EVE New Citizens Q&A

depends if you can afford to replace it or not.
if yes then, yes go right ahead.
if not then keep her in safer areas

not saying that you will die ...
but if you get caught you will probably die.
not because of the fit but because someone will leverage numbers,experience or just brute force mob you.
dont take this as a knock , anyone solo will face these challenges

as a general rule i dont like flying anything that represents more than about 20-25% of my net worth solo in unfamiliar circumstances.
keep it cheap till you explode a few times get the lay of the land

I would not risk... You have only 4 missile launchers.

Ibis

Just get that rookie ship, fly into lo-sec with a superfly
attitude and mess around and take potshots until they
podkill you. Repeat.

Learn safe bookmarking and play "catch me if you can".

In other words: get used to dying, kiting fleeing et.c.

Posting the fit you're going to be using is making it much more likely that someone will have something to counter it easily.

There's no "good enough," not really. There is always something that can destroy you.

Flying through lowsec isn't too bad, just take a look at jumps/kills in the last hour/24hrs on your map, and fly accordingly.

No guarantees, though.

Missioning in lowsec, though, keep an eye on local and DScan at ALL times. You'll be in your own little pocket of space, so no one will be able to warp right to you like they could if you were in an anomaly, but they can scan you down quickly. Have Probes visible on your overview and DScan. You want to watch for Combat Probes, specifically. Core probes are not for scanning down ships.

Get somewhere safe-ish and check the killboards of the people on local. If you see someone has lots of kills in the system, pay very careful attention. If they tend to use cloaky ships, maybe move on. Be aligned to something at all times and warp the second you see another ship. They WILL be fitted for PVP, and they likely have friends who will be, too.

I'd recommend flying something somewhat cheaper until you get a better handle on lowsec flying. Most (if not all) of the escalations can be done in a non-faction cruiser with a decent fit. And don't post your fit, you're just hanging a target on your back!

Fly any thing that you can afford to lose, just fly it where you know you won't lose it is more of my kind of expression,

There are a couple of things you can do.

1. On zkillboard, in the Search box, you can enter a solar system name. That will bring up all the kills for the solar system. Look at common names, see what ships they use, is it the same corporation / person, and get a feel for how active the system is.

2. On dotlan you can look at stats for a solar system and the surrounding systems. You can look at ship kills / pod kills, by hour, by day etc. See how active the system is, whether the locals operate at specific times, say Euro primetime and so on.

I use http://zkillboard.com/

(Poster above me described details.)

When I started playing EvE, I was mining in a hisec island (hisec system surrounded by lowsec).

Lowsec is not some scary place you should never go. Rather, when you go there, you should be more cautious, and don't risk more than you can afford to lose.

Nulsec requires a bit more caution, but it too can be largely navigated without too much trouble. I think my record is around 46 jumps in a Corvette (rookie-ship) before I got stupid and made a mistake.

How likely you are to loose your ship in low sec has little to do with what you are flying, how it is fit, or how many skill points that your character has and everything to do with how skilled you are as a player.

Keep in mind I lump your skills to make friends and fly with them as part of your Eve skills.

Essentially what I am saying is that if you don't know what you are doing and you don't have any friends to back you up then expect to loose whatever you fly into low sec fairly rapidly.

Even once you learn what you are doing and make some friends you can still expect to loose your ship in low sec. It is just that then you might get in on a few kill mails before you get relieved of your ship.

I consider low sec to be by far the most risky of all known space. Wormholes with high sec statics might be more risky but to me it's a toss up. I find null sec to be far safer than low sec. However that is assuming you are in blue null sec space with access to intel channels. Flying into red null sec that is in close proximity to empire can probably be more dangerous than low sec.

Of course everything in this game is relative and you can find low traffic low sec systems where you can sometimes be the only one in local for long periods of time. But again this brings us back to knowing what you are doing which you don't yet and you won't until you do which requires experience which keeps circling back to fly cheap and learn from each encounter. With each lost ship you become more experienced.

At some point you will have lost a lot of ships in low sec PvP at which point you will be an experienced low sec PvPer.

TLdr;
Fly cheap = learn cheap.

If you think about EVE in terms of being a sport rather than a cruel psychotic all encompassing vendetta, you're probably going to be in good shape. You'll lose, sure. Everyone does. Oh, well, you lost the fight, nothing personal, now figure out if they really are psychos or if they are just in it for the sport themselves and can give you feedback.

Maxim 70. Failure is not an option - it is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.