EVE New Citizens Q&A

Curious... are you the same person who posted something similar to this on steam?

Regarless, welcome back and enjoy getting into the game once more. A lot has changed since you last played so there's loads to catch up on and have fun with. Feel free to ask as many questions as you like here in New Citizens forum, we're a friendly bunch and help where we can.

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I thought this was going to be one of those eve is prdy (and it is) threads,
glad to hear your in a nice Corp.
welcome back.

EVE is very special. I have yet to play another video game quite like it. I first played EVE sometime in 2008 or 09 I believe, and approached it in a, frankly, suboptimal way. I played almost entirely solo for most of my time, running missions and pining for that "next awesome ship". I played that way for months, I was extremely shy at the time so I kept to myself, quietly grinding away and ship spinning while waiting for the next ship to fly. I was terribly bored.

So, one day I took my newest shiny toy I had no business flying, a poorly fit Harbinger with, if memory serves, 0 capacitor skills trained into some lowsec system near where I "lived". It barely lasted 3 minutes. 2 of those minutes were me being gunned down by another Battlecruiser. The whole time, my heart was pounding as though I was in the middle of a real fist fight. I was shaking and feeling real panic. BOOM.

My ship exploded and my pod was scrammed. I was in shock. I mean literal shock. I didn't know how to react. I was feeling polar opposite emotions all at the same time, anger, elation, sadness and happiness and everything in between. It felt like forever, but it was only a few seconds later that the gentleman who had relieved me of my shiny toy typed into local: "Hey bro! Good fight!"

I stared at the screen, and my left eyebrow raised as it always does when I'm confused.

"I can tell by your character age and how that fight went that you're new to low sec and PvP, do you want some advice?"

Few more seconds went by and I tentatively said: "Yes".

He ended up escorting me to a station in the system and spending a good hour talking to me, dumping mountains of information on me. Fitting advice, fly frigates first, D-Scan, bookmarks, pirates, can flipping, Rifters, bla bla bla, bla bla blabla. Total information overload. We finished talking, I logged out and was still kind of stunned by the whole thing.

The next time I logged on, I fit up a Rifter the way he had told me to, and started trying to can flip miners. After that I decided to try joining a corporation to make some space buddies to do space crime together. There were I believe three of us most of the time, none of us really knowing what we were doing, the most "experienced" pilot used a Covert Ops to look for targets for us, and us two morons (affectionately named so) would charge in and pray our combined might would kill stuff. It usually didn't. But we had a good time, and I wasn't bored anymore.

This pattern lasted for a couple weeks. Then, the corp imploded due to some stupid drama among the leaders. No matter, I would find another corp and continue. Unfortunately at that point, many things happened all at once in my personal life, and I made the decision to stop playing EVE and focus on the issues at hand. I kept telling myself I would come back to EVE and slowly but surely forgot about it over the years.

Fast forward to 2 months ago:

I'M BACK B***ES!

Honestly, my biggest regret in not being able to remember any of my old account info, is that I can't get in touch with the dude who blew up my Harbinger and say thank you. The little amount of effort he put in that day, saved the game for me. It also opened my eyes to what kind of game eve was, a sandbox. I wasn't aware of the term at the time, but I "got" it. I think that's one of the biggest hurdles for a new player to EVE, understanding that this isn't like every other game out there. I came for the the spaceships, and ended up coming back for the sand.

Sorry for the novel, once I started I kind of got carried away. I REALLY like this game is the main point.



TL;DR: EVE is a special snowflake in the gaming world, and I mean that quite literally.


Welcome back to EVE !

Welcome back!

Awesome story... good luck in your endeavors, i am sure you will have a lot of fun. You seem to have it all down :)
Having more pilots like you is what i like to see.

Love and ammo (usually thrown at high speeds at targets),
Cpt Varox

Rofl. Kind and helpful is probably the last words I'd use to describe this community as a whole. Although yes, there are many groups that are just that.

Well that depends where you look IMO.

In my 4+ years in EVE I think a vast majority of the people I've gotten to know are very friendly and helpful (okay, it DOES depend on the attitude of the opposite person in question).

So yes, if you look through that very small crust of Aholes, Dbags and trolls, EVE has a great community. Issue is that the first mentioned 3 categories are voicing their opinions a lot more.

The EVE community is pretty good at making sure that the genepool stays pretty clear.

EVE is Darwinsm at its best...Survive or perish.

Gulp!

Welcome back! We are glad to have you.

Great story from Azda Ja!

The people answering us in the New Citizens Q&A forum are very friendly! Now for the EVE universe itself, my answer would be different. But somehow the fatal attraction in EVE lies in that the same person that will ruthlessly kill you in low-sec might also be a very friendly and nice guy once you talk to him.

I just hope that most of you (us?) are like that, and not d-bag and trolls. Now I know also that some rejoice in 'Tears', i.e hearing the frustration and anger of people losing stuff, if I get things right. Now who is the man with the wrong attitude? The guy enjoying 'tears' or the guy being angered from losing stuff in what should be a game and a hobby? I don't know and I'm still undecided about that. Though I'm sure EVE has its lot of psychopaths...

Remember though something, if you look into the abyss, the abyss will look back at you (that's a quote from Mister N. ). So I do know that if you think that the end always justify the mean, you are also losing yourself.

tl;dr : welcome back! I have too an old account and yet I'm totally newb to the game.