EVE New Citizens Q&A

I am not familiar with your current corporation, so if they provide all of the below then great. If not, I want to echo the corporation advice. Joining a good corporation is critical to getting the full enjoyment out of EvE in my experience. Trying to do everything and learn everything by yourself is frankly very frustrating. There are some suggestions for newbie friendly corporations at the bottom of my response. If you have further questions about various options, please post them and people here will be happy to help.

The next question I would ask, what do you want to do? Take a step back and think about what you want out of the game? Are you the type of person who is doing all the manufacturing to support your PvP habit? Are you the type of person who really enjoys getting a lot of in game wealth and that is driving the manufacturing? The reason I ask is because your next steps will be very different based on what you want out of EvE.

If your more interested in PvP, I would recommend joining one of the corporations and focusing on their PvP tracks. Ask them also how to mine / manufacture more safely and they will almost certainly be happy to help you. Your fattening your wallet so you can buy PvP ships for fleets, and if your manufacturing your producing stuff for your corp mates to use. With the manufacturing changes, I believe this is only going to go up on the importance scale. If your more interested in wealth, join one of the corporations and focus your time on learning how to make yourself a non-viable suicide target while you do your mining / manufacturing.

As far as these specific suicide guys, getting your revenge on them is not impossible but much harder by yourself. You have to understand how they operate. They typically fly very cheap / very high DPS ships with no tank. They expect these ships to die due to CONCORD. They then have some cloaking / neutral alt in system to scoop up the loot after they kill you. Blowing them up is not necessarily the most effective response (but if its fun for you, go for it). Fitting your ship with a better tank / etc is one route to go. You are basically making it much harder to break your tank meaning that the suicide squad has a less likely chance of killing you prior to dieing to CONCORD. Even a single DCU II or Adaptive Invul II can make a huge difference.

Regardless of how you choose to respond. Take a look at these corporations to help you get started. EvE University is a very structured approach with class rooms on the various aspects of EvE. Brave Newbies is a more hands on approach but is taking space in Null Sec. That means you can enjoy all that fun while having a very large Alliance around you to help you out.

As for the corp... I founded my own, but not got to the recruiting point just yet for two reasons...

1. I realized I might need to join other corps and learn so last week I resigned as CEO and started to look for some corps to join but I am clueless how to chose one. If I need to move all my assets from where I am based now, it'll be a nightmare...

At my HQ my item hangar says 1bln and ship hangar says 3bln, not counting what is not here, or what is in buy orders or in lab jobs. I don't know if this is a lot or not but for a solo player, I don't feel ashamed.

2. Fiddling with a strategy for the future and not clear what I want to do. I want to find niches trying all I can, THEN start to recruit, maybe next year or so.

But at this point I am stuck on how to chose a new corp.

We were two miners when I got blown up and only defence was 5 drone. Not much to tank in a Retriever. When I heard the alarm and turned my eyes to the EVE monitor, I thought it is NPC pirates but looked into it anyway. I realised this is different, but shields where already done and armour was half. So my only concern was to spam the warp button with the hope capsule will at least survive, which it did.

I am not even sure if CONCORD showed up or not. I returned in few moments with a Drake, and see what I can recover from there but other than the ore and mining crystals nothing was there. They did not loot or salvage and no other wrecks there, other than mine and some NPC pirates I killed previously.

First, you don't have to move all your current assets when you join a new corp. I am guessing your HQ station is in High Sec. In other words nice and safe. That station is not going anywhere. Leave most things there for now as you venture you. Just take the ships you need right now. You can move things at a latter date if you decide to make a permanent move.

Second, take a look at the thread about how to pick a corporation. It has a lot of good advice in it. Based on everything you have said so far, I would recommend EvE University or Brave Newbies per above. Take a look at both, talk to their recruiters. Explain where you are in the game and that you want to explore all the game has to offer.

Finally, starting a brand new corp while being a brand new player is very hard. Your trying to do everything by yourself while learning one of the most complex MMOs out there. If your heart is set on it, then great and go for it. But I would really recommend joining up with one of the newer player friendly corps and learning from them. Besides, EvE is so much more fun with friends to fly with in my experience.

Well, the idea was to TRY, see how I can anchor, use, to prepare for it and learn about it. To check profits and see the logistics behind running it. I am probably able to test run it and anchor it in 0.6 space but then I realised I need to find a place for it. Then I monkeyed with the thought of moving in null sec somehow, but don't know how w/o a corp. Then I thought to anchor the tower just for a few days to see how it goes, how can I use its defences, who will attack it and so forth. How do I know all this? All guides on the internet are saying: it's not profitable. Maybe so, but I want to try it. I thought with few corps about helping me with it and they said, well, what do you need that for? Go for PvP! I removed those from my address book instantly.

I've read about POSes days in row, and still not clear how they go, how they operate and how to defend them. Or if they are worth the price. So I need to try even if it means blowing up 300 mlns for nothing, after all I blow those up, not gankers. And the price, helped me to understand and learn.

This is the game for me. Trying stuff and finding my own ways through learning. If we all follow the guides, EvE won't be probably fun.

The best defense is not being on grid when they land. At the worst you're already aligned and at full speed ready to warp out. One thing that lowsec has thought me is to keep an eye in local and make dscan your best buddy forever and ever. That way you get good situational awareness. Some common examples include:
"Hey now I was alone in local for 3 hours and suddenly there are 50 guys, hmm their names have red skulls in local I'm sure it's safe to continue doing what I do"
Any PVP'er will know there's a large fleet that's probably searching for you and try to pop you. So any one who's attached to their ship will naturally drop whatever they are doing and try to evade and/or hide from the blob. That's also applicable as a miner wherein you see flashy reds in local, you better scoop up drones and finish your mining op and start aligning to station. The moment you see them on long scan and you aren't aligned it's probably too late.

Another good analogy is no amount of wearable body armor will save you from a truck heading your way at 100 km/hr. The best way to survive is to just sidestep the truck. Same is true for a PVP'er and miners. If you see something that you know will kill you better leave grid. Of course if you were asleep (afk mining)when said truck was rampaging you deserve to get hit.

Please note that you can return to high sec anytime you want, so you dont need to get rid of your stuff.

Also, i would be very careful with just handing people your stuff. Some are genuine and will actually move your stuff for you, others.. not so much.

Good luck in 0.0 and have fun

Just curious.

I took a capsule with a different char and went inthere. Markets are empty and stations wont allow me to dock. Why?

Nothing's wrong. Just wondering how a 6-year-old player can be "totally new to this" and have so few ship skills.