EVE New Citizens Q&A

I make 880,000 ISK each load mining pryoxeres in my Venture fitted with 2-Miner II. Takes total of 20 minutes from undocking to selling.

After a week of playing you should be at a week of playing. As stated above me a few times, as long as you are enjoying your time, "where" you are is irrelevant. Skillpoint-wise, you are at the EXACT same place we all were after a week. Another beautiful thing about EvE. We all progress at the exact same pace (implants not factored.)

If you have not finished the tutorials then i would do that, if you have i will say just try new things, don't get stuck in a rut constantly, personally i wished i had gotten into exploration earlier than i did as it can be very profitable and a good way to see different parts of New Eden.

Please do not spend all your time mining unless you really, really, really like it.

You lost a couple of ships in your first week and didn't rage quit --> You have a bright future in Eve!

I make 20-24 million every 15 minutes running null sec anomalies. You can make similar isk high sec mission running from what I've been told. Not sure what you are doing but 3 days in you should be able to run some missions. I would not look at missions as any kind of long term game play but they certainly can help you learn the basics of the game while making some isk while you learn and skill up.

In eve you can pretty much do anything you want from day one. Certain things will be difficult to do solo with very low skill points but that is really only an issue for alts as it usually takes new players a couple months to get comfortable with the game. Don't get me wrong skill points do help, they give you options and make things easier. However after 2-3 months of skill training your skill points should not be holding you back from doing anything.

Did you kill anyone yet?

You should get to work on that one. EVE isn't about money, it's about violence.

Roger that. Will introduce you to PvP ASAP =) It really IS the most fun part of EvE.

This is good advice. Death and a good corp are invaluable in this game. Get a t1 frig, die, figure out why you died, if you can't ask your corp mates, go out and do something different, die again, rinse and repeat. One day you will find you are dying less.

This was all implied. Still, the best way to get started is to just start. Supplement the trial and error with solid research and you're golden. Fun + learning, best way to go about it, instead of researching ad infinitum and never trying anything, or vice versa.

No he isn't.

I barely had half a dozen useful skills at II at that point, most of them were barely bought and trained to 1 because I had to waste 90% of my training time on learning skills with no mechanical benefit to actual gameplay whatsoever, just to get to a point that was _still_ slower training speed than he had on day 1.

He's in a much _better_ place than many if not most Eve players were a week in, SP-wise.

But yeah, to address the meta-thread, learning to fit and fly ships is like 90% messing around with google and 10% thinking you've got it until you get blowed up real good. Mastery of Eve is basically reversing that proportion. When you're going to google to remind yourself which meta item has the better tracking upgrade instead of to remind yourself how the actual tracking works... that's Eve mastery. Also... put down the computer, stand up, and go outside, because you're officially on the internet too much.