EVE New Citizens Q&A

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The first day and getting used to the UI can be a little tricky. I tried to convo you in game to hopefully try and walk you through some it. It's a lot easier to show someone IRL in my personal opinion but we can do it through a text convo. However some back and forth would be a lot easier than just posting on the forum so hopefully you can make some friends rather quickly

I'll start here with a few tips. First you have 3 basic locations in station:
-Your item hangar
-Your ship hangar
-Your ship's cargohold

which ever one that you currently have open if you click on the triangle in the upper left corner it will open an interface with more options. From there you can access the rest. In eve if in doubt right click. So you can right click on your ship and select open cargohold. From pretty much anywhere you can select to open in another window or shift click to open in another window.

Once you open the market UI there is a search bar with a search button to the right of it. Once more to the right of the search button is a gear wheel that opens up an options or settings UI. As a new player they will likely have that locked down so that you don't get confused or buy something on the other side of the universe or something like that.

I recommend to everyone that one of the first things that one should do in game is to uncheck the box in the market settings that says "show only available". I also recommend that once that is done you use "window shopping" in the market as a way to get familiar with what is out there so to better plan your gameplay.

Beyond that you can set your range for further out than just the current station. Keep in mind however that you will need to be cautious as to where you buy and sell stuff from as it could be in low or null sec even depending on where you are located.

Beyond what I've posted here I'd need some questions from you to proceed further. So either you can let me know and I'll try and catch you in game or you can try joining "Help Chat - Reloaded" which is an ingame chat channel there to help new players but is made up of other players and not the offical help chat that is often overloaded and of marginal use.

There is a chat bubble icon on the left hand side of your screen that brings up the chat UI which you can search for that channel.

Also just browsing through those icon and exploring the UI of the game can be helpful.

Further I know that there are several videos out there that are targeted at day 1 players and walk you through the UI. Some of them are better than others but they are there for you to search and view.

Hello and welcome to Eve.

Here's a couple of info reference guides :

Evelopedia

UniWiki

Google search will also list other helpful info resources as well.

Good luck, hope you have a long and rewarding career here in Eve.


DMC

Everyone else seems to have the basics that I would have mentioned covered but I do have one caution for you.

NEVER go into low sec, nul sec or a worm hole in the only ship you own.
To put that another way ALWAYS make sure you have a ship in high sec somewhere that you can use to make ISK with.
If you follow these 2 basic pieces of advice then I and many others would encourage you to explore all areas of space and see which you like the best.

After you figure out the absolute basics, read this!

Learn about how to survive and thrive in a universe where the players make the content!

For what it is worth, an ESC menu option that I really think should be default:

Merge item hangar with station menu (or some wording similar to that).

When enabled, when you dock you'll see tabs under the corp banner on the right, where you can find your ships and items in the station, which you can right-click sell (first check the market price - there is a button on the price summary towards the bottom right that opens the market for the item you want to sell).

Beware that by default the market pane is NOT sorted sensibly (my opinion). Click on the price column headers repeatedly until
* Sell orders have the lowest price at the top.
* Buy orders have the highest price at the top.
By repeatedly clicking the price column header you will see that there are not just two sort orders for the price column, but rather more like 3 or 4, one of which is for example closest & lowest (I think the default for sell orders), rather than just lowest.

You probably should check the option (gear in market window) to show your orders, and to only show orders in hisec (0.5 to 1.0 security).

Otherwise station items can be found by opening your inventory (NOT assets = shows all stations, this icon looks like a vault) from the Neocom bar on the left, NOT from the cargo button on your ship.

grrrr this game is infuriating lol

Ok I am now trying to activate an acceleration gate. I think I have the gas passkey in my hold as the Agent should have given it to me. However the acceleration gate is locked!!!

What do I do? Do I have to find another pass key?

Don't worry about it, eve is renowned for its steep learning curve (and the cliff dwelling savages trying to eat you as you climb it).

The only stupid question is the one you don't ask.

Fellow X player here ... just imagine X's NPCs hordes replaced by actual players and also the market is almost completely player driven. So you compete with other players and groups in every aspect of the game, and this is the ultimate kick which keeps the game interesting beyond any scripted stuff. The mission and NPC standing system is quite similar.