Missions & Complexes

Hi all,
I know, it's a noobish question, but I AM a noob (5 weeks in game)...

My understanding so far is: if I want to hunt NPCs, I can do three things:
1) do a mission from an agent
2) go to 0.9 to 0.5 and check the asteroid belts for pirates
3) scan for anomalies

As we are all noobs, we don't do any PVP and are afraid of 0.0... so my question is: we want more NPC fights, but don't find what we are looking for:

1) missions from agents are easily done by everoyne in "single play" (we build our standing but that's sloooow)
2) asteroid priates are hard to find and easy to kill in high sec
3) it takes me 5-10 minutes sometinmes to hunt down an anomaly... and then the fight doesn't take longer...

So can we, as noobs, do more NPC fights or do we need to have higher skills to do this?
(two of us fly Hurricanes, the rest something lower and all have low skills... again: five weeks in game ;)).

Any help is highly appreciated, thank you
Smo

Regarding missions: usually you get access to level 4 agent before you are really able to run those missions so maybe one or few of you could grind into level 4 and you would do them in fleet. Well, some L4s can be pretty drastic without proper skills and ships but maybe that would make enough challenge for your team and you could have it all: fun, teamwork, challenge, ISK.

Just saying, don't wait until somebody will "let" you play the way you want.

Belt rats are not worth it outside null, in low BS pays 500k max and they are very rare. In null I think 500k was lowest BS bounty, highest I ever got was 1.4 mil (I think it was for whatever is higher than angel saint).

Go to a 0.5 security system and open your scanner. Push scan (analyse) without launching probes. The results you get (if any) are called anomalies. These are pirate spawns. You can warp straight into them and kill pirates. The lower the security status of the system you are in, the tougher the pirates will be. It has been a long time since I did any of these, make sure you google the sites before you run them.

If it is only a question of mission difficulty, that varies wildly.
A good indicator for the individual difficulty is the time limit, the lower the easier.

However, no matter how difficult and no matter how few skillpoints you have, fielding two hurricanes (plus additional DPS - cruisers?) should make any L 3 mission doable......

If you are flying a battlecruiser, shouldn't you be easily able to solo a level 3 mission, regardless of your skills?

Incursions with Hurrycanes?

I know this is a bit late, however after reading this.

It's you and your mates and you want to have a challenge. Well done, Eve will give that to you.

Someone said its a sandbox, this is true. Another way of saying that is, do your own thing.

Eve rule #1 don't fly anything you can't afford to lose.... <---- we ignore this rule a lot. Though we shouldn't

Eve rule #2 without risk without reward

Do not google the anom sites with your mates, wheres the challenge..... no prob scan ... warp you and mates and go for it, whatever happens, happens.

you should not grind, nor should you and your mates be forced to skill anything. Eve is game to have fun in. Blow up some ships, get blown up and have a good laugh while doing so.

Eve is not going anywhere for a long time. So kick back, relax and ponder how you can rule the universe!

Welcome to Eve Online, enjoy the game.

I'll throw a few things out there for you to try.


Cosmos - Some very very old content in empire but may give you a bit of a challenge, lots of different things to run around and hunt down. Can pick up a lot of unique items (most are useless) will give some isk but not as much as grinding missions most importantly it will give you lots and lots of standing with the faction. Not too risky but some challenge in some places. minmatar cosmos guide.


Epic Arcs - will need some more standing for the faction ones of these (cosmos or fw standing might help) you should be able to run the SOE one now though. Mostly in empire but a fair bit more traveling which should be ok for groups of lighter ships. Oh and do not carry all your items in a t1 hauler and afk between places, pilot the ship manually to avoid suicide gankers.


Factional Warfare - Good for beginners just grab a bunch of rifters/thrashers and go roaming to try and capture a few plex. Do not bring your hurricanes out to low sec. You will die a few times but it's a good way to make friends/potential allies and get some pvp experience while also earning some decent faction standing. You'll also need to start picking up on a lot of other important eve skills such as knowing which systems to avoid, how to fit better, scouting, avoiding pirates in empire.


Wormholes/exploration - If any of you are trying out probing for some of the sites in empire (sort of the more advanced version of anomalies) you'll probably pick up a fair few of these. Their risky and fairly hard. You will want to read a few guides on things like weight limit before trying them.


lvl 5's - Out of your reach at the moment but if you have a bunch of pilots and are interested in challenging pve this may be what you are looking for. These may change somewhat in the upcoming patch due to AI changes so be careful until someone else has tried that out a bit more before jumping in.

Hey everyone,
thank you very much for the Input. We did our first incursion and are going to do some more, at least it Looks like a real challange. The income seems to be pretty low, but we do it for the fun, not for generating ISK.

You gave us some things to check and try out... still we try to avoid low sec/0.0, because it seems you have to be in a big alliance at least, before you can go there. And we just want to stick together for now...

... simply because we ignore Rule #1 constantly, lol :)

Yeah, why not? :) If they don't fail like the last BC - group I had..