EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello!
I came here in the hope to receive some more information’s and guidance about the game. I do realize that I'm a rookie and that most of my questions will be noobish or not worth your time. I still have fate that one or more will chew thru my post and try to help me puzzle together the missing parts.

I have been going up and down on some other forum platforms’ collecting as much information’s as I could about the game as well as followed few of the rookie guides on this page. The first lesson I learned was that EvE can quickly overwhelm you with information in which you get simply lost. It’s hard to pick out what's worth your time and what's not.

To start with I should explain myself. The acc I created is a 14-day's trail acc. I am aware of the 21-day trail acc which you can receive via buddy invite. Yet the purpose of this acc is only to gather information on the forum making my decision to stay and start playing EvE easier.

Notice please: That I am asking, not making a statement or claiming that any of it is true.
Notice please: That I am aware of some shortcuts but not all, so using them as well as explain them, would go a long way for me to understand it.

Example: BC = meaning = ( Battle Cruiser )

My first question would be about Buddy Invites. I was told that subscribers have 10 buddy invites per month. A buddy invite gives the rookie a 21-day trail as well as he's sponsor receives a PLEX ( 30 day's game time card ). This PLEX can be used or sold for around 500mil. I was told that the rookie could use the PLEX ASAP and the sponsor would receive an additional PLEX? In total both would gain a 30 day's game time?

My second question would be about the Races IG. I was told that currently the most popular Races are the Minmatar or better known as winmatar and Amarr. Then again one person said that it does not matter at all, I should take what suit me most for at the end I'll be able to fly any ship.
I myself favor the Caldari a bit for their shield tanking and missile use, yet if I go from the perspective of best looking ships I would choose the Amarr.
Amarr should be harder to handle for rookies duel to cap use of there wep systems while Caldari are the easiest to be used in PvE. The Drake being the most popular BC atm?
Amarr are using some kind of crystal as there ammo, therefore don't need to keep buying it, while other Races do. How much is the dif in damage/efficiency and expense ( isk loss duel to ammo cost )?
Missile/torrent or any other wep system, which of them is the most effective?
There is faction warfare or alike, how much does this influence the choice of which Race you choose? Worth joining?
P.S.: How much does the Bloodline matter?

3rd question would be about starting the game as a Capsuler. I was advised to do the Game Tutorials. What should I do afterwards? Shall I start running missions?
How do missions influence your standings for your own as other factions? Worth doing, any good benefits?
Refine should be connected to your faction standings and it’s a question of how efficient your refinering skills are. Meaning how much loss you make via crashing down modules into resources?
P.S.: If a person lock’s me and I lock him back, do I give them the permission to attack me without CONCORD blowing him up for aggression in 0.5+? As well EvE has Auto-targeting, does it as well Auto-shoot?
Example: you get locked, your auto-targeting pins the enemy ship and attacks without order while you were killing “rats”?

4th question, Salvage. How important is it as a source of income. Is it worth doing it as a rookie and if at what lvl/location?
Anything ales I should know?

5th question, Corporations/Alliances. I am used to find myself a guild before I join if by any means possible. I'm not looking for a rookie guild but more a well integrated one. Who would take me under their wings as a trail ( that's how it usually was done ) and see what I am made off. They would teach me the game mechanics and how to get around as well as giving me the opportunity to quickly earn an impressive amount of money and making myself self-sufficient. The reward for such investments was usually loyalty. Something I heard does mean a lot in the EvE Universe. Ofc in EvE skills do matter and as a rookie you have nearly none and therefore I could imagine that such an legion would have not much use for me in PvP nor PvE ? Yet again many said that any Capsuler can be put into use even as a rookie with a few weeks/months old acc…

6th question is Income. We had missions and salvage above, what other way’s are there to make it worth my time. I was told about WH’s but I’m not sure what to think about it as well as incursions?
I need to point out that I’m not interested in mining, for as far as the EvE test goes about professions I believe I’m made for a military pilot/bounty hunter or explorer. In time I might get myself a second acc and started working on crafting.
Is there a passive way of getting income via one of the industry professions or alike?

Thank you for your time!

A bit wrong. When buddy upgrades account inviter will get PLEX reward. If inviter already has PLEX before buddy upgrades, he can give that to buddy to use in upgrading account. Inviter will then get reward-PLEX. But since he gave his earlier PLEX to buddy, he "only" gets PLEX back and in the end doesn't gain anything (but doesnt lose anything either). And buddy gets his free 21+30 days of gametime.

There however is risk that buddy wont use PLEX to upgrade account. In that case inviter will lose the PLEX he gave to buddy and doesn't get anything.



I'll mostly skip this, a long topic. In short actual race does not matter but what races ships you decide to train for does matter. (e.g. I chose Gallente race but trained for only Caldari ships for a long time.) Browse back this forum and you should see many discussions about ships of different races and their pros/cons.

Bloodline only affects how you look and default NPC corp. (i.e. which NPC corp you go everytime you leave player corp). Doesn't really matter unless you have friend in certain NPC corp and want to get into same NPC corp. But you could just both join same player corp instead.

Initially any race can join Factional Warface (FW) of any race. This will change once you start getting negative standing for some races due to ingame actions.


First do AURA mission chain, about 20 missions I think. Then Career Agents (5 different). After that there is mission chain called Sisters of EVE Epic Arc which has about 50 missions total. And this is where tutorials ends.

After that you quit EVE unless you can find something worth doing in EVE.

You can continue on to normal agents which will offer unlimited amount of missions. Some of them make you kill ships of opposing empire factions, and those will decrease your standing with them. You can avoid such missions if you want to keep good standing with all empire factions. However any mission ("storyline" missions) which increases your own faction standing WILL decrease your standing with opposing factions, so you must decide if you want faction standing or not.

Refining is connected to NPC corporation standing, not faction.


Locking doesnt affect whether enemy can shoot you or not.

There is no auto-shoot, unless you activate that. i.e. if you click on weapon when you dont have target, that weapon will wait until you do get target and then shoot at once. And disable auto-targetting, it isn't really usefull.


I'll skip rest of the questions. Finding good corporation is big topic. As for getting income check this for some ideas:
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Making_ISK

Yo, if u decide to stay slap me an eve mail u can have one of my buddy trials. If you decide to stay with EvE and subscribe you can also have the PLEX to do with as you will. No strings, free.

Secondly (yes L33t pvpers i realise i am not the one true god of pvp, not even close) if you want to come learn a bit by flying with some others we'd be happy to have u in fleet for a bit n show u around :) Again no strings, not a corp advert. I'd answer your other q's here but running low on time. I'm always happy to answer any questions i can or direct you to a resource that can help if i don't know the answer :) Just add me as a contact to your WATCH LIST, and request a conversation when you see me online anytime.

(Im not trying to scam you, scams involving buddy invites are illegal and i could face a ban. Hope that eases any tension you may have)

Yes, many older players will give you the PLEX they get as inviters reward. They just invite players to help them, not to profit from them.

So many questions, I don't have time to answer. At least check out this free PDF guide: http://www.isktheguide.com/

Atm to lazy to answer all your questions, most have been answered before properly

2 small things:

1.) Corporations (or Corps) NOT Guilds / clans / what ever it's named in other MMO's - EVE players tend not to like people that tread EVE as any other MMO that is out there, mainly cause EVE is totally different in many ways to them.

2.) As for quoted part: If Keno Skir actually made this offer public in the sticky post up top in the New Player Q&A (Buddy Invite offers) it gets even better for you.

He HAS to give that PLEX as scamming using a buddy invite is against CCP rules. CCP doesn't like when people are scammed before they even started the game properly
*Reminder, in game all scams using stuff on market etc. is totally allowed*

First off, this is no recruitment ad.

And on to the other line... If you need help or have a few questions, just poke me in-game. I should be online 24/7. Best luck to you mate.

diplomacy helps you with your standings toward agents who dislike you.
criminal connections helps you with your standings toward non-player characters/corporations who are disliked by concord.
fast talk helps you with your security status by increasing the amount it goes up after doing something "good."

your attributes affect how quickly your skills are learned. each skill has a primary and secondary attribute related to it, and you can see which those are by checking out the info on the skill itself. each skill has a multiplier which means skill of multiplier x1 takes less time than skill of multiplier x2 or x3 or x8, etc. you can decrease the amount of time those skills take by increasing your attributes. generally speaking, intelligence and memory are for electronics and engineering skills (things related to science and your ship), perception and willpower are generally for combat skills (guns, missiles, the ship skills themselves, drones), and charisma and perception/memory tend to be what your leadership, trade, and corporation skills use.

factions standings have a derived %. if faction A includes corporation 1 and 2 and faction B includes corporations 3 and 4, if you help faction A, you will lose standings with faction B and its corporations. if faction A and faction B both have corporation 5 and 6, you wont lose standings with corporations 5 and 6, but you will with faction B and corporations 3 and 4.

Here I am again, for what might be my last time. I would like to Thank (you) everyone who participated in my topic, helped me with advice/guidance and alike.
Don’t be sad, I knew that my life span won’t be longer than 14 days, but the time seemed to have passed so quickly and finally came to an end.

Yet I would still have a few questions for you, this time about EvE Programs. I so far found two simple one:
EvEMon? (Skill Planner )
And
EvE Fitting Tool? ( Ship fittings based on your current skill level )
Are this free for use in EvE or are there any restrictions?
Are there safe to download and use?
Are there any other programs that I’m not aware of and would be useful for me?

Now I know that some already gave there “opinion” about my question regarding Factions or Races, but sadly it did not satisfy me. I do realize that at a certain point it does not matter anymore, but try to see it from my perspective, I’ll be “stuck” with a Faction/Race for at least few months up to 1 year. If I’m not mistaken I can at any time drop a skill and put it’s SP into another, still …
So my final wish before I’ll be gone is to try and direct me into the right way. As I mentioned in my first post I believe, I do favor a bit the Caldari with their missile ( damage selection ) and shield use. It would seem, that Coprs as well favor those who are able to fly a Drake or Tengu for they are to be the most used Pve/Pvp ships out there atm.

To help you, I’ll try and describe what my preferable play style would look like PvE vise. Now, at a certain point I would like to enter a mission/plex with the ability to tank it. I would warp in, sit tide and start picking off the enemy ships.

To help you, I’ll try and describe what my preferable play style would look like PvP vise. Quick and deadly … what a surprise?
I believe dps is not my number 1 priority but the ability to cripple my enemy making him a sitting duck while giving me the option to tank it out yet still dealing enough damage to blow him into nirvana.

I suppose that small scale is PvP mainly using Frigs to Cruisers, maybe some BC? While PvE takes larger guns like BC/BS/T3s and Caps?

My Opinion and thoughts about Races:

The Amarr look appealing. They have in my opinion the best looking ships up to BS ( about their caps we could debate ). For a rookie thou I fear that there impressive use of Capacitor could become a problem ( PvE as PvP vise )?
They focus mid/long rage attacks and heavy tank, using laser torrents? No need for ammo.

The Caldari on the other hand focus shields and missiles as well torrent disruptors which makes any other enemy lose their lock? There wep system do not use cap? They are capable of passive shield tanking. Is it any good? Can armor as well be effective passively tanked?

The Gallente, would be my most favorite Race if I would judge them by their political standing and philosophy. They are armor tanks focusing on close combat. Here I fear that an enemy would simply out kite me and slowly kill me. There other function is as drone boats which I rather would not use as my main dps.

The Minmatar or these days better known as winmatar use from all a bit ( from shield and missile use to armor and rail guns/artillery ). I find them skill intense for a rookie. Seem thou the right choice for anyone who would like to be an infamous space pirate.

I hope I was able to at least limit the possible choices.

Thank you once again, with best Regards Arana!

P.S.: I am proud that I already received a “Like”, shame thou that it will as I fate into oblivion…

1.) Tools like EFT / EVEmon and others are free and legal. Safety, it's a 3rd party program so CCP has no control. But so far nothing ever happened.

2.) Some other usefull things:

EVEHQ - basically EVEmon and EFT in one program with some extra's (industry calculator, item database, route map, POS builder)

eve-central.com - website to look up item prices, even remotely in other regions.
eve-survival.org - walkthrough for missions
evemaps.dotlan.net - out of game map of the EVE universe, very helpful and IMO much clearer then the ingame map.

3.) EVEHQ / EFT / EVEMON use the API to pull information from your account. This a read only system so they can read what your account is giving out (skills training, skills trained, wallet, etc etc) but it CAN'T and WON'T interact with your EVE account. So all changes have to be made by logging in.

4.) You can't drop (delete) a skill once it's trained. You can however train whatever you want. So you can make a Gallente pilot yet start training Amarr ships from day 1 (with current starting skills you only miss about 6h of training from not being an Amarr pilot).

5.) Drakes and Tengu's = awesome PvE ships and good PvP ships. They are however not the best, but the Drake is heavily used as it's mainly a low entry PvP ship that does a good job. There are plenty of fleet types around, ranging from Caldari to Amarr and from Minmatar to Gallente ships. Each ship in EVE has it's situations where it excels and where it is blown to pieces very quickly.

6.) PvP fleets can range from frigates all the way up to Battleships (and capitals). It's the purpose of the fleet that dictates the ships used. Structure bashing won't go fast in frigates, fast roaming and battleships don't mix either.

PvE: also ranges, level 1 missions are best done in frigate while level 4 missions are done in Battleships / T3's (or even a Battlecruiser).

EVE hasn't got an end-game item, EVE has progression. The higher the risk, the higher the reward. The bigger the thread, the bigger the ship you need to counter it (he who carries the biggest stick wins).

7.) As for your races. Caldari have shield ships - correct. But some shield ships are best used Passive tanked (Drakes for instance) while others are build for active tank (Tengu's for instance).

On the other stuff you are quite correct, though Minmatar isn't railguns, minmatar use either Arty or Autocannons by default. Railguns are more Caldari specific (though Gallente is possible too).

The only problem with capacitor is when you face neuting enemies. It can be overcome though, and they are fun ships to fly.


I think Tracking Disruptors are actually a specialty of one of the other races, Caldari focus on ECM or jamming. Missiles do not require cap, but Hybrids do. A passive shield tank is nice, but not a reason I would choose for a character. Armor can sort of be passive tanked...the big difference is that shield will regenerate over time while armor will not. So even not using active modules on an armor tank, you are still going to need something to repair it back up.


As mentioned before, if you like them for political/philosophical reasons, do it. A lot of people gripe about Gallente ships, but regardless, you can fly a Drake just as quickly as if you were Caldari. So do it if you like them more for the lore.


I don't think the Minmatar are really any more skill intense than anyone else, perhaps with the exception of the Caldari. And that just has to do with being able to use missiles at much longer range without all the gunnery support skills.

If you have any more questions, feel free to hit me up ingame via convo or EVEmail.