EVE New Citizens Q&A

I advise you decouple your enjoyment of the game from specific hulls, and rather attach it to an activity. What I mean is, if you're not enjoying activity X in hull Y, you're not going to enjoy X in hull Z.

That's not to say that some ships aren't fun to fly in their own right of course, but your overall satisfaction of the game shouldn't be tied to "I can fly X ship". If I were you, I'd take a moment to think of anything you would have dreamed up of doing in a space game as a 10 year old, and then try and do it.

If you just level your Drake by yourself or do only do solo exploration you will end up burning out and quitting like you did in 2010 and 2013. My advice: join a corp! Or at least some sort of social group where you can work on something bigger together. It will also give you access to advice and some resources to help get you going, as well as help you make social contacts that will keep you in the game. The PvE in Eve quickly loses its excitement so most people really need to have some greater goal than just grinding ISK in missions to stick with the game.

If you really want to maximize you chances of staying with Eve join a non-highsec corporation, or one that at least operates outside highsec that will help show you all the game can be. There are many choices depending on your interests, but any of them would be better than just playing the game solo until you quit out of boredom. So my advice would be to try every classic profession at least once - missioning, mining, exploration, trading, manufacturing - don't be afraid of putting some of skill points into these professions to at least get a taste of them or make an alt. A few hundred thousand skillpoints will be nothing six months down the road. Once you have settled on what you like to do, you can join a corp that matches your interests and go from there.

I say a non-highsec corp because the longer you stay in highsec the less likely you are to ever leave it. You are much better to nip that risk-aversion in the bud, and spend some time in low, null and WH space to see they are not the death traps some in the rookie channels make them out as. Even if you only like to do PvE or Industry, the opportunities in these spaces can be much greater so you should get comfortable operating there even if in the end you find you spend most of your time missioning in highsec.

If you like exploration look at Signal Cartel - I have no affiliation with them so this isn't a recruitment or a recommendation - but they are a corp that specializes in exploration-related things. But there are plenty of other corps like that that can help you experience all New Eden has to offer, and that is much more than just highsec missions.

Black Pedro & Azda Ja: Thank you both for wonderful tips :)).

Missiles are awesome, but drake's probably pretty out of your way, training-wise, if you're Gallente with your bigger ships (and thus probably more armor-tank trained than shield).

Amarr has a bunch of armor/missile and armor/missile+drone boats and Minmatar has flexible tank and a lot of missiles as well.

As far as not burning out, I'm going to agree with basically everyone else and say that it's like every other MMO -- it's not what you're doing, it's with whom you're doing it. Eve is complex by MMO standards but that's kind of a "tallest midget" deal, the game _itself_ isn't really all that nuanced or compelling. Find either actual friends or a corporation to fly around with, though, and things get a lot more fun and easier to invest in.

hmmm... really you will want a BS for lvl4's. Drake can do, but not all and not without really good skill. If I were starting EVE today and know what I know, I'd likely first go for Hawk doing combat exploration. Then later when core skills are trained well, go BS. Also, Hawks can do lvl4's (they are just mini-cruisers), though much faster with a friend. Also I'd look into FW missioning, as a stealth bomber can open many doors and earn lots of ISK, even to disregard BS training for lvl4 missioning. Though BS training is a good path if you ever want to do incursions, say x-train caldari and amarr for a nightmare. But long time off, no telling where incursions will be at that point.

I'm just gonna leave this here. Do exactly what you want to do and enjoy it. When you stop enjoying it, pick something else. That's the beauty of EvE; no wrong way to play*.

I started off as a highsec carebull(not carebear because **** bears). Built up a ton of LP and a good amount of ISK and then figured the whole highsec thing wasn't my bag; no threat outside of suicide ganks and yeah, not worried about that. I have good attention and I don't play AFK. Joined an exploration corp and realized that the pacifist, dock-up during wardecs style is not what I enjoy. At ALL. Took a number of corps to figure that out.

Then I joined Pandemic Horde.

EvE has finally become fun.

I guess my advice is to find a player corp that fits your style and get into what EvE has to offer. I would recommend PH just because it's so damn fun in Catch and Saranen. Brave Newbies Inc. is another good one to look at. I'll fight you in-game any time you want and will never pod you... well, maybe never.











*unless you mine afk in highsec. then that's wrong... very wrong, indeed

Anytime you want. I only have 10.5m SP myself. =)

I would recommend Signal Cartel as a great WH corp to join. They are one of the pacifist corps I was talking about but they practically own wormholes. Eve-scout.com is run by SC.

Doesn't that sort of cancel out the rest of your post

Quite honestly, EVE is in ways much like any other mmo, for the veteran mmo player anyway. If you have spent a number of years playing mmo's already, you have probably already determined your personal play style that fits into most any game.

You like missioing? EVE has that, just like SWG did and EnB did (to name a couple past internet spaceship games). If you like to heal, tank, play the raw sustained DPS or even the burst DPS rogue, EVE has it and much more.

Still many aspects of EVE I have never tried nor will ever (e.g. mining). I liked missiles in EnB and SWG and do so here, though eventually trained a few other systems but still missiles are my fav as always. I'd say just head in the general direction you are use too, don't waste time you are sure you have no interest in, but still do experiment if/when you have the time and in the general direction you plot out.