EVE New Citizens Q&A

Well ... where to start

you can begin pvp day one .. but you will lose alot.
you could join a corp and help them with tackling .. something a day 1 toon can do with a little skill and modual set up help .. a corp might even pay or help pay for your ships.

to make isk .. well there are 101 ways to make isk. If i was you i would do the SOE Epic Arc .. get that under your belt, take the isk and the "stuff" you get from doing it add it to the Player skills you will have learned and take them to pvp.

You can solo if you want .. but i think corps are the way to go .. more fun .. more help.. more mutual support.

In game skills are not as important as player skills.. The more you "do" the better you will be. As i keep pointing out to my own detriment i have lots of SP but i suck at pvp .. i joined RvB so i could get better .. and i am .. but pilot who has 1/10th of my SP can still take me out if i am not careful on who i engage, with what ship, with what weapons and moduals, in what circumstance .. and thats all player learned.

Do the SOE and look for a corp to join - preferably but not exclusively one that welcomes new players to some degree. I have been in RvB and EvE-University and both are very helpful. But there are others of course that i couldnt recommend.

To make isk by shooting stuff after the SOE Epic arc i would go for missions .. simple way to do it, still shooting stuff .. learning a little bit each time about how to dictate range, how to fit, how to manage cap, get a feel for when to warp out, align times, how much ammo you chew through, what type of weapons / ships / tactics you like .. all the while reading up on forums, blogs, watching vids, talking to people - asking questions. Missions will get boring . but not right away i would hope.

Making isk by just doing solo pvp is hard - almost impossible for a new player.

Lastly - in a rambling fashion - is skills to learn. There are ton of cheap low level skills .. many of them what we would call core skills .. things that raise your CPU, Cap, speed, gun damage, # of ships you can lock, shield, armour, hull, all that stuff. There are lots of post / web pages - with info on new player training programs .. and tips and tricks for get what skills and when. Dont worry about lv 5 skills .. work on getting lots of cheap ones to 3-4.

i could go on and on and on ... but i wont

Thanks for the advice. I'll keep doing the epic arc missions for now then as they seem to pay quite well. Hopefully once i'm done with them I'll be able to afford the 50 frigates.

Follow up question to the vets...

Since the new players don't have access to jump clones, I'm trying to figure out how to do PvP and yet not put at risk my relatively expensive implants. It's like a bad decision - slow your skilling by using no implants and PvP, or ignore PvP for awhile and max your skilling via implants.

if you are in highsec there is no reason to lose your pod

at all

ever
(mostly)
http://evedarklord.blogspot.ca/2014/06/getting-your-pod-out.html

They can have access to jump clones just fine, look up Estel Arador Corp services. You train up the JC skill to lvl 3 or so, join that corp, create JC's and leave it again. It's free.

On PVP; you'll do a day or few days of pvp in an empty clone and then you go back to carebearing or chilling out for a while in your implant clone. Rinse repeat.

- edit -

Doh.

You can fit a Rifter for solo or gang PVP for about 1 mil. Mining in a Venture for an hour will net you, at a minimum, 5 million ISK.

Of course there are much better ways to make money than mining, but you can see that it isn't too hard to get money for simple frigate fits.

Thanks to everyone for the advice, links to guides etc. A long night of reading ahead of me by the looks of it.

Nah, all that reading is just wordy versions of "go shoot someone in the face"

To be fair, that's assuming no distractions or delay in the player's reaction time, no mistakes in choosing a warp-out for the pod, and no bad luck in getting hung up on something that deflects you from your warp-out vector.

So, it'd probably be more accurate to say that there's no reason to lose a pod if you've prepared to escape before your ship blows up, if you send the warp command nearly instantly after your ship blows, and if nothing is in your way.

Sometimes, though ... beep happens.

There is some truth to this; pods get killed in null for one of two reasons:

1. They are in a bubble and can't warp
2. They get locked and pointed/scrammed before they can warp

You can't do much about 1, but you can reduce the risk of 2 by making sure you have an overview setting (see the EVE Uni article on overview settings ref: "Pod Saver" as an example) and practice using it.

Get yourself sorted out with some jump clones, then you don't have to worry about it very much at all...but always remember to update your clone immediately after you get podded!

Good hunting o7