EVE New Citizens Q&A

So you should not fly what you can't afford to lose. I got that so now I only fly stuff which cost 1/10 of the money I got. However the problem I have now is that, everytime I die and want to get in a new ship, I have to spend upwards an hour to get all the modules for it.

That is boring. Any tips on how to reduce this downtime?

keep a cache off fitted ships at or near your clone, buy mods you will use regularly in bulk at trade hubs, for meta gear this actually shouldn't be too expensive, and then have the hulls + modules moved for you by either an out of corp alt or a buddie with one (though you can do this yourself but if you have any active wars you will have to be faily carefull) .

Why? To grind the money or to find the mods?

If the latter - go to a market hub. There are a few systems in EVE that players have designated as supply depots and they have all the common mods you need in one place. In approximate order of size they are...

Jita, Amarr, Dodixie, Rens, Hek

Jita is MUCH larger than any of the others, but you should be able to find t1 and t2 mods for your ships at any of them. Once you get to the system, just check which station everything is sold at and you'll know where to dock.

Also to save time, once you have the fitting just right, save it, in the ship fitting window- that way if you buy 4 of everything, and have them in your home station, all you do is activate the hull from your ship hanger, open saved fittings, hit the fit ship button, and bam ready to get blown up again. saves time.

Usually I keep a plethora of different ships stocked. If I die I hop into one of them or an interceptor if the distance is far. If you don't like buying bulk all the time you can save fittings in the quickbar in market to streamline the process a bit.

Best option is to spend extra time before hand preparing your ships so you can quickly re ship.

I have played Eve for three periods, none lasting more than a few months. First was when it was released, played for a couple of months and quit. Then again 2-3 years ago, and that was when this character was created, think I played and trained him for 3-4 months and then quit. Currently he has just under 10 million SPs and I got about a billion ISK to play around with, which I got for selling my previous character.

Haven't had much luck with corps to be honest as they either were a bunch of semi-active players or just wanted cheap labor. The current one I am in seems to be pretty cool, wormhole corp and all, but they are pretty small which probably suits me as I am not that social of a player. I will see how it turns out as I really want to get into some wormhole PvE and PvP.

In any case this game have such a huge potential but for some reason I keep getting bored and quit. Everything worth doing in the game seem to have a huge threshold except the most boring activity, which is doing missions. Trying to get into incursions but they public corps I have seen so far have pretty stringent requirements on ship and fittings. Currently training to switch from T2 tanking to shielding as that is what they require.

Want to get into Faction Wars but the threshold seem pretty high on that as well. I feel Eve needs to be a bit more accessible, it is a game after all.

Anyway, what kind of recommendation do you have for someone who likes to solo most of the time with the occasional team activity?

You said you had about 1b to play with, this is more than enough for a substantial FW stash of ships. When I started in FW as a new player I made a stash of about 50 condors plus enough modules to fit them (and play around with fittings) most of my fits were around half a million (t1, cheapest meta I could find) I then proceeded to get blown up several times a day until I had the hang of things and had found a fitting I liked. I then made a new stash of about 50 condors, this time t2 fit (a few mill per ship) and continued my practice of getting blown up a lot.

You need to spend some time hauling all the stuff around (if you don't outsource it) but once your stash is set, you're good for weeks. If you fly t1 frigates a lot, another option is to buy a BPO for it (they're about a few 100k) buy minerals from the local miners and build your ships at your base, then you only need to haul the modules, 50 ships worth of mods will fit in a t1 industrial easily, thus saving on hauling time.

Didn't know this...great tip, thanks! :)

FTFY

Seriously though, everything that he said is spot on.

It's perfect! :D