Newbie - Please Don't Pod Me

[Nevermore]

Battleships take forever to align and warp out, it's often a good idea to overheat your tank as you sit there for 13 seconds aligning.

Or better yet, get into the habit of aligning towards some celestial object if you can when doing missions, so if things go bad you can just warp out to said object instead of having to align then.  Planets or moons are your best bets in Empire, as belts will likely have rats of their own in them.

[Morat20]

Battleships take forever to align and warp out, it's often a good idea to overheat your tank as you sit there for 13 seconds aligning.

Or better yet, get into the habit of aligning towards some celestial object if you can when doing missions, so if things go bad you can just warp out to said object instead of having to align then.  Planets or moons are your best bets in Empire, as belts will likely have rats of their own in them.

Oh yeah, I did that as a matter of course. Warp in, align on my "run the fuck away" target, deploy appropriate drones. Active armor tank once my shields were gone.

I admit, Battleships are sluggish as hell. I liked my Myrmidion -- had a good balance. Just not tough enough for L4's.

[Sir T]

Also kill frigates as they can stop you warping off.

I wound up doing L4 missions in an Eos command ship just out of style and boredom last I played. There was a couple that were actually fairly hard even in that, but at least I could watch TV while grinding for the most part.

[Lantyssa]

First clone death today.  I took Aluria out to see if I could run some missions for Serpentis or the Archangels.  Some Russian took out my Rifter in seconds, then went for the pod kill.  No ransom attempt or anything, just death.

Thankfully I went into it expecting to die horribly.  Used the insurance money to buy a blueprint so I can make more whenever I need.

I think I'd want to be more established to join BC out in space, if the goon systems even hold, but if I can only make it two hops in 0.0 space, I have no clue how someone could make it out that far into low-sec.

[Thrawn]

I think I'd want to be more established to join BC out in space

This is a common mistake, if you prefer to play in empire play in empire.  But if 0.0 interests you and you want to play with the BC people then join, and join now.

[Lantyssa]

I don't see how one could make it that far without being established.

[Thrawn]

I don't see how one could make it that far without being established.

Set your clone to a Goon station, undock, self destruct your pod, spawn in Goon station.  (unless they've changed that)

Say you are new, get everything you need thrown at you for free.  Join a fleet and tackle something big in a rifter! 

[Surlyboi]

Give me a couple of days. Incarna fucked my install something awful and now I've got to do a full reinstall and hope for the best. Once I'm in, I'll throw you a decent pile of cash.

[Morat20]

I don't see how one could make it that far without being established.

You obviously need a corp, but you can be productive flying tackling frigates, or sucking up and playing miner with escorts. :)

[Reg]

They're right. Join up now.  If you wait until you think you're established you just take the risk of burning out on the whole game. Plus, once you're out there you'll feel dumb for having waited so long. 

[Elaen Todir]

We have bootcamps and mentor programs to teach you everything you need to know.

[palmer_eldritch]

Yeah, just to spell out what you need to do:

Apply to Bat Country. When you are accepted, go to a station and use the medical facilities to change the location of your medical clone. You should see a station called S-DNSM IX in the list. That is your new home, so choose that as the place to put your clone. While Empire stations belong to NPCs, that station belongs to us.

Leave your ship so that you are in a pod and then leave the station. Wait 20 seconds or so, and then right click your capacitor (the orange circle at the bottom of your screen). Choose "self destruct".

You wake up in Bat Country, where they love noobies. (Don't forget to buy a new clone once you get there)

[Kageru]

Have some allies (though lazy ones) as opposed to be flying through gates into the waiting traps of bored low-sec gate campers. Lose *free* rifters while you work out wtf. Get to see a titan, probably from the pointy end, but hell.. that's fun too.

[Brolan]

Yeah, just to spell out what you need to do:

Apply to Bat Country. When you are accepted, go to a station and use the medical facilities to change the location of your medical clone. You should see a station called S-DNSM IX in the list. That is your new home, so choose that as the place to put your clone. While Empire stations belong to NPCs, that station belongs to us.

Leave your ship so that you are in a pod and then leave the station. Wait 20 seconds or so, and then right click your capacitor (the orange circle at the bottom of your screen). Choose "self destruct".

You wake up in Bat Country, where they love noobies. (Don't forget to buy a new clone once you get there)

Just be sure to finish any business you have in High-sec first.  Once you join BC you will be the target of any wardecs the goons have on them.

[Lantyssa]

I don't see how one could make it that far without being established.

You obviously need a corp, but you can be productive flying tackling frigates, or sucking up and playing miner with escorts. :)

I meant physically getting there.  I didn't realize I could set my clone to a station I wasn't at.

Then I'll see about taking care of my high-sec business, sell off the assets I don't need or won't ever want to return for, then go blow myself up.

[Kageru]

Eventually you'll probably want a high-sec alt in a neutral starter corp to buy stuff, move it around and organize shipping to your main. So you can leave material in Empire and contract it to them or just leave it in storage.

[Lantyssa]

Ailuria is my alt.  My main is in a neutral corp working in Caldari space.

[Thrawn]

Ailuria is my alt.  My main is in a neutral corp working in Caldari space.

SPY!

(sorry, couldn't help it)

[Stabs]

Ailuria is my alt.  My main is in a neutral corp working in Caldari space.

SPY!

(sorry, couldn't help it)

Hmm.

Sounds like the sort of thing a spy would say to deflect suspicion.

[tgr]

Ailuria is my alt.  My main is in a neutral corp working in Caldari space.

SPY!

(sorry, couldn't help it)

Hmm.

Sounds like the sort of thing a spy would say to deflect suspicion.

This sounds like something a spy would say to deflect suspicion.

[Lantyssa]

Now I feel like one of you.

I'm totally a spy.  I'm not telling y'all whether it's for or against BC though.