EVE New Citizens Q&A

Well, remember that managers are generally able to substitute for any subordinate, so having a basic grounding on every thing is generally best. If you press f12 there should be a button for career agents, they get you started on the basic careers etc.

Since you say Logistic, in game Logistics is often referring to Logistics Ships, which are basically repair ships. There are industrial ships which are used for Logistics and are somewhat analogous to Container trucks. The freighters are huge behemoths and are the Eve equivalent of the cargo ships at sea.

There are management skills, but those are mostly for leading a corp, or leading a fleet, and you won't lead anyone without more basic knowledge, so don't worry about that for now. Trading can be used to manage resources, either in region, in station, or across regions. Regional traders usually have the largest margins, but incur greater risk. At the other end Station traders work in a specific station trying to always keep their bids more liquid that everyone else's.

Seriously, do the career missions, because you get free ships which can be used to develop whichever career you end up enjoying. There are player created careers too, but those almost all involve a high level of game knowledge

OP, planetary interaction (PI) might interest you if you enjoy managing resources and building things that build things. As said before; do try out the career agents. You might like other things. Many eve players run planetary interaction stuff "on the side" because once you set them up they can be a mostly passive source of income. Some players run a bunch of PI colonies at once and going around managing them is their primary activity in EvE. Also, straight -out manufacturing might interest you (hey, someone has to make the ships and ammo people use up here). The huge amount of things to do in EvE can be a bit overwhelming at first, but is also is one of the best things about this game and sets it apart from many others. Welcome!

As Iria said (in both posts).

How ever 1 small things, don't just jump into a corp for the sake of being in a corp.
You can make friends and be part of a group without flying under the same flag (look at all the NPSI / Public fleets etc)
And you want to really do your research on which corp you want to join (both for their and your sake).

Keep in mind, that people management (or general management in terms of being in control of something for a corp/alliance) doesn't have any in game skills or what so ever, that is YOU as a player that counts.

Also, that will take time to get there too, cause trust is one of the most valuable assets in EVE. It's very hard to earn, and very very easy to lose.

Then don't.

First I'd like to mention that you don't even know one thousandth of the game yet. The 3% you've mentioned you'd not reach within the first MONTHS, unless you really push it, which is useless from an entertainment perspective.


You do not have to follow a career!


Just roam around to look at the world, to see people interact at stations (try dodixie, jita, rens) or at belts, incursion sites, anomalies. See them blap people from the undock, bump them through uedama, visit eveuni or rvb, let yourself get blown up in lowsec and have them teach you what happened, find a mission runner who will show you his lvl4 or even better, scan one yourself!

Mine and build things,
buy and sell things,
hunt and kill things,
meet and greet things people,
scan and grab things, ...


You don't have to decide.
The decision will come to you, when you give it an opportunity to find you.