EVE New Citizens Q&A

350k is absoulutely nothing, if it bothers you at all just reroll.

350K is like a week or two of training isnt it?


Even if you had 50 million skill points, you can still re-roll THAT character. You will actually set your self back by making a new toon. Aside from having horrible standing with NPC and not wanting to grind them back up, there is never any reason to make a new toon just to re-role. Unless you WANT 2 toons active.

How can you have switched that much in only 3 weeks?

The characters start with such low SP now that re-making a new toon sets you back further than re-roling a current toon. Even if you are 1 week old.

What happens is you keep making character after character until a month or two ahs gone by an dyou have gotten no where. Where as, if you kept the same toon the whole time you will find yourself much further ahead.


Bottom line, new players don't grasp this concept sadly until they are a year old and only have 2 mill SP and wonder what happened. ITs worh it to stay with your toon, its not worth it to start a new one just to train different skills since every single skill can be trained on every character. and most 1x , 2x or 3x skills can be trained to level 4 in under a week, which are what most new pilots end up training.

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I'm not sure flattery will work in arguments against J'Poll.

That said, I have characters of all races across my accounts, and have played enough with the character creator that I've realized that coolness is not racist.

The lore is also largely irrelevant. I've seen Amarr fighting alongside Minmatar freedom fighters, Minmatar corporate moguls, and other weird things. If anything, being an expatriate can be even more fun RP-wise.

"Different ships/weapons" is also not an argument. I am Minmatar yet I'd say that lasers are my favorite weapon system. There is someone else in my corp who is Amarr but they have felt the call of ECM and they fly mostly Caldari now.

That said, so few SP is no big deal to scrap if you really want a Caldari character. Just make sure you realize it's a purely cosmetic change so far as the actual game is concerned.

Hey I got that as a present when I wanted to watch Fanfest in HD. Why not wear it.

I think it's cool that you are taking the lore of the Amarr/ Caldari into account with your character.

Sadly (or thankfully, depending on your perspective) not everyone in EvE even like to roleplay their character. They mostly choose their race based on what ship types they like.

Arguably, Amarr and Minmatar are the best ships for player vs. player combat, Caldari and Gallente are the best ships for 'player versus Eve' or missions.

Sure you could re-roll your character if you felt like it, but you don't NEED to, you could also use your two other character slots as alts.

When I first started EvE, someone told me to use all three of my alts. One should be a miner/ manufacturer, one should be a fighter/ missioner, and one should be a hauler/ trader. That covers most of what anyone would want to do in EvE.

You said you've already trained your Amarr character as a miner, and now you want to start a Caldari character. So, just stop training on the one and start training on the new Caldari character. Make the Caldari your main character, and the Amarr character as an alt. An alt can come in handy for things like hauling, which takes three days to train. Amarrians have some of the best haulers in EVE, especially the cloaking tech 2 Transport ships.

it helps your story that the Caldari and Amarr are allies. Amarr is also a good choice as a miner since Amarrians own 40% of high sec space, yet they are one of the least popular races to play. This means there are lots of empty mining belts in Amarr high sec, which is the opposite of how it is for the Caldari.

As others pointed out though, you could be born as an Amarrian and decide you are an Atheist who wants to join a Caldari corporation, or be a Minmatar that owns other Minmatar as slaves, etc. The choice of race is just cosmetic really. You can fly any ships of any race you want, and your character's backstory is pretty much what you want it to be.

Well, for starting miners, it's pretty profitable with all the events that happened in the past 1-2 months.

Your post is made of win. I try so often to explain this to people and they just won't get it.

Since you can train any character to do anything I wouldn't biomass your current toon, and since you can have up to three on one account you can try out other races with out biomassing a character or selling it.

I think with less and less emphasis in the game system on racial traits plays more into the lore of what it means to be a capsuleer.

You are unbound.

You do not serve an empire or a people. You are not human. Even if you choose to you only did so because it gave you personal benefit.