EVE New Citizens Q&A

maybe it's just today..maybe t's because it's wednesday...

i'm dong some level one missions today and i'm just not understanding or getting the idea of what they're asking me to or get.
i am fluent in english and i am pretty sure i was able to understand the mission descriptions well enough..but when i go out to the location...it's just too vague...
i'm not understanding what enemies or things they're wanting me to get or beat, etc. The only thins am dong are just looking out into space in all directions around my ship, looking at the menu thingy on the right side that has all the red triangles and star gates and asteroid belts, etc..but i'm just no understanding where the actual missions objectives are located.
In the past, when i finished the mission successfully, i would get an audible png and a nice little green check mark, next to the mission information thing on the left hand side near the top under the info about the system security rating and system name.

But i'm just at a loss as to why i'm not understanding it and having difficulty with it...there are an big huge circles and arrows on the screen pointing me to what i a supposed to find....i've already had to quit one of my level 1 missions because it ust seemed too unimformative and i just couldn't find what they needed me to find.

i almost want to quit mission running now...

CCP needs to help new players more...we are new, so we barely know anythng about anything...we only look blankly at the screen hopping for pop up menus and instructions that are MORE CLEAR, LESS VAGUE, LESS CONFUSING, MORE PRECISE, MORE HELPFUL, and..LESS OF A CHORE TO UNDERSTAND OR BREAK DOWN...............

maybe it's just an unlucky day...or maybe the mission agents are trying to trick me...or maybe i'm just playing in the wrong time zone....
it just really puts me in a.."not so happy mood to do missions" kind of thing...that might even confuse me more then the ones i came across today.

i am only doing level 1 mission...for caldari navy.....security missions....i heard that they're only supposed to e encounter missions, where you just have to fight npc ships. i thought it would be easy, but now i am not so sure........

i just want to almost quit doing missions now...i might as well do anomolies because that counts are pve also....
or even worse, mining.....you fight a rock in outer space with a laser beam.....how fun.......
*sigh*
*face palms self*
how is it possible that i am having a blonde moment when i a not even blonde?..........................................

oh, by the way, any suggestions and feedback would be appreciate.
Thank you.

OK ...

The old tutorial system had a slightly better (but not that much better) intro to missions and you can still do those tutorials by going to the old schools and talking to the old career agents. As a bonus you get free ships and stuff.

Some pointers:

1. Eve Survival as recommended above will help a lot.

2. The place you eventually see a green tick will have a mouse over icon that will give some sort of pointer to the next thing to do though its not always that helpful. Note that sometimes you do not get a "green tick" till you dock back at station with the correct item in your cargo hold.

3. A good part of your problem is probably overview settings. For mission running its good to have your own presaved overview tabs that show a) wrecks and b) Large collidable objects and large collidable structures (two different things) .

4. if you are stuck on a specific mission post in the Missions and Complexes forum and people will help.

If you had googled that mission instead of attention raging you'd probably have solved it by now. No further info on which mission it is, this is just a rant. Or you could have asked in Rookie help or normal help but nope... ranting it is.

Would you be able to post a link to a screenshot of the confusing screen?

Press printscreen to take a screenshot in-game, then use eve-files.com to upload the screenshot, then post the link that evefiles gives you in this thread.

another blonde moment for me..
i had forgotten bout the ability for you to decline a mission every 4 hours without penalty...
i can just skip whichever ones i don't like..
*sigh*
face palms self*
sorry folks......us noobss really don't know that much so we panick in the face of the unknown, what we don't understand.

Nice catch.

No, you're not

CCP's records on file about me will prove i am telling the truth.

Oh you found out my secret-- I am actually not human. I am a semi-sapient Komodo dragon. I cannot speak for anyone else.