EVE New Citizens Q&A

As long as they understand that they are limited in number. They never be released again. Granted with around 500 000 of them released (approximate number of subs if I remember right), you can always buy one again later.

Yeah. Give it a year, maybe two, and these things might be worth a small fortune. Especially since they're actually pretty awesome little ships.

Like many things in EVE, patience is key. Telling new players to 'lol sell now' is bad mojo.

The price will dive for a while and may well not come up again for some time. For a new bro 100M is worth far more than a ship they don't need for over a year. That is a BC for levels 3s right there without isk grind. Just standings grind.

For a new bro, selling out is a good idea for most.

It's going to take quite a while until the are "worth a fortune".
The thing with geckos is that they are essentially ammunition.
Those Yachts however don't die very often. (also they have to compete with travel ceptors and cloaky nullified T3s)

There's a saying: a fool and his money are soon parted.
The last thing you need is a hundred million ISK in your first day of playing the game. It'll be gone by the second day.

Even easier:

1) Buy Plex
2) Sell Plex
3) Donate 700 million to my capsuleers widows and orphans fund
4) 100 million made!

Spot the person who never started from scratch without a sugar daddy... You start with 5000 isk. after the tuts and stuff you lucky to have 10-15M and will need at least 2x that just for basic skill books out of the tuts.

I am doing it completely from scratch right now. And trust me, a 100M makes a *massive* difference. Now i can do lvl 3s with that toon with a poorly skilled BC fairly easily (skip the really hard one ;) ), but that works, while a poorly skilled dessy or even cruiser just doesn't cut it. And lvl 2s just for 50M? yea right. Or gas mining skill book for some nija gas mining? its 20M. Lvl 1 and 2 missions are good for one thing only. To get standings for lvl 3 and then 4 missions. You don't make any real isk on them.

This item has meant i didn't give up and just unsub it. Or sugar daddy the account.

level 1 mission do not pay that much, not even close. Then you claim 10-15M of skill books just for the first few weeks?

Selling something like this when your new and scraping by just to get the skill book just so you can fit that module is a bloody good idea. The idea that you should keep it for X years cus it will be rare is plain stupid.

newbie skillbooks are cheap, plus the career agents give you a bunch of them. Plus with how long it takes to learn skills I think there is plenty of time to earn any isk needed for other skill books. Last time I started a character I did the tutorials, career agents, and then the SoE epic arc, came out of that with ~20mil isk plus ships and loot, which is a lot more than I had back when I started plankton, even though I rolled over all the stuff I had gotten from another trial account. that said it is a nice cash injection, but as I remember starting the game I remember my income matched my wants pretty well.

so I guess no one needs to do it, but if they find an opportunity that requires just a bit more isk then maybe it is a good idea.

No, you don't.

After the SoE epic arc, which is basically the end of the "introduction" section of Eve, you are sitting on a few ships in the frig/destroyer category plus some miscellaneous mining frigs and about 30M isk in mission rewards and sold loot, which is likely partly invested in modules and skillbooks, or potentially a cruiser.

Been that way since the SoE arc became a thing, the trainers even point you to Arnon explicitly at the end of the training missions.

You can intentionally not finish the intro section, sure, but that's not the game shorting you, that's you intentionally deciding not to take the game up on the initial offer of free resources.