EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi,

I've been playing EVE for two days now and I'm having a blast learning more and more about it.

I started the mining missions and I'm almost done with them. I trained mining, mining frigate, repair ship and gallente frigate a little bit so far.

I was wondering if anyone would mind sharing some advice about what to do next?

I don't know what would be the best to begin with but I'm having fun mining so I guess it'll be related to this.

EDIT: I mined a crap ton worth Scordite and Veldspar anything interesting I can do with them?

Thanks!

After you found some sort of direction, you should look into joining a corporation that has a certain focus in that field. Playing alone (or in the starter NPC corp) can lead to frustration quick. Do not be afraid to ask many question before you join, I found that people are helpful towards new players who have the right/open minden attitude.

Also, once you can afford to, fit a cheap ship, go to lowsec, and get killed at least once. It helps you realize that ships are pixels and is OK to loose them. Who knows, the different ambient music and sights might lure you to more dangerous waters.

Have fun!

CAS, your starter NPC corp is one of the more pro-active ones with a generally decent and helpful community.

For missions (Typically Level 4's) there is the 'helpmymission' channel

If you decide to stick with mining, CAS have an in game channel that you can join, mining with company is much better than mining solo.
If you stick with mining, you may at some point be approached by a member of the 'New Order' .. it is a 'protection racket' nothing more, nothing less. Your Protection Fee protects you from them and their enforcers. just a FYI, pay or don't pay, it's your choice

A pure Miner sells his ore at the market.
You can sell your ore immediate to buy orders. Or you can set up a sell order and wait until somebody buy's.
The next step to an Industrialist is not far away: Buy blueprints and manufacture things with the ore you mined.
And then sell these things at the market. Many ppl start with ammunition in this.
Then the step to a Trader is not so far away.
Because with trade skills you have to pay less market fees by selling the ore or the manufactured items.
And with some descent ISK in your wallet its not bad to buy items cheap in one Region and sell these high in another Region.

So like to say, the borders between Miner, Industrialist and Trader are floating. Several skills to learn are good for each.

For manufacturing you need good standings with a corp. To produce the things at their stations cheaper,
pay less fee for production. So you will become combat Pilot too.
Because by doing Security (combat) missions for a corp, you can increase your standing with the corp fastest.

So your path in EvE will not go completely straight into one direction.
You always need some 'side'-skills which are primary there for other 'professions' to be really good at one.

Yeah but as a new player, time is better spent focused on combat pilot or industrialist, not both. Really, better, purely one or the other for a while at least. Speaking for myself, it was a very long time before I started training trader and any real salvage skills. I still have no plans to max those out anytime soon, but enough to be efficient all around IV's. I've even split my training with an alt on my account in the past (~25%), for a frig/destroyer FW character, but I didn't do that until I had good focused skills on this character and making plenty of ISK.

And even then, I don't need to train them, I just wanted to after a point. With the faster ISK I made from combat (which is good ISK), I could have just bought an industrialist character out of the character bazaar, or a FW character. Or now that we can train more than one character on an account, I can make a pure industrialist by buying PLEX with the ISK I make from combat, easy! Even just doing high sec lvl4's with good skill, it doesn't take all that much work to buy a PLEX. But if you dabble in everything in the game on one character, it'll be a long-long time before you do anything efficiently, seems most definitely the slow path to start out on if you don't focus at least the first six to nine months at least. Yes you have 100k SP (5yr accnt), you can fly many ships etc, but for a newbie they are nothing close to that, and really their first one year skill plan should be more focused on related skills that will benefit them faster in the short term, then maybe branch out later.

And your times for training there seems not so complete. You need not only the weapon skill, but all the supporting skills for those weapons from their own skill trees. Rigs and modules help too. Then specialization. You run a BS into a lvl4 mission with all your skills at III, it's going to be a very-very short mission. Best to make sure you insure.

Drones, yes. Train them up. Won't help so much with pvp, but useful against rats and also for mining, repairs and salvaging. Whether you do industry or combat, drone operation is pretty universal.

What she means here is that your two drones aren't going to be useful in deterring another player from blowing up your mining ship. Drones in general, however, are very useful in PvP and a worthwhile investment if you ever plan to shoot at things.

Yep, regarding mining ship protection. So you either have your corp protecting you, or have an agreement with whoever is protecting/shaking down the system you're in.

Travel to new places, meet interesting people. And kill them.

Seriously, do what you haven't done before. Participate in player created content - or create your own.