EVE New Citizens Q&A

On December 27th at 17:00 EVE Time, members of the Community Team and ISD STAR will be organizing and FC'ing an official New Player Training Session Exploration fleet. We invite all new players that are interested in checking out the riskier parts of New Eden to join us, have fun, and learn a thing or two! And by risky parts, I mean wormholes.

We aim to have two fleets for this session. One fleet will be for members of the Caldari or Amarr races, the other for Gallente and Minmatar characters. This is to minimize the risk of negative standings affecting your presence in the fleet. The fleets will form at the following stations
1. Caldari & Amarr – Litiura I - Caldari Constructions Production Plant
2. Minmatar & Gallente– Ivar IX - Moon 4 - Brutor tribe Bureau

You may come in any ship you wish, but we highly recommend nobody show up in bigger ships than Cruisers because of mass problems. If too many members of the fleet are in big ships, we may end up closing any wormholes we are attempting to get the fleet through. Additionally, we will be providing a tech 1 combat frigate of the applicable racial variant at the muster points fitted with meta 1 modules. You may only take one ship.

We will be limiting fleets to 100 people in order to keep the fleets manageable. If more than 100 people come to one fleet rallying point, we will direct some to travel to another rally point. In the event there is a massive turnout, we may form secondary fleets that will be led by ISD STAR.

Any player is welcome to come, regardless of their character age. However, younger players will be given preference for joining the fleets if we reach our caps.

We will begin gathering players at 17:00 EVE Time with the intent to depart at 18:00 EVE Time. We will fill the fleets on a first-come, first-serve basis (with the above caveat for character age).

We will utilize EVE Voice to issue fleet commands to players. We highly recommend you have a headset or speakers to listen to commands. However, in the event you do not or cannot, we will also be using fleet chat and fleet broadcasts to relay commands.

Any attempt by players to join the fleets to spam or otherwise disrupt proceedings will be dealt with harshly.

Please be aware that by joining the fleets, you agree to the following risks:
1. You may lose security status for firing at other players.
2. You may gain negative standing with other player entities for attacking them.
3. Any ship you bring and all of the assets in its cargo hold might be destroyed by other players or NPCs and lost, so please only bring what you can afford to lose.
4. Your pod may be destroyed, so please make sure your clone is up to date and you are willing to lose any implants you have plugged in.
5. You might find yourself lost in a wormhole with no way to get out of it. In that eventuality, you must be prepared to self-destruct your ship and your pod in order to get back into empire space as the Game Masters will not move you back.
6. Be prepared to have an awesome time and lots of fun!

I'd also suggest that you omni-tank your ships for all damage types. Sleepers do all types of damage, so You'll have to fit accordingly

Oh yeahh.. Word got around about these fleets... Bring points. Lots of them.

well i could see who is online in my alliance and perhaps we can show how capital escalation sites are done if you dont have tht planned yet or fight you if you prefer that

This sounds like a ton of fun! what J-sig you guys in? I'd love to meet up!

Thanks guys that was great fun as well as very educational! So glad I decided to do the 25 jumps to get there.

Thanks again for going to all the trouble to organize it, it was fantastic! :)

Thanks CCP Gargant, Phantom and the ISD crew for setting this up. I had a blast, the singing was clearly the high point.

My write-up of the event can be found here.

Thanks again - can't wait for the next one

This training event went well for their first attempt at C3 exploration.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=21109303

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCEilTdoyR0&feature=youtu.be

I wish lol. No, nobody batphoned me (people are smarter than that). Props to you guys for letting Gargant go after the song :)

Hi Rakuda and welcome to EVE!

It actually didn't matter about the state of your ship because CCP provided basic T1 frigates fitted for tackling and the whole thing ended up being enormous fun as well as very educational for someone like me who had never been in either a fleet or a wormhole.

Hope to see you there next time :)