EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I'm new to this whole Eve game. Been playing for less than a week and a bit confused on what to skill up. I was wanting to a miner, but I also want to blow things up. My two ships that I mostly use for missions amd such are the Venture and Catalyst (i think thats what its called). Anyway just looking to see what any of you more knowledgable players would suggest. Any help is greatly appreciated. Heres a link to my character sheet.

http://eveboard.com/pilot/Callie_Bigguns

You really can't do 2 things at one effectively on one character, so I suggest doing and trying everything you can for a month, then figure out what you want to specialize in, and how you'll survive in eve doing it. Best of luck on your endeavors. o/

Depends on your refining skills (Refining, Refinery Efficiency and the ore-specific processing skill) and the standing you have with the corp that owns the station you refine at. If you can refine at near-100% efficiency, then probably minerals. Otherwise likely the ore.

Do a bit of maths, it's not hard to calculate.

A few things for you to realise:

- you don't HAVE to mine, if you genuinely like the idea then sure but if it's some sort of "well this sounds easy, lets stick to that" you're selling yourself short

- production, on the whole, isn't really that profitable, this has to do with many factors two of which are that you're have trouble competing with others who've scaled up production so much their costs are very low and people being willing to sell at or below production cost. So if your idea is to get into production and "thus" you get into mining now, reconsider. Also you don't have to mine if you want to do production

- join an active, proper corp with goals but be wary about corps who leech off of you. Most ore buy programs are neatly in favour of the corp/ceo, sometimes it's just 5% but more often than not it's 15-20% and they'll give you some bogus reasoning for it. Don't fall for it

- this is a GAME so choose stuff to do that's FUN, don't choose stuff that smells like it's actual work or is tedious. Not saying you shouldn't put in effort, you clearly should, but it's "better" to put your braincells to work than to fall back on manual and repetitive labour. You don't have to grind in EVE, it's just one of the choices.

You CAN do multiple things effectively on the same character, just train the skills for them.

Right now, since you're still getting used to the game, train whatever you think looks interesting to level 2 or so. Doesn't take much time, a few hours, and opening up skills like that gives you the ability to try things out. You can "specialize" later, once you decide to go for the long haul and train advanced ships and skills to 5, that's what takes time.

Incidentally, skills can be grouped into several broad categories (you can see them on the market):

- Ship skills - these unlock new ships for you; look under Spaceship Command.

- Weapon skills - these unlock the weapons that your chosen ships use; you first have to look at the ship to figure out what weapons (hybrids, missiles, drones, lasers, projectiles, what?) it uses, and then train the appropriate skills from Gunnery, Missiles, or Drones.

- Support skills - found under Engineering, Electronics, Navigation, Mechanic, and one or two under Science, these make ALL your ships fly better. If the skill says something about targeting, shields, armor, hull, capacitor, repair rate, speed, agility, resistances, train it.

- Utility / Industry skills - these make your life easier; training a few Trade skills to 2 or 3 opens up much more slots on the market for your sell or buy orders, training Social skills make your agent rewards better, mining, refining you can strap a laser on a ship and make some money if you're otherwise bored of everything else, etc.

Whether you're industry or combat, any pilot needs the following:

- The ability to fly an industrial hauler ship. EVE has a lot of junk that needs to be moved all over the place. Your ships, loot you get, minerals to market to sell, every pilot needs a hauler.

- The ability to put up more buy/sell orders by training up the skills Trade and Retail.

- Engineering and Electronics are two skills (each in their respective category) that actually limit what you can put on your ship, and should be trained to 4 - 5 as soon as you can afford to.

Yes and No

Cause we also have Red Frog / PUSH.

Come on, she's not going to Red Frog every 1500 m3 of junk she loots from missions every 3 hours.

Pick up the skills to fly a venture to begin with, there a pretty easy ship to fit!

Highs

2 x Mining Laser (Higher the meta level the better)
1x Salvager if your mining with someone who can take care of NPC rats.

Mids
Medium shield extender
Afterburner
Webbifier to help kill rats

Lows
Mining laser upgrade module

This should be able to fill a ORE hold in about 10-15 mins. You can also fit mining drones / combat drones if need be to increase your yeild per cycle or help take down the rats.

This will give you the choice of going mining if you want whilst your skills are training.

Get the following to level IV
You races frigate to IV
Spaceship Command Level IV
Electronics level IV
Engineering Level IV
Mining Frigate Level III (if your flying your venture around)


Just as a starter, a few days training which will not be wasted.

Keep in mind that there are a lot more skills and equipment that can be applied to combat than mining, so in the long run combat has the potential to make far more with a single account.

Or you can just afk mine while playing dust like the above poster

I found it more effective to use a tractor beam so that I could reel in the rats my drones killed and loot them. No survey scanner? The webber doesn't help a scout drone kill rats enough to bother.Electronics, Engineering, and Drones are all worth getting to V. Drones V unlocks a lot, and Electronics and Engineering are major fitting skills. Racial Frigate is such a huge skill for a frigate pilot, too. Most important thing though is to get every skill in the Core skills trained to at least I or II ASAP. All those 5% bonuses add up really fast.