EVE New Citizens Q&A

Try a bunch of different things, find what you enjoy and do more of it.

Given what you've said, I'd strongly think about training for a Blackbird EW cruiser - to fit that, you'll get most of the skills you need for a Caracal/Drake for making spare cash in missions or ratting.

I'd strongly consider fitting up a bunch of cheap frigates and joining Faction Warfare - merlins or kestrels to start, then once you make some contacts and fly in some fleets, changing to EW frigs.

Once you've got the income to replace them, fit up some Blackbirds and start making a pain of yourself - but learn to stay aware and warp out when yellow-boxed, as EW cruisers arent very good at taking damage.

I wouldnt join a corp too quickly, as its easy to join a bad one, but certainly ask questions here and in help channels. Have a look at Eve-Uni, RvB and Brave Newbies.

Start by doing all the tutorials. Then try different things, and do more of what you enjoy.

Well.

1.) Start doing ALL tutorials. They give you sense of direction, some ships and skillbooks and fatten your wallet a bit.
1a.) Do the Sisters of EVE Epic Arc. This is kind of the "unofficial" tutorial epic arc and gets you an even bigger wallet.

2.) Dowload EVEHQ / EFT / EVEMON and plan on what ships you want to fly.

3.) Keep in mind, though people will love Ewar pilots, you aren't always needed in the fleet. Sometimes the fleet just asks for DPS grunts. Also, Ewar (specially the Caldari ECM boats) tend to get called primairy in fights. So I do suggest to not focus 100% on Ewar NOR black ops. The latter one because there aren't many black ops actions in EVE, they are there, but not as general as normal conventional PvP or Capital PvP.

4.) Find a corp that does what you like to do and that is active in your timezone.

5.) There is no real advancing, at least, not like the typical XP grinding MMO. Skills are trained in real time. So in time you will get more options (more ships to fly, more modules to use, etc.)

6.) Core skills are ALWAYS good to have, no matter what ship you fly, no matter what role you play. They WILL help.

7.) Communicate. Talk to people, hang out in public channels (from both corporations and personal capsuleers). While still in the NPC corp, talk in corp chat (NPC corps too have great pilots in them) and talk in local.

Rule 1 with EVE communication: It's like a mirror. Be nice and friendly and you can expect that the other side will react nice and friendly. Rage at someone and expect the same back. Whine about stuff and people will just laugh at you.

There are plenty of chat channels you can hang out in that provide a source of information if you ask for it. E-Uni's public channel for instance not to mention the endless amount of other New player friendly corps or personal chat channels. And most of them work on the ask and it shall be answered principle. So they won't drag you along, they won't feed you stuff while holding your hand. They will help you when you ask for help and after that continue playing the game the way they like.

TL:DR = Your questions are way to general. You are more or less asking how should I play EVE and that almost made me NOT post here.

1. so train for it. IN GENERAL, if you find the covops ship, it's T1 variant will also be used for screwing with people (note, this doesn't hold for the blops battleships, save for teh caldari scorpion) -- such as the blackbird and falcon/rook, or the Celestis and Lachesis/Arazu ... etc

2. I would have normally also said E-UNI, but there has been some crazy going on lately that is giving me pause. Brave Newbies seems like they're doing pretty well for themselves (or at least I haven't seen any whining from/about them yet)

3. get caldari skills then. HOWEVER, as you're Amarrian, I would suggest that you hold off on cross-training for at least your first month or so, being a rookie is hard enough as it is without watering down your core tanking / gunnery skills. This way you'll have a solid base of fitting and support skills to build off of, rather than struggling with 2 weapon platforms, tanking methodologies, etc.

I'm not saying you can't -- just that you'll find you progress more slowly overall til you have those core things trained (and, actually a fair number of them will cross over anyway).

4. Google and the forum search are your friends.

Source: http://rvbeve.com/forums/index.php/topic/13-rvb-rules-and-guidelines-please-read-first/

One thing you'll need to cope with is dealing with lots of conflicting advice, as everyone has different ideas.

I'd advise you against initially training for both Ammarr and Caladri ships, as your initial skill training is pretty irrelevant - for Caldari ewar/blops (ie Blackbird/Manticore), you arent going to be using the armour tanking or laser gunnery skills at all.

Later, sure - but initally, I'd go for shields, missiles and ECM, plus the usual 'core' fitting of Electronics and Engineering skills.

Where to begin?

Download and install the game?

ugh ... guess I wasn't clear enough. What I meant was that while OP is free to stop and pick up Caldari skills right now today, it's probably a bad idea since there is little that will overlap in the ways of armament and tank (amarr are lasers/drones* and armor tank, caldari are missiles/hybrids* and shield tank). As always, core skills (PG/CPU/other support skills/etc) are used by everyone.

*Note -- yes, some amarr boats use missiles, and some caldari boats use drones, but there's still not enough overlap here where a crosstrain would be easy as a young player.

Except for the person doing it, of course. It's quite funny for them.

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