EVE New Citizens Q&A

Basically, there are a lot of people that actually enjoy EVE, and many of us want you to also.

The first thing you really need to work on is taking responsibility. Your EVE experience depends on you; everything that happens to you in EVE is because of actions you decided to take. Even if that is only clicking the undock button.

Blaming everyone else but yourself for your troubles will get you nowhere. Accept your losses, learn from them, and move on. Make plenty of mistakes, and have no regrets, rather just have fun. Being able to laugh at yourself will take you far. EVE is just a game, so don't take it seriously, and make sure you are always doing something you consider fun.

Many good suggestions have already been made in this thread. It is up to you how to proceed though.

One of my all-time favorite threads is by a rookie asking for help. It is worth reading the entire thread in my opinion. Note his attitude, and the community's response to his attitude. Am I too stupid to play EVE?

Another favorite thread is from Reddit: Experiences of a total n00b, barely 4 days into trial. It is epic, because he won EVE so early-on by "getting it". Worth reading the blog he started. Seems like he found a fun corp too.

There are a lot of corps in EVE. If you don't like your corp, find another!

For what it is worth, I've been considering applying to BOVRIL bOREers Mining CO-OP, a member of BRAVE Collective, the second largest non-renter alliance. BOVRIL is known as the "Blood Miners" because they also PvP. They are nulsec based in BUZ-DB, which has an ice field and a Minmatar outpost for reprocessing. [See, I've done my research on them.]



EDIT: Another epic Reddit thread, Could anyone explain - like I'm five - what Eve is?

Soo, OP...to save a little time training you spent a lot of time to be able to do that...no wonder you are not enjoying your game time.
Also, stop being so sensitive.

Don't biomass.

EvE is a long term game. Patience is very important. Whether it's putting up with an extra day of training because you really can't afford to lose +5s, or sticking it out until your reputation blows over (I give it two weeks before everyone forgets about this thread).

I would recommend a resculp though. People might not recognize you, plus you can be beautiful like me.

I'm going to echo the advice above. If you don't enjoy being prey, perhaps it's time to consider being the predator. And no, not all combat characters are like the (arguably unsavory) ones you have run into so far. There are plenty of well meaning pew-pewers from low, null, to WH space that just want to blow things up and have a good time, and would be glad to help you get started doing the same.

Not sure I would recommend 100 rifters though. Maybe 100 breachers...or tristans. Rifters are so 2010.

Since it's story time, here is mine. Well, one of them anyway.

Many many years ago I joined a corp. I picked it on a german forum (my english wasn't that good 10 years ago) by counting the spelling and grammar mistakes. The lowest number was my pick. Surprisingly them germans turned out to be quite nice and very active in game (Browsers didn't have spelling correction back then. Made it a lot easier to spot the jerks.). Just 14 days after I started to play I was in hed-gp and shed some blood. But that's not really where my story begins.

It all started when one of us corpnoobs figured that we could mine in lowsec, because it has riches and is only 4 jumps away. Of all systems he picked Ami. Not knowing the dangers but expecting the worst I checked my wallet and the local prices for a new Thorax. Was looking good so of I went.

We met up just one jump from Ami and one of us scouted the gate. In his Maller. Surprisingly nothing bad happened, so we proceeded into a belt and started shooting rocks with laz0rs. Just 10 minutes later two gankageddons appeared out of nowhere (because we didn't spam the directional scanner) and unshipped us. Back in the day lag was laggy and sensor boosters had no stacking penalty. Out of the six of us who woke up in the clowning station two where laughing. Those two stayed with EVE for many years to come.

My advice is twofold. Firstly, expect the worst and laugh when it happens. Have a smile if you get away. And secondly, spend time on picking your corp. If it takes you less then a week, don't expect great results.

In fact that is true for pretty much anything you do in EVE. If there is cut-throat competition -- take the time to get a knife!

i put on an endless loop of yakety sax halfway through this thread.

I was referring to proverbial Rifters, not literal Rifters.

I think it's a little "x" on the top of the character pic in the log-in now...not that it effects your sentiment....

Find a decent new player friendly corp and join. EVE is not new player friendly and it gets less so every day..

If you insist on mining, for God's sake quit flying Retrievers. Procurers are as cheap and have a crap ton more EHP (effective hit points). You'll have to make more trips back to station, but those trips won't be in pods (much).

Its a dangerous game, thats what we like about it (most of us anyway).

There is a well known rule of EvE that basically states "Don't use equipment you cannot easily afford to replace unless you can handle the inevitable loss". You aren't expected to know that to start with, but as you have discovered it's a rule many players are happy to explain with force. Remember the lesson you learned, it's a valuable one.

If you have your wits about you EvE is extremely new player friendly, most older pilots are happy to show new players the ropes.

Everything in EvE is a trade off between risk and reward. You want the reward of a huge cargo hold and high mining yeild, you sacrifice things like HP (defences).

Lastly i'd point out (unsure if it's already been said) the person who killed you repeatedly must have not been in the same corp as you, since you mentioned Concord destroyed his ship. Corp mates are allowed to shoot you without concord interferance.

Hope things improve, but the risk you take by undocking a ship will remain. EvE is all about risks and consequences, and hand holding is kept to a minimum for good reasons. Drop me an EvE-Mail and i'll be happy to help out further.