EVE New Citizens Q&A

It is truly what you want to do. Wanna fly frigs? Go Assault Frigs. Like big booms? Go BS....see what you like and stick to it. Take your time it's more fun.

I vote for the flesh out option.

Installing EVEmon and checking how much time different training targets will take would be good option. Also check out all the skills in EVE at least once to have some idea about what skills there are.

But in the end the question is what do you want. From quite early I decided to specialize in missiles and shield tanking, and ignore turrets and armor tanking. I also went to fly 2 billion ISK Raven Navy in level 4 missions before I could fly any T2 ship. For me this has worked but you might want something different.

I havn't been good in making single long term plan and sticking to it. Instead I have 17 different skillplans in EVEMon, and if I get bored of one I go through them and switch to something which feels better at the moment or just make completely new one. I also have plans like "all skills taking less than 24 hours" for those cases where I really don't know what to train, so I just take short skill which will make me a bit better at something I've been doing recently.

This has worked for me and I don't feel like I've made any big mistakes. But then I never trained for mining. I've heard few players say that they regret training for Hulk so you might want to think twice before going there.

Just do not fall into the ALL LEVEL 5 trap.
IV or III in a lot of cases is enough.

I recommend rushing slightly to BC in order to do lvl3 missions, then fleshing out your frigate skills for PvP. All support skills for frigates work on BC as well, so you will be improving both at the same time.

I would highly recommend "fleshing out" all the skills to support T2 frigates. Make friends with people who run missions, mine, do low sec PvP, etc. Try to get involved with whatever activities your friends will take you on.

You can run L4 missions in assault ships (T2 frigates), or do exploration in covops frigates (T2 frigates), help take down bigger fleets while flying a stealth bomber, etc. Note that you won't be flying the ideal ship for any of these activities, but you'll be more useful than not being there at all :)

If you see me online please don't hesitate to contact me! I'll show you the parts of the hisec care bear lifestyle that I enjoy doing with T2 frigates, and how frigates compare with Battleships and Strategic Cruisers. Perhaps seeing all these things in action might convince you that one path is more attractive than another.

GL,HF!

"It depends on what you want to do."

When I started, it was a tad different (something called "learning skills" back then - they're gone now) but it boiled down to the same thing - which didn't help me a hell of a lot. "well if I knew everything I can do, I might be able to figure out what I want to do!"

As such - go general at the start. Work support, get some ship skills - TRY things out. Frigates are zippy, fast little things. Battlships, quite a bit more ponderous. Cruisers, and T2 variants, are between the 2. You might find that the market catches your eye for income - or manufacturing things to sell. You could end up doing mining or perhaps exploration to find hidden sites that you can loot stuff from.

There are myriad ways of making isk in the game and even more ways to spend/lose it.

So work your skills up while trying different things out. Take your time and see what portions of the game attract your attention.

The best overall advice: Find a group that you can get along with and join them. The biggest "I'm out" or "I'll stay" I've come across is when someone finds a good group to hang with. That's 100% based upon your personality and theirs - each group has its own "right fit" so shop around a bit but see about joining one.

If your goal is purely and simply to make ISK, Battleships or Strategic Cruisers are the way to go. You will also want to talk to your doctor about getting a prescription for anti-depressants since playing the game purely to make ISK will bore you out of your skull and you will be resenting playing the game after a few months.

Training to T2 frigates will allow a greater range of activities, at a significantly reduced ISK income rate. But then if you're paying for your subscription with dollars rather than ISK, you won't need as much ISK income since the ships you fly will be significantly cheaper than a battleship. One battleship hull is about 80M ISK, one fully T2 fitted Assault Ship will cost around 40M ISK.

I would highly recommend arranging group outings with folks from your starter corp. Get to know people, have fun, see if you can't get invited to a corp that does the kind of stuff you find most interesting.