EVE New Citizens Q&A

Heh now you're talking

1st up have you worked your way through the tutorials? If you haven't, it's highly recommended, they cover many aspects of Eve, and they give you free ships and skill books.
2nd, if you have done the above, was there anything in there that you particularly enjoyed? If there was, pursue it, all play styles in Eve are valid. Do the SoE epic arc, it's a long chain of missions, a couple of which are quite challenging and may require help. The isk at the end of it is about 13 million total, there is however a substantial standings (reputation) boost as well.

Exploration can be extremely profitable and can eventually lead to wormhole life which in itself can cover everything from mining to PvP.

Mission running can also make isk at a fairly decent rate, but it'll take a few months to get to the stage where it does. I personally mainly do this, playing a couple of hours a day running level 4 missions I pay my sub using ingame cash (note, it took several months to get to this position).

Mining makes a steady income of between 5 and 10 million an hour with reasonable skills, you can even AFK it but if you do, don't be surprised when your ship explodes, even in highsec. Tip, you get a really good free ship to do this in from one of the tutorials, the Venture, not only is it a good miner, if you get creative with the fit you can use it's innocent looks and original purpose to sucker people with

Industry covers many things, for example you can do planetary interaction (PI) for materials which gives a low but steady income, it's normally a secondary activity that requires minimal time investment, you can also produce ships and ammo, but to do so requires an investment in Blueprints.

Trading can be extremely profitable, however it takes research, both in and out of game to become successful at it, if you don't already know how to use and make advanced spreadsheets, be prepared to learn. Tip, people are lazy, some won't go 2-5 jumps to buy or sell their stuff, take advantage of them, buy low, move it a short distance, sell high.

Mining and mission running are what most people do when they start, it's a good way to raise isk in the beginning and that income gives you the opportunity to dabble in other things.

The best tip I can give you is try everything you can, find something you enjoy, then team up with like minded people. if you get bored with it, not a problem, you're not stuck in any particular "class" in Eve, you can train for anything, including another races ships and weapons.

And finaly, nope you don't need 400 alts, you have 3 character slots, you can use them to specialise, but you can only train one character at a time. A lot of us manage just fine with one account with 1 main character and 2 specialised alts.

Certificates are suggestions, they are there to guide you but don't have to be taken literally, unless your referring to skills which are totally different.

I can fly a battleship, I've only just started to do so and I've been playing for close on four years, however I can fly pretty much any races ships that are sub battleship with decent weapons skills as well.

Don't fall into the trap that bigger is better, and don't try to get into a battleship too soon.

I've spent the best part of 2 years flying battlecruisers in lowsec, wormholes and hisec, I still fly battlecruisers to this day because I prefer them over my battleship. Just because you can sit in a battleship and undock does not mean that you can fly it, if you get into a battleship without the necessary support skills in both tank and firepower, you will be sorely disappointed, they're slow, unwieldy and can't hit or track small and fast moving targets for toffee. They're also quite an investment isk and skill wise. Use the smaller cheaper ships to hone your tactics and to learn about fitting and game mechanics, you'll be glad you did when you eventually buy your first battleship, and it doesn't explode on you. It's the first rule of Eve, never undock in something you can't afford to lose.

Eve isn't about instant gratification, if you're playing Eve with that misconception you're in for a shock. Eve is about the long haul, there is no levelling up, there is no endgame apart from the one you create for yourself.

Have fun in the smaller ships, they're much more agile, engaging and can be very satisfying to use. There are people that have been playing for 8 or more years who have never flown anything bigger than a cruiser, they've specialised in certain techniques and ships, they've become very very skilled at using those ships and often take on other players in much bigger ships, and win. The ship is only the handle of the knife, the players skills and knowledge of the ships capabilities are the blade, and some blades are sharper than others.

OK, level 5 missions are in lowsec, you will get hunted down and attacked by other players, and the NPC police will not punish them for it. You will die, repeatedly, but you'll have fun doing it and get some good fights with other players.

Corporation wise, you're an Amarr character, so you'll probably be using lasers which are generally only useful in Amarr/Ammatar space because of the damage they do (EM and Thermal) you can use missiles as well, I believe there's a couple of Amarr ships that use them, so that cuts your choice down a lot. I'm not familiar with Amarr corporations, [roleplay]as a Minmatar character you're all dirty slavers to me so I don't run missions for them[/roleplay] therefore I'll let someone else answer that one.

i recomend running missions with amarr navy or sarum family in the Zemont constalation, a good selection of low to high agents there very close to each other with decent quality also, Youl is a great place to start if you wnat standings with amarr navy, a good selection of lvl 1 and 2 agents so you can grab missions from all of the agents and runt hem one after th etoher and come abck for a lump some LP and standing gain.

Join Factional War, do some plexes, get Loyalty Points for them.

Go and buy data cores with the Loyalty Points from the Loyalty Point shop.

Sell the datacores in Jita.

You can make easy money (say about 10 million per plex) as a beginner doing this.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2438500#post2438500

If you shoot other faction npcs your standing will go down, I'd go into it but to tired. Many things have guide and can be found with a simple google search. Faction warfare will also kill you standing. I would suggest you join a corp many will help in getting into new corps and Isk making.

No, not at all



I wouldn't recommend this to start (and no, I'm not discouraging you because I make ships)

Ships sound all cool to make. Building spaceships!!. Everyone wants to do that.
The problem is they are high cost items (compare ship material requirements to modules/ammo), they are low demand relatively speaking (compare number of ships sold a day to the number of units of ammo) and they are low margin items where you're competing directly with older players who have perfect manufacturing skills and very well researched blueprints

The general advice for those wanting to get into manufacturing is ammo. It's sold in huge quantities daily, the blueprints don't require much research and the mineral requirements are low.

The only "right" way to play EVE is the way you enjoy playing it.

You only need lots of ISK if you plan to fly expensive stuff. Cheap T1 frigates with cheap T1 fittings are cheap. If your ship goes boom, most of the loss is returned to you as insurance.

No, you do not need 400 alts to make ISK. One good high sec mission running can generate 30 million ISK an hour. If you want to mine, assuming you join a player corporation that can provide support (orca/rorq boosts and hauling) one mining toon can generate 20 million ISK an hour. Alts help... but are not required.

Ship building... Grind standing, put up a POS, pay 100 million ISK a month to run the small POS, buy the blue print original, research it to a high material level... OR, but an already researched BPO off contracts. Get manufactring skills, get minerals (buy, mine). Build. But, if you are only going to build enough ships for your own use, probably better to buy. If you are building to sell, be prepared for a tiny profit margin per.



How to build an empire: 1) tutorials, train skills and join a new player friendly corp. 2) Learn all you can from reading, doing, listening,talking with others 3) When you've been around a few months, active enough to prove you are not a spy, then get into a null sec corp. Make friends. See and be seen participating. 4) Develop skills (game sp but also skills at playing the game) that people want/need. Have no life other than EVE, start your own corp, grow your corp, making sure you attract other good people, while doing your best to avoid letting in griefers, spies, jerks. 5) Move your corp to null, becoming a petty lord in the feudal structure that is EVE. Continue to grow your corp through a combination of having no life other than EVE, and always doing things for others. 6) Expand your corp into an alliance by bringing in other corps that are big, and run by people with no life other than EVE. 7) Become big enough that the kings of 0.0 take notice and let you take over a big chunk of their space, paying tribute the them for the right to own the space, of course.

You don't need any alts or extra accounts at all.
I have no alts and have enough isk, generally, for the things i want to do.

As has already been mentioned, if you mission for just 1 faction for long enough, 2 others eventually start to dislike you.
Join a militia (FW), and it takes no time at all. Instant hatred is yours for free.



Odd how people always seem to forget to mention that last part when they encourage people to join FW.

Well, you could clearly see that Standing hit happen if you did some research on FW and the background behind the 4 empires.