EVE New Citizens Q&A

Or not, as the case may be, apparently.

@CCP: As a matter of high priority, please also fix the issue with Balancing the Books 3/10 asap.

In Balancing the Books (7 of 10), the Ancient Ship Structure uses the old hacking mechanism (the module just cycles till it access it) instead of the new hacking mini game.

It would be nice if you could address the issue with multiple books of the same skill being given.

Hi all,

two things:
1. support for #3 - "Balancing the books" needs a Miner I provided on mission asking to "shoot" asteroids. Or proper help on using market!

2. Once 1. is fixed you can make tutorial asking to undock in pod and explain what yellow and red skulls mean. Aura could easily mark player's pod with suspect and then criminal status. Alternatively Aura might ask new one to visit some gate in Null and take pod express from there :) Apparently as soon as possible new player should get accustomed with loss of ship/pod.

I only joined 3-4 days ago and I wanted to put my thoughts down here.

My friend and i have been looking for a Space MMO to get into. We were playing PS2 for a while, but got tired of FPS. ive never really been into the whole RPG thing (WOW and the like). I absolutely hate games with fairies, trolls, gobblins, or weapons that are impossible to hold under the normal laws of physics. i just hate them. Having said that, i really do love video games and i really do want to get really into a game that i like. EVE Online, i think fits that bill. (star citizen is on my radar scree, though).

So starting off, when me and my buddy (we are 28 and 30 respectively) learned about EVE Online we were super excited. initially i really didnt like the idea of paying a monthly subscription for a game. im not a big fan of paying for anything digital, and with the advent of Free-to-Play games, paying for a game now makes even less sense. But, I discovered the Buddy program and i got a 20 day trial. the Buddy program i used game me 7 million ISK upon signing up, and when i activate my paid account i will get a new ship and 275 million ISK. That 7 Million ISK was a HUGE help in the beginning, as it allowed me to make mistakes with out suffering too much.

I agree that EVE has a huge Learning curve. Having said that, i can understand how some people might enter the game with 0 knowledge and feel very overwhelmed, even in the tutorial missions. however, i now feel (this may change with time) that if you did not realize that EVE has a huge learning curve when starting the game, its your own fault for not doing the proper research before starting the game. i watched a few Youtube Tutorials for beginners which was enough to get me through the first set of tutorial missions. Even with the huge learning curve, getting a handle of the very basic stuff (navigating the UI, etc...) wasn't all that hard.

One thing i do want to say, is that in no other game that i have gotten into, have i received the amount of support that i have received so far. even with the great support i am very dubious as it feels like EVE is FULL of scams. this is a bit disappointing, and although this aspect does make the 'universe' more realistic, its a pretty big turn off for me as a new player. on the brighter side of things, the fact that a Corp such as EVE University even exists, is a testament to the amount of support that one can find in EVE. though it seems like you have to GO LOOKING for help (which isnt necessarily bad thing).

So far i have only finished the Industry Tutorial. once i did that me and my friend thought we could just start mining and making ISK right then. my buddy and i tried to pick a system that was near a border region to make our "home base", if you will. we started mining (grinding) and mining. it got boring real fast. i tried venturing into a 0.6 or a 0.5 system, but i ended up getting destroyed twice (that 7 million really helped out). at that point i just felt lost. i didnt know what to do or where to to go. as of this writing, i now realize how naive i was.

my plan now is to go back to the station that i started out in and finish all of the tutorials for the different careers. i heard about something called 'sisters of EVE' that i believe is a type of tutorial one does after the career tutorials, that covers PvE and PvP (if im not mistaken). maybe after all the tutorials and SoE, maybe i should join EVE University? once i finish with all of that, im still not sure what to do, i guess join a corp that likes doing what ever i want to end up doing (mining, PVP, etc...). Maybe i join EVE University first and then i join a proper Corp? so is that basically the nuts and bolts of the game? Do the tutorials....pick a career...join a corp...grow as a player...IS THAT THE BASIC IDEA OF THE GAME (obviously boiled down to the most basic elements of the game)?

---

other random thoughts as a noob

the in game tutorials are pretty good, but i can understand that the tutorials will never be able to cover the game in its totality, mainly because the game is SOO complex, SOO deep, that you could spend 200 hours in tutorials and still not cover the game in its totality.

This game isnt for everyone, as it requires you to invest a significant portion of your RL to playing. it can be tough for someone that can only afford 1-2 hours per day only, especially in the beginning when your character sux and EVERYONE is better than you. it can be very discouraging, very quickly.

the Rookie Help chat room can be a bit noisy at times, with your question getting drowned out by others. But the fact that it even exists and works as well as it does is a huge plus in my book. again awesome levels of support here.

what i would like is for someone to take me (and my buddy) under their wing and teach us. like a mentor, but how boring that must be for the mentor? he is paying to play a game that he then goes and spends most of the time teaching new players how to play. Kudos to those people who do that, as i would never do that unless its a personal friend of mine. i feel it a waste of money. having said that, those that do mentor, are gods among men/women. they put aside time and ISK just to teach noobs how to play, that is a noble effort my friend and i salute those that do it.

i really liked mining, but after downloading Halada's miner's guide 3.0, its way to complex for me. Excel spreadsheets? are you mad? that sounds like work to me, and i play videos games to avoid work. if i wanted to get all complicated with charts and spreadsheets, then i would just go get a job lol. so guess mining isnt for me, as its way to complicated for a 'game'. i guess im looking for something that is not nearly as complex as with mining/industry (anything with the markets), but not repetitive grinding...any suggestions?

i'm sutck on mission #20, first courier mission...say to take planetaru licence and give to an nps in a station.
the problem is that i do not have this doc and i'm sure that i loot it from academy.
another problem...don't know why i loose all my fit i've a newbie laser and shield but all disappear now...
open a ticket to reset all my tutorial and start again from mission #1 but don't know if it's possible or not...let's see

You can scale text in EVE, open the ESC menu to scale it.

The exploration career mission 'An introduction to Cosmic Signatures' has you fly your new unfitted racial exploration frigate to a deadspace pocket, where you find an Exploration Supplies container with core probe launcher, probes, data and relic analyzers.

This should also contain a mobile depot and instructions for using it to refit in space.

Yes. Issue is that at current stage, it would require a WHOLE lot of work to add videos, which already can be accessed by watching a bit of youtube on the side (I know, it should be in game to which I agree).


As for finding an asteroid, asteroid belts are listed by default in the right click menu. Which the tutorial teaches you to use.

UI has changed (inventory tweeks, market tweeks, radial menu, Ewar icons, E menu, movement of undock button), but yes, still room for improvement.

Button size isn't small, that really depends on resolutions you are playing with, I never ever thought of the buttons being to small.


As for your map. You are using a flattened universe map, which works exactly like a paper map. You can't do anything with it. Unflatten it (in map menu) and suddenly you can rotate all you want.

In same map menu, you have a 1001 options for you to highlight on the map, including ships and pods killed.

This. I am on this level and thought I was going mad! Am I right in thinking I have to fail this mission or can I go and do something else and come back to this once I have acquired the Miner 1?

Thanks guys, and really enjoying Eve so far!