EVE General Discussion

Make money, buy ships, undock ships, shoot something and display its carcass on your internet trophy room or go home in a pod. Rinse, repeast.

Well mining is high sec is super amazing from what I hear....

If you're stuck on what to do, give Red vs. Blue a shot, it's a good time and you learn some things

pick something and be good at it. And find a sustainable isk source. But don't fall into the trap and make isk the goal.

Best advice for RvB I can add is to stockpile first.

Figure out your main Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser fits, make a list of the number of ships, modules and ammo, check the prices on http://eve-central.com/ then buy them cheap at the trade hub and have them shipped to your HQ system, I use Red frog Freight myself- http://red-frog.org/jumps.php

The RvB markets are usually well stocked but like a convenience store they gouge you on the price. If you want a chocolete bar (new ship to try) sure it's fine but Jita is the Supermarket where you buy your three squares. I kept 100mil ISK after the stockpile for this purpose but I had a wide mix of ships including Battleships, you can nickle and dime Frigates, Dessies and Destroyers with cost vs effectiveness on meta items and resist / weapons / other for rigs to build effective team ships that don't necessarily preform as well one on one to keep costs down. Most of my Destroyers had Meta 3 guns for instance.

Once RvB starts resupply of ISK and equipment is limited by the competition and war targets so it is best to get a jump on supply..

CalMil should be your focus. That is all.

Class 2 WH are pretty fun, just Skill some Good T1 Cruiser, MWD fit and some nice tank and you can have fun, take some risk and get some nice ISK.

Slightly ahead of the target, since there is no reverse gear.

Stop thinking in terms of gameplay, start thinking in terms of social achievements.

Thinking "should i mine?" or "should i go do lowsec pvp" limits you to what things you can do,
which are laid out for you.

Social achievements go way beyond this and are more fun than any actual gameplay-style.
Any achievement you move toward to CAN be supported by any type of gameplay,
but isn't bound to anything specific "thing to do".

Forget about what you can do and think about what you want to achieve,
underlined by the very nature of this game.

To achieve something, you have to move your thinking into the "social space".
This game is all about people. Most people are ants and, just as in reallife,
completely block out the fact that everybody influences everybody else even on a minor scale.

There are no actual achievements "in gameplay-space". Sure, you could count your first billion as achievement,
or one million units of veldspar mined, or your first hundred pods killed ... but that's ridiculous,
because it has no actual effect that mirrors the depth of the game.

I guess the point i'm trying to communicate is that, if you want a reason to play,
then create your own. Forget about EvE as a game involving minigames (mining, trading) and
start seeing it was it is.

A huge social playground where you can have influence on hundreds or even thousands of lives.


TL;DR:

Aim for being bigger than the others.

Grow old, rich and cynical ?