EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi, there!

I boarded EVE on-line a hour ago and now I have only capsule. I'd like to purchase far better starship but I am not sure which one is best suited for me. I prefer combat career in the EVE Universe so I am looking for combat spaceships. After reading Evelopedia several classes are close to my wishes: Recon Cruisers, Heavy Assault Cruisers, Strategic Cruisers, Marauders, Black Ops Cruisers, Dreads and Carriers. What class could you advice me to purchase?

Welcome!

The ships you list are all somewhat advanced in that they would take a number of months to train for and fly competently, although they are rather sexy so it's understandable that you're attracted to them. Good ships to aim for in the long-run.

Meanwhile follow Oraac's advice and follow the tutorials. You'll end up with some basic ships and some money all while learning the basics. At this stage of your EVE career the various frigates and destroyers will be your best friend.

Wait a moment! You said I cannot fly purchased starship instantly because I need some long training. Is that correct? Cannot I speed up this training or buy qualifications required?

That is correct. Just like any other MMO, you can't jump into the "high/level" / "end game" on the first day.

That said, what's more important in EVE is not necessarily what ship you want to fly, but what you want to do. Considering that, it can take some time to learn the ropes EVE an even learn what you CAN do. If instant gratification is what you want, EVE is the furthest thing from it. If you're interested in a game with a huge amount of depth, and a multitude of options, you're in the right place.

*nods* Yup that's correct.

Probably the simplest of the ships you listed would be the heavy assault cruisers. Those, for example, would probably take a couple months to skill up to fly properly - and that's just the ship. It'll take longer still to train the support skills for said ship so you can use decent modules on it. No point buying a shiny ship when you can only fit it with horrible modules.

At the other end of the scale something like a dreadnaught will take even longer to train for, many, many months, and can only be used in certain areas of space.

Using implants and doing attribute remaps can help speed your training up - a little.

And you can purchase multiple-character training too if you wish to skill up more than one character simultaneously on the one account.

Or as the poster above me said you can purchase an already-trained character on the character bazaar. But this would be setting yourself up to fail without proper ingame experience to properly use that character.

But in general EVE takes a lot of patience and time, which makes eventually flying those sexy ships very rewarding. Not forgetting that you will (at some point) lose every ship you fly. So take your time and try not to fly anything that you a) Don't have the proper skills to fly or b) can't afford to replace.

It's weird! I do not get it. I can buy another personality in this game??? Now I have three character slots so after buying it I will have only two or I have to create new alter-account?

OK. Thanks for clarifications.

I have done some research and I think I cannot purchase most powerful vessels like dreads, carriers etc. because they can only operate in low-sec and null-sec space where I would be quickly destroyed by pirates, NPCs and other crazy stuff. So now I need a ship able to fly in high-sec space what means nothing with jump-drive propulsion is on the table. Therefore the largest vessels in my present reach are Marauders.

Marauders are apparently best suited for missions and solo NPC fight but not PvP battles. Am I right?

Bigger is NOT better in EVE. Ships are tools, you use the best one for the job you're doing. There's no one ship that does everything better than all other ships

For a brand new character, a Marauder is about a 3-month train, that's if you go straight for the ship training nothing else, no core skills, no weapon skills, nothing else. Plus it's about a billion ISK for the ship alone. It is not a new player's ship and it's not good at everything, far from it.