EVE New Citizens Q&A

I joined a half hour ago, and I was asking what i do next and I was directed to this forum. What do I next and how do i make money?

First, welcome to Eve. You can always ask the "Help" chat tab, but in your case maybe the rookie one. Thing about Eve is that you can make money (Isk) any way you want. Piracy, mining, mission runner, what ever. I recommend doing the tutorial missions as they can tell you the basics and walk you through them.

Simple:

Do AURA tutorial
Go to Career Agents when directed by AURA

Do career agents (Yes, all 5 of them).

Optional - Do the SoE Epic Arc.


After that, New Player Experience ends, EVE is open to you. Grab your shovel and bucket and create sandcastles, or be the bully and destroy other people's sandcastles.

Basically, EVE is a sandbox where you can do what ever YOU desire and have fun doing. Because of this NOBODY but you yourself can tell you what you should do, as my, Cara's, Luna's, Forest's way of having fun can be completely different then yours.

EDIT:

And to give you a small idea of what is possible:

http://www.swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd

*damn, you post too much when you can type those websites out without having to resort to bookmarks*

Basically, they are like getting your drivers license.

They can give you all the lessons on how to operate a car and eventually you will pass the exam.
But only after that you will learn how to drive properly.

Do the offered missions. They don't take long. Really not a chore. While running through them you get an idea how stuff works.
Really only 2-3 hours. Enjoy the game and don't get frustrated. When you feel lost, reach out and join a corp rather than emo rage quit. It's a tough game. You might as well learn a lot about people.

Best of luck!
Lemo still newbie himself; enjoying it

As was mentioned above, do the tutorials. Do all of them. They give you a good general overview of basic EvE mechanics and the user interface. After the tutorials take a look at the Sister of EvE Epic Story Arc. Its a group of missions that is geared for new players. Google it and you will get all the info you could want on it.

Now, while your doing the Sister of EvE think about what you WANT to do in EvE. Do you want to fight? Do you want to build things? Do you want to get into null sec (player owned space)? Do you want to go into Faction Warfare? Do you want to mine minerals? Do you want to focus on getting rich via the market? There is almost an unending list of things you could do. My suggestion is to read up on EvE and figure out what intrigues you.

Take a look at this article ...

http://evenews24.com/2014/03/10/what-happens-when-a-10-year-vet-rps-a-noob-the-new-player-challenge-happens/.

It and the twitch streams associated with it are done by a very experienced player who decided to relive the newbie experience. A couple of newbie friendly groups to take a look at are listed below.

EvE University
Brave Newbies
Red vs Blue

While enjoying it 8).... I don't know how it is with others.... but I catch myself more often than not to be rather excited by the situations which can unfold in EVE. It really doesn't matter if you get blown up or not while cruising around. Space pixels.... BUT it's pretty cool that you can actually get that 'monster in the closet will come any second to get you' feeling. Brrrrrrrr 8)

Back to my wormhole(s)...
L

I like you!