EVE New Citizens Q&A

Are you set on keeping yourself to yourself and playing solo? Because if so, your options are severely limited. The EvE game mechanics are really little more than a facilitator for social interaction in innumerable variations. But the mechanics on their own are pretty empty and repetitive.

You dont even have to join a corp btw, although that is the obvious choice.

What do you like the sound of trying and getting good at?

Do the complete opposite: that worked for me. I was doing exploration and was getting bored with it, so I decided to try blowing other people up and I am finding that fun now though usually I am the one getting blown up lol.


My point is try doing something crazy, something off the wall for you. I came into the game thinking I would mostly do noncombat stuff but tried combat on a whim and found it fun.

That's why I got the stratios to blow people up lol im away for a few days but when I get back im going to try it out

Brave has a W-space division that takes in and trains newbros. I think they are called Dropbears?

My recommendation is to put the stratios off as a medium to long term plan. Your short term plan should be to take your collected isk from your hours of eye wrenching boredom and make it fuel your fun.

Go buy a stack of T1 cruisers, frigates and destroyers and throw caution to the wind while you suicide into everything that moves.

Advice: spend a 5 hour session getting stuff staged close to your playground if you have the ISK. Player run courier services are relatively cheap and you will find your enjoyment is easier when you only spend a minute or two getting into another disposable ship rather than hiking all the way back to a trade hub everytime your t1-fit ship blows up.

Whenever I get bored, I build a new staging system somewhere new and spend a week or so getting things into position and learning about local players in my timezone and habits. Then I burn through a ton of acquired isk in a rather appalling short amount of time taking every fight and coming down hard on all the bait. This is the closest I've come to the 'fire-and-forget, instant gratification' in Eve you can find in other games.

The catch is that to truly give no 'cares' about dying, your logistics needs to be in place. Nothing puts a wet blanket to your fun like having to do a supply run right when you find some eager players willing to engage.

Reason I didn't specifically mention the cloak hunting bit:

You ever sit in a tree stand for hours waiting for a good hunt?
hours of boredom with a few minutes of action.

Your problem is your bored: ergo I would avoid cloak camping until your looking to try something new again and don't mind hanging out for a while waiting for your deer to show up. Not that it isn't viable or fun, just not as quick a cure for the doldrums you described in your first post :)

Socialize a little OP, even if it turns out you don't want to be part of a corp you'll be amazed what simply having a circle of friends you chat to or share channels with each day will do. Entertainment, inspiration, education, ideas and inevitably .. dragging each other around on adventures and stuff.

Like many players my earliest days were spent mining. I'd often chat to folks in local or join channels I heard about and you just make friends and contacts over time. Don't let the general anti-socialness of a vast majority of EVE players you encounter discourage you. I was eventually dragged to lowsec by a friend, then into PVP by another, then later into wormholes (and now even null by another, urrhhg thx Jester). Haven't looked back since.


EVE University also have a wormhole campus.

And aside from the "big corps" that are newbie friendly I'm sure if you poke around the recruiting forum you'll find a ton of smaller corporations too in wormholes that are very accepting of newbros.

Good luck!

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Fully agree with all of that, I think im putting myself through torture by dribbling at the computer screen looking at rocks, subscribing isn't a problem, Im putting more pressure on myself trying to make enough isk, as stated, its time to start having fun and finding new friends to enjoy eve.