EVE New Citizens Q&A

I played Eve back in 2010 and then for a bit in 2012. I stopped and now getting the itch to come back to play.

As with the other time I tried to re-energize myself for Eve, I am in the dark of what to do. I have scoured the internet, Youtube, the forums, etc. to get a handle of all of the things that I could do and I am just not sure what direction to take or how to get started. That is probably why I end up only staying for a month or two and then leaving.

My goal has always been to earn enough ISK per month to get things I want, and pay for my playing time with PLEX. I'm not clear if I can do this with between 5-10 hours a week of playing time. If not, then I am fine paying real cheddar to play but first and foremost I would like to have fun (everyone's goal I assume). So here in lies my uncertainty. Mine, Explore, Combat or PvP. Early on I think I was training for combat, but along the way after joining a Corp, I decided to go the route of a salvager. I lost interest after a month and quit playing again. I do like the combat portion of the game but I am not sure how to start my career doing it, and during the training process, how to earn the ISK to progress. I would like to continue to use this pilot if I can and haven't screwed up my skills. I have over 500M ISK and 7.5M skill points (obviously spent).

So I guess I am looking for any helpful information, or well done tutorials for pursuing a career path in Eve. From what I read, mining sounds profitable, but it also sounds a little boring for me. Like I mentioned I do enjoy the PVE combat I have done, is PVP more fun and profitable? I also like the idea of doing exploration.

Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated.

I fell in love with both solo frigate pvp and exploration. At the moment (for the past year infact) i've been very much involved with exploration. But dispite all the content on offer such as, anomalies, escalatons, unrated sites, ded sites, ghost sites, sleeper caches and data/relic sites, the most engaging part of my play is from colaborating with other explorers.

I offer 20% of profit as a finders fee to other explorers that find Sleeper Caches for example. I've handed over 20-50 million to week old players before and now I have quite a few players who feed me co-ords for Sleeper Caches. I get mails and private messages all the time about them. So in essence what i'm trying to say is the more social you are in any given career path that you choose, the more fun or engaging and rewarding experience you will have. Thus keeping you playing for much longer than your previous stints.

Make sure you join several public channels pertaining to whatever it is you are doing as well. There's nothing better than to have things to read and perhaps even chime in or ask more experienced players while you are playing. Worst case, have help chat open, there's always something to read and chances are you will learn a thing or two.

If you fancy getting more involved with exploration feel free to contact me in game for help or advice, and be sure to join the "Scanning" channel. There's plenty of competent explorers of all the content on offer hanging out there.

If you want combat there are currently more avenues than ever to quickly join the ranks of a pvp organization. Just as important, they'll pretty much shower you with free stuff from skillbooks to ships and you will rarely hurt for isk so long as you're participating in corp operations. Just take a gander at the EVE subreddit to see some of the flagship newbie organizations. They're all in the side-bar.

This is a very good point. It's tempting to try and grind out the isk, but turning EVE into a really low-paying job is a bad idea. Low effort isk gets much easier with experience so perhaps put that goal on the back burner for a few months while you get established.

Isn't having so many choices of what to do a nice "problem" to have? I really like that about EvE. Welcome back, hope you stay around for some time.

Yeah plex prices too high now anyway. Take a subscription block, go out and hunt those grinding for plex. Once they fail to farm enough isk for plex and are forced to quit EVE, plex prices could go down and then be more affordable for you. A likely fun process to keep you enthralled.

Join a corporation with people you're actually willing to talk to, and do what they do.

Even losing hard in a group is much more fun than being 100% win rate or whatever solo.

Thanks for the additional advice.

I decided that I am going to try my hand at exploring for a bit. I guess nothing is restricting me from also dabbling in mid-sec combat missions as well (SP used wisely I assume). Do Little, you mentioned being able to run the DED 3/10 missions solo....doable in a Magnate?

I'm going to monitor the recruitment channel for a while and see if I can't find a laid back corp to fellowship with.

Thanks again, all of the advice and info is greatly appreciated.

Highsec PVP is not for the faint of heart, much waiting and disappointment are involved.

I jumped straight into faction warfare as a new character, and branched out into exploration as a way of taking a break from pvp.

IMO, faction warfare is the most accessible form of pvp for new players as you're free to go solo or find a fleet, and most players fly frigates, dessies, and cruisers at the most to minimize expenses. The plexes give you enough income to pay for your ships, although like the others have mentioned, I wouldn't advise grinding them for PLEX money as that would just suck all the fun out of it.

Some people might advise having an alt to haul and purchase stuff for your main character, but I do it all on my main as having enemy militia pilots flying around in hi-sec is no worse than having a war dec going on and allows you to develop good habits in traveling to and fro.