EVE New Citizens Q&A

I am new to the game (as in I started roughly 9 hours ago.) and I have a few questions.

1) I may have been mining for ISK, as some of the minerals have moderate yield and it is easy for someone with just a venture and no skills. I do want to move up/away/beyond mining though. Any recommendations? I would rather not engage in PvP at this point. I want more experience and a better ship before then.

2) I have heard High Sec space is more dangerous than low sec. Is this really true? Is suicide ganking really that prominent?

3) I want a better ship, and I don't mind working for the ISK to buy it. I would like a better ship for killing things, and for general use. Any recommendations?

4) Is there anything else I should know? What about scanning? I am having trouble figuring it out.

High Sec is more dangerous only if you're comparing the experiences of a High sec dweller who doesn't pay attention to their surroundings, to a seasoned lowsec dweller. One can live and be safe(ish) in all areas of space with the proper knowledge, effort and preparation. It is of course, not easy. High Sec can therefore be quite unsafe if one is expecting something similar to a "hub town" in another MMO. Not so with EVE.

Here are a couple basic, common sense methods of reducing (not eliminating) your risk level.

• Do not afk while in space. No afk mining, no afk traveling. This WILL get you killed.
• Never ever use autopilot. Warp from gate to gate at 0, or hit jump. This technically falls under "afk while in space", but merits a focused mention.
• Don't paint a target on your back. Flying expensive ships and fits while not paying attention is like swimming with sharks out of cage with a bleeding cut.

This may seem obvious, but a crap ton of people lose ships in HS due to ignoring the above. High sec is NOT a "PVP free zone". Concord is there to punish, not prevent spaceship violence. The best defense is being proactive on your end, not expecting the game to protect you.


EDIT: Yes, make sure you've done all, and have paid attention to the tutorials. They're awful, but they do answer a lot of basic questions.

Here's a scanning tutorial in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IhqpWZo0-Q

Is using autopilot really that bad? I am pretty terrible at navigating multiple jumps myself. The system seems to do it much faster. Maybe I should just get better at this.

Nothing wrong with using the autopilot's routing to figure out a route from A to B. What they're saying is don't turn the auto pilot on and let it fly your ship for you.

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Define 'not working'

Yes, railguns need ammo. 75mm ones are small, so they take small hybrid charges. Antimatter S is probably the more common. You load the gun once and then when it runs out it reloads automatically, providing you have ammo in your cargo hold.

What makes you money in Wormhole space (systems that wormholes lead to) are the exploration sites. There is a lot of money to be made in running WH space sites, and a lot of danger too, since wormhole systems are essentially nullsec with regard to police protection and additionally don't show pilot names in local. There could be 42 cloaked ships around you, and you'd never know. The sleepers (NPCs) are pretty nasty too.

Wormholes often take you into unknown, unmapped space. Something we refer to as J-space as all the systems in there are numbers denoted by the letter "J".

In these places very few people go so there's far less competition in wormhole space for money making.

The caveats are:

1. There are no rules: anyone can shoot, bomb, assplode anyone else without any sort of repercussion or penalty except from revenge of the victim or his friends.

2. There is no local chat unless someone decides to speak, you do not know if anyone is in the same system as you unless you employ some basic tactics involving your directional scanner and/or probes.

3. Almost everyone who lives in or frequents wormhole space will be prepared for pvp.

Your 75mm railgun requires ammunition from your cargo to fire. You can load ammunition in 3 ways:

1. Right click your gun in space and it will list all viable ammunition you can load.

2. Drag ammunition from your cargo to your gun in space

3. Drag ammunition from your cargo into the gun icon in the fitting window (drag to the ship model if you want to load ALL guns)

To understand what ammunition your gun can use, just right click and click "show info" and head to the attributes tab. There will be two values:

1. Charge size, this will tell you the caliber of the gun and consequently what size of ammo you need.

2. Used with (Charge group), this will tell you what type of ammo you use in that gun. In EVE there are 4 types of ammo: projectile, hybrid, missiles and crystals.

Mining does not make much isk. If you don't like it you should not be doing it. Combat and exploration are both better money makers. I'm not sure if you have finished the tutorials or not but it sounds like you have not. Either that or you are part of that experimental NPE (new player experience) called opportunities. Either way is sound like there are some very basic things you need to get down before going any further in other areas.

Low sec is the most dangerous space in the game. Depending on the situation null sec can be much more safe than high sec but that is highly situational. Also null sec space that is very safe for someone else would likely be very unsafe for you if you were to go there.

As for scanning and exploration there are plenty of guides and videos out there. Use some of those tools first then if you have specific questions after having tried it out then come here for answers.

As far as ships and fitting the best ship in eve is friendship beyond that it's all personal tastes. You will have to figure out your style. As a general rule and all other things being equal you are usually better off using a ship of the race of the space that you are inhabiting for PvE this is due to damage types and resists. But if you are missioning in Amarr space for example and have decent caldari related skills then you would be better off going caldari at least until you can cross train a little.

Eve Uni wiki is a good source for information on anything. It's a great place to go to look up how to fit and fly any ship. Also you will have to try some stuff out and and make some decisions on where to focus your training for the short term anyway. So you'll need to choose a primary weapon system like: turrets, missiles or drones. You'll have to choose a tanking method which is mostly shield or armor, it gets more complex than that but for now that should work.

As far as combat PvE for isk I would recommend that you find some level 1 agents and try missions Don't get stuck doing missions but it's a good place to get familiar with ship piloting. Also you need friends in this game. You need access to vets in chat channels. Joining a corp is a common way to do this but not the only way and jumping into the wrong corp could be a negative experience for you. So do your shopping and try some corps out by joining their public / recruitment channels for a while before making a decision.

Okay, I have applied everyone's advice to the best of my abilities and am running around with three fully loaded and functional 75mms blowing away the pirate hunting tutorials.

I have also gotten scanning down very well.

My final question that comes to mind is that I want to train for Caldari Frigate: 3 skill, but I cannot seem to find any of these books on the market. Only the first book, which i bought and am now trained in, will come up. Any help on getting the second and third iterations of these? ISK farming also seems to already be becoming a thing of the past. Thanks to you all for that.

err, no, you put the skill in the cue again to train it up another level

if you feel you understand scanning mechanics then hers a good little tip for you

get an expanded probe launcher and a set of combat probes (8 of them) set the filter to drones and start looking for abandoned and forgotten drones you can scoop.

they are tricky little beggers to scan if your skills are ok but good practise and great isk for you at this point in your career, particularly if you find t2 drones (never mind of find geckos $$$$$$)

keep this sort of thing for a private mail please,
lest we get everyone and their dog schilling their corp in here.