Cool stuff, I'll check it out.



A handful of frigates and a destroyer from the career agents should be enough to get my first BPO. Punisher Blueprint is seeded at 2,587,500 ISK - hardly an impossible amount of money, even for a new character. And once I have that, I have my foot in the door so to speak.



Guess why I'm going Amarr? T1 lasers never break. As for the corp, I'll go with SoE since it's so easy to get high standings with them thanks to the Epic Arc. Will set up in Simela, 1-3 sec SoE agents there, plus plenty of 0.5 systems in the vicinity to rat in. First month's gonna be grinding Refinery and Refinery Efficiency to 5 so I can get 95% efficiency at 6.67 loyalty. With some luck, I'll hardly have to do any mining at all, since I'll be looting and refining everything from rats.

If I will have to do some mining, I will have two Ventures I believe(someone correct me on the exact amount you get from the tutorials), and their BPOs seem to be actually seeded in... Jita? I'll never need anything bigger since I'm only mining for myself. Full ore bay of regular Veldspar in Venture refines into what, 150k Tritanium? That's enough for a cruiser, or several Ventures.

Rarer ores - again, refining, or I could try to have Wormhole Adventures.



Well if I get ganked I get ganked so that's it - it's not like I gained anything from another player, is it? The real problem is wardecs(I'll be going "solo corp" to maximize ISK gain). By the way: the solo playstyle doesn't prevent me from trying to blow other people up, I just can't loot their wrecks afterwards.


And to clarify: I am not really a sociopath, I actually enjoy socializing in MMOs, and I plan on talking to people in local, rookie, etc. chats in the game when doing the solo challenge. Hell, if I get the chance I'll even try and help some noobs out, i.e. with Dagan and whatnot. It's not "**** everyone" gameplay, it's "DIY" gameplay, there's a difference.

Just imagine that, starting tommorow, you cannot buy anything from the Market. How would your EVE life look like then and how would you adjust?

I would jump all my current hisec ships into nearest lowsec and had 1 vs local. And then I would quit.

If I will have to do some mining, I will have two Ventures I believe(someone correct me on the exact amount you get from the tutorials), and their BPOs seem to be actually seeded in... Jita?

for the Battleship skillbook, which is the biggest ship I will have a chance of flying

A previous poster said that your idea was " hilarious and excellent", or something to that effect. Which reminded me of a classic series of posts by "Innominate Nightmare" back in 2006 or so. I followed his quest ( as well as did most of EvE at that time) who threw himself into 0.0 with nothing but a frigate - His misadventures were, in fact, hilarious and excellent.

If you are interested in something "completely different", you might give it a read. He also has a blog site somewhere on the web.

http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=370209

nota bene: Innominate Nightmare suffered numerous player interactions.

Cheers,

K

Play with others, it's way more fun.

Especially if you make offensive remarks about their hair and ethnicity.
- Don't dis the 'rows man!!!

There are a few items that wont drop at all. Like sentry drones. So you have to be picky that ship you want to fly. I would take an apoc and run for amarr to get a navy apoc because it provides a reasonable effective damage in missions. Some faction items require tags what means you have to run missions against factions. So sisters is a bad idea.

Call it challenge. Call it sociopathy. Don't ask why.

The rules are: You can rely only on yourself and the game itself to do... well, anything. So you cannot joing player corps. Or fleets. Or, most importantly, trade with other players. Or accept things from them. If you want something, you either get it yourself(from enemies/NPCs), make it yourself, or forget about it.

In most MMOs these rules result in minor inconvenience at best, but in EVE where 99% of the stuff on the market is player-made, it's a big friggin problem. I am trying to identify what framework do I have to work with with these limitations. Pretty much everything T2 seems to be out of the question, for example - I could invent it myself, but I couldn't get the required moongoo-based materials. Unless there is a way to get them that I do not know of?

And this is where you come in. It's not my first day in EVE but I am no way an expert on the game and there might be ways around I am simply not familiar with. For example, I've heard you can get some really random crap from exploration sites but I've never done exploration myself and I have little idea what that random crap is.

Feedback most welcome. Just imagine that, starting tommorow, you cannot buy anything from the Market. How would your EVE life look like then and how would you adjust?

(I apologize for posting this in New Citizens Q&A as I am not a "New Citizen" and this is quite obviously an alt. But I feel if I have any gameplay-related question they should be here as a) any passing-by New Citizen may read them and learn something and b) lol GD is for reading, not for posting)

Well.......ok....

...and some say I am a bit antisocial... OP makes me feel more social than a cruise director and tour guide combined...

Ransoming another player = player interaction and thus not allowed.

You will need a lot of loot or null sec access to get the high end minerals for production.

I applaud your idea and it IS a hard one, but I doubt you will manage it to play totally solo.

Seriously guys, I know this is EVE forums and all, but causing other people misery isn't the only way to interact with them.