EVE New Citizens Q&A

my first thought is to get yourself wardeced, nothing gives a group somthing to focus on like staying alive.

besides that you could get into wormholes where there is better ore, exloration sites and the potential lurking danger of other players to make it interesting.

others here will probably give you somemother ideas as well such as incursions but i cant think of much else off the top of my head so ill leave it at that.

A small bunch of friends can join a corp and make a lot of new friends, and achieve pretty much anything in EVE.

Nothing is more enjoyable than playing EVE with friends!

I'd recommend joining a corp (example: Brave Newbies Inc.), and having fun with your friends, old and new.

Even if you decide not to stay in the corp, it is a great way to get to know EVE.

For what it is worth, 4 of us lived in wormhole-space, doing sites up to C6 (the hardest) with multiple capital ship escalations. I really don't recommend that though, as it can get boring. We did.

I'll offer all four of you 100 million ISK each, if you join an active PvP corp [recommend Brave Newbies Inc.] and fling yourselves into battle for a month. Deal, or no deal? Send me an in-game EVE-mail with a list of the names if you are interested.

I'm 45. I've been playing EVE for over 4 years now. I currently have 5 accounts. I really enjoy EVE. Even when my ships get blown-up.

If you do missions, incursions and explorations together that can be fun. Have the miner train salvaging and passive boosting, have both the carebears train repair skills for whatever type of tank you're doing, and take on content at a higher level than you should by yourself alone. The miner giving passive boosts means he deserves part of the payout, and bringing combat drones on the salvage boat will help take out the frigs. (Miner could even be drone bunny.) The other three could spider tank.

PVP can be touchy, but it's better to start it on your own terms than wait to be ganked. All I can say is that I hope they'll reconsider. Making a few low sec roams with one of them in a cloaky scout and two of them in ewar or logi frigs could be fun.

If someone offered me 100mil to get blown up repeatedly I'd take it. Right now I've been grinding for isk and haven't really started on pvp.

That guide has helped me a lot.

Wow, so many replies, thanks all!


I did consider probing down C1 wormholes to sneak around in, but my only experience with wormholes (I used to live in a C1 way back when) was as quite an experienced player already. I also had a POS and heavy infrastructure available to me, which we won't have for small skirmishes into random wormholes. Will players fresh off the trial be able to do anyhting in C1 wormholes? What ships should they aim for that won't be too painful to lose if the fat lady come knocking?


This is most likely the safest bet on what to do next! I just need to nudge them a little :) With the new exploration mechanics, we should have plenty of stuff to do too, right?


This is how I learnt to play eve back when i was new. Unfortunately, some of the guys I'm playing with just don't want to join a corp for several reasons. I agree that it's the best way to get into the game properly, be it politics, having the infrastructure to do more stuff or just the very important social aspect of it, but alas, I'll have to find another way :)


I agree that differences in tastes can be a problem, but so far it seems we have been allright. We'll see how it goes!


I guess saying they are 'afraid' of pvp is a bit too strong of a phrase, more accurately they feel that it would be pointless to do any pvp because they imagine low sec is filled to the brim with 7 year old players shooting lightning out of their arses and being 8 feet tall and such. Ive tried telling them otherwise (I lived in low sec soon after being able to fly my first cruiser), but it's hard to convince them. I have however somehow managed to persuade one of them to join me in lowsec, so perhaps the others will follow? We will see :) I do think I will create a small corp for us to be in however, if only for having a shared banner. having a POS and such is probably a little bit out of our reach though (this character might be old, but it's almost exclusevely trained in combat skills) :)


I'll offer all four of you 100 million ISK each, if you join an active PvP corp [recommend Brave Newbies Inc.] and fling yourselves into battle for a month. Deal, or no deal? Send me an in-game EVE-mail with a list of the names if you are interested.
Haha, that's really generous and awesome of you! I do not want to push any of them into doing things they do not want to though, but thanks for the offer :)

A tight knit group of friends in Eve can make there own corp no need to join Eve Uni or RvB. Both have public coms, I'm sure if you were to reach out to Eve Uni they would give limited access, after all many of their seminars are taught by outside corps. I also doubt either side of RvB would mind if you wardecced 1 or both of them.
Having some blues in an area would probably help alleviate some of the fear of lowsec, how would I go about contacting BN or eve uni regarding this if/when I create a small corp for us?

I'd reply to the other replies in the thread as well, but I think I've pretty much covered things in the other replies, either way, thanks for taking your time! Reading through this has given me a lot of ideas. For now, I think I'll probably create a small corp the four of us can hang around in, and then I'll slowly nudge them towards more exiting ventures in low sec and maybe wormhole space... Thanks all! (Do keep more ideas flowing if you have any) :)

EDIT: What the... only 5 quotes per post? sigh.




Regards
-JM

7o Brave Newbie checking in :) If you would like to talk to us about hanging out and maybe getting blue standings or becoming part of Brave Collective, feel free to drop me a mail in game and I'll point you to who you should talk to.

Your other option could be Providence. Providence is a nullsec region, controlled by a group of alliances running on a Not Red Dont Shoot basis - so you could all form your little corp and head there, with reassurance that you wont get shot at by the locals, and then mine, hunt rats or whatever within Provi.

While, as a Brave Newbie, I am Kill On Sight in Provi (while unofficially they like us, officially our tendency to shoot at neutrals, raid Provi and so on means we are never the less KoS), I can also suggest a couple of names of people to talk to there.

Finally, regarding low-skillpoint PvP ... Ewar and logistics are your friend, and most pirates dont fit ECCM.

I'd go with wormholes - doors are different every day so it's not like static paths around the area to get bored with. Lowsec/nullsec roaming? Common from wormholes.

The only tougher part is if you do decide to live out of one via a POS -- the ever changing paths to and from them means it can be tricky to keep the POS fueled and such.