EVE General Discussion

Eve is a complicated game. Im doing tons of research and posting topics with many questions per topic to condense things. Im not posting one topic with one question.

I post on the forum, I ask questions in game and Im doing tons of reading online. Online Im told ask on the forums. On the forums Im told ask in game or google it. Instead of answering my questions all my topics get locked because in the 10 years EVE has been around the question was asked by someone. I cant ask the question myself but have to dig thru 10 years of topics to see if someone asked the question.

So now instead of taking a couple of weeks to really get the feel for eve its going to take months because the only thing thats acceptable is doing everything myself. Cant ask all the vets questions.

So Im going to keep asking questoins, all the vets can keep complaining. The mods can keep closing my topics so I have to re ask them and it will take longer. Or maybe theyll ban me for asking questions and Ill take my subscription to a less complicated game where Ill have less questoins and the players will actually answer them without harrassment

Well the community is nothing but atrocious trolls. Your best bet is finding an active teamspeak channel with plenty of helpful people.

Good luck finding one.

I have never had a problem getting sensible questions answered. These forums are generally quite helpful outside of GD and everyone else seems to get along fine for the most part, so the problem is on your end.

the problem on my end is I am burning a fast track through the information. Digesting what eve has to offer. All i do is Ice mine because Im reading wiki or forum posts. Im talking online asking questions and learning. So I dont have time for anything other than basically afk mining

The difference between you asking an occasional sensible question and me asking tons of sensible/not sensible questions is game time. I need lots of information to get the ball rolling where you just need some help to keep up to date or find out about a small aspect of the game you didnt know about before

If you keep asking them in the correct place and in the correct format, there's nothing anyone can say.

OP...

- the reason some of your threads were locked was because you were making a new thread for each "small" question. Too many of those constitutes as spam. Condense your questions and thoughts into fewer threads... make bullet points and lists for easier formatting of answers (you did good in this thread).

- The reason people tell you to Google something while ridiculing you is because you are asking a question but with no story or content. You show nothing about what you think something does, what you may have learned, what you have tried, what you want to do, etc. and it smacks of someone who hasn't done any research (even though that might not be true).
Remember that these are forums (on the internet no less)... wording matters more than intent.

- Don't just ask... DO. Even if you are unsure about something... try it anyways. Even if all your questions are answered and you have a wealth of information to draw upon you'll still be missing out.
For example: I can theorycraft about PvP for hours. This ship will do this, if that ship does that, and you should fit this mod for that since it will come up, etc.
But at the end of the day all that might end up moot when someone does something so unexpected that I have no way to counter it (which is often the case).

- Find yourself a corp or alliance that will take you in and answer all your questions. I think you might do well in EVE University as they have a very slick Wiki page that is available for all.

OP try New Citizens Q&A, posters in there go out of their way to answer questions. GD is not really the place to be asking questions, it's more of a general discussion forum (the name gives it away) where we argue, troll and generally rip the urine out of each other, oh and it's full of shiptoasters.

Whew! Just made it!

...and yet somehow several hundreds of thousands of other EVE players have managed from the beginning just fine...hmmm...