EVE New Citizens Q&A

It is really difficult to start out as a new player in EVE, especially when there are so many possibilities to find out.

At the same time, those possibilities can often take months of training, EACH.

While I understand a pilot can learn a lot about flying different ships while training, isn't it more time saving (and at the same cost) to just buy a character off the bazaar?

I did a little bit of calculation on my own: An account gains about 1.5m of SP every month for 1 month of subscription, which new players would probably have to pay cash for. To get the skills up so as to commandeer a cruiser/battlecruiser effectively, a pilot may need about 10m SP, that's about 6 months of training time.

If a new player like me is going to pay real dollars for the 6 months worth of game time cost already, wouldn't it make sense to buy PLEX with cash, convert them into ISK and purchase a character from the bazaar and start playing/enjoying the game effectively RIGHT AWAY?

EVE is about what you know, not your SP and unless you have some magical ability to soak up knowledge and experience instantly and without actually playing the game, you won't gain anything from buying a char with higher SP. You can do tons of stuff on lower sp just fine, pve, trading, exploration, pvp and many more things.

Apart from that, it's a clear case of "easy come, easy go" so if you get a char easy which you didn't train up and didn't make the choices for it'll just feel wrong and you're much more likely to just give up. I've bought a few chars over the years but it always just feels wrong and I'd rather start anew with a char name&looks that *I* chose following a path that *I* liked. In fact, this being my new main is testament to that. I've also sold a bunch of chars over the years and let me tell you that an alarming high percentage of them now seem inactive in npc corp.

In short; there is no "catching up" to do and you won't gain anything by "cheating" the system, stop whining and enjoy the game.

what i know about this game is out of sync with the rate of which the SP accumulates.

The option is yours; feel free to, people are buying and selling all the time. Now you know the caveats, so hopefully you'll get the character you want for a good price.

Actual player skill and experience combined with developing connections and relationships with other players are what allow you to succeed in Eve.

That said, it's your money and your game, so if you think getting right into stuff faster will be more fun for you, then go nuts. It won't,, however, make you a better player or "save you money" in the long run (or whatever it is you're trying to get at there).

I am going to pretend that this was a real post by a real newbie and not an alt post by someone who sells characters on the bazaar.

EVE is about the experience and not the skill points.

When I first started playing ages ago, I created an account and I got caught up in the whole I wouldn't ever catch up to those players who'd been playing for a year! Yep, it was that long ago. I allowed myself to get so distracted by it that I quit the game.

A few years later I was talking to some folk on a forum for another game and the subject of EVE came up. This time, my mind was in a better place, and I realized that you -can- catch up to more time-invested players by virtue of specialization.

So, I subscribed once more and I haven't looked back. I wish I could remember my original account details though. :)

To the OP, sure, a newbie could buy a character but it won't do them much good. They'll have a ton of skill points that they won't be able to use effectively or know how to use it. The way the skill points work gives new players time to acclimatize to the game and get used to things. They can learn things, try things out, and die.. a lot. No worries!

At some point, a player will have enough knowledge to be able to effectively use a different character. At that time, it might be worthwhile to purchase a character off of the bazaar. For any new player thinking about doing this my advice is simple: don't. Wait until you are totally comfortable with the game and know what you enjoy. If you find that, at that point, your character isn't sufficient for your desires then think about getting a new character. But, be aware that characters in the character bazaar are expensive for what you get. Most of the time they are really bad deals. The people selling characters are doing it for a profit (understandably so) so it is more beneficial to the seller.

Recently, I was chatting to my corp's senior PvP pilot about a terribly bad pilot in our corp. He's been in corp longer than I had, and I was asking why he was so bad at PvP.

Our senior PvP pilot said 'You know he bought his toon, right ?', and it all fell into place.

Dont buy toons until you know what you're doing. Its leads to being That Guy who loses 6 billion worth of jump freighter. Twice.

Cruisers and frigates just had the ever-loving hell buffed out of them. If you're a noob, be very very happy that the ships you can now fly make you terrifying.

lol ofc buying already delveloped char is better and heres is why

its true that you nees experience etc.,but why getting experience on low SP char when you can start getting exp on high SP one?if i start fresh char to learn pvp or whatever and you buy one with already 100M SP on it form start we will be same noobs - after 6 months we will have the same knowledge of the game and the difference will be that my char will have like 9 milion SP while yours will have 109 milion SP

tl,dr if you can afford it buy a char with SP on it , you can learn the game the same way you would if you started fresh - that is if you dont care about stupid stuff like name or emotional atachments

I will NEVER accept:

* A character that has a very shady history.
* A veteran character bought by a lazy newb.

if you have money to buy 100M sp char i doubt clone will be much of a problem amirite? thats why i said if you can afford it theres no reason not to