EVE New Citizens Q&A

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I used to pilot a Mammoth. That's right, A ******* MAMMOTH. Hauling the ores that the Dusette sisters would mine.

NOW LOOK WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO ME.

Within my first week I was found mining veldspar in a rookie system and invited into a mining corp based in Hoth...I quickly realised there was a niche for someone to haul and refine the ores for our group ops when the CEO wasn't there in his orca, so instead of training into an exhumer I went for Gallente industrials and started charging a small percentage to my corpmates for moving their ore back to a station in an iteron, refining it down into minerals and selling at the nearest hub for them - I eventually had a couple of understudies helping move the ores back to the station and contracting them over to me to refine as our mining ops grew and grew...

Around the end of month 1 my first corp failed as the CEO disappeared (pretty sure he just used us to mine ore for him to build a carrier or something...jerk) so I moved, along with some of the other members, into an industrial and mission running corp based around Rens - they were grinding standings to start running a POS so I trained up into a myrmidon and assisted on L4s (this was pre aggro changes so you could just fit for max gank and let a battleship warp in first and tank the spawns). They happened to also have a similarly oriented alliance a few jumps away in Cat who I ran missions with when nothing else was happening.

After a short while one of their members invited me WH diving into C1s and 2s -10mil nanoribbons made us stupidly rich very fast and the news spread through my new corp - within days I was training up all the mission runners in my new corp on how to use D-scan and probe launchers and bringing them in on WH dives - we were completely PvE oriented, mostly in disposable Drakes with me in a salvage Myrm doing some drone DPS whilst grabbing the loots. Through Dscan RSI we made a small fortune with very minimal losses (I still vividly remember watching one of my diving partners get taken out by a T2 gang whilst I scared off their tackle wolf with my drones and made it to a safespot with all the loot!).

Around this time my new CEO had a baby IRL and he offered up his position to anyone that seemed popular for the job and one of the guys I'd been diving with stood for and got the position, his first act was to make me a director and his second act was to decide we're moving into WHs - We made a deal with the friendly Cat alliance that anyone who wanted to stay in highsec would move to them, whilst we'd absorb anyone from their corp that wanted to explore Wspace. We collaboratively saved up for maybe a week to buy 'Milliways' our first POS and scanned and scanned and scanned to find our first home.

By the end of month 3 my horribly trained industrial/refining/myrmidon/scanning toon and a couple of crappy scanning alts had been made a director in a brand new WH corp and were completely over our heads sitting inside our POS shield in wspace. It was glorious.

As I really wanted to get into production, I spent my first couple of weeks mining, buying BPOs, and experimenting with T1 production/sales. Did not make very much from that and was always waiting on sales. I saw how much T2 ships went for so I spent weeks skilling into research, R&D, invention and higher ship production. Created a few T2 BPOs to find materials to make T2 ships can only be gotten through infrastructure set in .4 and below or through direct material purchases that ended up costing far more than the ships are valued. So now I am skilling into to what I guess I should have which is higher end barges and base offensive and defensive skills. Knowing what I know now, I would of never even attempted R&D, invention, or production of any kind and would of just skilled further into mining and base offensive and defensive skills as I have a bunch of seemingly worthless skills trained and am basically playing catch up.

i mission ran, i also stubled across a corp called pro synergy who salvage for you and give you 45% of the profits each week. was a nice bump to my income using the logic that if i didnt have to salvage myself i would be able to run more missions in a given amount of time.

i got quirte lucky with a few nioce vets listening to my noob questions and giving me generous isk donations.

also met a nice industrialuist on my travels who built me a few nocti and harbingers.

there are nice folk out ther

Career missions and assorted hi sec missions until I was ready to run the Sisters of Eve epic arc. Then lvl 3 and 4 missions, some cosmos missions and exploration, and eventually a dabble in FW. FW is a great place for newer players once you can afford to fit a bunch of frigates and don't mind losing them.

I came to Eve knowing no one that played, or even what the game was really about.
My first couple months were scratching around high sec running combat missions and learning some game mechanics- back when there was essentially no 'new player experience' that CCP cared about. You were just dropped into the game and left to figure it out.

In those first couple months I nearly quit Eve because it sucked playing alone (my first corp was a random invite to care bears that mined...while I ran missions just as alone as before) and in PvP there were basically only two ships that mattered- Drakes and Sabres. It was perhaps one of the lowest points in Eve to get involved with the game.

Then Incarna came out and I didn't log in for a couple months. Space Barbie was the last thing I wanted in a game, and it seemed most of the player base was about to walk away as well. If Eve didn't have the real-time training mechanic where my character continued to develop despite me not really playing- I would have absolutely left.

After a few months of sort-of caring about Eve, I applied to join a low sec pirate corp- and it changed the game entirely for me. Eve was a whole new game- fun, social, challenging. I reveled in only using one character- now with outlaw sec status- and the challenges that presented.
The debacle of Incarna re-focused CCP into spaceships and we had great expansions and ship re-balancing that Eve was missing all along. So I am glad I stuck with it.

I gave space piracy a year or so before wanting to move up to the big leagues of PvP, and joined a sov alliance- the same one I am still a member of today.