EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi Guys,

This is my second attempt to post this query.

I'm a new citizen, 27 days old, and really inexperienced playing mm games. Eve is my first and I'm having a blast.

I've spent a lot of time reading and thinking about what I want to do in Eve, now that I've "graduated" from the tutorials, and am working on the Sisters of Eve arc. And before I settle down to a serious career, like exploration, I've decided like many recent graduates, to go on a Road Trip!

I was studying the star map one night and saw the name Curse, and that did it. I knew what I wanted to do -- go to Curse.
The Long Way.

I plan to go system to system, no autopiloting, striking up conversations in the local chat along the lines of "what lies ahead", picking up work (mission running, ratting, mining, etc.) as I go along. No two days alike, nothing rote, every day new and different, and exciting.

Now, I know this will be hard, given my inexperience. I know I will be scammed, suicide ganked, threatened, bullied, and just generally pushed around. I know I will die, alot. I plan on it. I plan to leave corpses from here to Curse. They'll probably become cheap souvenirs they'll be so many of them. Because given my inexperience practically everybody can outgun me.

But I want to do it.

I can try to outwit, sneak by. and team up to make it. And I think it will be fun.

But I have two questions:

1. Is this even possible? Or am I so new, I just don't know it isn't.

2. I'm currently flying Tristans, Catalysts, and Tormentors. Any better ideas?

Thanks in advance guys, this forum has been a valuable source of information, and laughs. And just for the record, to rebut something I read in rookie chat, this cute toon is neither balding, fat, middle aged, nor male. Kisses, ya'all.

Also, for the beginner. I'd say that a Stealth Bomber is the best ticket for you to get into if you so desire to fly around null npc space solo to go look and see. SBs are hard to catch when flown and fit correctly.

If you want to see a real mess, just head towards fountain. I can assure you that no matter which way you go down there you find a quick demise.

If you want to have some fun though, fit a cyno gen on your ship and if you get tackled just activate it. You'll die regardless, but the other fleet will likely panic and scatter to the 4 corners as they will think you are a cyno alt about to drop 100 carriers and dreads on them.

I think your idea is a good one. You could have a great time.

One some issue however.... At some point you will get prodded. This isn't a disaster, but it does mean that you will get a free ticket back to your starting system. This isn't a problem unless you anticipated dieing and resuming your journey from where you met your demise.

Curse mmm, home of the Angels :) ?
Before you leave High Sec. try playing with F10 = Map. Learn it, study it, make important note of the statistics it provides. If you're desperate to go it alone, i'd suggest avoiding Doril, go North then south into Curse by Great Wildlands.

You want a frigate with a cloak. a Stealth bomber in particular.
You NEED to learn how to make safes, tacticals, insta-undocks and use D-Scan from Celestials near to each gate you intend to jump through.

Study the map and statistics for the regions/constellations you plan to fly through over time. Spend some time playing with dotlan, keeping an eye for when choke systems are busy (read: when gate camps are frequent.)
Be willing to play the clock and Intl. time zone game.

If you make it into Sound & docked at a station, get in touch :)

Most likely you will die often. Curse can be a fun place to be but it is definitely a hostile environment for a solo player. There are bubble camps on most of the gates there. Little traps to catch people who travel gate to gate. There are lots of small gang pvpers looking for easy kills. The region is null sec so there is no need to "suicide gank you they are free to kill you at will and will try to do so.

Picking up intel by asking in local isnt likely to be useful to you. Folks will lie to you to score an easy kill on the other side of a gate. Your best bet would be to find your way into a corp that lives there.

Money making is possible. Curse has angel missions and angel LP can be spent on dramiel and cynabol blue prints which sell fairly well in high sec or even in curse for that matter.

Thanks everybody for the replies.

I lost the first ship (and got podded, to boot) I took into lowsec, so nothing new there.

But I think it will be fun.

And I expect everyone to lie to me.

But this is the time to do" young and dumb" in this game.

Thanks again.

If I see you out in Curse - my corp hangs out there quite a bit and I will hopefully soon be joining them in their- I'll do my best to to see to it that you aren't harmed. At least not by us.

For some further inspiration, google/eve search INNOMINATE NIGHTMARE

You will apprear on the overview for a second before cloaking an the interceptor will approach to you, simple as that. I'm not talking about drag bubbles. How can you warp off when you are inside of a bubble? Please think before posting.

Let's say you jump thru a gate. Then the grid loads and in your overview you see a few ships. The dictor bubbles you but it doesn't matter because Icarus Able has the first interdictor nullfied bomber in history and he warps off like a boss.

Hi Guys,

Thanks for all the info. I made my first attempt to reach Curse August 3rd, and I made it! According to my star map, I traveled 43 gates in nullsec, 13 of which were in Curse. ( I manually piloted all the way to Curse, auto piloting doesn't come till later.)

I was bubbled twice, attacked by drones, fired on by 3 humans, and chased by 3 other pilots through a number of systems. I also ran into 2 systems that were full of pilots, but no one accosted me there. No one talked to me there either.

I had expected to be podded early on, so following that old eve adage, don't fly what you can't afford to lose, I took my Atron. Well, had I known I would actually get to Curse on my first try, I would have prepared better. I had no cloak, no way to hide. So, I got on my corp channel and consulted with my corpies about what I should do to get back.

You see I couldn't find anybody in Curse to kill me, every system I traveled to was empty. And I loitered. And as it was almost lunch time, I didn't want to pilot back to home. Numerous suggestions were made among which was self-destruction and auto-piloting back. Well we voted and auto-piloting back won. I've since counted and I had to travel through 15 gates in null sec, most of which were in Curse, on auto-pilot to get back to losec.

So we place bets as to how many jumps it would be before I would be shot down, and I hit auto-pilot. Five, seven, and ten were favored estimates. I picked seven.

And we watched. And watched. And watched.

And no one ever even shot at me. I made it all the way home on auto-pilot. Sort of anti-climatic, in comparison to the trip out.

But it was fun!

Thanks again.