EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi all,

I'm very new to Eve. I'm currently enjoying pottering about doing exploration in high sec. Going to even brave Low sec this weekend eek!!

Reason I'm here is i'm wondering what (if anything) goes well with exploration. I appreciate it might not be that simple. but any input will be welcome. Not even really sure what else is out there. It's a big scary place lol.

Thanks

Vhela Purvanen

Rig production has low skill requirements, and you'll be looting many of the materials needed from relic sites. As such, that's a second 'job' that you could easily combine with exploration for some extra profits. You will however need to do some research to figure out which rigs are worth producing (sometimes you earn more ISK simply selling the raw mats instead of turning them into rigs.)

Gas huffing. The skillbook is expensive but it's decent income after and it fits with all your scan based explorations kills.

Thank you all.

I'm leaning into some solo PvE at the moment.....low level stuff. I believe it's called ratting?

Just need to decide what ship to do it in lol

Hi-Sec exploration can be disappointing since a lot of the times the sites get picked clean quickly so you might be scanning for a while before finding anything and then when you do the pay-outs aren't that big. Low class wormholes and empty nullsec pockets are where the isk is.

As others mentioned there are some other some industries that go well with exploration. Gas harvesting will let you capitalize on any gas sites you find, the salvage you get from relic sites can go into rig manufacturing, the datacores and decryptors you get from data sites can be used for t2 BPC invention, etc. But as others also mentioned a lot of the skills for these professions have little overlap with other in-game activities.

There are also combat sites that can be found through scanning so many explorers will just train exploration and combat skills so they can run those sites and sell any loot from data or relic sites on the market.

The good thing about knowing how scanning works is that you learn to understand how other people can/will find you in space, this will help you to avoid getting in trouble over this.

Beyond that there's a bazillion things to do in EVE and they all can make isk, so you might as well pick something you actually enjoy doing and keeps you entertained. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, stop doing it.

Yeah, it's in a system called "New Eden", in Genesis region. I had been there once when I was an exploring newbie and jumped into a wormhole blindly (and I found some good loots there :D).

You can visit the system but not the gate itself, it's just in the star background. Still, kinda cool.

Pretty much everything blends well with exploration.

PvP leaps to mind first. You can hunt other players as well as defend yourself rather than flee when attacked. This opens up things like purposely baiting others, or active hunting, or staking out a site and sitting cloaked waiting for someone to enter. It lends itself well to having a friend or two around to call in back up or just whore on a KM.

Industry. Do something with all that loot. Melt it down and make something cool. Haul it all to a market and sell high. While you are hauling your own loot, might as well take a player contract to move stuff instead of wasted space in the cargohold. There are many small things you can do to fill out an Eve session.

PI- if you are going to be in low sec, take advantage of the better planet rewards and stop by for some PI. It means more hauling but it's low effort income.

Ocean Ormand gives excellent advice for living in low sec. The key is to live where you work. The most dangerous part of your day is the commute- crossing from high to low or low to null is where the camps most often are. Once you are deeper into low/null, you can often go without seeing other players for hours. The only time you should be crossing that border is to sell accumulated loot.

The best answer is of course join a corp that does the things you like to do. These corps will usually offer things like loot buyback programs, jump freighter service, even escort if you need to haul your own stuff around. When I lived in the depths of Sov, my corp bought all my PI and loot (slightly under Jita price) - all I did was contract it over and get paid. Other than offering to light cynos, that was my total expended effort.

Level III is perfectly fine, you lose a bit more cans, but it's still worth a lot more than in low or high sec.




Stealth bombers can be a threat too if your drones skills aren't decent.



If you like exploration, I'd recommend training into Covops ASAP, even if you're a newbie.


You're wrong... C3 can have non-sleeper data/relics and they are the same sites as in C1, C2 or null sec. Shattered C4s can have these sites as well. As for the sleeper data/relics, they are quite easy to hack (and quite worthless) you just need someone (or you in another ship) to take out the sleepers.


I would recommend every new player try some PvP, if only to know what is required to catch someone and to kill someone. Even if you're a carebear, the more you know about PvP the better you can avoid it. T1 frigates are cheap, and there are plenty of new players flying around in them that you might even get some kills.