EVE New Citizens Q&A

salvage

Salvaging doesn't incur a suspect timer, but looting will. However, many people will just abandon their wrecks if you ask in local. I made my first 100 mil ninja salvaging which isn't as much of a thing anymore, but if you do want to do something fun and rascally you can blow up MTUs and take the loot.

Your options are going to be limited if you don't want to do anything on that list. You can either make enemies with another pirate faction, which won't effect your standing with angels. Or you can limit your self to a very small scope of options. Why not just go out to Curse and do level 1's with the Angels if that's what you really want to do? You're going to have to learn how to fly in nullsec sooner or later if that's what you want to do.

Why are you specifically set on Curse and Angel Cartel so early on?

Please explore multiple aspects of the game before declaring you are only interested in one. I think you are less likely to experience early burnout from unrealistic expectations that way!

Personally, I found after a few months that the only aspect of EVE that appealed to me was PVP. I learned this by accident from getting blown up a few times when I poked my head into interesting places. So I moved to nullsec, joined a like-minded group of folks, learned about alts and haven't looked back...but I tried missioning, belt ratting, exploration, poked my nose into wormholes, trading, manufacturing, moon mining...I even tried mining [gack] along the way to finding what I really enjoyed about EVE.

Why stay in high sec?

Most corps give them away. Alternatively, jump clone between a skill book laden high station and your null home station.

there's lots of fun to be had in hisec stealing, getting shot at and shooting back, and stealing loot gets better isk than salvage if you're smart about the missions you're targeting.

http://evedarklord.blogspot.com/2014/03/carebear-to-killer.html

I did look at jump clones, but I didn't have enough standing.

Never even thought about corps giving books away.

If piracy is your game, why not search a few pirate Corps and reach out to them? Ask them questions like how did they become pirates? What's their tips for getting started? What dangers to watch for? Any fits that can make or break a fight?

I imagine that many people would be quite happy to give you a few pointers and set you in the right direction. After all, if you make the effort to contact them, it's a promising sign that you're at least giving your goals some thought. You never know, you may even be lucky enough to be invited to join in an evening of piracy with them. Arrg!

It sounds like your goals are mostly based on lore/character development rather than interaction with other players. Which is a fine place to start, but I suspect they will change over time as you spend more time around friendly/hostile players. As stated above, NPC null is really about what players are doing to each other, not which npcs "own" the space.

To answer your question, it should be pretty easy to do combat PVE without upsetting Angels too much. Just reject missions that set you against Angels. You can also run combat exploration sites (green sites and scannable DED sites). These sites will be set against a specific enemy (drones, serpentis, guristas, angles....etc etc), so just avoid the angel ones. Combat exploration is actually one of the most lucrative things to do in high sec.

Just in case you didn't know, you don't need to have any standing with Angels to train for or fly their ships. Capsuleers transcend the petty squabbles of the factions and fly what we please. If you have other lore/roleplaying reasons that's fine, but from a mechanics veiwpoint it isn't necessary.

No worries.

I realize I need to qualify the statement I made:

Yes, NPC null is a hostile and dangerous place, and most of the other players you come across will most likely shoot first and ask no questions. But the flip side is that in many regions, most systems are empty, most of the time. If you learn and practice the "dark arts" of null-sec movement (becoming a dscan addict, growing a third eye just to watch local, using tacticals, never warping direct to a gate, establishing safes and tacs, etc.) you can quickly find that you are usually able to avoid un-wanted encounters. Not always but most of the time.

It is *much* more fun to be flying as part of a group of people, especially if you find one that like to fly the same way you do.