EVE New Citizens Q&A

NOOBS.

Always check the reprocessing value of your booty from salvage before you sell it. MANY times the selling offers are less than the reprocessing value of the minerals you can sell.

DO THIS EVERY TIME.

Send me a msg if you need help.

To the OP. NOOB is not a term that should be used for genuine newbies. NOOB is an insult, and it refers to people that don't know what they should.

6 year old character fits a Hull Rep -> NOOB.
1 month old character fits a Hull Rep -> Newbie.

To explain:

When you get loot, you should transport it to your station, and then right-click on each piece and "view market details."

Some things sell for millions (or hundreds of thousands), because they are rare and pretty good for fitting on ships, so you want to sell those individually for the highest price.

Most of the loot, though, won't be so wanted. Somebody will buy the junk, but they usually offer a price that is way less than what you would get if you reprocess the loot to minerals. Sometimes they offer 1 ISK. That's because THEY want to reprocess it and make a profit.

So, best practice for the loot:

- anything expensive, put it in a container to deal with during the weekend, when prices are best anyway.
- anything cheap or that looks like junk, you're probably better off accumulating and reprocessing to minerals once a week.

It's very dangerous to try to transport that container full of millions in loot to Jita or Dodixie or other market stations, by yourself. If your cargo is worth millions, you'll be attacked in high-sec, because the loot from your ship wreck is worth it.

It's better to set up a courier contract, where someone else will transport that container to Jita for you; you ask them for "collateral" that is the value of the loot (millions), and you pay them 100-200k or so. Veterans have tanked up transport ships, and friends that can scout and protect them, so they'll move your courier cargo with almost no risk to themselves.

Insult is something that is experienced not inflicted which means that it is a perception or more accurately a choice of how to perceive.

You can intend to insult someone with your words but you can not force them to be offended. On the flipside of that you can intend to compliment someone and have them take offense at it.

Your choice to take offense at that word is simply that, your choice.

I review the higher priced items against the market and place sells at a price dependant upon a number of things.

For the lower priced items, I view the quick prices that come up when I hi-lite them and compare that against my reprocessing value. I reprocess most of the time.

For newbies, this is good advice. They can't afford to lose a few thousand when they are just starting out.

I wasn't meaning to insult. I like that people are standing up against the offensive.

Regardless of insults - its pretty standard that noob is a term for a player that makes basic mistakes like a new player but has been around long enough to know better. A new player is not a noob.

As far as reprocessing versus selling - long term (especially by level IV mission stage) do neither, blitz stuff and do not loot.

You use to be able to do this based on name. However since they redid many of the modules and now the modules are pretty much all the same except for slight changes in power requirements. i just repo everything and turn it into other stuff.

I think they should made it so meta stayed the same but you needed more advanced skills to use more advanced metas.That would of been better then making a bunch of the same item with different names and a tiny power or cpu variation.

Nothing that you said here changes the fact that insult is a perceptional choice made by the person experiencing the insult.

You can go into a car dealership and a salesman can sell you a car. There are skills that the salesman can hone to help increase his numbers or increase his chances of selling you a car. However you still need to buy the car. You can choose to buy the car or not regardless of how good or poor of a salesman he is.

Just because there is a chance or even a likelihood of someone feeling insulted at your choice of words does not relieve the person on the receiving end of their free will and ability to have whatever experience that they choose in response to your choice of words.

I would agree with the sentiment that being civil and treating your fellow man with dignity and respect is a good idea and I'd like to see it more often. However I draw the line when people start blaming others for their own emotions.

A lot of good input here, and a funny noob side convo, thanks for that.

In my mind, it really wasn't that complicated. When I was outta-the-box new, each piece of loot taught me something about EvE. As a result, I kept a lot of so called "junk." If I didn't need it around the time I had a better understanding of it, then being rid of it would be the easier part anyway. I did sell a few things I came across simply for being too rich for my blood, but that mistake takes us off topic.

If you're really bothered by this one enough, you've probably got a little industrialist in you too. If you've stumbled across this while speed reading stuff, you might just sell of your unwanted crap and get back in the fight. For purposes of industry, I got mine from the materials and let the isk come in other ways like bounties and side jobs (Yes, I took the long road, but it was not one of self discovery) at least, while I was getting started.

And for miners, do I reprocess? Sure, if you're gonna use it. The point in one's career when this question comes up...let me just say precision market play might come a little later. Ore, to say a ganker that pulled it from a wreck, is gonna be worth more as ore. If you seek industrial uses, get yourself a few blueprints, research them, and...important...try not to loose isk on using them; that's just part of the learning process, but also getting into another topic.