EVE New Citizens Q&A

I don't know what racial ships you plan to train, but if it were Caldari, I'd say kestrel first few days (for career agents). Then caracal attack cruiser for a couple weeks (lvl1-lvl2 missions and sisters of eve epic arc) while you train Drake for lvl3 missions. After a few months when you have your core skills up start training for a T1 raven. After you have spent 3-6 months on the raven buy a CNR (Caldari Navy Raven) as you further improve your battleship skills. After that you would train towards Marauder or train other things depending on what more you want to do. Marauder... probably more towards Incursions. Or back to cruiser/battle cruiser training and take your Drake or T3 cruiser into lvl4 missions or DED sites. Or further train frigates for PvP and/or factional warfare mission running. Just a lot of options, really.

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There are no Black Ops "Cruisers". Don't worry about prices, when you have the skill you will be able to afford fleets of them. I did two lvl4 missions last night in high sec and roughly made 100m in total from mission payout, LP's, loot drop and salvage. Some missions pay better than others of course.

Is it possible to have multiple vessels (my own fleet) and flying them simultaneously as one character?

No, like every other mmo, you can only log in one character per account. Otherwise you need more accounts. "Multiple vessels" you could count as drones though, as some advanced drones are frigate sized.

Depends on size of drones vs. skills. My Battle Cruiser can carry and fly 5 drones. My CNR can carry 20 drones and fly up to five, six if I add a module for it. Yes i believe a marauder can carry five drones, five large drones, but fly them is another matter, and again bigger isn't always the better. I find light drones the most useful for mission running.

Players join (or create) a corporation. Corporations join alliances.

Check out recruiting adds in the Alliance and Corp recruiting forum. You can also find recruiting adds ingame by navigating through your corp interface, and there's a recruiting channel too (although I'd avoid that lol).

Prerequisites vary from corp to corp. There's a ton of newbie friendly ones out there though.

lol...

then replace the ship after the first mission when you get blowed up by a frigate
"What's a frigate? I don't know I never flew one"
This wont end well hehe

A bonus is if you can get a "bitter vet" character, then you can complain about how too easy it is for new players to gain SP and how it was in your day of getting up at 3am to just add a skill for training.

As others have said in this thread, I can't recommend this... Its Just a very expensive loss mail in the making. That being said you can only play the game the way you find fun and if this course will be fun for you, by all means do so. Just be sure to do your research so you know what you are getting into.

Welcome to EVE and Have fun

The most important thing to know about ships in eve is that they are tools for a job, and different tools are good at different jobs.

Unlike some competing MMO's, where one set of equipment is by definition better then another and you only ever use one set at a time and upgrade it as soon as you can, eve's ships exist on a plane of different strengths and weaknesses. All are desirable, it just depends on what you are doing.

Most players will own dozens of ships and swap between them as needed, in addition to buying ships for one-off jobs and selling them once done. You may be surprised at how often veterans fly ships you might consider weak.

I strongly recommend against simply buying an older character from the character bazaar right off the bat. You will find that without basic knowledge of game mechanics, simply buying characters that can use powerful ships will not make you powerful, and you risk losing large amounts of ISK on basic mistakes because you are learning the game on high end ships rather then entry-level ones.

If you do wish to pursue purchasing a pre-trained character from another player, I would suggest that before you do so you should play your trial for the full two weeks first. Do all the tutorials, especially the combat ones, and then do the sisters of eve epic arc.

This will give you some combat experience and help hone your understanding of eves flight mechanics.

Ha excellent.

Glad i read this :)

Nah, he fixed his post after I mentioned that there were no black ops "cruisers". If he were a troll-alt he would have left it for kicks, as intentional. So I think he is on the level, just brainwashed by WoW thinking and all it's clones hah.
*grabs some popcorn* where will the thread go next...

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Just relax, dude, undock and have fun.
Those frigates are some of the best fun in the game.