EVE New Citizens Q&A

It boils down to two reasons: how you wanna look, and who you wanna be if you RP.

That's about it. You're unrestricted in all other regards from doing anything any other character can.

Lore based politically strife is rather uncommon in eve as there are much more engaging player politically motivated things happening.
The races in eve are purely a cosmetic choice for your avatar , noon ship and start point.

Eve has changed a lot over the 11 years of its existence. Different races/bloodlines used to give different character attributes, affecting skill training time. That's gone, as it was reducing variety in the game due to min-maxing. Race also used to pose a barrier to joining corps, until the corp's director trained some specific Racial Relations skills that apparently made them stop being racist. That vanished too, since there were workarounds and it overly restricted small groups. There might be another couple of relevant mechanics that I'm forgetting.

<= Legacy Caldari Achura industrialist here o/

The benefit was that Caldari Achura had quite high intellect, and could be given a balanced attribute mapping, back when we couldn't change attributes! You were given starting attributes, and 5 points you could spread around, with no more than 3 per attribute.

Attribute remapping was introduced in Apocrypha expansion (wormholes), March 2009.

I typically recommend this to new industrialists now: 23i 21p 21m 17w 17c

I started with 3 Charisma and +2 willpower. Later that became 15 Charisma when the minimum changed to 17 when learning skills were removed. I remapped and lost it over a year ago now, so I'm a much more dashing and debonair 17 Charisma now

More like 999/1000. There are some corporations that focus on "RP", usually taking the form of establishing fleet compositions from a single race (just amarr ships) or doing some healthy Gallente-bashing in corp chat, etc. Normally these corporations don't even require you to be "born" a certain race, as long as you are interested in participating in their style of RP. The vast majority of corporations don't care at all what your race is, and are more interested in whether or not you have the skills and attitude to participate with their chosen activities. The "lore" reason for this is that capsuleers are in general "above" the law (think rich elite) and don't really care what the empires have going on.

However, EVE is a sandbox. If hunting dirty Minmatar slaves appeals to you, you can be the one to rally a band of Amarrians from the new player corp and take up the righteous cause. Content in EVE is driven by players. Some of the most interesting and well known groups were born with a specific purpose in mind (see RvB, CODE, etc.)

Imperial Dreams [IG] is Amarr-only, as is Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris [PIE]. I'm not sure of what other race-centric groups exist out there, but they are pretty much exclusive to a RP context, so you might want to check out the Intergalactic Summit, the RP section of the forums.

Think of them as Demigods.

I think most of them are actually pretty tolerant of anyone coming in. Cutting out 3/4 of the playerbase does not make for a strong corp, you know?


Capsuleers are people who (through a grueling and expensive process) have acquired implants that let them interface directly with "capsules" -- the small egg shaped thing you find yourself in when you're not in a ship.

These capsules do two things. First, they let capsuleers directly manipulate whatever ship they are currently piloting. That means no need for any crew or real command structure; the ship is an extension of the capsuleer's consciousness. This leads to absolutely ridiculous performance of capsuleer-piloted ships, such as when a player ship can wipe the floor with tens of NPC (non-capsuleer) ships.

Second, if the capsule is ever breached, the capsuleer's consciousness is saved and sent to a new, fresh, and safe clone, with a cheery message welcoming them to the afterlife. Thus, a capsuleer never truly "dies". This is where part of their status as demigods comes from.

The other part of their "demigod" status comes from capsuleers living on a completely different level from everyone else in the galaxy. For a sense of perspective, I seem to recall the figure of 1 ISK being the weekly pay of a normal officer on a battleship. A single bullet for a frigate is 500 ISK. A fully fitted, cheap, and disposable frigate is a few million ISK. Mainline combat battleships are a few hundred million ISK, and even that isn't very expensive. Value destroyed in big capsuleer battles is in the trillions of ISK. Because of their semi-immortal state along with their immense amount of power and wealth, capsuleers largely don't care about national borders or ideology unless it results in profit (see: missions and factional warfare).

For another perspective, capsuleers in real life would be weird sociopathic immortal trillionaires/quadrillionaires who dogfight in gold-plated airliners for fun, singlehandedly pose threats to the world's militaries, and refer to any show of force by normal people as "rats" and either ignore them or blow them up while complaining about how boring it is. It's pretty ridiculous.

More details on lore found here: https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Portal:EVE_Fiction

It's even worse than that.

Achura was, at the time, the best choice for ANY character. It didn't matter what you wanted to be, you rolled achura and sunk 3 into perception and 2 into intelligence. Period. Naturally the release of new bloodlines also coincided with the first Power of Two offer they ever did, which is why there are so freaking many Achura's with birthdates in early 2006.

Achura was added right before the China release of Eve in Red Moon Rising. Before that, you had only 2 bloodlines per race. I was in the unfortuante position of rolling a Gallente Intaki, which was basically the worst possible bloodline you could roll. Battleship 5 took me an agonizing 64 days thanks to that. And that was with +3 implants (the best at the time) and maxed learning skills (naturally without advanced learning skills, which didn't exist yet).

RMR as a whole wasn't really received very ehtousiastic. For a funny flashback moment check out this old flash movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnKk2ysyNrA