EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I got my ship ready to fly (well, with the cheap stuff anyhow) and I went out looking for people to shoot at me. I figured i'd make it a goal to go wander around before breakfast or bed and find someone to blow my ship up while I can still buy a new one with one trip in a Venture.

But i'm having a hard time finding anyone! I go out to low-sec, in systems with people in them. I see them on local, I see them on the scanner.. I don't see them at belts or in stations though, so I figure they're sneaking around at safe spots like I am (oops) and so I can't find them.

Of course everybody in the starter corp is terrified of low security space so they aren't out there either. I keep hearing that there's nothing valuable enough to make them risk it.

So all I saw was "nothing nothing nothing... terrifying assault frigate on a gate that i'm pretty sure I can't take in my dinky Atron on their way somewhere so I don't attack them.. nothing nothing nothing.. lots of people i can't find.. more nothing.." and I never actually got to get blown up. I'm at the verge of taking a trip through Syndicate, just because I figure at least that way i'd get to go "ooh look, bubble" before getting vaporized by a battleship.

Any tips?

Start ratting. If no ones finds you then you'll make money! If they do you have a fight, win/win!

Amamake is that way =====>

<====== Rancer is that way..

Want to live in low-sec....Go do it.

FW is also Low-sec based, so you might want to look into that.

Other then that, use things like dotlan to see where low-sec is busy (skip the 2 I posted about, they are smartbombing battleship heavy) and move there...

Quoting yourself in a 3rd person way makes you look silly

It's a good attitude to have, but if you get bored of looking for people, and/or don't want to join Faction Warfare (which is mostly lowsec, I think), RvB is definitely PVP on tap. Just this morning, I had five minutes before work and went out to lose a frigate (because I'm bad). ;)

Well even in 0.4s you'll get the occasional battleship, just make sure to keep your speed up so they don't one shot you xD

I once had a fight Punisher vs Punisher last for 10 minutes WHILE a battleship rat was shooing at me cause I was doing exactly what I said, ratting until a guy came along xD

You are looking for 1v1 as a new player, you will get tired of getting smoked. EVE isn't entirely 1v1 friendly for vets let alone new players. FW was suggested, and I agree Faction Wars is probably the ideal place to start if you want to pvp early on. Only downside is you will mess up faction standing for opposing sides: Amarr + Caldari Vs. Gallente + Minmatar... though you can join any faction. Otherwise you might want to pick up tackling skills/ship and find a corp that'll recruit you.

Also Tama, Old Man Star, Aunenen come to mind.

That's why we pod on gates

Hi OP, here are some suggestions you could consider if you're having difficulties finding fights in lowsec.

1. Rancer/Amamake: Rancer is not really conducive to finding fights, being as the residents, the united, are gatecamping pirates, which means less frigate pewpew more smartbombing BS. However, the surrounding systems have occasional targets as people pop in from the nearby trade hub, Hek. Amamake top belt used to be pretty hectic, but I'm not sure what it's like now. The systems surrounding it are quite target rich, but it may be hard to find frigate fights unless you request for 1 (and it's honored).

2. Pick a roaming route. One approach is to choose a route for roaming, say, 10-15 jumps preferably circular so you end up near-ish where you started. If the route you picked seems quite quiet, then look for a new one.

3. Target selection. As another poster mentioned, you have to decide what you're going to shoot. PVPers/pirates/carebears in low/FW'ers etc. This is likely to depend on the lowsec system you base yourself out of. Which brings me to my next point...

4. Pick a decent home system. The system you base out of will likely determine what targets are in your surrounding systems. If you have a PVE alt to sustain yourself, then you can pick any system you like (again depending on what targets you want). If you play mainly on one account, it may be better to pick somewhere relatively quiet (but not dead) with decent mission agents so you can run a couple when you're bored or need a quick injection of isk. Certain constellations may also have better exploration sites, but I'm not too sure if that's still true. By living near a bunch of mission agents, you get to probe down mission runners as well (bear in mind they may be in battleships), or if there are lots of explorers, you could set up traps with pre-probed sites etc.

5. Failing the above, just pop into a moderately populated lowsec system and ask for a 1v1 in local.

But most importantly, DO LEAVE THE STARTER CORP, as someone else mentioned, it's PVP poison if you stay in there too long. A good corp to join would be one near your lowsec home base with similar play time to yours. Don't worry about SP limits for now, most corps will take a new player with decent attitude and willingness to learn.

Don't get too attached to that atron, fly dangerous and good hunting o7