EVE New Citizens Q&A

My Question is to all the new players out there.

What do you find is the most difficult aspect of the game so far? What are you having a hard time doing and what do you want to do but dont know how?



When I first started I had a hard time with timers and still to this day I dont always remember all the timer lengths.

Honestly, I'd have to say the hardest part for me has always been focusing on a skill path. As a player, I could never seem to focus on one thing. Always excited about the next ship class...



Later I learned the value of picking a ship or two that I enjoyed and mastering them. Then new ones were created, and I couldn't help myself :P

I am a new player and the hardest thing for me is ship fitting. There are so many modules that even searching battleclinic does not seem to enlighten me. I feel that this is a steep learning curve.

I agree Battle Clinics is a niche website and half or more of those fittings are outdated or just plain crap. If your unsure of a fitting considering what you are using it for I like to link them in the help channel and you will get an assorment of responses some good some bad but every once in awhile someone will give you some good advice on your fitting. When in doubt link your fit in local and see what players say but be sure and tell them what you want to use it for.

The overview is a *****, I've played for 8 months-ish, still don't know how to work the damn thing.

Finding a corporation? You could always make one :P, like I did. Or keep looking for one that isn't a complete scam.
(Note: Mine isn't)

Ship fitting takes a little time. I suggest downloading Pyfa. Saves money and a lot of hassle

Pfft skill paths... TRAIN EVERYTHING! (To IV)
But really, specialization helps a bunch. But there is no limitation stating you need to. It just makes you more useful in the grand scheme.

This is by far my hardest difficulty so far.
I already have a few trading skills, industry skills, and combat skills trained, and it's only day 4. I've chosen PVP at this point, but I'm still not sure what race/ship path to go with. It all looks good from this end.

Also, I'd say finding a corporation, honestly. There's just so many out there, and being new it's hard to figure out which ones are good and which ones aren't. On top of that, I'm wanting to get into null sec, so it's been an enormous challenge trying to convince null sec corps that I'm worth training. So far it's been fruitless, but I'm not giving up.

If you want to get into null & PvP, look into the corps that are in alliance/coalitions with TEST and Goonswarm, they are the biggest entities out there and, while the same might not be true of their alliance mates, they both love noobies and run noob programs designed to get you into fights on your first day.

For those having fun with ship fittings Pyfa as mentioned is good, there is also Eve Fitting Tool which is a tool aimed primarily at ship fitting and EveHQ which is more of a swiss army knife tool that does everything.

For basic skills as a noobie you wouldn't go far wrong using The Newbie Skill Plan from Tippia, change out the racial specific skills for ones of your choice if you choose to do so

no I"m serious, even after getting a ton of presets and setting it up right it's a real pain once you go over about 40 ships total in a battle. the names are confusing until I can remember what class and function every ship has and there aren't any real fast ways to sort them outside of having a selection of 5 overview tabs ready. It gets easier with practice but important info still tends to get lost on the screen

the most difficult part of the game to me so far is that if I have the wrong overview pulled up all sorts of important things are suddenly completely invisible which sucks when you're trying to learn pvp and battle the interface at the same time. I'm not really complaining since I've been finding ways to work around it, but this topic was asking what was difficult

I too have a hard time finding focus and when its lost and I have that inevitable feeling of boredom I like to explore. The biggest mistake I believe I made was skilling missiles when I really wanted to PVP. I admit I did not do my homework when I first started skilling up and was more focued on making isk and working towards that LVL 4 mission boat but now I sort of regret it. Dont get me wrong missiles are viable but not so much in solo pvp encounters.

Then I discovered the industry aspect of the game so I grinded my standings and finally anchored my own small pos in a .07 system. I made a realtively cheap investment and bought some unresearched BPO's and started reserching them. They have started to finally generate a steady income and I am able to expand to shiny ships that I can afford to lose now. The only problem is I dont really want to leave my one man corp because my alts are skilled up high enough yet to fill the depleted research slots.

The one thing that still puzzles me is the wormholes exits and entrys Why cant they stay in the same place lol. I like scanning but having to scan everytime I want to go back to a wormhole. Explorring is something I am really enjoying at the moment. It especially helps if you have a cloaky scan boat I love jumping through multiple wormholes and trying to get lost I end up in some of the weirdest systems.

One thing I wish they would implement is a cloaky mining boat so I can mine in null and if someone pops up in system I just cloak up.

I've been playing for five and a half years now, but one thing that bothered me early on, and which still bothers me, is the difficulty of finding a station with a cloning facility (for skill clones) when I get podded or when I need to upgrade my clone. The interface for doign that is (at best) clunky and user-unfriendly.

A few days ago, I just bookmarked a station near one of the places I usually fly, so that I can shuttle there whenever I need to. But it's silly that the game doesn't make it easier to find stuff you need or want, and in the particular case of skill clones, it can mean that new players fail to upgrade skill capacity and so end up losing a lot of SP when podded which may then sour them on the game, causing an avoidable rage quit.