EVE New Citizens Q&A

You need to read all the stuff Aurora is telling you, or go through the tutorial (press f12 -> tutorial on the top right) it self not only the missions given by the agents

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The problem with Eve Online that too much knowledge is not good here.

In my opinion, when I joined, I got just exactly what I expected from a Pay to Play game; but as I learned and grew in those deleicate first 3 months, I learned what Eve Online was really all about.

It is up to YOU the player to research this game before playing; that is why you have trial accounts; but be WARNED: TIME IS MONEY IN THIS GAME.

LEARN THE BASIC SKILLS FROM THE CAREER AGENTS UP TO SAY LEVEL 2/3 BOTH IN THE CAREER MISSIONS AND SKILLS.

TRAIN YOUR CLONES UP TO 4

This is EASY and SIMPLE.

PLEASE DONT SKILL UP TO GET BIG SHIPS - YOU WILL EPIC FAIL IN THE LONG RUN.



Tactically, the above post says it all. Most new Eve players will not do this nor do they know about it.

RESEARCH THIS GAME A WEEK BEFORE YOU EVEN GET INTO IT ! I looked at it for months before I joined - a little here and a little there - it is up to YOU the player to do the research - THAT IS WHAT THIS GAME IS ALL ABOUT - RESEARCH AND LEARNING - well for the good and happy player that is !

I knew this right from the getgo.

As for MAIN Faction alignment...READ their histories and LORE...then find out where you fit in...then find the ship you want to fly for the job you want to do a year from now<<<<

I will be Battleship qualified in 3 months game play with Elite skills in trail - ALL to qualify for the Battleship I am flying; I have yet to train for a few more months to get my skills to ELITE before I even think about hopping in one.

I KNEW: that I could train many basic skills to level 1 and 2, and have a great idea about the game (YOU LEARN WHAT FACTION YOU WANT TO BE IN BEFORE YOU PLAY ANY GAME DUH)...In fact I may have chose the wrong faction in the long run; but ...I AM ALSO A ROLE PLAYER !!! SO....I am stuck with what I got...I made a good decision and I can flex and bend with the wind and ROLEPLAY my true self...in the end, i am still very pleased with my character.

I dont want to rant forever cauze I want to play the game haha !!!! I hope this helps.

Yes there are problems still CCP needs to fix; but there ARE(<<<<) player solutions to these problems; I am in fact addressing these in my LIVE STREAMS at:

http://www.twitch.tv/cdr_zeta

I cant stream gameplay action; but I will help anyone new to the game as best I can; unfortunately there is a problem with helping - it is called SPOILING......we dont want this to happen...one way to learn is to die in-game...it is inevitable...if you learn to die early on, it wont be so bad...I will be pretty good at it when i first get out there...but ya never know.

With this in mind, I am gonna do a lesson in love tonite to get it off my chest about Eve Tactical gameplay; it is so simple but again, it may be a spoiler..some people like spoilers...the problem is if I teach you something, you wont have learnt it for yourself; and to me that is the best way to learn - BEING SELF-TAUGHT.

However there is one aspect here that may really save yer butt in the beginning - there is no shame in running (HAHA!!!) but that is only the tip of the iceburg in my stream tonite!

See Calender For Details !

Darian

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Only 3 weeks in but I wish I had known that for low end tier 1 loot, reprocessing is often more lucrative than direct selling. And easier; multiselect a bunch of crap, reprocess it all en masse, sell like 5 stacks. Anywhere.

I wish I knew right from the beginning how vibrant the community is, how the community is the real content of Eve. I didn't know the forums even existed at first I would emphasize the wealth of resources available through the larger Eve community. I think the community at large does a much better job of educating new players than CCP does (no offense!) - and I also think that is how it SHOULD be. This is a social game more than anything else; it should be on us players to educate the young, and those new players who get in with a good corp willing to get them up to speed are the ones who develop the strongest social bonds in Eve. But that doesn't mean that the tutorials can't do a better job explaining the basics!

So as others have said, I would also emphasize the importance of getting into a player corporation as soon as you can, how to do it, where to go to find good corps. Most new players get the message real fast about how dangerous Eve is, that you can't trust anyone, but many don't get the message that if you want to really enjoy the game, you have to trust someone eventually.

I got lucky and learned early on that despite the scammers and griefers some of the most kind and generous people in the universe play Eve, and I learned the hard way - twice - that this game can break your heart.

Echoing what others have said about bigger ships NOT being necessarily better Many new players come into Eve expecting to grind so they can level-up - that just isn't Eve. The tutorials DO need to better explain that each ship has something it is good at, that it's not about grinding to get to the best ship, because there is no one "best" ship, they are all "best" at their particular role.

As others have said, emphasize the importance of focusing your skill training, don't try to be a jack-of-all-trades. heh... I also didn't understand about how attributes work when skill training until I was several months old... it shames me that my alt (who is about 6 months younger than me) now has more skillpoints than I do :)

Tanking needs to be explained MUCH better. I was three months old before I 'got it' about resistances and the difference between passive and active tanking! /embarrassing

And don't try to fit a ship for every possibility!! Jack-of-all-trade fits are fail!

What a killmail is, where to find it, and that you don't get it unless you are final blow on it, and how killboards work. As someone who has spent the last two years taking new/newer players out on fleets to kill and get killed, it never ceases to amaze me how often the question comes up, "What's a killmail?"

I wish I knew sooner that PVP is NOT to be avoided at all costs. I took an Agony PVP-BASIC class when I was six months old, and it changed Eve for me, forever. Too many new players get this weird idea that avoiding conflict and playing safe is the way to go... how boring...

1)When I started EVE it was very difficult to understand all that jazz about ship signature, transversal velocity, ship mass, bumping mechanics and stuff like that. I still don't understand it, and I cant find a good guide that explains it in easy to understand way.

2)Directional scanner is confusing as hell. I watched you-tube videos and still cant use it.

3)Distances.. KM, AU, etc, etc.Not very easy to memorize, not very easy to understand.

Also, when I started EVE, I wish I known CCP supports people who exploit the game mechanics and enjoy making others feel like crap over those who just want to be left alone to play an online game the way they want, without worrying about others ruining their game-play at every turn.

Huh. I found it more or less the same as any other MMO faction system, except much more easily repaired.

Agree though, actually maybe just incorporate the excellent Faction Standing Repair Plan into the tutorials.

The specific faction effects of each mission being listed in the mission description would be awesome.

The thing that confused me the most when i first started was how to fly the ship. I kept looking for the control buttons and was really put off when I realized that I didn't actually fly the ship - instead only told it where to go. Eventually someone clued me in that manual piloting was possible by clicking in space - but of course that felt real awkward.

The second that that confused me was where all the pvp was. I started out with the belief that eve was this hardcore pvp game - but when i started there was no pvp that I could find anywhere near me. Trying to shoot other players would lead to a warning. Which left the only option for combat being orbiting little red xs and pressing f1. I quit the first time I tried eve because the pve was boring as hell and really couldnt understand where eve got the reputation for being hardcore pvp. Eventually, I decided I would give it another shot and really try to figure out the pvp side of the game. I lucked into meeting some folk who agreed to show me the ropes and its been all fun and games since then.