EVE New Citizens Q&A

So, many of you may remember about 10 days ago...
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5378817#post5378817

Back then, I was extremely new to the game, and wanted this account to be the little toe in the water, to feel the temperature. I found many things from this fourteen day trial....

1. Mining is EXTREMELY boring!!

Well, in the first day or so, I had earned enough money to fully equip a Venture and go out mining. I started mining anndd....just sat there....mining....woopie. When I brought my haul of 700k ISK, I felt like I wasted my time. It is very boring in my opinion and does not exhilarate me at all.

2. Exploration. . . eh . . .

After finding out that mining was boring, I decided to start getting myself immersed into exploration, since one of my friends said he earned upwards of 200 million on some runs. In the beginning, it was slow but fun, scanning around for data sites then hacking into them to find goodies, but never paid much. Then, I tried it in nullsec and in wormholes. It was soo intense, looking at the monitors for people, and making sure nobody was in local. I probably lost about six Probes doing that.

3. Playerbase

Some areas of Eve have extremely nice players, who lend you a hand. Then, there are others who scam, and terrorize others. I mostly met all of the nice players, whom of which always paid me after I had died in nullsec for my "bravery". It felt very good that others actually cared for newer pilots.

4. Jita

This topic really does get its own section. Jita is the BIGGEST place ever! It has almost every object in the game on their markets, and soo many ships go in and out from distant parts of the Eve Universe. It really stunned me how many people could be in one area at once. But then, I moved to local chat....ISK doublers and triplers and "contracts" sprinkled with very few legitimate trade offers flooded my screen. It was absolute madness!

To conclude, Eve is definitely a game I want to invest my time in. I really wanted this account to put my feet into the water, to see if I really wanted to play. Many of you are probably curious as to how much I earned, and the fact is is that I earned probably 5 million by myself. The rest of the cash (115 million) was all donated from the people who felt bad about killing my little ship in nullsec. I am probably going to not do exploration nor mining as a career for my next account, but instead do PvP, since many friends I knew got unimaginably rich from kills.


I am going to leave this account, and migrate to another to start fresh. Not many, or nobody, will know that it is me. . .

This has definitely been an eye opening experience for Eve Online. I would reccomend dipping your feet into the water if you are interested in playing (if you are thinking about buying, of course).

See you all,

Info Armer

Confirmed. Space pixels is real.

This.

But also. I used to like mining. My play time is usually divided into two period, mornings before work and evenings after work. Mornings (very late US or very early EU tz) is brilliant for quiet semi-afk mining in high sec. Find a quiet system, hopefully find someone on chat or comms, or watch a video - and mine up some cans you can haul in with an Orca or something. Brilliant way of getting materials for building when not awake enough for something requiring more attention.

Like all activities in Eve it's usually more fun in groups though.

Welcome to Eve btw.

Yes fleet mining can be a lot of fun and very active and busy if you know what you are doing and have a professional group. Solo mining, ya it's boring. Also mining especially in high sec due to the small size of the roids does take a decent amount of skill to be good.

Early on in my Eve career I was in a corp that would clear entire solar systems of every last bit of ore on mining ops. We'd have 10+ hulks with Orca boosts and the bare minimum amount of haulers to barely keep up with they yield. The ops were timed and then paid out divided by everyone there so you knew exactly how much m3 per hour and isk per hour you did this week compared to last week. If you don't pay very close attention to what is going on your yield will drop way off. Those ops were a lot of fun for me.

Welcome to EvE OP.

And believe me when I say that with the attitude and boldness you have shown, you can go far in EvE.
Reach for the stars I would say, you'll get there.

So again, welcome to EvE!

Ah, i remember my first PvP experience, was in a mining corp, raging at all the "vets" who refused to undock and fight the ONE guy sitting outside who had wardec'ed us. I in my infinite 14-day old PvP-wisdom, undocked in my active/passive shield-tanked Omen with 1 laser fitted, and was promptly killed.

Dude linked me a PvP fit, bought me the fit, and gave me 30mil for not being "a loser". Saw him in a belt in lowsec 3 months later and kicked his butt.

EVE definetly has a fun community.

I think by not nice he meant the miners he encountered in local that were threatening to kill someone's children in real life.

A hint don't bother watching local in WH there's no one there, look for d-scan instead and use separate a window for it.