Skill Discussions

NPE is incredibly demanding. I put the effort into this game and feel like ive only just scrapped the ice. In eve, i dont go 5-10 minutes without asking for a description about certain factors of the game.


The main deterrent, is going into ISIS and checking those requirement timers. I do not start a new game, thinking "Okay im going to absolutely master this over the next 10 years of my life".


Either introduce 50x more content to fill in the 40 days of nothingness waiting for an exhumer .... or increase the number of skills trainable at once to 3. Regardless of what i do in this game, i dont think i can stick out the same old routine with almost no change.

That, or provide a list with literally all possible activities a "new" player can try. cause all i can see, is mining and level 1 missions. Try and tell me that is appealing for 1 month.



If you guys have reservations towards this thread, then feel free to express them.

Well you are in a corp, now join them in a few roames in cheap frigs.

There's over 3000 solar systems in eve.
Over 200 ships if I recall
Wardecs
Merc work
Faction Wars
Piracy
Missions
Mining
Manufacturing
Trading
Invention
Exploration
Ratting
Freighter/contract services
Jita scamming
Something like 60 members in your corp
Hundreds in your alliance
Evemon
EFT
Battleclinic
Evelopedia
PYFA

How much more content do you want?

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

At a quick glance I see a whole bunch of activities that a newbie can engage in with a minimal amount of training (5-20 hours). Do note that it is not required to have skills at level 5 for them to be useable.



Around 6500 but for the death of me I can't remember if that number includes the WH systems or not.



318 to be precise (I have a spreadsheet for that, a by product of the ship collecting hobby). Although, granted, there are quite many that are difficult to obtain.



I have a sinking feeling he is looking for a traditional MMO handholding experience. Makes me wonder how he ended up in DNS.

yup....EVE is hard

Ah ha! So you're trolling?

I'm a lot younger than you are, and I've been constantly educating myself about EVE.

I've found that it is very easy to start as a new character, but difficult as a brand new player to find a career direction without a mentor or sponsor (friend/family IRL) because EVE is so huge and there are multiple paths to enrichment.

The skills that your character starts out learning are very basic and take hardly any time.

The Aura tutorials cover the basic interface (not the overview) very well, and the career agents are good for the basics.

I wish there were advanced tutorials for a) advanced exploration, like scanning down wormhole points and finding player ships in deadspace, but the first I did myself (took a while) and the second I'll come to; and b) Planetary Interaction. When I first heard about this in game my response was "huh?"

There are great community resources, but with the constant tweaks, such as the upcoming changes to industry and reprocessing, some of the older guides out there won't be any help for new players, and the lack of an official manual does concern me.

I got into mining because of all the old forum post and help guides saying how easy it was to get into and how profitable it could be. They don't tell you how boring it is or to what end you're doing it.

What I like about EVE is that it has both depth and breadth. If I get bored doing one thing I can do something else instead. Like I found a product which was easy to manufacture, cheap to make and yielded good profits. I read blogs (well, two) and got some excellent pointers for trading.

If you want something to do whilst training skills before your character is any damn good at anything, the best suggestion I read was to re-do the career missions for the same faction, available from the other two schools, as the faction standings gain is a good investment. By the time you've finished you should have the necessary standings to start level 3 missions.

Fly safe!

What exactly do you think will you be able to do with the exhumer that you can't already do with a venture/mining barge?
I can assure you: mining in an exhumer is just as boring as doing it in a venture: You activate the mining lasers and wait until the ore hold is filled up.

ok here is how you mine properly:

1. get a powerful PC and at least three screens
2. start up at least six accounts
3. buy an orca booster char and a frighter char
4. train up mining chars on the remaining accounts
5. as soon as your mining chars can fly T1 fitted procurers, log in all of them, form a fleet and start mining out entire systems. (your orca booster is FC, your feighter hauls and the miners mine for hours straight).


if this play style does not sound interesting to you, you should not be mining.

Really that many w-space, there must be at least 2k of them empty? never knew there were that many 0.o always wanted to live in one but im too pussy :(