EVE New Citizens Q&A

Rubbish.

Read up on how to make "safe spots". Read up on how to use dscan - both long and short range. Read up on probes, especially combat probes. Learn how to check local constantly. Learn how to check map statistics like pilots in space, pod kills and ship kills. Learn those things and you can happily take your favorite mission ship into low or nullsec and never, ever have trouble.

But hey, that's WORK, right? You'd rather just be lazy and have CCP hand you that shiny ship for free? Then you don't deserve one. Low sec has higher rewards for a reason - the risk is greater. But it's not impossible - you just have to pay attention.

A BS isn't helpless in solo PVP if it fits heavy neuts in a couple of high slots.

As for affordable ships that can do L4s in lowsec - Assault frigates can do them, just not fast (and you can't break the tank of one rat in "The Mordrus Headhunters" which SOE give a fair bit). With player skill, L4s can be done in a speedtanked tech 1 cruiser but this will take practice.

Then stay in high sec and quit complaining about how the mission rewards and bounties are so crappy. I'm not "looking down on you", I'm telling you how to do it and survive. Hell if you think real advice is an insult, then you are not going to go very far in this game.

Come to think of it, low/null are probably so bad to new players because there's no way to really ease them into it. You go from the protected, law-enforced world of high-sec to low-sec: where no law exists. There's no "easing" someone into the concept that EVE has entire sectors that can be, potentially, filled with jerks who will kill you for fun.

In high-sec you learn people will only kill you because you are carrying a ton of valuables in your cargo hold that makes you a juicy target. Or the occasional guy who is just bored and wants to gank someone.

Then you step into low-sec where people can kill you for zero reason at all. They don't even have to care if you have anything valuable. They can kill you just because they want too. There's no inbetween. There isn't like some area of space with minimal policing, some place where CONCORD exists but responds slowly and may not get there before you die, and then no longer care. There's just no way to really ease someone into the whole thing.

And then null is fundamentally the same lawless hell that lowsec is anyway.

Of course, none of the fear of low/null would exist if EVE didn't really appeal to gankers and griefers in those places in the first place, but I digress to another point entirely.

Just stay in high-sec. The benefits of low/null are higher, but you add an impossible to account for human risk factor everytime you go there. You can learn to master them, and probably have fun with it, but it's just safer to be in a part of the game where law and order exists, and where you don't need to just shoot everyone you see to be "safe".

Just wait until you find out about NPC agents in nullsec and the rewards you get there.... 11k loyalty points PER mission? Plus since it's npc space all the stations are dockable, and you really don't have to change your playstyle at all. Just have to be paranoid.

Like I said - it is not foolproof, but more information allows you to make informed decisions.

If you want the danger of low/null combined with the pve experience, try out the angels epic arc. Its a blast. Read guides about nullsec travel before attempting. It can be done easily in a t1 destroyer and gives about 300 mill in items for ten missions.

Requirements
Above -2.0 standings with either Amarr, Angels or Minmatar,
Above 3.0 standings with either Amarr Navy (Amarr), Dominations (Angels), or Republic Security Services (Minmatar).

Abiltity to fit and fly a t1 destroyer with decent skills, or an interceptor/assault frigate with good skills.
Decent piloting ability. (Understand how transversal velocity works to reduce the damage you take, the enemies are larger ships that your's with better DPS and tank)
MWD+ Cloak is strongly recommended for traveling. I fit dual prop for this and offlined the cloak before starting missions. The new anchor-able structures may make this easier.
10K Optimal+Falloff is recommended. A few rats have webs that will make it difficult to approach to blaster range. (I did this in a blaster catalyst, and a few missions were a pain).
Understanding of D-scan is required. Hit the scan button every 6 seconds on average.

1. Sisters of Eve epic arc fixes empire standings very quickly.

2. Why the hell would you want to go through all the trouble of putting up a POS in high sec? In low sec/null sec you don't need standing, you don't need starbase charters, your POS will defend itself, and they really don't get knocked over all the time. In fact it's quite rare, unless you put it smack in the middle of some big low sec coalitions territory. And even then they are probably willing to leave it alone in exchange for a "rental fee".

If you have earned enough standings to anchor a POS in highsec, you can set up a solo corp, anchor the POS, pass CEO roles to an alt that doesn't have any enemies, then your main can drop corp (or stay in it as you see fit) and can mess up their empire standings.

The only real risk comes from people wardeccing you to attack your POS after you've messed up your standings. If that happens, you can always move it to lowsec then. It's pretty rare to get decced if your POS is owned by a nearly inactive solo character, unless it is in a hotly desired spot. To make losing your POS less likely, look for a 0.6 security system (0.5 is in higher demand as sec requirements are lower) that is a 'dead end' (i.e. the system has only one stargate) and that is not within 3 jumps of a trade hub.