EVE General Discussion

you never learn how to fly a ship unless you undock in it. so just do it, worst case scenario you buy a new one.
keep it cheep, t1 fit if your going somewhere you suspect your going to be loosing it. shoot some rats, shoot some players, run some missions, figure out what works and what doesn't for you.

as for fitting your ship, a quick google search for any ship will bring up various different fit ideas, some will be better than others, but it gives you a starting place to work from. the e-uni wiki has fits for most ships, although some of them are a bit out of date. it still gives you a place to start.

Simple truth: you will die!

The idea in Eve is to make more ISK then you loose. You will loose your ship, don't be afraid of it. Use it to kill enough stuff that you have the money to build a new and better one.

To choose the right fitting take a look ar o.smium.org. That will give you ideas which you most likely need to tone down to fit your skills. Look at the ships in the class you want to fly and search for one that has bonusses for the thing you want to do aka weapon bonuses to blow things up or tanking bonus to last longer. Warp out if things get to hard, recharge tank and get in again. Takes time but saves your ship. If you use shield tank get out when you take armor damage, with armor tank get out at 30% armor. Better loose the side then the ship.

The fear of death is mostly exaggerated. It's highly unlikely that someone, apart from NPCs, will kill you in High Sec. It may happen but it is very unlikely. Never happened to me in 1 year in HS.

Join a NullSec Corp/Alliance and get out of HighSec ASAP.

I offered some advice in NCQ&A and you seemed like you were about to take the plunge and join a nullsec corp with your PvP account.

Let me urge you again - don't worry about training skills for PvP. Just get in there and do it. If you join a new player nullsec corp, they'll give you frigates to get blown up in. You'll have skill plans offered that guide you to various roles. Skill points are a distraction. Waiting to train into some kind of 'bigger ship' does not get you better at PvP - ships fulfil roles, they do not represent some sort of levelling up as in other games.

This game is best enjoyed with other people. Of course you are going to lose faith sitting in a station waiting for a skill queue. What's worse is that even if you do finally get to that skill goal, you'll probably be disillusioned once you fly the ship - probably by being blown up into an expensive wreck a short while after undocking.

Take the plunge. Go fight in cheap ships, with people that will advise you, and probably become firm friends as you share dangers. The adrenaline buzz in this game is like nothing else, but only out in dangerous, cruel space.

Feel free to evemail me if I can offer any personal advice.

This is your 3rd GD thread along these lines, bro.

Start a blog or take it to New Player forum.
This is getting dangerously close to begging.

I already sent you 5 mil on the 2nd thread.
What else do you want.

Every man dies....


What you do is up to you here..... all just YOU!! Like real life, which is why theres no manual, no instructions and your flying from the seat of your pants!!

Best to enjoy the ride and if you need to believe youre flying when your just falling to your fiery death.

This is the problem with Eve, vets need to provide newbies with more than just a vague/useless "try harder" comment.

My advice: "Left loosey, righty tighty." OP should sit in station and ship-spin clockwise!

Eve isn't the type of game where you can read enough to know everything about an activity before you've done it. You can only learn by doing and yes, you will die a lot.

If you ask me for advice I would definitely say 'join a group!'. In WoT you are part of a team and if you die your team can still win, not only that but as part of a group there's far less chance of you being the unlucky sod who gets primaried and blown up. In a group you will have less pressure on you to make learning the ropes easier, and you'll be flying with experienced players who know what to do. Flying with an experienced group will quickly get you up feeling competent in a fleet.

Flying solo you have only your actions to blame for your success or failure, and no offense but as a new player you will have literally no idea of what you should be doing. Once you feel more sure of your abilities you can go off solo if that's what you want, but there's all sorts of playstyles in this game. Try play with a few groups and get a feel for what you like, find your niche and master it.

I sent you a small amount of ISK to get started. Don't be afraid to lose it.

Pfffft.... who's afraid of an IS7?