EVE New Citizens Q&A

Seems there are quite a few responses already but I will go ahead and add my thoughts. No, it is not too late. You can have fun from day 1. It is a sandbox. You make you're own fun. No lines to wait in like at theme parks. This is your fun to make. Find a ship you like, discover its ship progression, and train up using smaller ships til your reach your end ship goal. Don't be afraid to experiment along the way, try new things, go to new places and talk to people. I have been in Eve for a few months now, but have ben playing MMOs since UO '97. I can assure you, this is truly, not exaggerating, the most friendly, helpful group of MMOers I have ever encountered. Oh sure, they want to help you along so you can fly better and in better ships just so they can explode said ship to add to their killboard, but still friendly nonetheless. Its never too late to play Eve. Just don't play with yourself, join a corporation. There are plenty of corp out there who want to help you.

If this drives you away from the game, I'll be honest and say that perhaps EVE really isn't for you then. Patience really is an important character trait in EVE, in my oppinion.

On the market window, at the bottom left is a drop-box. Make sure entire-region is selected, it defaults to station, I dunno why. This is one of the dumber relics from the old learning cliff.

Accessing content isn't slow. And the truth is, most of the higher content requires high player--not character--skills. And learning player skills takes time and practice. But by specialization you can access and become good in just about any phase of the game. Going jack of all trades in the early character stages is the road to frustration. Do all the tutorials because you don't know what you don't know, you might find out while you hate mining, production is fun. Trade is another way to make good isk without spending lots of time.

Mining is really a group activity, you can mine solo, but most of those limitations are there to make it more productive to do in a team. If you're grinding, then you are probably doing it wrong. When I joined a corp and had to participate in the mandatory mining raids, it was a bit astonishing to find out that mining in a group is actually fun.

If you aren't having fun in a given profession try another, but every profession will have metagame quirks to give those with the greater knowledge an advantage that overshadows any advantage gained from pure character skills.

Success in eve is not so much a matter of smarts as persistence and optimism. You have to take failure as a learning experience, where a lot of people see failure as vindication of one's ineptitude.

Oh, and no one has mentioned it yet. You were having trouble losing your forum post, besides the copy/paste trick which works in any forum, this forum has a draft function, which periodically saves your post. If you lose your post, open up a new post and click on the draft, and it will populate your post up to the last save.