EVE New Citizens Q&A

Holy carp, someone who actually uses the list BBcode tag! Have a space-like.

1. Casual PvP. It's there if you look hard enough. It depends on your corp and how laid back they are, or what PvP they do. I've found that neither size nor location are very reliable indicators of that, but 0.0 and wormhole corps do tend to be more "hardcore". Something you have to realize is that, despite you being a casual PvPer, you can run into both other casual players or into people who spend 23 hours a day playing to win. That means that you will often be outgunned or outskilled, and you need to find a way to compensate for that. Flying with friends is a good one. Oh, and you also need to be okay with dying repeatedly, because it will happen.


2. Self-funding on limited time. Depends on what you want to fly. If it's just T1-fit frigates and cruisers, it's possible to fund yourself by PvP alone. More, and you have to start doing some ISK-earning. There are a wide variety of things to do for ISK, with some being quite light on time (e.g. exploration, trading, scamming, or possibly a 3rd party service of some kind that you run). Check out the graph of what to do (a bit dated, but still good).


3. Generalizing vs specializing. Specialize until you're satisfied with your ships' performance, then specialize on something else. Most of the time, many of the skills will also apply to the new thing already, and you will have a leg up. For example, cruiser guns use the same gun support skills as frigate guns. The only difference is that you have Medium Projectile Turret instead of Small Projectile Turret (if Minmatar). This also applies to cross-race training. Point of note: do not try to fly the biggest ship you can, as soon as possible. As I mentioned, you will die a lot, and losing cheaper ships is a less painful way to learn hard lessons.


4. 'Unusual events'. Um... Hulkageddon, currently. CCP might do something shiny for Inferno. You may also want to look into how incursions work, if only to not be surprised by uber-powerful NPCs in hisec. Other than that, not really.

Oh, and you are a dumb newb.

Being a newbie is okay, so long as you accept the fact you don't know it all, and are willing to learn. Posting a thread like this one here shows you're doing it right. Rock on!

You're welcome. I try to help newbies, and especially well-articulated inquisitive ones.

A piece of unsolicited advice for you: join a corp. Finding some people you can hang out with, and especially some vets who are interested in helping you out, is crucial in Eve enjoyment. Eve is a social game, and because of this, especially difficult solo.

I'd say littering, but yeah...
As for finding corps, recruitment chat channel is heavily spammed and might not be the best place to look, the forum is more quiet to scrutinize and often comes with out of game links that can help you make your mind, other than that, I usually lurk in public channels of corps whose members contribute with quality on the forums, it's one of the few places where I can make myself an opinion. Of course some new players have a knack for asking questions in a way that can only end in flames, but over time I noted some names and I'm watching you guyz!
Edit: I forgot to mention word of mouth, indeed.

^^This man knows teh game, you can trust him... unless he asks you transfer him millions or all your assets... those you can send to me

Red Vs Blue will take any one and is hard core focused on having fights all of the time. People consider it to be casual pvp.

The only reason I wouldn't suggest us, is because we take our pvp pretty seriously KD ratio and all that. Plus our pvp is more like a ongoing form of competition not something to do just to see blue flashies when you feel like it.

Trading is a very simple thing to do to make isk. You only need the time to check in and flip your orders. Find something on the market that is moving, and has a good margin and pounce.

For cross training By training the core skills for pvp, that make you tank more and deal more damage will also make you more effective in mission runnning, so theres two things in game your effectively cross training too all at once.

Other stuff like Inventor - Ewar pilot, doesn't exactly cross train all that well.

Your more likely to cross train between races then actual professions. Those will also unlock pirate factions ships.

For instance:
Minmitar -> Amar (Blood raider)
Gallente -> Minmitar(Serpentis, Angel)
Caldari -> Amar (Sansha nation)
Caldari -> Minmitar (nothing its just easy to do)

You certainly know how to make friends.

This is one of the reasons I am terrible at Eve, my KD ratio is only 1.037.

My ISK destroyed to ISK lost ratio is 5.26, my efficiency is 86%, and my arbitrary statistic is 48.14.

(Psst, Calairis, statistics don't mean crap. Don't listen to people who use them as standalone measures of anything.)

Haha! I'm obviously not prepared for serious PvP, not even sure how seriously I could get into it. In most games I've played you have to grind and grind until you have the best everything until you can do anything serious in PvP, but from what I hear it scales better in Eve. I would have to defer to the veterans on the truth of that.

I will look into trading as Lyric suggested, though I imagine it to be more inconsistent, opportunity-based type income.

So far so good, little things coming back, lots to figure out. Again, the info is much appreciated.