EVE New Citizens Q&A

I just got blown up doing my COSMOS arc and can't complete my mission now. GMs!!!!! SAVE MEH I REALLAH WANTED THAT 'SPENIVE THANG!!!!


Get very used to this response after 2 weeks in the annoying people queue:

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Lol this guy's an idiot.

Without wanting to risk sounding antagonistic, I'm not sure what all that 'interesting stuff' you're talking about is. So far, I gather that I can:
Mine asteroids and sell the ore etc on the market.
Get probes and explore and find anomalies etc, which is essentiallly 'mining' different space things for different space loot. Then go sell them on the market.
PvP (presumably winning is what's wanted, then looting the defeated and selling their stuff on the market.
Buy and sell stuff on the market. Profit.

I have heard about inventions and manufacturing with blueprints too, but that seems to involve more mining, marketeering and selling stuff on the market.

Which leaves missions, which is a long sequence of all of the above (bar PvP, which I'm not interested in much), with a bit of added narrative and importantly a sort of guided structure to it all.

Eve is very pretty, but we're basically doing the same things as all MMORPG players do: fight and loot mobs and other players, gather, craft and marketeer.

I'm quite happy to do missions, I like ticking boxes :D

welcome to EVE, enjoy your stay.

This can easily be resolved by joining a corp before you get too far into the SoE mission arc. Then, when you encounter the tougher opponents, you'll have a reliable - or at least, more reliable - source of help. Always look askance at the kindness of strangers.

Clear ether and fly safe.

Yep that's the best place for the PvE end game here. Tell the recruiter we sent you and you'll get special deals.

Hmm. I didn't read all the responses but what I did read was pretty much par for the course around here (and if you read more of that then maybe you wouldn't have been so trusting of that random stranger).

The one thing they didn't cover though in their Eve lessons and rules is this: Eve pve content is only a little bit better than stinking garbage. You can do it and it's sorta interesting the first time, but after that it's repetitive and boring at best. At worst it's broken and annoying. Standard missions still look like something in an alpha or early beta stage. There are some COSMOS missions that are broken and prevent you from completing further missions in the chain - and they've been broken for years. Missions in general haven't been touched in many years. PVE in Eve isn't where it's at - the smart ones only pve to get ISK to fund pvp. If you're looking to get into Eve only for the pve then stop now. Unsub and don't look back.

The community? It's not good. In fact it's somewhere between not good and bad. If you wanted an MMO with good community then you'd play LotRO or something.

And yeah, the community is pretty defensive about the game - reminds me a lot of Final Fantasy XI players (and that was a bad game). IMO a game should stand on its own merits - play it or don't. Doesn't matter.

The best pve MMO is still probably wow (incoming hate?). And there still are probably better pvp MMOs out there too - Darkfall? GW2? Haven't tried them but I'm sure they're at least decent in a few ways. Whatever. What Eve does have is a different style of gameplay and setting. All or most other MMOs are your standard fantasy setting. Eve is one of the few scifi MMOs ever and maybe the only active one with any sort of subscriber base.

If you're not willing to eat a **** sandwich every now and then in order to be able to play a scifi MMO then look elsewhere. Good luck.

Haha wow eve is so cool and has a bad attitude I like that not like that Meow Kitty Online game or what. HTFU can I have your stuff yada yada yada


Fact is: A Newbie Epic Arc tailored for newbies, with a mission chain that can keep you occupied for the good half of a week if you play casually and a very tough end boss designed to be finished by two players (preferably also noobs, since the whole freaking arc is designed for them), can not be finished by two players. And if you try to redo that last step a GM basically tells you to suck it up and do the whole mission chain again?

Thats not cold and harsh, thats simply bad mission design and faulty game mechanics. No amount of HTFU yelling will change that.

Well that sounds a lot less infuriating now.

Especially since only the last mission will be resetted. Thats not that much of a hassle and a rational approach. Only thing that still bugs me is that it's really not that easy to find the story arc in the first place. Without very, very careful reading of the career agent debriefing text and/or diving into evelopedia it's practically not possible to stumble over that chain yourself.
I get that approach for advanced PVE content like COSMOS missions, but for an entry level Story arc there should be some more obvious pointers.


But anyway, It IS a viable game mechanic to steal mission items from mission runners, after all. I made my first serious (like more than 50M) with ninja looting L4 security mission runners. Of course I snatched that damsel when I had the opportunity, no question. Damn I love this game <3

lol, group PvE.

With a few exceptions (high end wormholes and incursions), new guy, PvE is basically a solo endeavor in EvE.