EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello everyone.

So, I've hit 'The Cliff'. The tutorials are over and the open sandbox is out there, leaving me free to do whatever I chose. Great stuff! So I'm ready to try flying around, do different kinds of missions and things, ect.

I looked up my first agent, a security agent, and he was 26 jumps away from me. About 20 minutes of autopilot later, I was finally there to get missions from him. Went well for a little bit, then I lost a ship during one of the missions. Led to a jump in my pod all the way back to my training location, where I had all my other ships, then another jump series back. All told, a lot of time down the drain. It's become clear I'm going to need to pick a place to use as a 'base of operations', then act from there if I don't want to waste all that time.

Anyone have any advice for picking where it is I should set up shop? To start with, I think I'm looking at doing Exploration while I wait for myself to get the skills needed to get into FW. This tells me I'm probably looking for somewhere on the border between high sec Amarr space (my starting faction) and the low sec area of one of their two 'wars'. Other than that, I've got no idea what to look for in a spot. Low traffic seems better so I am not competing for the same relic sites and such, but I'm not sure how to check that.

Join a good corp. Don't be afraid to try out different corps, if one isn't for you, or is inactive/poorly run, just look for a better one.

Then the answer to your question of where to base will answer itself, since you can go base with your corporation.

You're right though, travel time is one of the crappiest things about EVE. Once you learn about the various empire trade hubs, and what 'standard' prices are for the ships/modules you want to buy, you should be able to easily figure out when/where to resupply.

Most people in hi-sec just base in the hubs themselves (which is why they are so busy). Examples: Dodixie, Hek, Rens, Jita, Amarr.

Those are the places where you will generally find the best prices to resupply. Most empire systems will be within a few jumps of one of these hubs.

I'm pretty jealous of new players, you have all of EVE to learn and explore. Really, you can start anywhere, but that fact alone can make the game seem quite intimidating. Best to start by flying with those who have experience in the areas you want to enjoy. Then you'll have an easy place to ask questions, and if it's a good corporation, they will provide opportunities to participate in/learn about different aspects of the game.

I'll re-state again though, do not stick with a 'bad corp'. Most people who play this game realise very quickly that the number of bad corps greatly outnumbers the decent ones. Everyone and their mother thinks they can be a CEO in EVE, but it's not like being a guild master in WoW where all you have to do is mass-recruit and watch the gold flow in. Instead, leading a corp in EVE is much closer to being a real-life CEO. Most people are simply not cut out for it.

Pick a fighting style that you enjoy then a weapon system based on that choice. Then choose a ship that is bonused for that weapon system.

Now sift through kill boards on a site like battle clinic. There are others but this is the link I had handy. Watch out though, this site is a mountain of bullsh¡t with little golden nuggets hidden throughout. Always run a fit by an experienced corp mate before committing. And keep in mind that fits are not ship specific but PURPOSE BASED.

Then go download eve fitting tool or pyfa or some other fitting tool. You can import you character with your API (google it) so the program knows what skills you have. Make a few ship fits that work for what you want to do now at current skill lvl and a dream fit that will be your training goal. You can adjust the relevant skills for any ship or fit until everything fits (within reason).

Now for the skill plan. Download EVEMon. This is a skill planner program. You can import your character so it know what skills you already have and import your dream fit from eft to make a plan. Then add in all those core skills to V, relevant support skills to IV & don't forget the drones. EVEMon will then optimize your plan for you. Forget about doing remaps or implants for now. Once you get through like 5 or 6 months of a skill plan you will know what a good plan looks like. Don't feel locked into it though. Feel free to jump around until you know what you like then go balls out on that.

Welcome to eve

About the traveling thing... get used to having crap spread out all over the universe. It will happen.

It helps to develop a knowledge of where the mini market hubs are in each area that you frequent. If you lose a ship just buy a new one near by. It helps to fly cheap.

Correct me if i'm wrong but nobody picked up on the autopilot thing yet :)

Autopilot warps you to gates at several km range and slowboats you toward the gate to jump at 2.5km. If you hit the JUMP button manually your ship will warp to 0 on gates saving you a whole bunch of time.

Set a destination on the autopilot, then jump manually through the first gate. Every gate after that just hit the jump button on ur quick command panel, the right gate will already be selected so you only need click once per gate.

I personally hate the idea of setting up a "base" per se. Settle in a spot, buy what you need from the nearest market hub. When you get sick of the area, drop all the stuff back in the market hub, with sell costs set so you don't take too big a hit. Fly your fav ship/fitting to new home, start all over again.

Thanks for the advice about not getting attached to the one base. That seems like a good idea, I just know that it was a bit frustrating to die so far from where I had a perfectly viable ship. At this point in the game, outfitting the replacement cost me about 30% of my reserve cash. I've basically done the tutorials and that was it, so it seemed like a good idea when I set out to go get the viable ship from my original starbase. I do hope to be able to buy what I need elsewhere in the future.



Yeah, this is totally true. Using the warp is way faster, and I kinda new that. On the other hand, I really needed to get my First Win of the Day bonus on League of Legends too, so I just kinda let autopilot take over while I took care of that business... Then, on the way back, I used the time to browse some guides. I started reading Isk, it has a lot of information that was just missing from the tutorials. Doing the jumps manually is indeed way faster, but requires me to stare dumbly at the screen longer instead of multitasking.

I know there aren't specific requirements to getting into the FW content, but it seemed to me that I wanted to have decent skill levels in a frigate before I throw myself at my fellow players to die repeatedly. I'll die repeatedly when I know that I'm dying due to my own mistakes, rather than just being outmatched.

Good plan. Die a lot, you'll learn fast.

We're based out of Tanoo ... only 4-5 jumps from FW space if you every need supplies.