EVE General Discussion

I'm a new player to EVE and find it difficult to get much done, or to equip certain things due to lack of skillbooks, etc.

I finished the tutorial missions for the Caldari, and wanted to ask you, the players:

Where do I go now? I want a home base, but I don't want to risk joining a player corp, as I've seen them called. Where should I go? I plan to take all my belongings there and truly call it a home.

Any advice would be MUCH appreciated!

Frankly, the answer would be: go to an other game.

Eve is all about player generated content and player-player interactions. It's a sandbox, CCP just provides some terrible excuses for PVE content, the real game is what the players make of it- and this has made Eve so unique amongst all other MMOs (this and the single shard concept).
You cannot have your own base (POS= Player Owned Structure) as a member of a NPC corp, you will have to risk something in order to achieve something.
There are a lot of newbie friendly corps that will take care of you and teach you how to get stuff done (Eve Uni, Goons, Test, etc). Just talk to one of their recruiters and decide for yourself.


P.S. welcome to EVE

What Zeta said. Also,welcome to Eve! You can check-out any time you like,but you can never leave... -awesome guitar solo-

As has already been said. Try to find a suitable player corp asap (maybe check out EvE Uni, never been a member but they are recommend often for newer players). As for ressources I can recommend the following.

TEST alliance has a great newbie skillplan in their public wiki section: https://wiki.pleaseignore.com/wiki/Basic_30_day_Plan

als here is a great overview of all the possible things you can do in EvE: http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/
pick what you are interested in and research what skills and ship you would need for it.

Because in an MMO, I'd like to see other players, you know? Whenever I undock from my home station, the most other players I'll ever see is like, three. Max.

But I'll take up Garia and Zeta, and look for a large corp.

I tried Uni, but I can't even chat in their join channel, so I quickly stopped bothering with that.

RvB is PvP from what I've read, so noooooo thanks.

Once you figure out how to make some money (PI, Mining, Market trading, Mission running etc..) buy up a bunch of T1 frigs, join RvB (Red vs Blue) and lose them all in glorious fires.

The most important thing you can learn in EVE is that you will lose ships, and not to be afraid of losing ships.

The second most important thing is to only fly what you can afford to lose.

The third, specialise early. Everywhere you go you will run into players with years more experience and SP than you, experience will just come the more you play, but you can mitigate the SP advantage by focusing your skill training into specific ships, weapons and tanking type. eg. Caldari frigates, blasters and shield tanking. (The same principle applies to non PvP paths as well.)

Also, you could just look at the corp info and see where they are based at(usually HQ office is the same system where they do stuff), usually they will be running missions/doing some manufacturing all in 1 area. After spending some time in that system you will see if they are a fun bunch or not and see if you want to join them.

Ignore the losers who tell you to run missions to make money
and seek out other ways to make money.

Don't listen to a mission runner. They'll lure you into the isk/hr trap and narrow your mind down to stupidity and
irrelevant things like isk/hour or skill to a battleship to run lvl4s. Same goes for miners. Don't listen to them.
There are lots of these filthy creatures everywhere, pretending to help you,
but the only thing they'll do is ruin all your fun in the long run.

WHEN SOMEBODY TELLS YOU SOMETHING IS TOO DANGEROUS AND YOU'LL LOSE STUFF, IGNORE HIM !
YOU WILL ALWAYS LOSE THINGS ! IT'S NATURAL ! THIS GAME IS ABOUT SURVIVAL, NOT WINNING !

Try doing PI or trading. Trading is much more worth it than anything else,
if you learn how to buy low and sell high and you don't have to grind for hours to make money,
like those bozos who do it all day long and only think in isk/hour as if it was important.

Ninja salvaging (check youtube tutorials) is great for noobs too, although nowadays a "bit"
more dangerous than in the past.

Hell, if you like the thrill you can from wrecks that lay around, after battles. You just have to be careful about it,
because CCP made that a very hard noobish profession and everybody can shoot you for that.
But don't be afraid ... just be smart !


Another fun way to make money is finding friends who blow up other people and take their loot ...
quite a worthwhile venture, especially for a noob for whom a million ISK is a lot already.
And you don't risk getting spoiled or ruined by a carebear or whatever self entitled idiot.

I'm willing to accept you into my corp and teach you surviving and how to make money off of idiots.


Remember, though ... this game is not about the money. You need money, yes,
but you don't need more money than you need ... even if there are plenty of idiots playing
for nothing else than isk. They have no idea about all the fun in this game.



And there's three more good advises:

Stay away from corporations that do everything, but discourage pirating. Close minded morons.
As soon as somebody tells you that something is too dangerous and you'll die fast ... block him.
Don't fly what you can't afford to lose and don't autopilot, because i'll kill you for it.


Have fun. :)

Especially the self-righteous, carebear type.

Your Hot!