally do exploration sites in low sec myself to keep myself afloat). Most people tend to do at least a little sightseeing in the game, but few people really keep it up as a full time or semi-full time job. It definitely is a different kind of game play than most people are really familiar with when they think of eve. Especially after you leave high sec space, the key is mostly to just keep as low a profile as humanly possible. If you're an alpha clone, that does limit you in a lot of ways, since you won't have access to either cloaks or the ability of interceptors or tech 3 cruisers to get past bubbles if you want to explore out in null sec. Realistically, that mostly becomes a problem to see the null sec space sights... its possible to get into most high sec and even low sec systems without TOO much hassle much of the time if you are patient and willing to wait things out a bit. Even null sec may not be out of reach if you're lucky (check wormhole connections! If you can't avoid bubbles that is probably your best bet for null).

Anyway, I'm rambling on a bit here. If you have any specific questions, either in terms of strategy for sightseeing or about the lore, I'm happy to chat, so feel free to either shoot me a message or chat with me if you see me online.

Fly safe, and I hope you get some awesome pics :-D

There are some interesting places you can find around the map. I suggest maybe doing the SoE epic arc. It will run you all over high sec while offering some decent rewards for a new player. It's not 'tourism' really, but isn't bad for setting you up to do it.

Look for videos online, I have seen a few where people find some really interesting and sometimes even unmarked sites. Strange that CCP puts stuff like that in the game but does nothing to promote anyone actually seeing it.

Of course a trip to the Eve Gate is obligatory. It's in deep low sec, but it's a pretty quiet region and last time I was there I never had to fire a shot.

WH are the best way to hobo around the galaxy, but of course can be dangerous places. One can just randomly start jumping thru connecting WH and end up across the map. It's a good way to kill a weekend.

Like Roy says:

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

In Eve...you can just clone over and over again though