EVE New Citizens Q&A

Problem here is he is in Gallente space, it is highly undesirable to travel as far as would be necesssary just to mine some rock.


Unless they changed the mechanics very recently there is nothing stopping you from buying it.

I guess another alternative would be to train reprocessing and reprocess some of the loot you have until you have enough Nocxium but that would be fairly wasteful.

Just buy the minerals you need.

either I am reading it wrong or no one has done the mission (or it has been too long, or it has changed)

here is a snippet:



So am I reading that wrong? I don't want to buy the rest of the mats, only to find that I failed the mission. What do you think?

I did the Business, Security, Exploration, and Advanced Security careers. None of them forced me to mine the stuff myself.

It might be an outdated description than should be bug reported.

If it doesn't update properly. Post a screenshot of your inventory, your wallet transaction on imgur, and I'll cover your loss. But you shouldn't have any problem. What I did was went and mined the veldspar and scordite, and bought the rest with my alpha.

In every mission, look at the Objectives: line. That's what you have to meet. What the agent says is often just fluff.

For combat missions, you typically have to go exactly where the agent says, and kill exactly the NPCs that the agents says. Rescue exactly the damsel in distress or hapless miners or whatever that the agent says.

For mining missions, you typically have to go to the site and mine. Sometimes it's because the mission doesn't complete unless you wipe out the single asteroid that's there, other times it's because there are pirates that will appear as part of the mission that you have to kill.

For production missions, they never care where you get the mats. Sometimes they give you the blueprint, sometimes they give you the mats. Often they don't care at all, you can just ignore the ammo blueprint, for example, and just buy 5000 ammo from the market and the mission will be fine with it.

For transport missions, you have to pick up the stuff, move it to the destination, and dump it in the station there. If it's a single crate, you need a ship big enough to move it. If there are multiple crates, you can use smaller ships and multiple trips and just report success once you're done moving all of them.

If you want full spoilers, use eve-survival.org.

EDIT:
It's a computer game, something has to trigger the quest to complete.

If it's asking for ammo, ore, minerals, ships, guns, even ships, these things are generic, not unique. One unit of Veldspar is exactly the same as any other unit of Veldspar, the computer doesn't differentiate. Doesn't keep track where you get it from. Doesn't care.

When they want you to do a specific thing, they'll either have you fight a specific NPC, have to mine a specific asteroid, or they'll have you deal with unique items. For example, 5000 antimatter charge S you can get anywhere. "Large Crate of Ammo", on the other hand, will be a special-purpose unique item that can only be used for the mission and doesn't actually reload any guns.