EVE New Citizens Q&A

Exploring/astrometrics, pvp combat come to mind.. PvE combat is easy because making it more complex would make pvp where you have to do several other things at the same time unbearable. Exploring you have to scan stuff down with the minigame.

The game gives you the tools to work with basically. You have to figure out what it is you want to do and how you do it. Pretty much all sandbox styled MMOs are like this. Most MMOs will hold your hand or guide you through on what to do and how to do it by giving you a quest line or mission progression path, or by forcing you into taking a specific class and saying you can use, this, this and this. But none of the items or skills in this list over here.

Go pvp, and try to do that afk

Mining is boring, try mining using two accounts, while taking to corp mates and one of the accounts is hauling minerals.

As for travel, you must not be warping to 0, warping to 0 is way faster. don't auto pilot everywhere.

PvE at lower levels is easy, its gets more interesting as you go along. Me personally I kinda get into the story and lore/history of the game and I like running missions.

Running missions keeps me fairly busy, managing drones and what target to shoot next.

PvP is a full attention all the time sort of thing.

You are like me, back in 2009 when I didn't "get" Eve either.

Like others said, Eve gives you all the tools, build your own sand castle or go knock some other castle down.

The market, and playing the market is far, far more aggressive than you understand now, I don't still fully "get" the market, but know how to judge time, mineral worth and fair market price can be a full time job.

You look for deals (the I mine my minerals so its "free" crowd help you), look for markets to fill, items to flip and so on.
If you keep watch, you might find some "not so smart person" selling ships for less than its mineral value of the ship and so on.

Eve is what you make it.

the most non-afk action in eve is pvp

but pvp mechanics in eve is not very good compared to pvp games - because you kinda lock and shoot,no aiming,no expert manouvering except keeping your velocity,its kinda like strategy game not a pvp game

and thats if you can get into fights in the first place

You guys really aren't convincing me of anything, yet to see an actual response to my question aside from:

"You can....do stuff!"

Joined a corp last night, spent almost 45 minutes warping to their HQ. Got there and looked at missions, level 1's are 19 jumps away....YAY MORE WARPING.

And then when I get there and get the missions, they'll tell me to....yep....you guessed it....

warp somewhere....dock....warp back!

or

warp somewhere......gate from that somewhere.....click twice and watch your ship slowly fly around in a circle while shooting......warp back

YAY!!!

When I tried Eve about a year and a half ago, I joined a PVP corp and omg was it fun. We all got on teamspeak and went in and out of dock so we could "hide" while our little scout found someone. We even got to blow up a whole ship after 3 hours of sitting in a station waiting!

YAY!!!!

The appeal of this game makes no sense to me and, like in this thread, trying to figure it out just leads to mega fan boys going Apple Vs. Android like I've insulted their god for dare questioning how to actually enjoy this game without putting hundreds of hours of research into it.

You are never 19 jumps away from a level 1 mission for someone if you are in High sec.

Going to and from places is a part of any game.

Look man, you just don't seem to "get it", Eve is what you make of it. I can not stress that enough, and the game is not for everyone. No shame in that, I personally didn't like WoW or TOR.

I checked into all the different parts of the game, and I found what I like to do. If you want to stick with Eve then check into the game, run the tut agents. Find something you like to do.
What helps me is I run pandora in the background with some dub step/80's rock and some blackmores night on mix.

Nothing like some *wub wub pew pew* to relax to at the end of a day.
I like running missions and when I can't be 100% at the KB I mine a little. I chat with other people in game.

Eve doesn't hand you anything, it doesn't tell you what to do, you have to find what you like doing, then do it.

You can run missions, mine, play the market, do PI or trade or play space trucker OR any combo of those things. You can make ships, you can ransom other people, or just blow them up.

There are many aspects to Eve, not each one is right for everyone.
You have to have a bit of a drive and ambition and some goals and imagination for this game.
I eat this space ship, si-fi stuff up. I love the lore, the love the factions.

If you like PvP give Red Vs Blue a try, then move to faction warfare, you just need a way to keep the isk flowing in so the guns keep going though.

Eve is different, it took me a long time to figure it out. Eve is a sandbox, as close as it gets to 100% pure player run and made everything.

Read some of the great stories about how players got scammed for loads of isk, or how a spy brings down a corp from the inside.
Or how pirates and PvP players have fun with miners or blowing stuff up.

You get out of Eve what you put into Eve. If you put nothing in, you get nothing out. Its not like WoW, a themepark where it leads you by the nose, "go here and do this" now go over to that place and do this".

Maybe I picked up on Eve because I loved SWG, another great sandbox.

If you want to be hooked by the nose and told where to go and what to do, this is not the game for you.

You have to find out what you like doing.
Maybe MMOs' in general are just not for you? You seem to want to be told where to go, what to do and how to do it. thats not Eve, that's somewhere else.

Eve is a sandbox, I can't tell you how to play it, or be happy with it. All I can tell you is try out every thing you might want to do, then hope you find something you like doing.

Yeah you can. Learn to use kills-in-space on the map and your dscanner ;)

You haven't raided in WoW, have you? With the guild or pick-up. Cause you wait for hours there too. 50-100 people don't assemble in 5 minutes.

Whatever. You're comparing levelling up in other MMO's with large group action here. It doesn't take you 1 hr to jump into your mining frigate and mine some roids. Get a mission and do it. Trade on the market. Whatever.

You want to see a "cool war" and then participate in it... with what? Your rookie ship? Why would either side of the war bother to even acknowledge you? Our job here isn't to make the game fun for you, it's to make it fun for ourselves.

In any case, again, this is the game, play it or don't. I'll grant you that the other MMO's are on-rail theme parks and this is a sandbox (here's your sand, next!), but similar waiting times are present in all the games, and if that's what you have a problem with then we can't help you. Just don't play; there are plenty other spaceships games out there. See X3AP for example.