EVE New Citizens Q&A

I would suggest that you keep your character. No reason to start a new one. Do all the tutorials, they have been much improved since 2004. Read up on the latest patch notes too. Npc ai has been changed...

restarting won't do anything so don't do it unless you have other reasons (not liking the name or you being OCD about the difference in char and and SP for instance). What you can do best is take it from the start though. So go do the career tutorials again, start flyign cheapo frigates again and slowly build up your experience. Take baby steps, if you haven't played in years then jumping into a BC or BS right away will probably end in tears.

You can do the tutorial agents once for each bloodline, so you could theoretically do them 12 times. Although we'd theoretically ask you "why?" The 10th mission in each arc gives a decent bump in standings with the faction involved.

A good starting place is:
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Tutorial_and_Career_Agents_in_Eve

Finish the training for the Tengu as it is considered to be one of the best all-in-one explorer.

Welcome back! o7

You might want to start a new char just to do the tutorials. Or redo the tutorials on your old char. I did the same thing you did. I started this game a long time ago and then came back but I couldn't remember a lot so I just went and redid the starting tutorial missions and they re-familiarized me with how the game works.

If you buy a PLEX, you are using in game currency for it.

If you buy the time from the EVE Online site you are using real money.

You can also use ISK for 60 day timecodes in the timecode bazaar. These usually sell for less than two PLEX purchases in game. So if PLEX are selling for an average of 550 million ISK (which they have been recently) then you shouldn't pay more than a billion ISK for a 60 day timecode (preferably you'd buy a timecode at 950 million or even 900).

There is no way to buy a lifetime subscription but there are different subscription payment periods (up to a year) that offer a lower pricepoint for the longer duration periods.

The power of two is a great deal if you are planning on having two accounts. At the end of the power of two promotional period you will be paying for two separate accounts at the regular price.

At the end of the day, how you pay for EVE is up to you. You can use real money earned in real time or you can use game money earned in real time. If you have a lot of extra time to play EVE and make ISK then paying with in-game currency makes sense.

If you don't have a lot of time to play EVE then pay with real money. The choice is your's. Personally, I never advocate paying with ISK if you wind up feeling like you are 'working' for your gametime in the game. EVE is a game. It's meant to be fun and not to feel like work.

My apologies, I was thinking about buying the PLEX via in the in-game market for the purpose of obtaining game time.

You can buy PLEX from CCP and sell it in the game market to obtain ISK for yourself. You pay the premium (5 eur in this case) to be able to sell the time to another player inside the game for ISK.

There are also timecodes that you can buy with real money and sell for ISK in the timecode bazaar subforum.

But, when you buy time from CCP directly you cannot sell that for ISK. That's game time for yourself.