EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I am a new player to Eve and I am having a great time with the game but I need advice. I am feeling overwhelmed with all the choices of Corp options that are out there. Today I got approached by a corp which was really small and just starting out but has a lot of ambitions goals. It seems like a cool idea to join a corp from the ground up ready to accept new players and teach them. But at the same time for a brand new player would it maybe make more sense to join a more established corp instead? I have been considering E-Uni has their tutorial videos really helped me and have made a huge difference and I have a lot to learn. I am still not sure what I want my focus to be, I am thinking more pvp focused but I have heard mining can be a lot of fun with a big group and exploration also seems fun. And then there is a part of me that thinks piracy could be fun.

Basically I guess what I would love to hear is advice you would give a new player when trying to narrow down the field of all the choices. I understand it is important to look for the right criteria and focus but after you have narrowed it down to say four or five what is the best way to go about choosing between those that meet all your criteria? I am an analyst for a living so sometimes I am really bad about over analyzing things which is probably my problem here.

if you join a new corp i advise that you join one whose leadership is not made of new players or else they realy have no experiance from which to give you proper support or advice. also if you want to pvp then go for it, your newer character and lack of experiance will prevent you from joining some groups but there are those who will take a new plaer. just be careful of joining "all in one corps" as they tend to be kinda mediocre at evrything as they have no focus, industialist who pvp on the side are likly just a place to have a bit of occasional pvp fun but not a place to expect to learn proper tactics or anything.

E-UNI is reputable, I'd go with them. They also have a good database of articles, videos, classes, and the like.

As for what to do in-game, just be open to ideas for awhile as you learn more about the game. After a few days, you'll likely be less overwhelmed, and able to whittle down your choices down to a few. No pressure though, EVE is a long game, you'll have plenty of time to do something else if you want.

Dont worry, you still get to cover the..well night shift for me since it getting close to my bed time

And good morning btw!

Use E-UNI's guides but don't join the corp. I have nothing against them and some of their guides are second to none but they have goofy rules and are paranoid with recruitment to an annoying level.

High sec corps in general are bad unless they have a reason to be there. Don't join "kitchen sink" corps...meaning corps who specialize in pvp/pve/incursions/mining/industry/roaming/new player friendly/vets welcome/etc...they are usually tax monkey corps and just a chat box full of other clueless guys for 5% tax.

I used to be an advocate for the UNI but now I would avoid it. It has grown too big for a first corp. It is no longer about new players flying together. Been in there and didn't get the feeling of unity and corpmates supporting each other for good and bad. It's fast becoming a place where people are numbers, flying solo missions under the same banner while making use of the UNI infrastructure but without forming real ties.

They have some good people in the management but those are pre-occupied with the daily running of the corp. Then you have those who are supposed to be advocates, communicators between the management and the members/students but many of those are just arrogant, newb asses on a powertrip, being rude, censoring speech just because they can, being generally unpleasant, uncompromising in their behavior and unwilling to listen to any form of advice suggestion.
The reason for this can be found in the fact that most of the more promising people, real leaders of men are recruited away from the UNI or leave on their own behalf which makes it very hard for them to find qualified middle-management.
This is simply unacceptable in a school environment where the best people should actually be the ones close to the students. As a student, I often found myself being the one who listened and talked to fellow students and giving advice.

The UNI is now splitting up Europeans by language/nation and by doing so creating rifts within the EU timezone. We all speak English as a second or third language, and even if not fluid one can learn/improve by interacting, so I don't know why they are doing this.

Anyway, because of this, I and many like me, never found a home or purpose in the corp and to be honest apart from teaching the basics it really has none. Instead of doing fun stuff, people treat the UNI as a transfer corp to get somewhere else and pick up some free skill books while at it. They put little effort into being social and making friends because of this mentality. I hoped to find some like minded beginning and motivated pilots but ended up leaving the UNI disillusioned.

The classes are good tho, so is the wiki and some of the corp programs but most you can access without actually being a member.

I hope they are working on reforms as we speak, so I can praise them again because on itself, the concept of players helping each other finding a home in EVE is great and worth preserving.

Good luck finding a home and fly hard o/

OP, as another consistently overwhelmed noobie my advice would be to become comfortable with being in a state of consistent overwhelm.

this is the newbie help forum. if you are here, chances are you are a newbie and/or want to help newbies. inside the game it's a whole different story: as soon as you finish your tutorials and leave the starter systems, prepare to meet the guy who will take away your candy, drop it on the floor, step on it then laugh in your face ;)

Don't join the new player corp. A bunch of newbies with no idea what to do will probably result in wardecs which you don't know how to handle (PROTIP: not logging on/not undocking/corp hopping etc aren't really the best way to handle such things and are a waste of your game time). That or the CEO is probably running a scam.

There are lots of choices for decent out there, but it all depends what you want to do in game. If you're an analyst by nature, PVP is actually surprisingly fun. It gives you chance to dissect your fit, your opponents' fits, what happened in the battle what went wrong etc. The most important thing is to find a bunch of people you click with. Do things or try things in game, find like minded people, strike up some conversations and check out their public channels. Also, killboards give a good indicator of the corp's main activities.

The above is probably covered in more detail some of the guides posted by others above.

Yeah some of us thieving, nub killin, leetz hakzors pvpeeer dirtballs are still helpful to new guys when they ask about stuff.