EVE New Citizens Q&A

This will be my second day in Eve, I learned about this Universe through DUST 514. There is so much to learn, but I'm looking forward to it!

My question is PLEX, I figured it was like DUST and purchased 2 PLEX to sell for isk hoping I could have start off with some funds in my pocket. My problem is, I can't sell them, it's telling me I need to pay 6 million isk per PLEX. What should I do? Just accept missions till I have that? How long does it take to earn 5 million for a new player?

Heya Aedesius! Welcome to the game :D Here is your complimentary cookie and rookie ship! May I refer you to my guide if you are interested in learning more about the game? A prior warning, it's a bit of a read :P

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=121691311

What you ar etalking about is the market/broker fee. Similar to Ebay, the EVE market takes a portion of your sale. If you are selling an item that costs a lot you are going to have to pay more for the sale.

It depends on what you do, you could ask around to join in on any level 4 missions people are running and you will have that cash in no time (providing they share their funds) or you could continue doing the tutorial missions, collect the free ships you are given and sell them or alternatively find a nice person (like me) to lend you the money until you can pay it back once the sales have gone through!

Note: I'd be happy to lend you the money.

Newbies plexing, tha naïvité :p (don't take this to be offensive it's not, you have no reason to know any better)

My advice is this:
Those plexes, redeem them for game time, don't bother with them for at least for more months, there's no way you should be flying anything worth more than 100mill before that time. (Honestly I'd go so far as to say to not even plex in the first year)
Moreover, if you just plex your account you're going to be losing millions of isk to learn key lessons which you would normally only lose some hundreds fo thousands of isk on.

Also get familiar with the market before attempting to sell anything over 5 million.

And once you do decide to sell plexes, get those plexes bound to your character when you are in jita, so you don't have to sell it a lot cheaper than you have to in an out of the way station. Because moving plexes in a ship is a very very bad idea.


Edit: fixed my atrocious spelling (I blame my phone)

( insert bitter vet voice ) Back in my day we didnt have plex to blow for huge amounts of ISK, infact we mined for hours for our first frigate and ran level 1 missions in our rookie ships, we had to painstakingly get our first bits of gear or use stuff salvaged from the cans of our enemys, took me a full day to get into my first frigate and it felt good to ahve passed that first hurdle, you youngins get ships modules and skills thrown at you now and now have plex to amass rediculus amounts of isk for you to squander on skilling into sitting in a battleshp befoe you can fly in a matter of weeks.
back in my day battleships were a rare sight and took you ages to amass the wealth to even sit in one of them.


(now without the bitter old vet voice)

on a more serius note welcome to EVE ^_^ you have a myrid amount of ways to make 6 mill like mission running as you said, there is also mining and industry, day trading, and many any more, but in all honesty i would hold onto those plex cards for now, you have no need for that amount of cash at the moment and you may want to a bit later use them for extra game time or keep them in reserve, what useualy happens is when someone gets all that cash is they race to the biggest most expensive things they can find before they have an understanding of what they do and find they are loseing expensive ships that are poorly fitted and sueualy used for a compleatly differnt purpose than what the ship was intended,

on another note DO NOT MOVE PLEX IN SHIPS, you will lose them in ships, people will not hesitate to suicide gank you for them especuly while your still flying less resiliant ships.

Great guide, kudos.
Although, hybrid ammo only do thermal/kinetic damage.

To put it explicitly -- people can scan your ship. They can see what you're carrying. They can choose to attack you, even when you are in "safe" space (no such thing really exists).

They will get blown up by the police, but will consider it worth it if they get a billion isk worth of PLEX.

Noooooo they have a huge queue and teach you to be risk averse.

We teach people what they want to learn, and what they need to know to be successful EVE. Feel free to point to where we are being 'risk averse' though, Mr NPC corp.

And our "huge queue" is actually pretty short, considering the amount of work that goes on by our volunteer recruitment staff.

As a non-dustie, is there a DUST514 equivalent to the clueless guy in a faction-fit battleship they don't know how to fly effectively?

So.. no analog for a skill-less and entitled loot pinata in DUST?