EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I read up on this game, was playing wow, thought I'll give the trial of this a go. Created this dude and now have no clue what to do. I mean there realy is no hint really about creating a "class" for want of a better phrase. Am I a miner? A bounty hunter, pirate? WTH am I? Is there a website that gives me a "build" or advice on how to head toward the aforementioned classes? Have I already made an error with my race choice? This game looks so epic its devoured me like a black hole eating a cheese sandwich.

From the front page of EVE Online site: http://www.eveonline.com/sandbox/personality-analysis/

Don't know how useful it is though.

A very nice way of saying ganking. From what I have read the whole of Eve is Stranglethorn Vale.

Only on a Booty Bay fishing contest day :)

EvE is exactly what WoW is not, here you make your own story, instead of following a more or less predefined path.
If you can adapt to it, and are willing to learn, you'll have a blast.
Do what YOU want, not what somebody else says, THAT is the strength of EvE.

As a few-day-old newbie myself, I might as well mention what I'm doing. The game a lot to wrap your head around and the learning curve is pretty steep. I haven't even thought about joining a player corp yet. Right now I'm training for the Core Competency Basic cert and doing the Career Agent missions. The career agent missions give you a good idea of what you might like to do. They also give you a lot of room to fail in safe space while still learning how to fly and fight. If you accidentally get into low sec or null sec and don't have the ship for it, you're gone and you probably won't have the ISK to get back what you lost.

The only advice I have is don't feel like you have to rush. But maybe you're the type who likes to dive right in. I dunno.

The eve uni wiki has an article on the subject of isk-making specialization. Even if you don't know what direction to go in the long run, it can't hurt to try some of those things.

1. Drop anything you learned from WoW. Driving a car and flying a plane are totally different though both are transportation methods.

2. You can do what ever you want as it is. If you want to mine, go mine. If you want to pvp, go pvp. If you want to do "x", go do "x".

3. There are no classes. Anybody can train any skill in game. You just have to find what you like and then get better in it.

4. You are what ever you want and what ever reputation you make for yourself.

5. Race doesnt matter but you looks and where you start. The slight difference in skills is cross trained in less then one day.

6. There are no "classes". You can be a logi pilot (healer) on sunday and a DPS guy on monday (or even 10 minutes later).

7. Learn the golden rules (see link above) and run ALL tutorial (career) agents. They give you a small taste of what eve has to offer.

8. Look at the swift and bitter link for more info on what you CAN do. But remember, if you want something that is not listed there but poasible within the game, you CAN do that too.

9. Find a corp or group of players that you can play with. Player corps can make you stay with the game due too having a community to be part of. They can help with questions etc. If you dont want a corp (yet), there are plenty of people you can contact for help in game or through an evemail or these forums.

10. Forget about WoW as it's unlike EvE in a lot (as in a metric **** load) ways.

If you have questions, dont be affraid to shoot me an evemail.

Jp

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11. Try anything that sparks your interest. You cant say you hate something unless you tried it. Most people that come to eve have to wonder around to find their niche and then evolve into that.

Yes - major ganking everywhere - either have to live with it or not play.

Ah - didn't know that - thanks for the info.

Think in play styles, not so much in actions.

Solo or teamwork
small group or large alliances
pve, pvp or piracy
build or destroy
out in the open or sneaky
wealth or power (or both)

So if you like solo pve and have isk as a goal for now then your path will have certain options including missions, exploration and trading for instance. If you want teamwork pve then there's incursions or Wormhole life. Would you like solo piracy then there's many options for that. Would you like to be a sneaky ******* making long term plans to take down people who annoy you then there's many options for that. Perhaps you like the idea of "crafting" and people flying around in ships you built, perhaps you want to become an influential trader. It's all possible.

It takes a while to adapt from the attraction park MMO stuff we've all been force fed for years and fully realise the options you have in a true sandbox. The time in between (which is where you are now) will be filled with "wtf am I doing?". Just realise that it's a phase to go through, many folks never make that step and keep sticking to "must mine" or "must run lvl 4 missions" but if you make the mind leap (which isn't very difficult) to the next step you'll find that there's almost no limits other than your own effort and willingness to succeed. Per one of EVE's teaser videos, you could be leading massive pvp fleets into glorious battles if you have the aptitude for it, and it could be sooner than you think if you do it right.

So, pick a playstyle you'll want to be doing the next few weeks and adapt (if needed) to a new play style after that and then plan for a few months tops. As long as you don't know what you can do it makes no sense to make long term plans so keep it simple, read a lot and ask tons of questions (while realising that most ppl aren't as knowledgeable on EVE as they pretend to be).