EVE New Citizens Q&A

Rookie chat is a cess-pool (the "Help" channel is a bit better, or try the "E-UNI" channel).

1) AUR is Aurum and CCP has been giving out as part of a marketing promotion. You spend it at the NEX store. If you want more Aurum, then you convert a PLEX (worth 30 days of game time) into Aurum.

2) Slaves / Dancers / Medicines are flavor items. Some of them are used in construction out in null-sec (Scientists and Janitors?).

3) Redeem Items - used if you buy something from CCP (like a PLEX), Convert GTC is if you buy a game time card frrom a 3rd party seller like Shattered Crystal and you want to turn that GTC into a PLEX for use in-game. Petition button would be used to submit a petition (help request) to the GMs.

4) I never use the in-game map, go to DotLan's map instead (http://evemaps.dotlan.net).

5) Jita is the main trade hub, usually has way too many pilots in local. If you want to travel to Jita, set it as your destination and the auto-pilot will take you there, otherwise the autopilot will steer you around Jita using the other systems that surround it.

6) EVE's player population ranges from the angsty teen to the socially challenged adult. In general, the more people who are in the channel, the more trolls you'll run into. Don't bother trying to chat people up using the local channel in trade hubs and try to find channels that are well moderated by players / GMs.

Thank you! I've been playing this for about a month now and I really like this game. I just want to know so many things and when I google some of my questions I get links to sites where people are talking about stuff like it's common "civilian" non Eve playing knowledge.

Any other things people could tell me would be wonderful! I don't know much at all. Just stuff people have taken their time to teach me. Any particular skills that's best to focus on at first and hints.

Thank you, Thank you! ^.^


If you join a fleet can another new player complete missions with you so you both complete them at once?

and say I bought something for 1,000 isk in one region and in the market it's selling for 3,000 isk; can you go to the more pricey region to resell the item? (I've boughten many items I either can't use or have doubles, and triples of. ( I need my isk back because people in the low sec area sunk my ship. (Until I learned that low sec means, "Dangerous".)

No, you can only share the rewards for a mission. But if 2 pilots have the same mission from the same agent, they are still treated as two separate missions and both need to be completed separately. You will, however, receive the rewards both both missions and these can be shared.

Yes, Jita is on the avoid list by design. This was done because many new players had to pass through it on autopilot and got stuck in the system due to congestion. These days our hardware is beefy enough to handle Jita quite well (Jita is on a reinforced node 24/7 these days), but about 1.5 to 2 years ago Jita became unresponsive at peak times.

You will find the EVE New Citizens Q&A forum much more tolerant of questions, though there are still some here that call troll at the drop of a hat.

I've scanned the chat room and heard people talk and I think that auto pilot thing brings up another question. I have been told over and over "Do Not Auto-Pilot!" It's so hard not to though when you're new and still catching on and figuring out the best way to manuever your mouse, multi task the Eve windows and continue on to your destination. a bad habit I started. ;)

I'm assuming there is a way to point out certain people who are on auto-pilot, maybe it the speed of the ship around the star gate?

I'm hearing input by different players and it's ranging from, "Caldari sucks", "Caldari only sucks for (pew-pew) only" (I think I know that term now but I'm not positive ;) ), "Caldari does not suck since you can do 4 type damage" I chose Caldari as my playing character. Am I going to have problems, Are people just speaking about personal preference or is there some truth and reasoning to Caldari not being a good choice and I think it's, Minmatar? being a more preferred, race to choose?

I think I've learned that the missions are the way to make Isk when you're first learning. Is that the only "best" way to go about playing Eve right now to make isk and upgrade/train skills?

What kind of ships would you normally see a "noob" flying, I know it's something like..."Don't fly what you can't afford to lose"? But I suppose you don't want to er..."Pimp" out your Ibis, right?

Sometimes I find myself just riding aimlessly through space, running "shopping errands" to get items to fit my ship and it feel like I need to go to every Station on my overview within a 5 jump radius. Any suggestions?

I'm really bad at fitting ships. I've successfuly fitted a Kestrel. I get the fustrating "you can't use that because you need this skill" window popping up, I still don't know pricing and what's expensive. Some players will brag about how they made a billion isk and losing that much isn't a huge deal. To me; it seems like thats a whole lot of isk. (Not quite a question but something that confuses me.)

1) Auto piloting causes you to come out of warp 15km from the gate - so that you have to travel that last distance at normal power - which gives any gankers plenty of time to blow you up. It isn't that they can tell through some visual means that you are on Auto Pilot - they just assume that if you are approaching the gate from 15km's out - it is because you were auto piloting. If you manually warp to a gate - the default is to Warp To Zero - which puts you within the 2500 meters of the gate you need to be within in order to immediately jump. Thus, manually traveling from gate to gate - is both faster and safer. Now - if you're in a shuttle with an empty cargo hold traveling from place to place ... you are probably fine auto piloting as the ganker who blows you up - will lose his ship to Concord for doing so - thus, unless they're really bored (which does happen) they won't gank someone they can't make any money off of. Thus - the rule of thumb is - "Am I carrying something valuable enough that a ganker would be willing to lose his insured ship to blow me up - the ship in question being one powerful enough to destroy me with one broadside (Alpha)?"

2) Any race can do anything. In PVP, guns and armor tanking are more popular (guns hit instantly - missiles have to travel) but the Caldari have some very good ships - which anyone can fly who trains them. Caldari mostly shield tank - which is more popular for mission running - but you can run missions in anything. You'll see a lot of people who think they've figured out THE BEST way to do something and rag on anyone not doing things their way - but mostly they're jack asses.

3) Running missions is the most popular form of play in EVE. It pays poorly to start with but Level IV missions pay very well - so - the creed of the Mission Runners is - Get To Level IV As Fast As You Can. Going to fast can put you in hollow ships though - which you are the one who will have to pay for if you lose them. A hollow ship is one where you don't have the skills to properly fit or fly it.

4) You want to get out of that Rookie ship as fast as you can. Get your Factional Frigate Skills ( Caldari Frigate) up to III and you can fly a good combat ship - like the Kestrel or the Merlin. But - if you get into a Cormorrant, fit it with 5 150mm guns, kite the rats (get their agro and then turn away so that you kill them as they come ) using a good after burner - then all your level I missions will be cake. You don't need a Cruiser until you get to Level II's. The Caracal is an excellent ship for these missions. Make two fits - one with AML launchers to kill frigates and the other with heavy missiles if you have to fight a bunch of cruisers. The fitting tool will let you change fittings and save them by name so that, if all you stuff is in your Items Hangar, you can simply load that saved fitting rather than drag everything over there.

5) There is a Player Guide listed to the left part of the screen when you first come to this web site - go there and do searches on things you are interested in.

6) If the items in the market are scattered about ... you'll need to travel about to get them if you want to get them at low prices - UNLESS - you go to a trade hub. The Trade Hub for EVE is in Caldari Space at Jita. The Amarr Trade Hub is - the Amarr System, the Minmatar is Rens or Hek and the Gallente is Dodixie or Oursaleart (sp?).

7) There is a ships and modules forum as well as some fits in the User Guide plus a lot of other sources for fits.

8) You'll just have to get the skills you need to use things. There are certificates you can look at which serve to guide you as to what skills you might want trained but a lot of people, myself included don't use them.

For fits for your ship(s) have a look at Battleclinic

Or as a random "pick the top one" Kestrel

Also download and set up EFT
It allows you to put in your API so it ports your skills over to it. You can then fit ships using it and it will show you various useful stats as well as what is possible with all level 5 skills.
Handy if you are 0.5 power short, stick it on all level 5 skills, if it is still 0.5 power short short, you need a power module, or a different fit

There is also EveMon which is a skill planner, So you can get your fit in EFT, then port it over to EveMon and it will tell you what you need to fly it, how long it will take and how much it will cost you in skill books


For a one stop shop, then Jita is the one. Station 4 - 4 has everything you will need
There is also the Amarr system, plus a few other trade hubs that I forget the names of, sure someone will jump in soon enough with them

You may pay a bit more in a trade hub, but you will be able to buy most stuff in the one station.

No offense Taken, I think you are right. But what are some reasons I am having such a hard time with this mission? I'm sure it's something I've done wrong. I'm starting to wonder if I should even continue playing if I keep having trouble.

I think in this game peoples ideas and different knowledge adds to the benefits of asking almost all my questions. If you read the responses they are multiple but some of the questions have a different answer with each response and they are all right. Plus, I started out getting information on a website. Only to find out they were mocking Eve situations and making fun of noobs. I came back from that web site confused and confident with false information. BUT that's the internet. ;p


Goals? Good idea, I have to admit I have not made any.

A few tips on understanding the players in this game:

1) They tend to express themselves in extremes.

Every ship either is "awesome" or "sucks". Every weapon is the same way.

Note the above line - "every" - extreme expression. Not some, not many, not most - EVERY.

2) "That depends"

Actually a fact in this game. Most things in this game are good, bad, mediocre, decent... All based upon who is using it (SP), how it is being used, WHERE it is being used and against or towards whatever is being aimed at.

3) Common knowledge expressed as fact, is... common.

Note that "knowing" something is a tad different than actually ever having been involved in using, researching or testing of it.

Example: "Amarr drones SUCK!" - common knowledge. The number of players that will tell you about this is staggering. The number who have actually used them and measured them against how other drones perform in a variety of situations? A very small fraction of the former.

This game is exceedingly complex. A great deal of it won't ever be used/experienced by most players. As such, a great deal of "knowledge" in it is passed down as word-of-mouth and many younger chars really do want to fit in by expressing "commonly agreed upon" opinions. This tends to allow them to participate in conversations that they would often not be able to participate in. These younger players eventually end up as veterans but still hold to this same theme of "common knowledge".

As such "I've been playing 6 years and it's been the same... "so you use it?" "of course not!" - then 6 years of not using something doesn't mean it hasn't changed nor that what you "know" wasn't bunk back then, when you avoided using it because it was junk.

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So don't be overly surprised at how folks express things and take advice and information in but don't assume it's 100% factual. Try and base any decisions upon your experience in the game - not just "recommendations" but what you have done.