EVE New Citizens Q&A

Ah...we are not alone. I feel what you guys / gals are saying. I am pushing 60 and just don't think I can cope with the voice comm of 10 children.

Their gameplay amounts to coming home, nukin' some ravioli, getting online and screaming obscenities until the guardian arrives.

It's like taking your ex-wife deer hinting...Total immersion breaker...

I don't doubt that average gamer of EVE might be in the mid 20s. I will agree that some adults are more childish than most first graders. I know of several, right of hand...

I'm just calling it like I see it with my grandchildren. I experience that first hand and leave the house when that crap starts. *pops beer*

BTW, this is my new alt. I created her to be a trader for Jesuis. I just wished she had blue hair.

Too bad we can't train them at the same time. What might be the obvious reason, that I am dumbfoundedly missing?

I agree, 99% of fleet comms are fantastic regardless of age... It's the general chit chat ones that get annoying so, especially for Team Speak, I'd sit in an empty room and anything major important is broadcast globally.. Especially when they start nattering about TANKS...

Staying on a theme of Stealth...I know this is a stupid Q, but the descriptions are unclear to me.

When a Stealth bonus says.. "x" % targeting delay after decloaking...

Is that the delay you remain cloaked after dropping out of cloak?
Is it the delay of how long you are able to target something?
OR...Is it how long of a delay for an enemy to target you after you drop out?

I hope I asked that right...

EDIT : For example, a Nemesis grants a role bonus -100% targeting delay after decloaking

This is the info I had hoped for. Me and the gang cannot thank you enough. That was well explained. Warping while cloaked...ohhhh, that's nasty.

Hi,
thanks for all your answers. This really gives envy to play this game and go deep into its mechanics. Community seems great.
I was mentioning solo play in initial post.... and although I plan to start solo, I plan to join a corporation at some point, when I know the game mechanics a bit more, later. That might not be best thing to do as I understand the best way to learn the game.... is trough a corporation ! Anyway I think i'll always want to keep my freedom and will do hybrid style of gameplay: engaging in game politics, probably a corp, but play solo some of the time.
I'm at the point where I KNOW political things and interactions are going on between players, but I don't have a clue what is going on, Who's who etc etc ! I never been to low sec zones. It's quite exiting to know there is a whole world of faction and politics to get into at some point.

I will not rush into things, and this is what I like about this game: lots to do, lots to learn.... you're not into a race to do things one after the other like in other MMORPG.

To come back to stealth: I downloaded evmon, and it's clear that I better choose my learning path in advance.
I'll develop mining until I can buy a covetor so I can make minimum cash on my own.
Then i'll develop stealth capabilities and see what I can do in exploration, salvaging in both PVE and PVP (when i'll joing corp - i like this stealth bomber thing).

Is there anyway to conduct exploring, finding things, solo without having to fight too strong NPCs for a single player ?

If you're doing it on your own you'll be better off in a Retriever - or maybe a Procurer, depending on how/where you intend to do it.

There are lots of reasons to play solo. For a start there is Real Life which may prevent one from joining a Corp because one doesn't know when they will be available to play.

So one looks at how to play Eve in the manner which is suits you. If I hadn't got a lot of Real Life time issues and responsibilities then I may well be in nullSec roaming with a mob but, instead, I have another character (they are all 'mains' as far as I am concerned; they just do three different roles) which does the solo wanderings.

I wouldn't/couldn't have it any other way.

What I like to do solo is lowsec exploration, specificly Radar and Magnometric sites. I usually go hunt for these using a cloaky covops, but you can do this in a low SP scanning frig too. It will be more risky, but since a T1 scan frig is pretty cheap a few ship losses here and there are no big deal. Since Radar and Magnometric signatures are far easier then any combat signature found in lowsec (in terms of combat), you won't need a faction-fitted Battlecruiser or a ton of friends to kill the rats.

That being said, while this works fine solo, being in a corp can help immensely. Imagine your friends keeping eyes on gates, passing you bookmarks they won't run themselves, or even act as a batphone you can call in when attacked. While solo exploration is great fun, there are a few stealth-related things that are more viable in a (small) group, like Stealth Bombers.

Hacking V = best chance for extraction
Salvaging V = best chance for extraction
Archeology V = best chance for extraction

Saying EVE is easier to grasp when other people play with you, doesn't mean joining one of the popular alliances with CTA, voicecom and all the fluff.

It just means you're not alone in the game and can interact with people.

The starter NPC corp does have a chat channel with hundreds of people that may or may not see you babbling there, you can learn starter tricks and more advanced ones too in there, a lot of people have alts in NPC corps for many different reasons, so there's both new players and experienced ones there.

Joining a corp doesn't mean you'll have to get on voicecom all the time, it takes some time, but finding a good corp is like looking for a job, you do some research and lookup the corp before you apply. There are corps out there that are laid back on coms and yet offer POS lab/new players programs/daily ops/etc. but you can still use text corp chat to talk with corpmates. Favor corps/alliances with a public channel, hang in a few of these, see who is frequenting them, lookup the people's corp history and engage casual chat or EVE-specific, you'll have an overview of the regular audience of the corp, if their online time matches yours... it can give you a pretty accurate picture of the corp before you even apply for it. Also shows a little bit about yourself to everyone in the channel, so it might even be some other corp that will invite you to join them.

Even then, you don't *need* to join a player corp. The major hassle of NPC corp is tax rate and godawful queues in high-sec research slots, other than that, yes you won't be able to set up POS or fly a capital ship (other than an orca or a freighter, though the orca isn't really a capital ship), but there's tons of people perfectly happy with it.

Joining a corp is *not* mandatory, it's a convenience, but there's just other people online that you can socialize with.