EVE New Citizens Q&A

Ummm... if you are planning on going to Low-sec then I suggest you stick with the Heron.


A big, slow, beefy ship like the Gnosis can be easily pinned down and chewed apart by a half competent hunter-killer in a Frigate.

Understand; larger ships, while more powerful stat-wise, also gain more than a few weaknesses that pretty much necessitate that they be flown in groups and/or operated by a highly skilled person (character and player-wise).


What you are looking for are Covert-Ops ships and, potentially, Sisters of EVE (SoE) ships.
But both of those require that you have an active subscription.

Your fit will suffice, yes.

Don't be afraid to make modifications to it as you go.


Regarding the Gnosis;
- it is a "catch all" ship that doesn't really have a specialty per se.
- combat-wise, it is good, but not always ideal.
- for an Alpha player, it is the largest ship that you fly and probably the best bonused. But do go back and review the previous two points.
- it is technically a "special edition" ship. There is a limited supply of them in the game, so expect the price of one to increase with time (see: don't rely on it well into the future, they may run out eventually).
- it is used primarily as a mission-running ship




Also... since what you would like to do falls a little outside of my expertise...


I ask that someone else take over and flesh out what options the nubbin has in the realm of probing and salvaging/hacking/analyzing.

If you want to go to low sec then go, low sec can be a fun and profitable place to spend time.

With that said if you want to scan for drones and wrecks low sec is a terrible place to do it because it is a dangerous place to be. Because of the dangers involved in low very few people run missions or rat there. Because there are very few people who mission / rat in low there are not many drones to scoop or wrecks to loot / salvage. My advice if you want to scoop lost drones and salvage wrecks is to stay in high sec where there is an abundance of these things to find just remember that you cannot scan wrecks so you need to find them by scanning for the mission runners, or the MTU they drop.

In either low or high you would be better off staying with the Heron for this specific game play activity. The smaller size, greater mobility and the greater speed can help when things go wrong. Trust me please if you spend time in low sec you will get caught sooner or later and in the smaller faster ships you are more likely to get away, and when you cannot there is not as much ISK lost when the ship explodes.