EVE New Citizens Q&A

There are two obvious ways to play solo PvE without being combatant.

Industry
Finance

The break down a little.

Industry:

Mining
Manufacturing
Research and Development


Finance:

Contracting
Trading


There is also a Logistics line, which is self explanatory which sits somewhere between the two - hauling goods to various locations, either as a haulier, or transporting your own products for sale.

Let's go a little further in.

Mining is self explanatory but you can mine in high sec (safe and dull) low sec (pretty fun, sometimes dull) or nullsec (quite involved, bit dull, bit interesting).

However, mining is known for being boring as sin - easy money in high sec as long as you don't do something dumb - just watch out for gankers who enjoy podding you.

Manufacturing - you can break into a number of markets here - either using your own mined resources, or buying the materials and using them to construct items/gear.
As for the products you make, you can build basic t1 gear, advanced t2 gear, or difficult to resource t3 gear.
either acquiring the resources yourself, or purchasing them from the market from those who have.

I'll also include planetary interaction under this heading as PI is a way to manufacture some goods/components that can reasonably done single player style. Ish.


R&D is basically invention and is necessary to build/acquire tech 2 or higher equipment. This can make a mint as you acquire the needed blueprints and materials necessary to build this advanced technology.
Alternately you can use research to improve existing blueprint originals of t1 or better equipment, and then make copies of these improve blueprints to sell the copies on the market.

These three generic professions tend to intermix quite a lot.
And if you want to self-source materials for t3 (and sometimes t2) gear, you'll need to break into exploration using probing mechanics and maybe dive into wormhole space. Possible to solo to a limited degree if you have the skills/funds, but it's extremely high risk, and debatable reward at the levels where soloing is possible - to get the most out of it requires others to work with you.


As for finance and trade, you can acquire goods and contract them on the market as auction if they're rare enough or direct trade at reasonable prices if not.
or you can play the market prospecting on the values of various items or resources, buying low, selling high, and watching patch notes to figure out how market values will fluctuate.
As the game meta changes for combat (especially in null) you'll see shifts in the pricing of desired equipment and ships.

The market will also fluctuate in response to the supply of mined minerals. This is especially true of ice and ice products, as has been proven in previous years by certain events. Many people have made serious bank by prospecting on events like burn jita, or ice interdictions.


You can also solo run missions/basic exploration where you'll encounter NPC pirates which you will have to kill to earn your cash. For non-multiperson gaming, the best you'll find is various level 4s or other similar content. My earlier comments on exploration and wormholes will still hold water in this regard.

For combat content, there is a certain point you cannot progress past successfully (at a reasonable price, or in some cases any price) without other players to back you up.
And you'd best avoid faction warfare as, in the main, that is pvp.



As for a solo POS, you *will* need to make a single-man corp to do it, and you will need to generate standings (fastest way to do this is run combat missions for an NPC empire corp) and manufacture fuel (either by manufacturing them, or buying them). And then you will need to keep it fuelled and supplied and equipped to do what you need it to do (such as research, manufacturing, mining, etc).
as a single person corp you'll have to look out for wardecs and people who want to shoot your POS (which in highsec is usually just for "lulz" or because they want that spot for their own POS).



In all honesty, this *is* an mmo, and most players get more community and enjoyment from being in a multi-person corp and working/talking with other players while online. It's certainly a way to learn more about the game too (and you get more protection from hostiles this way as well).

However, if you can successfully enjoy soloing a game like EVE, then power to you.



EDIT: There are changes to structures coming that may affect POSes (or even affect whether or not POSes exist in game, or are replaced by something else).
You may want to read up on these dev blogs and watch the videos from fanfest to educate yourself further on the matter.

So now people argue about how a word is being used ...
... when it's obvious that it is being used wrongly?

When someone uses a word, others don't adapt to what he meant.
When he uses it wrongly, he has to correct his wrong understanding.


What can solo pacifist do?


Learn what actually PvP means ...
... and die like the rest of them. Ingame, ofc!

I don't think anyone ever means that when referring to EVE. That would mean never buying anything meaningful from the market other than skill books and only selling the stuff that's bought only by NPCs. It's virtually impossible.

In the OP's case he specifically mentions forming a relationship with a corp - how would he do that without interacting with other players?

If you don't want to interact with other players:

Step 1: Stop playing this game.

Step 2: Buy Skyrim

Step 3: Play Skyrim, it's good

Actually he specifically mentions not joining a corp.



I'm not going to bother defending myself against your other statements. You said in your posts that you understand what pvp is, and my post gave non-combat options for engaging in it. I'm glad we're in agreement.

Thanks for clarifying.

In that case, you could even find a corp of like-minded people!

I'm a proud member of my pvp corp/alliance/militia and I enjoy pewing with my mates, but I spend lots of time solo (probably over 50% of my playtime), both solo pvp-ing and also manufacturing and trading on my alts. Works perfectly, no one ever complained because I was off doing my own thing. On the other hand, I'm happy to help and participate in important ops when I'm on.

So yeah, I confirm you can do lots of stuff on your own and at the same time collaborate with people when you feel like it.

Have fun, your own way.

WoW does not have a market economy of player created items like Eve does. Sure WoW has the AH and there are some player created items on it but you can play all of WoW very easily without ever using the auction house. You could do the same in Eve in theory but it would be double digit exponentially harder.

Irrelevant - he clearly indicates that although he doesn't want to join a corp he is perfectly willing to enter into an arrangement with one and therefore is not averse to interacting with other players.

That's a game to be played in GD, not NCQ&A.

OP,

Welcome to Eve! As a relatively new player myself I decided after being in a player corp to simply make my own. Where I live I formed a few friendships with the locals and I share bookmarks and stuff to sites I can't run and they help me out with my little industrial things and offer tons of advice.

Dunno why people knock solo. Best of luck