EVE New Citizens Q&A

You can do PvP whenever you want, some will argue you PvP as soon as you touch the market.

PvP with guns though is obviously what you're talking about, and it can be done when you feel like it, really.
How successfull youl be comes with experience (personal experience, not just the skillpoints)

Its all about being good at what you do, the more you PvP, the better youl be at it, regardless of your characters skillpoints.
Start out cheap, do it in frigates, missions etc arent supposed to be your "goal" in the game, its supposed to be a means to something else.
It gives you isk so you can PvP, for an example.

Join Red Vs Blue I hear they are a corp that has a main purpose of fighting each other.

As a new player I find myself a bit bored at times too, so I can understand your frustration. Especially as a new player, many of the "fun" things you see are out of your reach and probably months away!

I think the biggest culture shock when compared to other MMO's is the lack of structured competition. In other games there is a definitive "best" or definitive end-game and you can always compare your character to someone else.

In EVE it's all open-ended, leaving it to the player to create their own end-game. This leaves no true measuring stick in EVE since some players won't even care about what you've decided to pursue!

I would suggest you stop making new accounts though. Even if you have a hard time justifying the cost, EVE will seem much more boring if you keep starting over from scratch!

To the OP

Go have fun, it's a pvp game, accept loss it's just internet space pixles, Eve Uni is a good place to start if you want to play things safe, or hop stright into RvB, scan down mission runners, can flip miners or just head to the closest low sec system if you want some fun.

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Drac

In my young and innocent days in EVE, I ran around in a Condor fitted with a smartbomb, NOS, and a small shield booster. I could run the smartbomb continuously thanks to the NOS, and shield boost for quite a long time too.

The largest thing I took on was a drone hive. The drones were trivial, but the structure took quite some time with the smartbomb. (I think I got some low-level Overseer item from that, but it was so long ago that I'm uncertain.)

One day while ratting with my smartbomb, a Hulk pilot offered me his wrecks to loot, and shortly thereafter he offered to pay me for hauling. I got 7 million ISK for that job. It was the first significant amount of ISK I had earned.

Rather surprising I never got CONCORDed while using a smartbomb.

Lowsec and nullsec. Yes, at 2 days old: you don't need SP to survive; you just need player skill, and player skill is something you can acquire very rapidly through study and (reflected on) experience. If you don't feel up to engaging what you see in these areas, you still benefit from learning to avoid them - and you still enjoy the game more, from having to care about who's around you and where they are and what they may be doing and what they're in. And when you do suspect that your T1 frig or destroyer can take on something (best ships to fly in these areas at the start, for speed and agility rather than cheapness), do try: it's fun, it's the most fun to be had in this game, even when you explode.

You can do missions in low/null just as in highsec. For normal Empire corps in lowsec; for pirates (Angel Cartel, Sansha, etc.) in nullsec. There's also exploration, workin' in the market, PI, salvaging PvP wrecks, collecting drones that people leave at gates after combat, and 50mil drops from attacking targets that even a day-2 player in a PvP frig could kill (example of that).

These are also the likeliest places for you to run into people who are also engaged in the best fun to have in this game, who you might want to join. Here's a story: a player jumps into Providence, sets his medical clone to the local station, then starts making bookmarks by gates -- and then he's ganked! He loses his ship and then his pod. Docked in station with a fresh clone, he reads the killmail and sees that Sev7rance and others killed them, all of them supposed to be NRDS (not red don't shoot). So this player expresses his disapproval in local... so to speak, and in the ensuing discussion he's invited to join one of the involved corps

"Is boring" is a very relative term. What is boring for some people might be exciting for others. I would probably never sit in a mining ship, even if I got paid to do so. Some people enjoy mining, running missions, or killing NPCs, or making a trip around the universe - none of which I would consider particularly enjoyable.

I personally enjoy large-scale strategic combat. The actual fighting mechanics of EVE (F1F2F3) are quite simplistic, no matter what scale or ship type. The game is too unresponsive for frigate dogfighting to be anywhere comparable to actual spacesims. Therefore I play for the strategic aspect - capturing and defending space, countering fleet doctrines, keeping a favorable engagement position, setting up traps. Even fights which are won without firing a shot are enjoyable for me.

The takeout is, EVE offers probably more playstyles than any other MMO currently. You will very likely find something you will like. The key is to go out and try different things - if you will spin your ship in a hangar until you feel you're ready for something, you will never be ready. And go find friends and a corporation - everything is more enjoyable when you can do it with others.

Make believe you're 12 years old again with a few new G.I Joe toys and use that imagination.

You're doing it wrong. You start shooting, hope he dies before you do, and then start an argument or smack-talk with your target in local while you wait for combat to resolve.

For bonus points, see if you can get it to progress to a rap battle.

(Full disclosure, I do usually get bored pretty fast when engaging a BS in anything other than a Stealth Bomber. I'll generally establish that they _would_ die if I kept it up, say something like "tag, you're it" and then warp out to find a different target. Or when I was in null-sec and wanted them gone instead of just looking for a fight, "accidentally" "lose" my web so they could get back out the gate.)

This. Get into a PVP corp now and get out there on as many ops as you can. My corp will give you ships to go out with if you cant afford it. This game was starting to suck and get boring for me when i was solo and grinding mission in high sec. Then i got popped in low sec and the corp invited me to join. Then i got into my first real PvP engagement and thought my heart was gonna jump out of my chest.

This game is very addicting, provided you are actively seeking out other humans and trying to swiftly beat them....