EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello all. I work at Best Buy and a customer of mine had talked to me about this game today and has got me interested in

checking the game out. I'm very excited and can't wait to see what awaits me in this adventure. I have years of experience in

other mmo's Lineage 2 FF11/14 WoW GW/2 and many others and have never seen anything like this, so of course I feel

completely lost in what I'm doing, trying hard to get a grasp on it even with the tutorial and am now here in the forums seeking

help from a real person. If there is anyone that could help me maybe through ventrilo, mumble, teamspeak etc. I'm ready and

willing to take any steps to get this going right.


Thank You.

There are a lot of people who are willing to help so feel free to post in here if you have any questions. google is also your friend.
If you ever want to ask me a question feel free to mail me or message me if you see me online , always enjoy give help to new players.

Hang out in my channel (in my bio) if you want, I can help you fromt here and you can meet the crazies in it :D

Thanks a ton guys for the replies I will certainly finish the tutorials asap and get with you. I don't care for pvp either . Are there more servers available or just one?

One massive single server for everyone and everything \o/

Learning the basics is the hardest thing in this game. I would suggest looking up someone from eve university for in game help. They are a great corp for newbies and can really help you learn the ropes. If you are looking for more a pvp experience there are a few newbie options. Red VS Blue is a high sec corps that can give you a good start. Once you learn the basics this game isnt that bad to play. Steep learning curve but not bad after playing for a month you will have a pretty good understanding of how to play.

There's only one "shard" to play on.

As far as PvP is concerned...

if you really don't enjoy ship on ship combat, my advice would be to stay in "high-sec" (security rating 1.0 to 0.5... you can see this next to the system name in the upper left-hand corner). Once you go into low-sec (0.4 to 0.1 space) and "null-sec" (0.0 to -1.0 space) the only "rules" are those you can enforce yourself.

HOWEVER... be aware that "high-sec" stands for "high security" and not "total security."
People CAN attack you either in the form of War Declarations (people can declare war on anyone else for any reason no matter how big, small, strong, or weak they are) and "suicide ganks" (people ganking another ship before the NPCs can gank theirs).

The trick to avoiding these sorts of things lies in:
- keeping your head "low"
- not pissing off people (or even looking at them funny)
- not carrying enough stuff in your ship to make a "suicide gank" profitable (the general consensus is not to carry more than the value of the ship itself)
- tanking your ships to withstand a volley or three from an incoming ship (i.e. beefing up your HP and resistances, not actively repairing)
- joining up with people who can train, protect, and work with you (i.e. not people who will "bleet" like sheep and hide).

Trust no one.

Contact me in game and I can help you along they way if needed.

Welcome to EVE, do not rush into ships, do not ignore your core skills, if it seems like to good of a deal, that is because it is, as was said, in game trust no one!!! Very harsh but fun gaming world, look into all parts before you decide you do not like something, you might be suprised at what you like here.