EVE General Discussion

First, welcome to EVE. You won't find a better game in existence.
2nd, You should try a group like EVE University, they are there to help teach new players all about EVE.
http://www.eveuniversity.org/about/
Great group ^^

Unless you have a lot of time, I suggest joining a corp with at least 50 people. That way the corp is well established and there is some leadership.


If you have lots of time there are tons of new corps looking for people. Unfortunately these small corps suck cause no one is ever on.

How to find the corp that is right for you.

Join a corp when YOU feel ready for it, but i would advice you against waiting for to long since EVE can feel very lonely unless you find someone you feel a bit closer to and can chat/play with on a regular basis.

Good luck

Best to learn the game from players. What you learn on your own will only confuse you. You don't have to join a corp right away but it is advisable, and you should at least be hanging out with players right from the get go. Also seek people who encourage you to aim high early on, don't listen to people who tell you you need to train for (a month/3 months/a year--stories vary here) to be viable. It's not true at all. You can be flying in PVP and insta-tackling on your first day, scoring some nice kills if you find the right people to fly with.

You don't seem like one who would fall for the corps who ask for ISK or assets upon entry, but then again there are actually a few who provide a real service they might want you to pay for. You'll be able to hear people outside those groups talk them up, and they're far cheaper than the scammers anyway. Goonswarm will try to scam you, don't bother trying to join them because they only accept people from Something Awful. EVE University might charge you money but they provide an excellent learning service to new people, so I highly recommend it if you can get into that. I think they also offer some payment plans for new players who can't afford it.

But you can just find a player corp by asking for one in the recruitment forum. You're bound to get a better result if you post an advertisement and tell what you're looking for in a corp and what you have to offer, and check responses for addressing your points and asking you to join (no charge). You may not get in a wonderful group, but you're bound to get into a sincere group, and you can figure out who's your favorites later on down the road once you get to know a bit about EVE politics and stuff. But you should probably let a recruiter come to you, because then wherever you go you'll be wanted. It's up to you though--you could just sift through recruitment spam and look for one suiting your wants/needs.

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1.) You can do PVP early on. There is a wide array of frigates to choose from, so try all of your race's frigates at least once. Within your first few months (and before you form any sort of long term training plan) you should be trying out other races' frigates. You might even try all the cruisers before you make a race choice, or at least don't train Minmatar Cruiser to 5 only to discover that you don't like Minmatar cruisers. Always try it before you train it-get minimum skills and see if you like it.

One of my personal favorite ships is the Navitas, a Gallente frigate.

2.) Get all the skills you need to be able to use pretty much every tech 1 module, weapon, drone on the market. You will often be fitting quite an array of different things to one ship. Tech 1 modules are quite viable in fleet combat, in fact tech 2 (the most commonly used) aren't much better than tech 1 meta variants. Go to a station that's named as a school (ie. Center for Advanced Studies School, Pator University School) and then go on the market and check for skillbooks. You can probably find lots of very cheap books that will be excellent to inject and train to level 1 or 2 as soon as possible. This is much better than spending your first week trying to train your racial frigate skill to 5 just to be able to sit in something you don't have the skills to pilot properly nor the money to buy.

3.) Basic fitting rules - follow them and avoid getting laughable deaths on your record.

• Don't use armor repairers or shield boosters in PVP. These are generally best used in PVE against NPC "rats". (this does not apply to remote armor repairers and shield/energy transfer modules)
• Fit a strong tank in PVP. Get the biggest armor plate -or- shield extender you can fit without downgrading your weapons. Then fit hardeners/amplifiers/membranes intelligenty ie. cover the lowest resistances first.
• Do not mix tank types. Choose armor, or choose shield. The only time you might ever mix tanking strategies is shipping in high-security space to protect yourself from suicide ganks-I do this with industrials sometimes.
• Use the biggest guns your ship is designed for. For frigates or destroyers, that means you go to the market and choose turrets in the category "small" - and the biggest turrets for you are Small Beam/Pulse Laser, 150mm Railgun, Light Neutron Blaster, 200mm Autocannon, and 280mm Artillery. There are uses for smaller stuff but it's mostly to save powergrid and in my experience you can generally fit the biggest ones on your ship. This is desirable because it does more for your damage output than any damage upgrade modules you might fit.
• PVP shield tanks: fit weapon damage upgrades and tracking enhancers in any extra low slots.
• PVP armor tanks: fit warp disruptor/scrambler, stasis webifier, target painter, sensor booster, tracking computer in extra medium slots - try to get a good mix rather than several of the same.
• Extra high slots on a PVP fit - example: you are flying a Rifter and you fit three 200mm Autocannons to it, now you have 1 remaining high slot and a launcher hard point. You can fit a rocket launcher if you want, but it is usually better to fit an energy neutralizer if you can spare the powergrid. As the Rifter has bonus to projectile weapons, the 4th high slot is called a "utility high" - you can do whatever you want with it, there is no need to fit a weapon there.

Hey man, welcome to EVE.

Join a corp now or later? I wouldn't take anyone's advice on that question. Do what feels right to you. There's something organic too about being out there, doing your own thing, and running into some people on your own that you'd want to fly with.

EVE University was mentioned, that's where I started myself, so I've got a soft spot for Unistas. I'd suggest you check out my own crew of scrappy sandbox-playing space-nerds as well, Brave Newbies. We dig new players and are a big corporation where you'll be able to find people that share your own interests. Fee free to hang out with us at http://www.reddit.com/r/Bravenewbies and see what you think.

Off topic but I really like your character portrait. Turned out pretty good and looks more unique than most others of the same race.

There are a few things to think about, but what I want to say first is this. Avoid corps that say they are 'new player friendly'. They may think they are, but sooner or later you will realise that they're just for gaining corp tax from mission running without giving you much in return. There are true new player friendly corps out there. Brave Newbies, E-Uni, etc. If you ask around, you'll find more.

Second, stay away from the ingame recruitment chat. It is truly horrible. I don't understand why CCP doesn't create something official that's a bit more structured, and not so spammy. But you probably will not find the corp you're seeking there because that chat seems mostly inhabited by spam bots. It's like Jita, in a way.

Third, the best way to find a corp is to engage in the activity that appeal to you. Chances are high that you will run into people engaging in the same activity, from corps that have that activity as a specialisation. Do you want to do piracy? Go to low-sec, engage in piracy. Sooner or later you'll die horribly, and then you can chat with your killers. You want to do incursions? Seek out the incursion channels. Mining? Head to the belts and actually talk to the people you see there.

Finding a good corp in Eve takes a bit of time. As with everything, if something sounds too good to be true, it very likely isn't true at all. So, stay in the NPC corp for now, but start to do the things you enjoy. Then things will take care of themselves, unless you're really anti-social.

Most corps are tax scams, they provide you nothing and tax your income.

Find their office and ask the CEO to undock in a very expensive ship for 20 or 30 seconds. If he refuses or comes out in a drake or some **** its because he has no idea of how to play himself.

Feel free to join and drop corps. try and leave on a good note, you may need the reference. But 20 or 30 dropped corps early on in your career doesn't matter to recruiters from good alliances.

If they assign you a corp role right off the bat its a bad sign. Sticks you with a 24 hour timer which sucks if you want to leave. Although I guess this is changing.

If they trust you right off the bat its a bad sign, inviting you on a level 4 mission without scanning your ship first would be an example. It means they don't fully understand the dangers of AWOXing or how to avoid it.

Don't limit yourself to corps, there are plenty of great chat channels that can be very helpful. Join a bunch and talk a lot, ask questions, meet people. There's actually a fair amount of personality that can come through a chat channel, you may find a crew that you really click with that way.

Best of luck.