EVE New Citizens Q&A

Thank you very much.

Is there a key stroke to cancel anxious frustration.

Or maybe one of those injection things I just started hearing about.

Hope to run into more as helpful as you.

How to make a decent mission ship that worked.

When I started, I flew only Caldari. I was pretty fortunate in that the weapon system I chose just because it sounded neat (missiles) worked well with the activity I chose at the beginning of my career (mission running). So I happily worked my way toward the newly-introduced ship known as the Drake because it was supposedly the best for running missions, and I kept wondering why I almost lost it again and again.

Fitting a mission ship isn't very intuitive. In a way it can be very easy to do - follow some guides, listen to advice, mirror a fit people rave about - but it is difficult because the "rules" for ship fitting, in both PvE and PvP, aren't consistent. Small, Medium, Large. Frigate/Destroyer, Cruiser/Battlecruiser, Battleship. Yet you'll be hard pressed to find a battlecruiser fit that uses Medium shield modules and a "workable" Drake fitting is an excellent example. Medium Shield Extenders for frigate fittings. XL Shield Boosters on battleships!

I like taking screenshots as I play. A funny comment, a compliment, a strange/beautiful vision in New Eden - these all went into a large collection, built up over the years, and I flip through every so often. Since missions were a primary activity back then, I see a lot of the fits I used and they make me cringe now.

Ship fitting is a complex science that is easy to dabble in and even easier to get "wrong." When you're a character with years of experience and knowledge, ship fitting ("EFT Warrioring") is a fun distraction, Serious Business, or both. For a new player with five million isk in the wallet and the desire to move up into Level 2 missions, having no idea how to fit a mission ship can mean the loss of a significant portion of a player's isk and possibly their desire to continue.

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I really had to think about this, but actually just one thing stood out for me.

I did not understand how to sell anything, or that I had to move my findings from my cargo to hanger before I could.

Reverse Engineering because I still dunno how to work that sucker.


Hey, My First Post !!

I don't know if this has been said, or if I was just too nooby, but I didn't know I could place another skill at the top of the queue, or that I could remove a skill from the queue and I wouldn't have wasted the time.

For example, my second skill to train was Caldari Frigates 4, which I think was a day of training, and was suggested on the tutorial. And I wanted to train all those other skills from the tutorials, like mining frigates and all that, but I "had" to wait for the skill to finish...

Another vote for turret mechanics. I trained for Large Railguns as quickly as possible and then found out the hard way that they're useless inside of 70km. (and that hybrids are never going to hold a candle to projectile turrets, anyway)

And a downvote for the people complaining about training for big ships too early...half the fun of being a new player is trying to get into a bigger and shinier ship. Who wants to bum around in a destroyer for 3 months waiting for all your fitting skills to get to level 5?

(and that Tactical Shield Manipulation 5 was going to be made near-useless,

I wish I'd known the Tutorial Suggestions sticky is just a flytrap so people don't complain about it on the boards.

Then I wouldn't bother contributing

My list of most common questions/issue with new players:

-Where can I buy stuff? Finding things on the market is confusing for many new players. Many are used to 'linked auction-house' type environments.

-Why can't I mine ice when I trained the skill? Players too young to understand bought the ice mining skill book only to find they needed a barge/exhumer.

-Autopilot vs Warp-to-zero. I get at least one new player each week that didn't know how to warp to zero.

-The overview. Plain and simple it is a confusing system that hiccups on a regular basis.

-Where can I find a research slot? Good luck finding a public one, look in to finding a POS.

- This tag I found says I can turn it in somewhere? Where is that?

-How do I turn off the tracking camera? This is always followed by a sea of 'hit C' replies.

-How does D-Scan work? Really this is something that needs revision with a bigger slider for the arc size and a change over from KM to AU (preset ranges would be nice). An in-space graphic showing the search cone would also be handy.

-I can't find something in my overview (sansha outpost, container, a certain type of asteroid, etc). I think a default starter tab with 'ALL' should be included with the Overview.

-What are Loyalty Points? A lot of players don't get how the system for Loyalty points works. I've met mission runners with over a year under their belts that didn't know. They thought they were for Faction Warfare or Incursions and they don't do those...

I'm not sure if this is the proper place but here goes.

I created a new character for fun and retried the beginner missions. I started as an Amarr pilot.

Mission 1: Warp to location, pick up newb ship.

Easily done.

Mission 2: Warp to location, blow up fuel depot, kill pirates.

All I have in my inventory is the newb ship. No modules, no offense of any kind. I only have 5,000 isk as a new pilot. How exactly is a new pilot suppose to complete this mission? If I'm new to eve then I have no idea how the market works, I have no idea how to fit ships, AND I HAVE NO ISK OR MODULES TO COMPLETE THE MISSION!

This needs to be fixed asap. I feel bad for anyone joining Eve and getting frustrated at the second tutorial mission.

Thats the thing... Im doing the tutorial missions sent to me from Aurora. Unless I'm missing something