EVE New Citizens Q&A

well you can explore stuff starting with a frig no need for months of training .
Usually people use 2 ships , 1 to scan down stuff , second to kill stuff .
Some can use 1 (arbitrator pilgrim legion) this of course its not optimal but can work .
WH are usually made with more people cos they provide better profit and are very hard to solo untill you get a uber ship for example a t3.
WH are dangerous even enter them without a cov ops ship cos there can be someone waiting even buble camps (player camping)
People live there for many reasons mainly of course profit .
How long does a wh last check info about it it says there , more then a day less then a day , a couple of hours , about to close and so on . Pretty much very clear .
Player go in and out trough WH , and they scan them down . i Would NOT recomend enter a WH alone or before you get quite some training , tho exploration is lot more then only WH

Fair enuf'

So? I'm not gonna valtz into WHs with a billion ISK ship for that very reason, but then again, beside losing an expandable frig which will provide them a few 100k ISK worth of salvage at the very best, that doesn't appear *so* dangerous, that can happen at any gate, lowsec, highsec... I'm not gonna stay docked, but maybe there's some explanation.

mkay, so even unstable, if a WH colapses, there must still be a another way out then... but what if I have to log before I find an exit? I've been told you get docked to a random station when you log off without docking, but in this case....?

Ok, it is risky, I get it...

Ooohh shiny! I'll add the assult ship skill to it. ^.^

Uh... SOL?

400d sounds bit excessive for core training. I would aim to train everything to level 4 first and then pick 5s when some module or ship requires it. It would probably cut down the training queue to less than a quarter of that. That one more level is usually just 5% better and won't matter early on. The only exception would be "Tier 1" skills like Electronics - they take very little time to hit level 5 and so many other things call for Electronics V (for example). After many years in eve I still don't have all armor compensation skills at 5 myself for example and still have a couple of navigation skills that are only at 4.

I would recommend training larger ship hulls up to Battlecruiser if you wish to do combat stuff. For high sec exploration an Assault Frigate is also a good choice and fairly easy to get into. Beyond that pretty much lies Tech 3 strategic cruisers which are, for a new player, very expensive and painful to lose.

Thanks for the interesting link, Malaire, very worth to rtfm

Now, I'm considering covert-ops frigates to explore, but how does that sound? seems like these ships would offer quite some fitting room for exploration tools, wouldn't they? also being cloaked sounds like making sense in this activity... at least to me.
I know these wouldn't have loads of cargo-hold, but I can always explore in it, then come back with a bigger ship to carry the load.

And... noob question probably, but as I was looking at the Anathema frigate, it says the ship has 2 turrets points, 2 launchers points and 3 high slots. Does it mean I can fit like 3 turrets plus 2 launchers or, either 3 turrets or 1 turrets and 2 launchers?

A cov-ops frigate would be difficult to run sites since many sites have some NPC enemy spawns. The spawns are usually pretty small and easy to kill, but it would be difficult in a covert ops frig.

Every w-space system has a static wormhole. "Static" means an outgoing wormhole of a specific type will always exist. Where that wormhole goes is random though (example: a hisec static like B274 will go to anywhere in hisec, a C5 static will go to a random C5 system). C2 systems tend to have two statics.

The incoming side of a wormhole is always K162. If you scan a K162, it means somebody has already found that wormhole and come through it, as the K162 side does not exist until that happens.

There can also be random incoming and outgoing wormholes. Typically up to about 7.

Wormholes typically last 16-24 hours depending on the wormhole. They can be closed prematurely by exceeding their mass limit. If a wormhole is close to its mass limit, or "critical", it is risky to use in anything other than a light ship like a frigate. If it is reached the end of its natural lifetime, it can vanish at any moment, sometimes before you get a chance to go through it.

http://staticmapper.com is a helpful site. It works best with the in-game browser (IGB) and with the site set to be trusted.

If you REALLY like exploration go for a covops frig (will still need a combat ship) and then a T3 (does both).

Well... for some obscure reason, whenever I probe a system, I end up with a WH... scanned 3 systems last night and 3 WH... *shrugs*
First WH I got hunted down no less than 10mins after I entered... should have figured those Sister Probes in the DScan weren't just decoration... :D
I also found out I'll have to raise the various Astrometrics skills asap, I spent an hour trying to pinpoint a magnetometric site with 5 probes (couldn't use more) and never got above 94%.. then I headed out to get myself a rig with probe scan bonus... alas, when I returned in the WH, I didn't have the time to scan the site again, being chased once more, thankfully I was aligned to the WH exit with AB on...

So... I learned some lessons there (experience is the best teacher uh?):
When there's ships in the DScan... WARP!
When there's probes other than yours in the DScan... WARP!
I really need to train cov-ops...
I really need to train Astrometrics :)

Well, didn't lose anything but time... let's keep it that way and try to get out with something the next time...

I know I'd be better doing it in a bigger ship, but ain't got the skills for it at the moment, I usually explore in a punisher. If I manage to find something, I BM it and bring in the coercer (bigger hold and more firepower).

Anyway, question time:
Would better probes provide better results, or is it only astrometrics skills that improves the pinpointing? (I know the Magnate has scan bonuses, but I would feel naked without weapons on it or a single laser)
Do probes interfere with each other when they're too close?
How can I easily center the cam on a site before it's 100% scanned? (pan/zoom up close can be very tedious)
Cloak makes the ship visually invisible, but does it also make it invisible on the DScan/Overview?

And uh... if any of my chasers reads this... sorry if I didn't linger for a chat but you guys freaked the hell out of me, sneaking up on me like that :)

I've found a trick! thought I'd share it, though it doesn't work 100% of the time:

In the local system map, with probes deployed, I'm usually able to click (or shift-click, but I'm not sure it makes a difference) on a signature, to center the camera on it, which is very convenient when the signature is on the other side of the system.
It works with any signature either represented by a very small sphere, a yellow marker, or a green marker, scanned from 1% to 100%.
With large spheres or circles, it's not possible to center the camera on them, which is expected.

1) With regard to your 400 days of training... As was mentioned, level 4 is often good enough, at least for now. Also, check your attributes and consider using implants. +3 attribute implants were running about 10-15 mill last I checked. Can speed up that training for you. +4 or +5 are nice, but probably a bit too expensive for you at this stage. And +5 requires Cybernetics to level 5, which is a long train in itself.

2) Staticmapper is ok. I used to use it all the time. But now I find that Wormnav is much more accurate. Staticmapper allows users to edit the entries, which has resulted in a lot of bad data in there. Wormnav has always been 100% accurate for me.

3) When the info on a wormhole says "reaching the end of it's natural lifetime", it has 4 hours or less. Forget that 25% figure that is repeated elsewhere. It's 4 hours, plain and simple. When you see it, it may be down to 4 seconds.

4) While it is likely possible to run C1 sites solo in a cruiser, it's certainly not optimal. Maybe some of the T2 cruisers would do ok. Had a corpie use a zealot for them, but not solo. BC is the ship of choice, in my opinion. Drake works great for C1 and C2 sites, and supposedly (no personal experience) is ok for C3 solo. Your frigate or destroyer is not a good choice for Sleeper sites, especially the radar/mag ones. Note that the sentry guns (Sirius) in c1 and c2 sites will insta-pop your frigate from 150k if you give them half a chance.

Why do people like me live in w-space?
a) Profit (sleeper sites, planetary interaction)
b) Solo/small gang pvp with no local (awesome for sneaking around), almost never a giant blob, no carrier hot-drops, no security status penalty. W-space pvp is the best pvp, imo.

Why do I kill you when you come in?
a) You may be just the "tip of the iceberg". Your coercer is no direct threat to me, but if I let you sit there and scan, you may find and bookmark all of my profitable sleeper sites. Then bring in your 5 buddies to run them. Or just save the bookmark for a while (staying hidden) and wait for me to start running them, at which time your 5 buddies jump in and kill me. All in all, you are a security risk. Best option is to kill you now and eliminate the immediate threat.
b) Killboard stats and e-peen.
c) Because I can, and it is fun. And Eve, at it's heart, is a pvp game.
d) To see pretty explosions.
e) To support the industrialists of Eve. If ships don't go boom, they can't sell more stuff.

Mostly C.