EVE New Citizens Q&A

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You are always valuable. The key is finding a corp (yes, we call them corps/corporations, not guilds) that appreciates you for what you can contribute. Incursions are challenging PvE and a cool goal to work towards. Good luck!


Check out the Alliance & Corporation Recruitment Center section of the forums. You can make a post advertising yourself there, or find corps that advertise there. There is also some good information on finding the right corp for you here.


I will leave that to the other forumgoers. I'm not super-familiar with incursions so I would hate to give you wrong information.


It's fine. That's what we volunteer moderators are here for.

Welcome to Eve! Have fun!

Welcome aboard.

newbies are valuable from day one.


Couple of things.

1. We are the content in eve, pve activity in eve is marginally more than a faucet of isk (currency).
the meat of the game is the crazy **** we do to and for each other.

2. You are Not supposed to feel safe in New Eden.
someone can always ruin your day, regardless of where you are or what you are doing, it gives the place an edgy fear that many of us fell in love with.

There is nowhere in eve you can avoid PvP.

3. The devs are the biggest trolls here.

4. The forums have been effectively weponised, however you can trust the advice in this subforum as trolling is explicitly forbidden here So if you want answers, get them here.

Welcome to EVE. Hope you will have a pleasant journey ahead of you.

P.s. if you want 'quality' threads, dont use GD.

P.p.s. It looks like Cara and yours truely have another contestant in linking THE corp guide. *Waves fist at LoF.

Like you I came to Eve from WoW. I've been back and forth between the two games since 2009. I also like PvE content and raided in WoW. I feel that I need to say here this is not WoW I can not stress this enough. If you try to play this game like WoW or try to make it like WoW you are going to be continually beating your head against a wall. How do I know this because I did it.

Things to know about Eve:

You are a valuable player and can contribute to group activities from day 1.

This game is full of helpful players and corps that love to take on noobs and help them get going.

While this game it's self may not very noob friendly from a mechanics level the community is the exact opposite. In this game if you say I'm a noob people will fall over backwards to help you out.

Bigger is not better, Often less is more, there is no level cap there is no best in slot, etc... etc... etc...

The best ship in Eve is friendship.

This game is a true MMO in the sense that it is all about playing with other people. Most content in this game is player created.

You chance of success is increased with how many people you fly with thus the noob friendly atmosphere.

There is no best anything in this game, You will have to develop your own play style and find what works best for you.

Early in the game you will be best served by staying small. Stay away from level 5 skills. You can do an insane amount of things in small ships which train fast. Do no rush into Battleships as a matter of fact you never need to fly a Battleship there are tech 2 and tech 3 ships which are better for most situations. Cap ships most people say are not fun to fly and I think most cap ship pilots are alts. Small and medium ships are where most of the fun is.

"open world PvP" is a WoW term that has no place here. Eve is open world PvP anyone can attack anyone anywhere any time. The only exception is if you are docked in station.

There are no fair fights in this game there are no queueable battlegrounds. Winning in PvP is all about turning the odds in your favor.

Incursions are very grindy and do have the elitist attitude that is endemic in WoW. PvE in this game is not about being challenging it's about isk per hour. Due to the high cost of a ship loss in this game you can't have PvE content that is as challenging as WoW raiding as there is no "running back" or getting a rez. All of the challenging content in this game involves PvP so if you want a challenging incursion run a null sec one for example. Missioning in low or null sec is far more challenging etc..

I see what you did there .


Though, sometimes it's your friends that steal your boots



As someone here says:

A friend is just an enemy that stabs the knife in your chest instead of your back.

Keep in mind that the above only is true for Ship vs Ship style PvP.


PvP is there in many forms. Some of which can even hit you when docked or even if you are logged off.


You are trading good, even while docked or logged off, someone can manipulate the market so that you lose a lot of ISK in the process. As this is done by a player to another player, it is also a form of PvP.

Hell, in the end. Anything in EVE is PvP in some form or function, some just more obvious then others.

Welcome to Eve!

I hope that you have a lot of fun times in this universe. Hopefully you won't be overwhelmed by everything and you find yourself a play style you enjoy and some fun guys and girls to fly with.

Silently solo exploring, fleet mining, war deccing, null sec roams or low sec gate camping are all enjoyable and equally valid ways to play the game, find what works for you and have fun doing it. :)

Embrace patience, have a laugh with everybody you interact with, enjoy a beer or 50 and turn ya music up to 11.

Peace xxx

if you haven't found one yet, you could always look my corp up. their in minmatar space and took this newbie under their wing



it'll take a few months to get into a ship that can run incursions. that said, my son did his first 'frig fest' (doing L4 missions in frigs) about 3 hours after he created the character

Welcome to EVE.

I have included a very important addendum that won't matter right away but once you acquire assets others might want to take and you find yourself wanting to move them from point A to B it becomes relevant.


Read this, section 7 in particular.

Also, be careful about giving out RL info, some people take internet spaceships way too seriously and do foolish things when their spacepixels explode. While doxxing is obviously against the rules, it doesn't mean people won't do it.