EVE General Discussion

How would a corp rightfully prepare to move into a low sec or even null sec area? What kind of numbers would they be looking to have before moving? Are capitals required to move out to those locations if you intend on staying out there on a semi permanent basis? I have been Hi sec my entire Eve time and recently joined a corp that is looking to expand into the "Wild West" of Eve and it would help if I knew what to prepare for.

Thanks!

Never bet the farm on something that is 90% likely to not pan out.

Don't pack up all your stuff down to your last piece of scrap metal and move it all out to low/null. This is always my advice to everyone. Especially mission runners trying to transition. I tell them to leave all their stuff in high sec and get new stuff for low/null. Maybe liquidate some stuff to finance the move but leave a decent mission running infrastructure in place in case the evil Kat Skat splats you in the face and melts all your stuff.

Try to find an alliance that will have you in null and skip low sec. Null can be quite fun, and easier to do if you join an existing group. either try to get your corp joined in to an alliance or get absorbed by another corp that is in an alliance.

Join an established alliance. They will usually have diplomatic understandings with their neighbors - won't stop them from shooting at you, that is considered desirable content - you're welcome to shoot back. They will also provide the knowledge and experience needed to survive in that corner of space, fleet doctrines and SRP, ADMs for mining and ratting, jump freighter service, etc...

Like most things in Eve going it alone is doing it the hard way.

Capitals are not needed but if you plan to move far away from HS having a semi-competent JF pilot helps.

If your group wants to get into small gang stuff and be independent, NPC null or some low sec pocket is a good start. Look into geopolitics, atm you don't want to be in Stain for example as the risk of a capital blob 3'rd partying everything you do is high. It will take time but after shooting each other for a month or two you will become friends with the locals. Fly cheap pvp fitted ships until you learn the region, establish intel networks, logistics etc.

If you into tidi blob fights and/or carebearing while being 2'nd grade citizens joining a renter empire is easy and you have everything on a silver plate. If your only goal is isk/h and don't want to build/ learn stuff from ground up i'd go with that.

Semi-permanent is bad, you want to have constant presence, even if it's 3 people. You probably won't want to go back to the tutorial zone anyway.

Expand into lowsec? eh, nothing is required, just do it. If any cheeki groups want you out of "their" space, just blueball them, usually fun to watch them spend their whole free day just to get you, while you meme around

do some day trips into low/null and get a feel for it, even a few frigate roams will help you out. Good to scout out areas, you want to know a bit about where you are going to move to. some pockets are rather isolated meaning you won't get much traffic, that's a good or bad thing depending on what you want. Some systems might be too busy. You will probably lose some members along the way, living in low/null sounds cool as a newb but there are a bunch of changes you didn't think of, and some can't handle losing ships.

Tuttomenui II's post is pretty much spot on, when I moved to low I kept all my mission stuff in Irjunen and took a few ships down to Ihakana and slowly moved more stuff either from stuff I already had or bought in jita. Always good to set up a fallback plan.

I've never seen a solo corp survive in Null Sec. I guess not that I am looking at the corps, out in Null Sec you pay attention to Alliances.

If you go with just your corp, good luck.