EVE New Citizens Q&A

There is no benefit to starting over. Training time is real time so it's just wasted if it's not used. You got hoodwinked, learn and move on.

No corp worth joining will require anything of you but to log in and pitch in on occasion. Anyone asking for money or that you park ships in their hangar, is a scam artist.

Nothing more than an email application and probably a voice comm chat is a 'normal' process. If you run into someone demanding more than an API, just walk away. There are thousands of corps in Eve, and none are worth paying to get into. Most just want active players and are far more afraid of thieves and spies than you are of being ripped off.

You got taken by other newbs. Nothing you could own this soon would really be worth the effort for anyone else to take. I'm not being mean, it's just true- I could make more money in a single level 4 mission in high sec than most newbs' whole hangars are worth. Which is why you won't find high end players doing this stuff to newbs. We just have better things to do than scam a few T1 hulls from a newbie.

All I can say is get out of high sec, get away from trade hubs. Find someone that just wants players that actually log in, and you'll instantly love this game again.

Just some advice - for 6 months, you have a lot of corps showing for your employment history.

You went through what - a dozen different player corporations?

That may work in some games but this one... That's a lot of "trust" in strangers for this game world being as your history looks like sampling time as you bounced around a lot.

Take time and:
1) check the corporations info and history
2) spend a few days in their recruitment channel talking with them and others who swing by
3) talk to people who are in that corp and who left / no longer are in it.

If you can handle some of the snide comments here and shrug it off, I'm also sure you can develop a sense of patience and research things a bit more before "trusting" and jumping in and people who left making nasty comments - you should have the ability to "filter" that a bit for what you find of value/interest vs their own self-points of view.

Ah, I see you've met the notorious Goonswarm.

Eve Rule #1: Never trust a Goon.

But there is a silver lining: Once you've been playing for, heck, as little as six months (which is nothing in EvE terms) you'll look back at 50,000,000ISK as being the kind of chump change that falls out of your sock, rolls under the couch, and you can't even be bothered with picking up.