EVE General Discussion

Screw it.

I'm just going to express my concerns and whatnot in this thread.

I expect Test trolls and their NPC corp alts to pay a visit. Hello to you. Cookies and milk on the counter. Enjoy your stay.

To the vets:

- Can someone please tell me which Alliances are Russian/EU/US? I told a recruiter of another corp today that I had some interest in trying to join Nulli Secunda and the guy told me that he had heard they were a mainly Russian alliance. I'm a country bumpkin from Georgia. There's no way for me fit into a Russian alliance and I do not want to waste my time applying to corps only to find this out.

- What...should...I...train for? I trained for SBs, found out I hate them as I cannot solo pvp in them. Yes, stupid me, should have done more research. I was just in a mad dash to fly something somewhat useful so that I could join a decent corp and have some fun. I can fly all Caldari Cruisers, Hawk, Manticore. Was training toward Caldari BSs then was told no, I should stick to cruisers and BCs for now. However most Corps I see recruiting want people who can fly the big boys. I don't see anyone asking for Ferox pilots. Just lay it on me. WTF should I train to be able to fit into some fleets and FINALLY enjoy this game? I'm sticking with it. Many noobs quit, but I'm sticking to it. Its difficult as I am not the most patient person, but I do like the game.

- Is there like, an EVE-O glossry? I am so sick and tired of feeling like I'm reading the menu as a Japanese restaurant when I'm reading some of these forum posts. To this day I do not have a tight grasp on WTH a cyno is. Jump bridge. WTH are these things? I Google, but all I really get are conversations ABOUT these things, nothing telling me exactly what they are really.

- Just be honest. It's all about who you know, right? Getting into Alliances is really just a popularity contest it seems. FOlks will post all of these requirements but let in day old toons because they know a guy who knows a guy who farted in the CEOs older sister's face in High school at a drunk party, he thought it was funny, so yeah, let him. in. That's cool but just say it vets. Stop telling us noobs that if we work real hard and skill up, we can be the bestest of the bestest! No. You have to either kiss the right butts, make your own, join some stupid ass forum like Reddit/SA or be funny on TS ( which I can do) in order to get into the big boy corps. Nothing wrong with that. Really. The ability to network in very imperative to progression. I just want you to admit it and stop making it seem like SP is really all that matters.

- Do ANY women play EVE? Seriously. Or are you guys paying your older sisters to jump on mic so you can get free ****?

- Is CCP like Blizzard in that they purposefully maintain imbalance in order to create a grind? In WoW Blizzard will purposefully make one class OP simply to push people to re-roll and regrind thus keep paying. Smart, but is currently biting them in the ass. I ask this because a few weeks ago, vets were harping at noobs like me about how great Drakes were. I recently just had a recruiter tell me, when I asked about his corps doctrine, that Drakes are pretty much useless. Wha-wha-what-da-F**K??? Soooo...I spent this time training this for....? (this kind of ties into my first point/question). Can he vets just tell it like it is, if it is this way. That we as noobs need to just keep our ear to the beat and train for the FOTM ships instead of training for what we want to fly. "Yeah man, train what you ENJOY flying" yet what I ENJOY flying isn't desired by any decent corps and therefore I'm relegated to playing by myself. I do not play an MMO to play solo.

- Should we read Mittani or EN24? As noobs. FOX (Mittani) or MSNBC (EN24)? We just want to know what's going on and who actually gives accurate information.

More to come as I think of more questions. I am tired from work.

Thank you in advance to those who choose to give thoughtful answers.

lol, 0 likes. You guys are literally resurrecting alts just to troll me.

I know I'm sexy but god-DAYUM son...

Train for T1 logistics (both shield/armor) and T1 combat cruisers, maybe BCs or T2 logistics and find a faction warfare corp. They're good training grounds for future nullsec pilots, and helps you learn the basics without getting too involved in 0.0.

0.0, Especially south eastern 0.0 is a melting pot. You will find both english speaking, and Russian speaking corps in many of the alliances in that area. If you want to apply to a corp, the recruitment forum is full of posts for English speaking corps.

It really isn't as hard to join one as you think it is. Be willing to hand over your full api, and be polite and honest about anything they ask and you will get in just fine.

Train for a Scimitar logistics ship, and you will never be left behind.. ever. Bubbler ships are also required on 90% of fleets, and you will want to be training destroyers 5 for the upcoming patch anyway. Other then that, focus on shield skills and core skills. Every alliance has a different doctrine, but if you have good core skills it is usually pretty easy to train into what ever ship they will want you to be in.

a Cyno is a portal that a ship opens up for capital ships to jump to. They can also be used by titans to bridge regular ships. (the titan becomes a stargate to the cyno portal)

Women do play eve.

If you want to get on fleets, don't train what you want to fly, train what is useful to the fleet. like logistics and bubblers. Learn to enjoy flying those ships, or whatever doctrine ships are called for. If you want to fly what you enjoy, look more towards FW and lowsec stuff.

All news is bias based on who wrote it, and 99% of it is propaganda. It is good to know what your enemy wants the public to know, just take it with a grain of salt.

You sir have managed to provide sound advice WHILE being a good lil puppy and attacking good ol Doobie for the Test-Team. Hopefully you are rewarded.

THANK YOU for the honesty.

See that fellow noobs? Stop listening to these sugar coaters telling you to train for what YOU like.

I'm not being sarcastic. I figured this was the case, I just needed some vets to finally fess up to this being the norm in EVE.

Fess up? Like its some great secret? Fleet doctrine requires consistent stats and roles, people stay at X range, X damage needs to be applied, etc.

Solo and small gang warfare is where you fly what you really enjoy, or you put together a doctrine that uses the ships you want to fly. Or you fly as a special snowflake and potentially damage the efficiency of the fleet or risk not getting reps (flying an armor ship in a shield fleet, etc).

Some alliances don't allow special snowflakes. I'm glad I'm not part of those alliances.

Li3 is recruiting, and they need owner-operators.

The goons that are still on our Jabber are extremely anxious to hear your good ideas on their forums, about how to improve their alliance and such.

INTERNAL TEST ALLIANCE CHAT LEAKS


That's about what I figured.

Have fun trying to get an alliance.

Is there like, a list of most often used fleet doctrines? That would really be helpful, as well as help the alliances as noobs would have a better idea as to what to train for, thus making for a larger pool of useful recruits.