EVE New Citizens Q&A

Is this a question or a complaint?

If your leaving bye. I wont waste my time.

If your trying to find your niche in the eve universe you need to make that more clear.

There's plenty of stuff to do in Eve, check out what to do in Eve.

Most corps want players that are atleast slightly commited to the game both because it's annoying to have players in your corp that play for a month and then quit and because other players making spy characters to infiltrate another corp is a very real danger in Eve.

And exploration is very accessible to younger players. It takes a little bit of ISK to get into it, as with anything in the game, but overall it's very doable and far cheaper compared to something like missioning.

nissui, mission running isnt meant to be fun. Its a means to an end. Isk. Then you use that to do what your first love is in game.

If your not making enough cash from them you need to get standings up with a faction that will give you better missions. Get connections and negotiations to V and the appropriate connection skill. By the way dont bother salvaging lower level missions it will actually halt your standings grind for very little isk.

You die in pvp alot. You need to find a good corp that will walk you through it properly.
PVP is the sweetest drug in eve. I personally only had to be killed once myself before I was like,"Ill do anything to be on the other side of this engagement."

Corps dont take trial folks because they have no penalty to not play. If you pay for it you miss out by not at least logging to train skills. Trial people become a liability because they wont stick around. Its not a insult or a generalization its just a fact of life.

You need to do some can flipping or piratey type things to draw out some fights you can actually win. If you dive first into a gate camp in low sec you'll get destroyed pretty fast. Tons of pvp guides on you tube.

Im not all for giving CCP more money,(I dont make enough to pay using plex), but seriously dude take the plunge. If nothing else you loose a little money and you'll get a month of play time. With the trial label gone you can join a decent corp get into the social aspects of eve and really see what all the hulabaloo about this game is.

Could post another text blob on here, but I won't because all that I had to say is said above.

EVE isn't a handheld game with an End-game, all you want to do in EVE is set by yourself.

I started as an industrial character, but now a days I'm more and more involved in PvP.
And I use industry and missions to get the ISK for it.

And as said, most larger / established corps don't take fresh new players cause they can't tell if you're a genuine new player or just another spy account made by another corp/alliance to infiltrate them.

oh trust me Nissui.

Structure is a convenience of which you can only hope you will find in your corp.

It doesnt mean people will be nazis about you logging in. It just means theres structure for people to work together to get things done. Loose corps with no structures are either a group of real life friends that are relatively exclusive, or the corp has Blasé leadership, and those corps dont last long.

Dont be afraid of structure it can be very helpful.

Indeed, EVE tutorials are not the best. And 14 days of normal or 21 if on buddy invite isn't by far long enough to get to know EVE.

And true, ingame asking in help channels sometimes don't give you the right answers.
I'm happy to see you at least are considering to buy 1 month of game time to try the full game out, that makes me happy as it shows you are willing to try things out / willing to learn new stuff.

As many said, EVE is a MMO, so best played with other players. Finding a good corporation is part of that, but it also takes some research on how to find them.

As lazy as I can be, I know a good forum post that explains it all, so I won't type the whole thing myself but give you the link:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=16943

Courtesy of Nightcrawler 85

kind regards,

J'Poll

Any decent miner won't shoot you if you can flip him. He will just go out or just bring his friends in shiny big guns to pop you. Or just wait that you go out and pick the can back with an alt or another corp mate.

BUT, if you want to can flipping and you have your friends standing by in the gate... then the fun is way bigger :D

I think the key is in figuring out what you like to do, and what kind of personality you have in the game. Rather than asking us "what should I be doing in this game?" I suggest you ask yourself "what kind of gameplay am I looking for?" When you know the answer to that question, we can help you find where in Eve that gameplay is.

For example, I'm a bit of a loner. I'm fiercely independent and like to be free to go do my own thing when I want. Getting involved in a large corporation that required participation and expect constant social contact was out of the question for me. Mining and industry bore me, running missions is tedious, incursions make me deal with annoying people too frequently. I ended up discovering exploration when a friend of mine tried it out, and I'd finally found my niche.

No way. 2 maybe 3 skills at most and they won't cost 2m.

Tried again tonight, didn't find any miners, but purchased a skillbook in a lowsec station and went to go pick it up.

The system was very quiet, but I noticed there were a lot of asteroid belts, and since I was the only pilot in system I decided to take a minute to use the directional scanner like the guide pages said. A whole bunch of normal containers showed up and I thought, "why not?" I went from belt to belt finding containers and wrecks from two other corporations, and proceeded to steal everything. It must have been unwanted stuff, because they never came back over the next 45 minutes to pick it up. But among the modules was a remote armor repair module that was worth a million ISK, and the rest of the items sold for an additional 180000, so I made back half of what I spent on those 21 skillbooks.

While I was going from belt to belt, someone from a third corp arrived in the system in a Coercer, then another from a fourth corp in a Vengeance. I thought that my Rifter would not be a good match against these ships when I checked info, so I warped off to the first thing my cursor fell on the dropdown list, which ended up being a planet. I thought getting away from the belts would make me harder to find, but within ten seconds the flashing orange Vengeance was about 150km below me. I watched the distance as I spammed the afterburner (stupid adrenaline), but he did not give chase. Then another pilot from a fifth corp showed up on local channel and now there was a Helios on directional scan. At this point I felt outnumbered and my aggression countdown was less than 2 minutes, so I warped to the first belt I hit then aimed straight down and turned on the afterburners again. No one showed up this time, and after the countdown elapsed I made it to the highsec gate and jumped to safety.

This was the best time I've had in the trial, and even if I was blown up and never got to sell the stolen goods, would have been drastically more exciting than any of the other newbie activities. I'm totally paying for a month of this game if I can keep doing this. Awesome.