EVE General Discussion

If you are afraid of making the jump to 0.0 (bear in mind, it is actually less stressful and arguably safer than high sec) then join a small corp that roams in null, or join a null alliance.

Get some experience in pvp, just fit 10 cheap frigates and head into low sec. Shoot everything you can scramble. Get the phobias out of your system and experience the adrenaline rush that no other mmo except eve can deliver. The risk vs reward equation doesn't actually matter, since you only fly what you can afford to lose, right?

1) Create a jumpclone with no implants

2) Buy a fast frigate with 1-2 Warp Core Stabilisers, speed mods and an MWD. Maybe fit a salvager or two because you never know what you might find, and a single bit of good T2 salvage will pay for the whole ship.

3) Open up the map and find a 0.0 entry system that requires a few jumps through lo-sec to get to, and which doesn't show many pilots active right now

4) Go look around.

General advice:

1) 0.0 gateways are all regional gates. That means they're enormous. It's actually rather difficult to directly camp those gates, so it's usually the other gates in the system that are camped. So you probably won't get blapped when you jump in to 0.0, but there's some danger when you try to go to the next 0.0 system.

2) A rapidly travelling T1 frigate won't elicit much response from the inhabitants. They'll shoot you if they find you stuck in a bubble, but they're unlikely to go to any great effort.

3) Make bookmarks! Safespots, ping spots (a bookmark 200km off the gate so you can warp to the ping, check the gate out, and warp to the gate or run away as seems best)

^ This.

Best bet is to join a ****** alliance like a renter or CVA. Learn the ropes and break the ice when it comes to living in 0.0 then move up from there. Trying to explain being in a ****** renter corp or CVA, however might be problematic later on though.

Actually, right now is the best time to experince null since alot of big alliances are starting major fights. null will be alot of fun this summer.

If you have the slightest inclination to want to get involved and be a team player, then nul sec corporations will grab you with both hands and hold you dearly to their collective bossom.

Its been 3 years now for me, and I was in the exact same position as you are. All I needed was a litttle push, and then a little adjusting, and I never looked back. Take the jump, then look for help and you'll never look back.

P.S. In case it has to be said - if it even smells like a goon, run.

Find a nullsec corporation to join, move to nullsec. Simples!!

@Op

Tell yourself the sooner you start loosing stuff and get used to, the sooner you will disconnect from this idea where pixels have value in real money or life time.

It's just pixels, yep sucks when you loose shiny ones, that's why every one and his grand father around will tell you to pick frigates and go for a ride until you get comfortable with null sec pvp, the area you will be playing and the people you'll be playing with too of course.

You might actually not do many stuff in your own corp but at alliance level, doesn't matter, the moment you're on once things get hot it's ok, if you like activities like mining or exploration/incursions there is always someone to do it with you or invite you, once you've met the good ones of course.

Take your time to find one that suits you but move, don't give a cent for whatever apply, don't move all your stuff at once and don't contract it to no one, just go there in a bomber or frig and build everything from the scratch because it's a very good way to learn how to do business over there.

The single best thing you can do is to overcome your attachment to "stuff". It was work to get it, true, but accumulation of wealth in this game for the purpose of accumulation of wealth will lead to burnout and boredom. It appears that CCP has intentionally designed the active ISK-generation in this game to be mind-crushingly boring.

Once you move to a point where you use ISK generation as a side job to fund your other (usually PvP-related) activities, you free yourself up from a lot of worry and stress.

And really, wormhole space is where it's at ... not Null. You have small gang warfare, often plenty of solo hunting opportunities, a bunch of tight-knit groups who will become like a family to you before long instead of treating you like a worker drone. You hunt, and are hunted, without the free Local intel channel; you can sneak up on your targets and they never see you coming until you're shooting them.

For better or worse, just about everything in W-space requires scanning; you can practice for this by looking for Combat, Grav (ming), Mag, and Radar exploration sites in hisec. I particularly like this reliance on scanning because it means that what I can do depends on how much effort I want to spend. I can blame only myself if I don't have enough to do and get bored. There are Mag, Radar, Mining (Ladar/Gas and Grav/Ore), and Combat sites in W-space, though they hit harder and reward MUCH more than anything in Hisec. PI in W-space ties with PI in Null for the top profit potential.

The other essential in W-space is cloaking. You fly around hunting (while being hunted) looking for a target who thinks he is safe, as opposed to flying around in Null shooting people who weren't smart enough to dock up when they heard there was a roaming fleet in their area.

Check out the recruitment forums and see what some of the wormhole corps are looking for. If they can give you some specifics on skill requirements, as opposed to "must have 20 mil blah blah", they probably have a better handle on things. Like Null, only take what you need.

This picture illustrates the difference between types of space rather accurately:

http://talocanunited.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/hilownullwh.jpg

Now, which looks more fun to you?

@Desert Ice78: Well, I like gang PVP more than solo, in fact I'm looking to get all my EWAR (ECM) skills to 5, which I got most of them on 4, and 2 on 5 now, also with EWAR, I'm planning for logistics as well... this not to completely remove the combat roles of course... but EWAR/Logi are first on the list for me

@Cipher7: I know what you mean exactly, I know a highsec corp wardec a FW corp who lives in low sec, once those mrces brought some ships into low sec near that FW corp and they got raped, so they dropped the wardec

Everyone else, Thanks! for the nice comments and advices, I think I'll find my way there through a corp or even go blow my ships there to get used to the 0.0 bubbles and traps and how people live there

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@Jenn aSide, I have no issue with losing ships, I got other alt, who lost tons of ships to the level I now smile whenever I lose a ship because that funny hull sound

But is null right for me? well, I want to get out of highsec, going low sec? well, I went there many times in small ships flying there and see how it goes, with the many pirates and chaos in there, I'll be forced into a situation of losing more than making money
Mining, mission running? that became the most boring thing for me now
So I got null left, with the new expansion coming, more manufacturing efficiency, plus I might get lucky with some good corp to start getting more serious in PVP I guess that what I want
What was making holding for me was the unacceptable loses I will get in my first days/weeks
But after all replies I saw, I guess once I get in there, things will become smoother more and more....

@Meytal: I have not given WH space much thoughts, but after your reply I will :D