Out of Pod Experience

Hello all

The idea was to sub for 3 month and see what I can do. I have to admit, it was a daunting experience but also an enjoyable one

I haven't decided if I will continue. There does seem to be a heavy time investment before a player can have any "fun" so I'm working on shortening that while being realistic with my time.

It's a great game but maybe not the game for a casual player like me.

I'd like to thank a few people for making my time here enjoyable and for being a real credit to the community in my eyes

Vilnius Zar
J'Poll
Laura Belle
Keno Skir

Special thanks to Keno and Laura for spending some time with me in game

I'm thinking to sub for 1 more month to see the dueling system. I feel like this might give newer players a change to 'practice' some pvp before heading into lowsec. We'll see what happens from there

Many thanks again to the community and devs for a great game and community.

Fly safe

A friend of mine is playing the hero tackler with a condor after 2 weeks of playing. Just find a nice corp. Hero newb tacklers are needed all around, since they ships are cheap to replace, and the guy in them is willing to learn.

Also, after 1 month of skills, you can help any decent small gang with a frigate or a cruiser.

So if PvP is what you want, in few months you can do better than some guys who were playing for years. Just be willing to learn and find the proper corp to do that.

You will come back. All of us do :D

The moment I stopped visit newbie forums one of them starts making rankings, eh...

But seriously, nice to hear you had good time and you found help you needed to enjoy the game. I hope you will stay around and have many more adventures in Eve universe.

I remember being scared to go out and pvp because i always thought id just get owned without learning anything and not being able to fund my ships. I was just sitting there doing nothing and "waiting" for skills to finnish wich would never be good enough i thought.

My solution tho was just buying 1 plex and sell it, and it would fund my cheap frigs for a looong time to practise with, real pvp >> dueling will give you the experience and understanding you need, what u can kill and what you cannot. this changed the whole game for me personally and i was no longer just sitting there waiting for my skills to finnish and having nothing to do basically.

But that was my solution and maybe not everyone wants to pay for PLEX but my RL back then was different so i had only a couple of hours a day at most, and no time to farm for isk.

That actually sounds like a good idea and would solve some of the issues i'm facing. Thanks

Frigates don't have to be a stepping stone to something else. There are plenty of people in Eve who fly frigates almost exclusively (and are damn good at it). Sure, training for larger ships takes time, but remember, bigger is not always better.

As for having to wait to have fun, there are plenty of ways to go have fun after even just a few hours (or days) of training. An example:

Red vs Blue - Our Noobfleet members are given (free!) frigate hulls to PVP with. The insurance on the hull is almost always enough to more than cover the cost of the T1 modules you fit them with. (In fact, when I first started, I actually made ISK via the program. It wasn't much, but it was enough to keep flying T1 frigates.) There's also a skillbook program, and plenty of events and opportunities to find people to PVP with. In addition, people are more than willing to have "duels" where you only shoot each other to hull, so neither person loses their ship.

Why wait for a dueling system? Come join RvB today!


(Standard disclaimer: RvB is not a teaching institution. You CAN learn during your stay (and you probably will) a lot about PVP, but - aside from a few generous souls - no one is going to hold your hand and teach you how to PVP. Also, lest someone else come in with a "not real PVP" comment, you are always welcome to join RvB for awhile until you get some basic understanding of PVP, and then go join a "real" PVP corporation elsewhere.)

Yeah, it was a good breakdown of a new players experience. The SP thing is a bit intentional off course. Doesn't the tutorial at some point indicate that you take a look at a few ships? It's not as if that section wasn't intended as a way of telling you if you stick with it you can fly a ship 1000x the size of your wee little noobship. It is a game that takes patience and a little planning. But you can have fun all the way from near 0 up to a gazillion SP. I must admit that I did a lot of research on the game before I started my trial, because I knew it was going to be quite complex. But thanks to my IRL friend I got into a courier contract into nullsec with 5 mil up front and another 5 if i'd make it. I was evading bubbles and scanning for players in mere days. Thanks to that little gesture I knew hisec was a carboard box and the sand was outside of it quite early in my Eve carreer.

Fly safe!

You are not allowed to leave EVE until you get your 1st kill.

Sorry bud.. that's just the way it is.

EvE is what YOU make of it.

I have been playing since Exodus and learned real fast about getting ganked. Initially I was pissed...then I laughed and started over.

The biggest difference between EvE and most games is that YOU get to decide what you want instead of following some script. So what...other people have big shiney pew pew monster ships. Other people have teeny tiny super fast annoyance ships that bring down Battleships and Industrials.

Talk to other people, visit other EvE related websites, check out chat channels, click on random pilots and see who they are and where they come from and what corps they belong to. etc...

You have a good attitude, EvE has some of the most mature players around (save some of the forum trolls) so you are in good company. Play a little more and have fun. Afterall...it is a game!

I'm genuinely humbled and blown away by your responses. Thank you

I was honestly expecting a few 'can I have your stuff?' replies and not much more.

The more i'm out of of game, reading forums, researching etc. the more I want to play

The more i'm in game, the more i'm struggling to find things to do.

I started an alt along this guy to help and i'm subbing for another month at least. Sticking with frigs and working on better builds

You guys make it hard to quit this :)

Veda