EVE New Citizens Q&A

I am a completely new player coming into Eve, this is no easy task and the aspect of it is pretty daunting. To combat this steep learning curve and the overwhelmed feeling, I hit Google hard and came up with a plan. Depending on what is learned from this post and your comments my friend will also be following this plan a couple weeks behind me. The overall goal of this plan is to get me into 0.0 or even low-sec gang warfare (Preferably 0.0)I also love to RP, I will be “in character” throughout most of my endeavors endgame however, I do not require corporations to be “RP” though that would be a plus.

1. Do all the starter missions to get the free skill books/ships and ISK from them. Hopefully by the end of all those missions I will have the skill and enough money to buy two salvaging fit destroyers.
2. (Please be gentle as I know this is not a glorious profession)I plan to then start ninja salvaging, while I am salvaging at this time I plan to learn skills to enhance my probe skills and salvaging skills while using the ISK to buy and outfit 3 more destroyers.
3. Continue salvaging in this way, until I’ve learned to fly tech 1 tackling frigates effectively and have enough ISK to buy and outfit 10 of said tackling frigates.
4. Once I get to this point I will start to look for a low-sec or 0.0 corporation hiring tacklers. If/when I get into a corporation that conducts wolf pack type warfare. I will begin the tedious process of moving my 10 frigates to their base of operation building and outfitting more once I get there while leaving my salvagers in my former base of operation.
5. Once set up with the corporation I plan to continue salvaging for ISK as long as its viable while conducting tackling duty with the corporation while skilling up tackling skills towards being able to fly interceptors eventually.
6. Once I think that I have the necessary skills/funds to bring myself to 0.0 I will then (if I haven’t already) attempt to hook up with a corporation that resides there and begin tackling for them.
7. Once in 0.0 I am open to filling whatever role the corporation believes I will be best suited for.

I am coming into this with no friends to consort with and no access to large amounts of ISK. I am not pretending that Ninja salvaging will be able to support me the entire time, but since I only plan on flying tech 1 frigates, I believe it can stay helpful for a bit longer than most people moving to larger ships. Hopefully, by the time that it is no longer useful I will have found a better way to make money. My plan doesn’t reach that far sadly. Also I’d like to note I do not plan on joining a corporation until step 4 to avoid war declarations etc, while I am trying to get money to fund myself.
What I am putting to you fine pilots are:
• Does this sound viable?
• Do pirate corporations/0.0 corporations care if I’ve ninja salvaged for ISK in the past?
• Any advice on what type of corporations I’d best serve as a tackler in an inexpensive frigate?
• Other ways to fund myself once I am in low-sec/0.0 if salvaging would not cut it?

I thank you for your time, happy hunting and swift flying.
-Koa Kadaj

So some pve aspect will be needed to stay profitable while pvping?
That is a little disheartening as I wasn't interested in any of it really. I will have to figure out what I will find interesting on the pve aspect as I havn't really considered it yet, nor do I consider ninja salvaging (From what I've heard so far) as pve.

Or until you can fly a proper gank boat, at which point you can start looting to sharply increase your income and shoot the dumb ones that attack you for even more sweet loot. One faction kill is worth a lot of level 4s...




Sort of, if you loosely define PVE as anything that isn't shooting other players. In general there are enough ways to make ISK though that it's not a big deal. Some are rather fun (ninjasalvaging/looting).

In general most people in null run the sites (DED plexs, radars etc.) and sanctums for their income this requires to have a BS or rat at the belts which can be done a bit easier then ratting in sanctums.
There are corporations that do raid billions of worth "loot pinjatas" but OP's like those require a huge amount of planning and spying, sometimes even weeks to work out the victims behavioural patterns to ensure that "maximum loot" will be gained and even then "loot fairy" can be mean sometimes.

I am not completely against I guess gang type pve with other players I guess low-sec/0.0 corpmates that actually sounds fun, but solo-pve sounds super boring to me. Thank you all for the input, you've given me confidence.

Thing is I want to limit my dependance on others and Ninja salvaging seemed my best bet, also the skill I get from scanning down people will be applicable later ingame. Following someone around while lucrative doesn't seem too fun for me, through all the positive responses I've gotten so far I've decided to begin Operation: Banana-rama. Though I will still keep my eye on this thread for advice. I work the rest of tonight and tomorrow night however so I won't be able to bring this thing out of planning phase until Friday night.

Thank you very much, that was the next big task to find a suitable location to set up shop. One with L4s but not a huge ninja salvager population.

In a proper ship with good piloting skills, tractor beams are hardly even helpful. It saves scanning time, but few missionrunners will let you just loot and salvage without wanting a hefty cut for themselves.




I suppose I should link you to this and this.

Also, Angel rats have the most valuable salvage. Blood/Sansha are okay; they used to be way better before melted capacitor consoles tanked in price. I'd find a good minmatar system to set up in, though

Take a look at the ISK guide.

http://www.isktheguide.com/

It's mostly up to date, and a good starter

I'd like to avoid running two accounts if I can, it gets hard to justify it with my wife...is running two accounts kind of the expected norm?