EVE New Citizens Q&A

Normally:

5) Warp to signature at range cloaked. Bookmark hacking can next to explorer. Bounce to closest celestial and back to can cloaked. Uncloak and shoot.

Of course I remember how it was to be a newbie, I specifically target them for this very reason :)

Another trick I use is flying ships not commonly known for their pvp capabilities. Because who would run away when d-scan only shows lone venture, right? :)

Congratulations, next one will come easier :)

After looking at your loss: where is your ship? Killboard didn't update yet or you really are flying around null in your pod?

Seems to depend on which board you look at. BattleClinic shows a shuttle but no pod.

I checked zkillboard.com and there is only pod lost in null.

Areen, you might find killboards useful when you wanna check what kind of players are in local with you, just search their name and you will see what they lost/killed and whether they kill solo or in groups, etc.

Anyway, if you are explorer your priority is get loot from sites and survive long enough to make ISK from it. Losing ships is natural part of this process so no need to be shy about it just try to learn and be better next time.

^^What Cara said (not what I said).

Damn, this chick knows everything!

Oh, I realise that; it's all about odds. I don't set my eyes on a covops, because a Magnate - even with a cloak, etc - is dirt cheap, and I can afford to lose a lot of those. I went into lowsec a couple of times without the cloak because no Cloaking skill, and it turned out all right, but if I had been blown up, why would I care?

It helps that I never entertained the fantasy of PLEXing in the early months, subscribed with cash, so isk losses are just in-game.

Apropos of nothing: I used to play Puzzle Pirates; I was a subscriber, but they invented the idea of a thing bought with real money, traded on a proper exchange with in-game money, which bought you subscription rights. They also had an in-game poker implementation, and in later years I subscribed only to play poker with a currency that mattered, but that wasn't real money. I'd like to see that in New Eden.

Because one day you might be hauling 100mil ISK worth of loot in your cargo. Don't just plan on getting there in one piece, plan on getting the shinies back too.

So if you want to really go for null/lowsec exploration, first go for either covops frigate or Astero (Sisters of Eve frigate), and later on with a Stratios or a Strategic cruiser fitted for exploration and evasion, which means covops and interdiction nullifier subsystems. For nullsec a strategic cruiser is better than Stratios because it allows you to just punch through interdiction bubbles, so you don't have to worry about those. Obviously, whatever ship you take it should be covops capable because that gives you a much wider range of options when you run into trouble. Standard cloak is ok for hiding, but it's not that great when you are trying to be evasive.

Sure, those ships are expensive, but in Eve, you get what you pay for. However, first practice in cheap ships. So keep on flying cheap ships, but don't expect to make much of a profit. When you get reasonably confident, move on to more expensive stuff.

And yes, losing ships is a part of the game. But, play like you don't intend to lose a ship. It is actually really hard to catch someone who doesn't want to be caught and knows what they're doing.

It's not about wormhole but about J system it leads to. So you would have to jump through wormhole and look around: what class it is, what kind of effects it has if any, how many planets/moons are there, are there any towers at moons and if yes, are they active and who is the owner, etc.

Wormhole itself won't last long so buying it wouldn't make much sense although I guess that would make for hilarious story to tell around camp fire :)

If the J-whatever system is valuable to a buyer, you sit in there until you sell it.

Then you find a convenient path to highsec and show it to the buyer, who then occupies the hole himself.

You're basically selling a path to a wh system that someone else is interested in, for whatever reason (usually to colonize it).