Null Sec

Null Sec living

Null Sec (aka 0.0 or 00) space is where the majority of empires live.   You are encouraged to claim that space through a process called Sovereignty and then develop this space to suit your own needs.  You can have it encourage exploration, mining, ratting, building supers, or travel.  Holding space encourages groups to fight over the 'best' space.  They band together in different groups to hold that space or accomplish goals, which is the real Magic of eve.

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The scale of Eve Online groups

Understanding the scale of how eve players structure themselves is important.

• You can fly around defending your space as a solo player.  This is the toughest part of eve because it's just you, by yourself, and if you run into a single person who matches or beats your ship, you die.  Or they might bring two people and then you're really in trouble.  At three additional people, it's VERY tough to stay alive.

• You should join a small fleet.  The smallest ones of these are usually called 'small ganging', which means that you fly around in a small group, with people usually warping themselves, and it encourages people to think for themselves and bring useful ships.  Past like 30 people, it goes into a different category.  Because most of eve is what is called N+1 game play, that small gang might lose to a larger gang, unless they are specifically setup to avoid it or fight against their weaknesses.

• You could join a BIG fleet.  This usually is the norm for null sec players in larger groups.  You have an FC (Fleet Commander) warp you around, you anchor up on them so you don't have to think where you need to fly to, and you just focus on locking and shooting targets, aka hitting F1, aka F1 monkey! :)  This can go from 30 to 254 players in a single warp.  Multiple large fleets can work together, but the fleet commander decides what to do for each fleet.

• You MUST join a corporation!  Playing eve solo is boring, corporations is what makes it fun.  Corporations are the core that small fleets are organized from.  This is similar to guilds in other games, where you band together for a common cause.  These are run as a dictatorship with a single CEO assigning roles, with directors helping the CEO.   You hang out on comms, you work together, but there is a point of stress here.  Spies could infiltrate these groups, causing you to leak information to your enemies.  If a spy infiltrates your corporation, they could leak intel, steal stuff, or even delete it: https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/band-of-brothers-alliance-disbanded 

• Alliances are made up of corporations.  These are ways for small groups to band together.  They control the Sovereignty system through corporations actions.  You can see what space they hold through pages such as https://www.verite.space/ that shows maps.

• Coalitions are groups of alliances, giving each one their own Sovereignty to deal with, but banding together during big fights.  These are the groups that major news events like M2- to happen.  https://www.ccpgames.com/news/2021/the-most-expensive-video-game-battle-ever-earns-two-guinness-world-records 

You can choose where you want to fit into this scale.

Sov

https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/14339751569436-Sovereignty-Hub  explains the basics of upgrades involved.

• Travel upgrades

  • Advanced Logistics Network - Allows Ansiblex Jump Gate.  The most common upgrade, allows you tranverse your space, shortens the gap.

  • Cynosaural Navigation - Allows Pharolux Cyno Beacon. A great way to lose a capital or super capital when you jump blindly.

  • Cynosaural Suppression - Tenebrex Cyno Jammer.  Defensive module, preventing people from jumping when online, doesn't stop covert cynos.

• Ratting upgrades, comes in 1 through 3 levels of each.

  • Minor Threat Detection Array - Large amounts of low end ratting sites. Great for speed running small sites or maintaining ADMs.

  • Major Threat Detection Array - Large amounts of high end ratting sites.  Increases a huge amount of high end sites allowing many people to run sites.

• Mining upgrades, only comes in 1 for now.

  • Prospecting Array - Increases ore of a specific mineral

• Exploration upgrades, comes in 3 levels

  • Exploration Detector - Spawns exploration sites up to 5 jumps away from it's home, can be stacked with others nearby.

• Space upgrades

  • Supercapital Construction Facilities - Super Capitals ship buildings

  • Workforce Mecha-Tooling - Increase workforce, trading in power

  • Power Monitoring Division - Increase power, trading in workforce

  • Stability Generator - Increase ship stats in the space

    • Gamma Stability Generator - 15% shield hp, 10% cap, great for shield stuff.

    • Plasma Stability Generator - 15% armor hp, 10% overheat, great for armor stuff.

    • Electric Stability Generator - 25% cap recharge, 25% target/dscan, great for watching for hostiles.

    • Exotic Stability Generator - 25% scan res, +2 AU warp speed, the most popular upgrade, as it speeds up travel through the space.

So what can I do in Null sec?

• Exploration

• Mining

• Ratting

• Abyssals

• Incursions

• Small gang

• Large gang

• Scouting