EVE New Citizens Q&A

This is how I earned my first 10b: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=280046

I have moved on since but region trading is perfectly viable for low SP and isk players.

Or run faction warfare missions and plexes if you don't like the market. Very good isk and PvP if you join a good noob-friendly corp.

Don't wait until cruisers before starting PvP. Come to lowsec in T1 frigates. You will die a lot if you do it right so start cheap.

Oh no I've been in a catalyst for a good while now, and having a lot of luck with it...i can dominate in most lvl 1 story missions, (like security) but the game won't even let me play lvl 2...
Yeah, I've been training core skills, got most of those up to like lvl 3-4...my biggest thing is I just don't even know everything there is to do in the game, and so for me money has been very slow. I'm liking these links though, they seem very helpful, and I do agree I probably need to join a noob-friendly corp.

Oh, don't forget ninja looting and salvaging to get started. Great fun and good isk for a noob. Good experience for exploring too.

Train connections, it's in the social skill group.

The game mechanic works on a percentage increase and this unfortunately means you have to grind hard to move out of L1. But the skill connection give you a huge % increase so by training it up to you can get into L2 straight away and then upto to L3 missions quite fast.

J'Poll is right. Don't get too hung up on income. The closest I come to pve these days is melting down whatever I looted from the last wreck. I always seem to have enough to replace a lost cruiser and if I hit a good winning streak or the loot fairy smiles on me then I pick up a couple AF's. Its not about how much you make but what you want to buy.

Wouldn't have thought of that, that's very good advice. I also ventured through a wormhole and found some VERY valuable ore, but some sleeper drones spawned while I was mining it and destroyed my venture...thinking of getting an industrial ship to venture out in to wormholes and collect some ore..if that will work, haven't experimented with that yet.

They did change the skill tree a bit for the ships (so i don't think you can blitz quite as fast to a BC), and TBH it's better that he's staying in a smaller ship and getting his core skills up rather than going the normal "bigger is better" route that people take and then crying why his (minimum skills across the board) battleship is terrible.


Edit - just checked with a base noob character (evemon generated) and it appears you can blitz the hull in ~2 days ... although you'd still be terrible in it.

I'm pretty sure level one missions only exist in the game to weed out players who don't ask/look for advice.

Bugger me, I'm glad I never made it to Level 2 missions then.

Here is one way (there are plenty of others, I'll just tell what worked well for me). It's a mission runner way at the start.

To make a full picture I'll start from the start and will speak as if you were a 1-day old character.
Through agent finder find npc corporations which have agents of 1-4 level, choose nearest to you (if you're going to do missions of your own faction). Start doing missions of the level available to you which you can do well enough.
While doing missions learn to fit your ships.
When agents of the next level in the same npc corporation become available to you, switch to one of them. Do missions. Continue going up level by level until you reach the 4th level. It's the most profitable mission level available in high security space.
To do most (or all - later with good skills) 4th level missions you'll need to fly battleships or Tech 3 cruisers. I think battleships are more preferable for an unexperienced pilot. Some 4th level missions can be done on a battlecruiser, some - even on a frigate.
When you'll be able to do 4th level missions well you can either stay in highsec to continue with missions, or you can go elsewhere (lowsec, nullsec, 2-4 class wormholes).
Whatever area you choose at this point you should find a good newbie-friendly corporation which lives in your chosen area.

I advise not to go into any corporation when you just started playing. Spend minimum couple of weeks playing on your own - you'll have time to get a better understanding of game mechanics and formulate what you expect from a corp you'd want to be in. Otherwise you risk to get in a sh*tty corp and get disappointed. I found my first corp (it found me, actually) after several days in eve and it was a nice newbie-friendly corp with good people, but I just was very lucky. It's better not to rush into any corp in the first weeks in eve.
When you fly battlecruisers and battleships, can fit some Tech 2 modules, and can do 4th level missions - you are able to feel yourself comfortable in any area of EVE. Of course you'll still have a lot to learn, but you won't feel yourself absolutely useless no matter where you go.

One more point towards a "mission-runner" start: when you have at least relatively good standings with npc agents to do 4th level missions, if you fail in whatever place you go - you'll always have a place to return to and a source of isk.