EVE New Citizens Q&A

Post reserved, will update tomorrow about all my choices etc. (1am here, need to go to bed)

In the meanwhile:

http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/

Take a look at that website, gives you an overview on what EVE has to offer (or at least the things that are currently mapped as what EVE has to offer, you can always start doing your own thing).

Also, have you done all the tutorials (AURA and 5 career agents), they might give you a slight nudge in the direction you want to go.

As for your lack of ability to fit your Thorax out, that is a newbie thing. Every new player starts out with the lack on how to fit ships, you will learn how to fit stuff eventually, being it from help from others or just trial and error.

Best thing I can advice is find a corporations you like to join (aka not just jump into the fist corp you encounter). Best if this corporation does what you like to do, and also is willing to help you out doing it as you are a new player to EVE.

Also, which skills you should train. Go to the character sheet => Certificates and then take a look at the Core and Defense Certs. you can never go wrong by training those skills as they will benefit ALL ships in EVE.

It can be very confusing as which career to choose.
That is one of the reasons many people's (original) main's started off as Jack of All.

My personal point of vieuw in this is to look at first where your intrests lie.
They can be toally independant from eachother in matter of skills required.
Best is to make a list of things you want to do. Then look which thing on the list has your top priority and start from there.
Once you identified where your primary passion lies you can start focussing on what it entrails to follow that line.

Many people hated the learning skills in the passt. However they gave you some sense of time to start getting your passion and skills in one line.
Now from day one you start training the skills required for your path, however knowing the options and subsequentially the required skills etc takes more then the first time logging in.
It might actually take a few days or even weeks before you sorted it out.
Hell, some people took even months or years to sort it out.

Bottomline is that you have to find a sort of self discipline to identify your own path, then you start to gather information as how best to follow that path and learn by trail and error.

As for joining a Corporation.

Don't be in a rush to join the very first one that sounds like everything is peachy.
Even as a new player you are allowed to be critical.
Ask them if you are allowed to hang out with them in their public channel.
Get to know some of their pilots by actual interaction.
That way the list of corporations you join over time won't start looking like a phonebook.

There will be recruiters in the future who will ask you a damn lot as of why or even ignore you completely if you look like a passionate corphopper.

step 1) find a good corp
step 2) join it
step 3) stay in it as long as it suits yo


that's pretty much it. A good corp in eve will lead you into all the fun things you want to do.
there are corps out there who'll accept new players, hell, my view is "as long as you can fly a tackle rifter(1 day of skilling) you can fly with us"


If you're EU based and want to blow stuff up in low\null, shoot me an eve mail

Seriously - you need a corp.
Go to the recruitment forum and either post or look up the posts in there.

No one will show you what to do - you need to find it yourself.
If you want to pvp in low sec, look for a corp that does that. If you want to pvp in null look for a corp that does that.

Actually, step 1 is "disable the captain's quarters". If you are walking around with pants and **** instead of floating in a goo-filled pod (or waking up in a medical bay) then you're playing the game wrong.

The "Join a corp" thing is good advice, and you should do that. But finding a corp that, most importantly, has people that log on at the same time you do can take several tries and a couple weeks, so you need something to do in the meantime. I would advise flying around in space as much as possible as a relatively new player, so missions are a good way to burn your spare time and work out the basics of fitting the hard way.

Additionally:

Grab a cheap frigate, make sure it has guns and a warp disruptor, and go get blown up in low sec a few times. Bonus: even funnier if you're drinking a lot at the same time.

Grab a scanner frigate with an expanded probe bay and scan people down just so you can fly around them annoyingly in circles. If you want to go from being annoying to also being a ****, salvage their wrecks without permission.

Train industry 1, find some minerals and a BPO (from missions or mining) and make something. For instance, some t1 frigates to get blown up in PvP with. This'll take you 4 or 5 hours of playtime to figure out.

Basically, just loaf around like you're doing, but do it in SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaacce....

Try RvB

From what I read it looks like a could way to start out on the PVP track. Prob what Im going to do....or buy 20 righters and fly into oblivion and glory!