EVE New Citizens Q&A

lowsec is where highsec and nullsec collide, you will occasionally find fleets of supercarriers, pirate blobs, and various lucrative opportunities, that is if you dont die in the process of doing them.

in lowsec, there arent any warp disurption bubbles, but there are pirates, nullsec alliance fleets, people just trying to secure their "claimed space", and people that just want to be left alone.

you can survive in lowsec, but always expect to be podded 1 jump into lowsec. if not, sooner or later. there are lots of moneymaking opportunities in lowsec but most of the people there are living there for the KILLS, not the money.

on another note, be wary of EVERYONE in lowsec and nullsec since SEC status doesn't accurately represent who they are. always assume first that everyone is lying just to get a chance to take your stuff and kill you or kill you and take your stuff

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Let me first welcome you to EVE online. I have been reading through your post and have some information that might benefit you.
As mentioned above all other players in EVE are usually learning stuff on a daily basis, even the most veteran players. And all of them were in the same shoes you are in now. On carreers, you aren't stuck with any of them, you can switch carreers when you want of even mix them. It's all depending on what you spend your time on skilling skills.

First of all, there is a difference between NPC corporations and Player corporations.

NPC corporations are 'runned' by NPC. These corps offer mission agents from which you can run missions (for standing, ISK and LP). These corps also have many players in it but in my honost opinion most of them are eighter alts or griefers (as NPC corps can't be war declared) and usually don't do much togehter though they do help out if you ask questions to them. And yes from which corp you run missions matters in some extend, don't expect many industrial mission from for instance the Caldari Navy.

Player corporations are completely runned by players. This has some benefits like their members help eachother and do stuff together. Also the player base of a player corp is usually likeing to do the same stuff in EVE. Side note: Even when you are in a player runned corp you can do missions supplied by Agents from a NPC corporation

My suggestion is to stay in a NPC corp (you can't switch NPC corps btw) and find out what your carreer is going to be like. When you find that out, search for a player corp that does the same stuff you like and join them. Don't be affraid if this doesn't turn out well, you can always leave the corp and join another one.

Regarding side note A:

Trading can be done and can be lucrative. But with trading it take money to make money. And also it takes time to get to know your market, what is in demand, at what prices and where.

Planetary Interaction can be good too but that only counts for low-sec and null-sec planets (more on sec level later on), also shipping command centres is difficult on a trial as they are 1000 m3 each and you can't fly industrial ships.

Regarding side note B:

There is a lot of griefing in EVE as almost anything goes, so expect scammers, suicide gankers, pirates that ransome your ship etc.

Regarding side note C:

There are player corps in low-sec (and even null-sec) that recruit new players. Though they are rare and trials will be even harder this is as new players / trials can easily be spies that will infiltrate the corp to get intel on people and ships.

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Security levels in space (found in the top left corner of the screen)

Hi-sec / security level: 1.0 ~ 0.5 / CONCORD (NPC polic) will help you if shot at without legit reason. There are also guns on stations and gates.
Low-sec / security level: 0.4 ~ 0.1 / Only guns on gates and stations, CONCORD won't help you here. expect to be shot at here. Warp bubbles aren't allowed in here.
Null-sec (also called 0.0-sec) / security level: 0.0 ~ -1.0 / Anything goed here, players make the laws around here. wondering in here usually ends up being shot and killed on sight.
W-space / in wormholes / Same rules as null-sec count here.

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Some basic rules of EVE:

1.) Don't fly what you really can't afford to loose (this counts especially later on when you fly expensive ships, have expensive fits on it and precious stuff in your cargohold).
2.) Don't trust just anyone (EVE is filled with griefers, don't expect anybody asking for help etc to be honost)
3.) Don't accept any screen without reading it thoroughly. (EVE is also filled with scammers aiming for auto accept clicking pilots)

If you still have questions, don't hesitate to open a conversation with me when i'm online or mail me ingame.

J'poll

After you leave that beginning corporation (by joining player corporation), you can never get back to it. So it mostly has beginners who have never been in player corporation, or alts who don't care which corporation they belong to.


There are items for any ISK amount you want.

For example 2,000 ISK is enough to start trading with "'Malkuth' Assault Missile Launcher I" in Oursulaert:
Market Data / Price History
You could make buy order at 1,700 ISK, and when someone sells that item to you at 1,700 ISK, you can then make sell order at 19,700 ISK and wait for someone to buy it from you. This gives you 18,000 ISK profit (minus taxes and broker fees which take few percent off).

Low/High columns in market history shows that each day this item sells at small price (2,000 ISK or less) and high price (usually over 20,000 ISK) so profit can be made daily. Granted volume is small (10-20 items per day) but for initial testing this works.

(And if I were to give really profitable example here, it would not be profitable anymore after few traders had read this message.)

You example was great, thank you. I'm going to try it out the next time missions don't sound like fun.


This gives a clear picture, thank you.

Clipping along with these missions, they are easy and pay a lot, but they do get monotonous after a while.

A number of people have contact me about what you described... but to me it didn't seem legit, so I just let the offers 'lapse'. I guess that I was wrong (based on the link you provided), but even so... I don't want to make another character.

Well, with 6 days left, it seems perhaps I've seen most of what I'm going to see on the trial (outside of small-scale PvP, which could be had if I joined a trial-friendly corporation). Probably wouldn't hurt to sub for one month, try Trading/Contracting, try to find some PvP with some throw-away ships, maybe explore Magnetometric sites or even ninja salvage. Then see if it's really worth sticking around. So far... I'm still... unconvinced.

This is a game that some people have to really have it grow on them before it really takes hold. There's just so many different things to do that it's impossible to even dabble in everything before the trial is over, or even the first month of subscription. As converting from the trial is only $20 US, it's not a terribly unreasonable amount to have more time to check out the game. Take me, for example. I played for a couple months about 6 years ago and it really didn't click then. It's only been this time around that I really enjoyed playing that's convinced me to stick with it this time. (Even re-rolled a new character, because initially I was lost on my original one.)

One suggestion I would make is get yourself in a player corporation as soon as possible. Depending on what you want to do, you can generally find a corp that will fit your needs. Just take your time before deciding and joining one, to make sure it's going to be right for you.

Wouldn't this bring about sanctions against the person using an alt to scam the PLEX? I just started a trial account (after abandoning the burning ship that is WoW) and I too was curious about how much could be done in 14 days, which lead me to this thread.

Obviously for new people like me the scenario that Akita has described sounds ideal, you essentially get a fully functioning account for 51 days, and the person that offers their PLEX just gets another back. This is of course, as pointed out, the person accepting the invite isn't a scammer. Which brings me back to my original question, wouldn't CCP punish people who essentially stole these PLEXes as an abuse of a recruiting tool? Or would they just say "well it's your own dumb fault for offering a person your PLEX to begin with"? Sounds like an awesome way to let people dive a little further into the game and build up a bigger investment in time and interest that may be harder to walk away from than a 14 day trial.

I"m leery of these deals that offer free ISK for signing up and getting someone a PLEX from their buddy offer. Sure they give you 200 isk for free and show you how to grow it. Later on when you're off doing something with a valuable ship and/or valuable cargo they come find you to "collect" on their investment and harvest you like a ripe fruit. Let the person make a ton of money, act like their friend, and then come and take it all back. Of course that's just the pessimist in me talking, but from the sounds of it, a little cynicism goes a long way toward not getting butt hurt =P.

Also, is anyone able to provide a link to a thread that could help figuring out some the EVE terminology? I'm not having much luck using the search feature to find a link on the specific slang for this game. Some terms are universal in the gaming world, like Carebear, for instance, but I have no idea what a tackler is XD. This game is a LOT of reading and learning, and I've got a million questions, so starting with learning the jargon will go a long way into deciphering some of the terminology used in these threads. Thanks in advance =)

Oh! If you want something fun to try out, look up Red vs Blue. I didn't see it on this page, but it is mentioned in the "What to do in EVE Online" resource. It's instant-on PvP in hisec. I think RvB are at war with EVE University at the moment too. Of particular interest will be the RvB Rules and Guidelines post. Create a new character in one of your spare slots, train that character to fly a frigate and use one weapon system and tackle (e.g.: punisher w/lasers, scram). Bring that character out to play when you're looking for inspiration

If you enjoy that, head over to the recruitment forums and look for a pirate or mercenary corp which is currently recruiting.

As far as being hesitant to go out into the harshness of lowsec/hi-sec, I always suggest being sure to leave one or two moneymaking ships back in high-sec and then head out to adventure.

Any reasonably decent corp will show you how to make plenty of money to make it worthwhile being out there or provide you with plenty of PvP action, or BOTH.

But always leave yourself the means to earn if you return to high-sec without having to start all over again in a frigate. :-)

Best place to start living in low sec is near providence since Unlike other null sec coalitions we don't shoot everyone in sight.
However there are pirates roaming the systems and our defence fleets cannot be every where at once.
So just running off to low sec would be a bad idea for a new comer even if it's safest low sec region in the game and also busiest.
This policy is called NRDS, you can see "known criminals" from this list http://kos.cva-eve.org/ how ever due to you being on trial and having being only in NPC you will get accused for being a spy and such quite often.