EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi all, I just started playing EvE Online tonight and I must say I am having a BLAST! This game looks so beautiful, the music is great, atmosphere is wow.

It seems like there are a lot of paths to take in this game which is very exciting. I had a few questions as to what to do about this:

1. My main goal is being in large PvP fleets, possibly fleet commanding. I have led some clans in the past for other games, and I feel like maybe I'll do OK at fleet commanding. However, I realize this goal takes a while to get to. What is the best way to train up and learn to fleet command?

2. I saw that you can make "boosters", or drugs, in this game. Is this a good way for newbies to make ISK? I do enjoy crafting so it seems like something I could do.

3. Are there any recommended "corporations" for newbies like me? I have run into the EVE University wiki, so they look interesting already. Are there any other similar organizations I should be looking at?

4. What's the best Minmatar ship I should be looking at?

Thanks everyone! See you in New Eden!

For how to learn to be a good FC> Join some roams with your corp members, listen to the FC, take note of what he is doing, and when you feel a bit more secure ask if a FC is willing to be the "back seat driver" while you lead the fleet.
That way you get a chance to learn, but a more experienced FC is there to step in if you do something that you really really shouldent do.
But, you will die, and so will your fleet. Dont let it discourage you, learn from it instead, and have fun as you go down in flames.

For a corporation, i will always suggest EVE Uni to new players, but you can also read over this guide that will help you find other new player friendly corporations that will fit your play style.

Good luck and welcome to EVE

PS. For 4, start out with something cheap like the Rifter and learn how to tackle. Fleets will love you, you can do it more or less right away, and since they are so cheap you can loose a lot of them without caring

Another edit. Cant believe i forgot to mention RVB. This is a good place if your looking for constant PVP.

Check minmatar faction warfare clans - they are very good at it and you will find perfect guidance.


No it is not. The best way for newbee is to sell plexes, otherwise your game becomes your second job, very bad payed one. Any activity, that gives ISK requires good start up money (abandone your current char and create a new one using proper buddy program to get some) and knowledge of market or it requires high amount of skills. With up to 5 Mio properly dedicated skill points you can start doing L4 security missions, for example. And security missions is also some form of pew-pew. So you will invest your skill point into combat skills you need for PvP anyway.


Eve uni is a good choice for a newbee. Minmatar militia is a good option for your purposes. Just be aware, that joining militia will closes half of high sec for you very quickly. Brave newbees will put you in almost constant war, regardless, if you are ready or not.


Slasher. Later on you will find your favorite ship size or even a race. You can cross-train ships of any race, actually. Minmatars are about shields, artillery or missles, speed. Not about armor and drones. Maybe with time passing you will find out, that you like armor tanking more, than shield tanking. Or that drones micromanagement is more fun than just pew - pew your main weapon. Or that the Damnation is most beautiful command ship in game and you can not live without it.

Google "Isk the guide", "Dotlan map" , "eve-central" and "eve online inventory dk". You will find interesting reading about basics of the game, ultimate map tool, idea what and where buy / sell stuff and very good compare list of ships / modules. Also check battleclinic - there are ready advices for what to put on your ship and how to fly it.

Others have pretty much mentioned it all, as for corps to join I would highly recommend RvB or Eve Uni - some people swear by RvB and others by Eve-Uni, personally I think RvB do it much better but in the end they're both great new player training corps. RvB is where I first FC'ed and it was a great experience.

About PLEX: It's disasterous if you think money wins the game. But if you remember to fly cheap, it's one way to let you make lots of stupid, fun and educational mistakes without going bancrupt. Just don't forget about keeping an economical mindset, and one PLEX should be enough.

I'm a small-time booster manufacturer and dealer. Think Walt & Jesse in the first season of Breaking Bad

It's not really a newbie profession, to be honest - you need to be in a corp or start your own in order to be able to anchor up a POS tower and then you need the initial outlay to buy your gigantic chemistry set, which comes to a few hundred million ISK.

The gases, reactions and BPC's you need are located in low-sec and 0.0 space - harvesting them is dangerous. Alternatively, you can purchase them from the market but they're not cheap.

Then there's shifting the stuff - Standard, Improved and Strong boosters are illegal and you risk hefty fines for possession in high-sec. You need a customer base to sell to - selling on the open market is possible but slow.

If you're set on doing this as a career, give me a shout in game.

Side note: You say you've led outfits before. But in Eve, this is distinctly different from being an FC. Leading a corporation has little in common with leading a fleet. The qualities, habits and tasks that make a good organization leader, and the qualities, habits and tasks that make a good FC are better separated between two different people.
Just putting that out there.

1) Tbh if wanting to learn FCing the best place is RVB, you will have a never ending stream of guys happy to follow you and engage you on relatively equal and friendly terms.

2) Boosters are nice and not recommended for starting out manufacture in eve no. In general Manufacture takes a LOT of skills to remain competitive and make isk. A task i would recommend for you is to take some ships and fit them up and place them on contracts around RvB's home,

3) Red Federation or Blue Republic (Believe me, i had so much fun with these guys.)

4) "Best" doesnt apply, only best in a given situation will. Unlike other MMo's ships here preform best in certain tasks and can be swapped out with a moments notice (assuming you have the skills) There are many strong one depending on task at hand, if you'd like some pointers with that feel free to ask what situations your looking for a well preforming ship in. (all recommendations subject to some bias)


Edit- Damnit Solai....

Silly OP, there's no atmosphere in space!

... I'll show myself out.

Welcome to Eve! One place you could start which I don't think anyone mentioned yet is Faction Warfare. It is a good "middle step" to large fights because you will be exposed to solo fights as well as small/mid sized gang stuff. Faction Warfare corps are always looking for new FCs to boss them around, so you should have no trouble finding a good group.

It will obviously take some time for you to learn the intricacies of the game, so dive in under someone else's command and take note of what is effective and what isn't. My biggest complaint with FCs is not being decisive enough. I will tackle anything for you if you give the command confidently, whether or not it's a good idea.

One other thing about RvB and Faction Warfare - their fleets both tend to be almost exclusively composed of frigates, destroyers, and cruisers. As a new player these cheaper options will help you keep costs down as you are learning, as well as limit the must-have knowledge for FCing. Understanding the workings of the small(ish) pool of ships used in these facets of the game is much less overwhelming than trying to understand every single ship in the game off the bat, so it's really ideal for up-and-coming fleet commanders.

Plus RvB typically consists of a lot of new players who just want a fight and don't really care who is leading. Many of them will sit around in the station until an enterprising fellow creates a fleet and tells them what to do...