EVE New Citizens Q&A

Welcome to Eve.

Here's a spaceship. **** you.

This is Eve's motto. Or, at least it used to be. That has seemingly changed somewhat since all the things have been nerfed for the sake of drawing in new subscriptions.

The honest answer to your question is to just do what interests you. Are you interested in being a Miner? A CEO? An Industrialist that builds ships? Or maybe a big bad pirate that violences others?

Your first goal is to answer this question to some degree. Furthermore, unless you give us more detail we can't really help you. If you've got both a Hulk and a Bomber you're on two totally opposite ends of the spectrum at the same time. What do you want to do?

After you've figured out what you want to do, then go about joining a corporation that does that thing and can give you some basic guidance on how to do that thing better. Again, don't expect anybody to be your babysitter. You are going to need to do lots of reading, and google is your best friend.

If you can't answer the first question and have no idea what you want to do, look into some generic training corps like Eve University... I usually advise people against joining them because in a corp that large, you're nothing but another number, (And they have some really stupid rules that limit gameplay,) but in this case it may be a good way to expose you to the rest of the things, and help you make up your mind.

My advice is try to be a kid. You can play with any of a number of different types of spaceships, but what will you do? Will you be a Dread Space Pirate, or a nice person in this sea of evil? Will you build an empire, or remain solitary?

Try to set goals like a kid, and then stick to them. The grind for ISK, the ship stats, the profit calculating, the industry setups, that's all grown-up work that you may have to do to achieve those goals, but the "what should I do" question can only be answered by your imagination.

Otherwise, all the spaceships in-game are like a bunch of toys left on the floor, inert. They're not going to play by themselves (no, this is not Toy Story).

Thanks for the awesome replies! Guess I'll have to take my time and actually research the things I'm doing some more. But those responses definitely give some motivation thanks again!

I got yer motivation right here.

I apologize to the vets who've already watched that 5371256 times. Once more can't hurt right? Right?

I have had a tremendous start, politely asking a mining neureus to drop his cargo for me and ransoming someone else for the loot his NPC dropped. The most successfull way of getting into the game seems to be interacting with others as early as possible.

Through this, the former turned into my first friend and from the latter I have earned respect for being a gentleman. Remember to always stay polite and classy, no matter what. I even gave him back his loot free of charge, which ended in him giving me five million ISK for it.

Alternatively you could spam spoilers for Game of Thrones in local and see what happens. I have tested this successfully on multiple occasions yesterday.

This is all really good advice. Within this theme I would like to add that play and experimentation are essentially the same thing. Especially early on you should not be afraid to play around with different fits and different ships and different tactics etc... Even if someone tells you something is the wrong way to do things you won't really know why in most cases until you do if yourself. Many of you questions that you could come up with you can answer yourself through experimentation and as a result be a far more experienced player than if you read all the associated blogs on the topic.

And here we have the basis of conflict in Eve. You can either be the player who gets screwed with or the player doin' the screwin'. This is true everywhere in the game, at all times, no matter what. Even if you think what you're doing will have no effect on anyone else, it is.

Just keep that in mind (and don't whine about it ).

Sadly there are many "sucky" corp in eve, check my history to see but a few of them. If you need help/advice feel free to contact me, or join our corp public chat "The Staging Pot" and we will help out. You not obliged to join us. if anyone is unhelpful, let me know and I will boot them.
helpmymission is also a very helpful channel for mostly mission related stuff, but someone is always willing to help.
The forums can be helpful at times if you frame the question correctly and don't argue with those offering advice, ie if you have problems with a ship, post the fit, don't just say you fly x and its bad..

Pipebombing

PS. Yes, the video I linked is definitely worth 1 hour of your time.

In fairness, there's SOME middle ground there.

It's actually kind of funny how helpless/bad at the game some people assume you are when you're doing basic PvE like running sites or w-space diving. I've had would-be pirates that I actually exploded before they even sent the ransom message because it didn't occur to them that I might have dropped a neut in the utility high-slot instead of a salvager or other high-sec gear.

The difference between being an actual sitting duck and a bad call for someone trying to grief you is usually 1-2 modules, and "passive PvP" where you're just doing PvE stuff in low-sec or NPC null and dealing with interlopers instead of docking up like a coward when local isn't empty is pretty fun.

(Admittedly, not as fun as the sheer bastardy of running a Stealth Bomber and dropping someone's ratting BS/BC instantly, but still fun, and it doesn't require the Schadenfreude.)