EVE New Citizens Q&A

I've spent hours playing on EVE, and I cannot figure out how to find asteroids, (like I've heard about), set up trade, (like I've heard about) or obtain ANY resources. I also cannot figure out what to do with all of the structures built around the galaxy, except for the docking places where you can barely do anything. Can somebody please answer this question: How the heck do you find ANYTHING to trade with?

Ive heard so much about the EVE economy, and do not want to abandon it for the sake of total confusion...

Okay... let's take this one step at a time.


It sounds like you already know how to undock and dock at a station. What I want you to do is undock and float outside the station with the screen panned out into space (not towards the station).

Right-click in space.

A menu will appear.

This menu has a list of stuff on it.

Around the top-middle part of this list you should see "Asteroid Belts" as an option. Moving your mouse over this will open up another list naming the asteroid belts in the system (note: not all systems will have asteroid belts).

Move the mouse over the belt you wish to go to and a new list will pop up. This list will have a series of commands for your ship.
One of these commands (the top one) will be "Warp to Within 0 m."
Select that.

Your ship will now automatically align and warp to this destination.


You can perform this same maneuver with other actions in the game. As the old EVE saying goes, "when in doubt, right-click."


Now one thing to keep in mind is that just because there is an asteroid belt listed in a system, it does not mean that the asteroids will actually be there. Another player may have already cleaned it out (see: mined everything).
In such a case, you will need to look elsewhere if you wish to mine.

There is a UI from the left hand side menu that looks like a stock market graph. If you roll over it you will see it says "regional market". That is your market UI.

If is a rough game to solo. I'd recommend making friends asap. You will need people in game that you can ask questions.

I'm voting for this, +1 to J'Poll

"I can't find an asteroid."

I am not really sure whether this says something about EVE Online, the game, or the human race in general. Either way I am sure it means something.

Actually, been getting a lot of this from newbies recently. So I'd assume no troll. The interface isn't really that intuitive all said. I remember my confusion the first day or so of play. There is a HUD, and the existence of a HUD discourages the existence of context menus. With that overview I never would have right clicked in space if someone hadn't told me to. Instead, I did all my right clicking on the hud elements.

If a new player tried so do something out of order for the tutorials, everything goes to hell too. Especially if they go looking for an asteroid because they heard from a friend that asteroids are a good place to make isk-- in the middle of the military tutorial.

I'm sorry, I saw most of the links on this site I suggested to visit to you

"A good place to start with this theme may be this collection of Websites with links to infos, tipps and hints:
https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Market_(Useful_threads)"

are broken because they refer to the old forums.

You can visit them, but must take detour via Google.

In Google you can type:
site:oldforums.eveonline.com {insert Name of topic from Website above}
For example: site:oldforums.eveonline.com Learning to Trade

Seriously, the video I linked above is a 1-hour video of a guy explaining the interface and everything, from a newbie's point of view.

We're limited to 600 words per post here, and a single frame of that video is worth a thousand words, with the entire video being worth ... billions of words. Too much to post.

Watch the video.