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Jak Flash
Gold Wings Of Eternity
Sober By Tuesday. Yes Mum
#1 - 2012-11-19 20:22:54 UTC
I've just recently re-upped my account and wondering what a player whose been away from the game for almost 4 years should do to get back in the swing of things. Started back in 2006 and have right about 12M skill points. Primarily have been playing Gallente Assault Frigates, Covert Ops & Battle Cruisers so my Drone skills are trained pretty well. Due to a wierd work schedule, a lot of my time will be soloing so I thought about checking out the new Exploration stuff and am currently training Astrometric skills. Right now I have approx $77M in credits and have a Heretic, Ishkur, Coercer, Retribution and Succubus in my hanger. Any advice on starting direction, ships, etc would be greatly appreciated!

Jak
Fractal Muse
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-11-19 20:34:01 UTC
Jak Flash wrote:
I've just recently re-upped my account and wondering what a player whose been away from the game for almost 4 years should do to get back in the swing of things. Started back in 2006 and have right about 12M skill points. Primarily have been playing Gallente Assault Frigates, Covert Ops & Battle Cruisers so my Drone skills are trained pretty well. Due to a wierd work schedule, a lot of my time will be soloing so I thought about checking out the new Exploration stuff and am currently training Astrometric skills. Right now I have approx $77M in credits and have a Heretic, Ishkur, Coercer, Retribution and Succubus in my hanger. Any advice on starting direction, ships, etc would be greatly appreciated!

Jak


Start explorations in high sec in a covert ops ship.

The helios will be a great ship for you to start in plus it has a drone bay! So that'll make high sec exploration easier.

If you cannot afford the helios or just want to get your feet wet start with an imicus.

Get yourself a core probe launcher and some core scanner probes.
You'll also want a codebreaker (for radar type sites - hacking skill), an analyzer (for magnetrometric sites - archeology skill), and a salvager for salvaging.

Do a quick search for some exploration guides if you want the extra help or just have at it.

And, finally, have fun! If you find that you don't like it, go do something else. As always, try to find a crew of people to fly with.
Tao Dolcino
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-11-19 21:14:20 UTC
If you like something new, exploration could even lead you to wormspace later.
There are corporations specialized in this kind of life, be it as roamer or inhabitant.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#4 - 2012-11-19 21:24:22 UTC
I'd do the tutorials for just a few days. They'll introduce you to a lot of things all across the board and help get you up to speed on what's new. I did that when I returned after being out 2 years, and I'm glad I did.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-11-19 23:36:35 UTC  |  Edited by: J'Poll
Khergit Deserters wrote:
I'd do the tutorials for just a few days. They'll introduce you to a lot of things all across the board and help get you up to speed on what's new. I did that when I returned after being out 2 years, and I'm glad I did.


This.

Not only do they show you the User Interface, they will give your old rusty game skills some lubrication to get you started again.

Just make a new character on your account or start a trial to do them again...

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Ovv Topik
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2012-11-20 12:56:34 UTC
Also, There's lot of rebalancing including the scanning frigates about to change with Retribution :

http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=73572

Dec 4th

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Lyric Lahnder
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-11-20 14:54:24 UTC
Jak Flash wrote:
I've just recently re-upped my account and wondering what a player whose been away from the game for almost 4 years should do to get back in the swing of things. Started back in 2006 and have right about 12M skill points. Primarily have been playing Gallente Assault Frigates, Covert Ops & Battle Cruisers so my Drone skills are trained pretty well. Due to a wierd work schedule, a lot of my time will be soloing so I thought about checking out the new Exploration stuff and am currently training Astrometric skills. Right now I have approx $77M in credits and have a Heretic, Ishkur, Coercer, Retribution and Succubus in my hanger. Any advice on starting direction, ships, etc would be greatly appreciated!

Jak


Your character seems pretty heavily pvp focused considering you fly assault ships and a bubbler.

If you would like to get back into pvp, theres actually some schools you can attend.

Red vs Blue, for the bare bones basics of fleet combat,

And if you want to learn how to knock around null sec you can attend Agony Unleashed or our School:
Noir. Academy

Retribution is taking tons of hulls that had no purpose in the game and is making them relevant again.
You picked the absolute perfect time to return to eve.

Welcome back.

Noir. and Noir Academy are recruiting apply at www.noirmercs.com I Noir Academy: 60 days old must be able to fly at least one tech II frigate. I Noir. Recruits: 4:1 k/d ratio and can fly tech II cruisers.