EVE New Citizens Q&A

I would suggest that you do the Sisters of EVE epic arcs.

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Never mind, your already in a corp

So in that case.. Get involved with the corp activities, even if its just chatting with them while your doing your own thing until you feel comfortable joining whatever they are doing

If you run level 1 missions, being new, you'll make next to no isk. No where near worth the time invested to earn pennies.

You could mine in a venture. That too, is the equivalent of working for pennies.

Hmm, lets see.

I dunno man, efficiency wise, there's really nothing you can do.

I suggest you do what every other new player has to do:

Wait 6 months while skills train and then start farming/playing.

You specified "military" as your playstyle. Well, being new you'll win zero fights.

You just have to wait. Or find people to team up with.

Thank you I may be able to join up with a friend from Dust to learn the ropes of the game.

No, you said you finished the combat tutorial.

That doesn't automatically means you like it.

Do them all.
Do the SoE Epic Arc

You are in a corp....do corp stuff.

You are doing the ancient old "Help, spoon feed me with content in a sandbox" thread.

To reiterate the broader point that J'Poll touches on, this is where Eve is going to be significantly different from other games. Unlike everything else, you will almost never encounter a breadcrumb trail to content and fun within Eve. This makes the game a bit challenging to 'get' at first, and initially makes finding the fun parts a bit of a hunt.

You're going to have to actively decide what you're interested in doing, and pursue it independently. That, or rely on your corpmates to pull you along into their business. It's a difficult phase to pass through, as a newbie - I remember it well. And occasionally veterans find themselves back in this position, needing to find something new.

The trick is experimenting, or trial and error. Or a group activity to throw in on.

As a new player myself...probably don't even have 30 days yet, but close, I'll admit, I've been up against the "Is this fun, wtf am I doing" wall a few times.

I gotta say, keep going. I've been in game for just about a month, haven't played or even interacted with anyone yet (relocating mid-March and will be starting a new job, so my time to delve into playing with any group of people or corp will be limited for a bit and haven't wanted to join and then disappear and look like a punk).

I'll tell you this, I'm sitting here at this moment wishing I could train a ton of skills faster. I want to PVP, I want to move to L3 missions, I want to get into exploration and scanning, I want to get more into industry and research. I know that doing all of that to any degree of effectiveness is going to take 1-2 years just to get all those skills most likely (maybe less as they overlap in various ways).

I've just got to the point I can clear L2's half-afk/half-drunk/half-paying attention. I'm not making any isk (because I've lost a couple of fitted Vexor's making stupid mistakes), none, I'm negative atm, but I did the Buddy account thing, sold the plex I got and have 3-months on an alt account that is training for refining to be my marketeer/miner/researcher/b*tch/whatever.

Even by myself for now, this is all fun, even if it is a bit lonely, but I know that will change.

L1 missions suck but you can get into L2 pretty fast if you train into a Cruiser or even play it save in a destroyer (loving my droneboat Vexor now that I'm better trained for drones, forcing a droneboat when I didn't have drones trained well was a nightmare).

So what am I doing now? Practicing my scanning so that when my skills are better I'll know wtf I'm doing. I'm running L2s because the ISK, while low, is decent enough if you're not losing ships and I'm stock piling my loot drops so I can either reprocess or sell on the market when those skills make it worth it. My biggest goal right now? Grinding standing so I can get jump clones and better refining.

The best thing I can advise, if you're feeling lost or aren't sure what to do, set your skill queue for a day or two and walk away. Load it up with a bunch of 1-3hr skills for things you'd like to do eventually so you've got a basic foundation across the board.

tl;dr - Your character is new with very few skills, if you're impatient, it's never going to work. Find something fun to pass the time when you have time to play but for now, understand that yes, you need to train some skills for a few weeks before you can really be good at any one thing. If you want to fight, train skills for your weapon of choice, your tank (armor or shield) of choice and your ship of choice. Early on once you get to the 20hr+ skills, if it's not something you think you want to do right now or want to get into full scope, train a handfull of other skills in that period. I'm finding it very easy having come from many other MMO's over the years to want to rush to the "end game" but that is simply not the case with EVE, there is no "end game" and there is no "rush".

Ooh he is a "Hit match - instant gratification" Bunny. Explains a lot.

What do you want to do?

You can also do exploration if you're chatting with corp members. Running system to system and doing data/relic sites is worth your time as a new player.

Plus, getting intimate with the scanner will benefit your eve career forever. You could also screw around in HS combat sites, they can pay ok... the DED 1/10 sometimes have good loot drops (I've heard). You'll have to scan for those though.

Just use EvE Survival (google) to figure out if you can survive the site.

Also, join random chat channels and talk to people. It makes wandering around much more enjoyable.

I'm also going to disagree with anyone who says "don't PVP for six months because you'll lose". First off, as others have said, newbros are almost always welcome as tacklers and scouts in fleets. Nobody's ever lost a fight because they had too much tackle.

Second, if you're looking to PVP solo, you're going to lose ANYWAY. Your first time in a 1v1, your nerves are going to be screaming, your client is going to be throwing way more information at you than you can process, your overview will be effed, half your modules will be in the worst possible place, and at the end of the fight you're going to realize your guns weren't loaded or you forgot to launch your drones or you had a window where you were out of scram range and could have run away but you didn't notice until it was too late. Skill training won't help with any of that--only practice and experience will. The time to figure out how you like your overview set or what's the best setup for your mods or just get your brain to speed up to process a fight in real time is when you're flying a million isk Atron, not a forty million isk Enyo.

Now that said, I think it can be hard for experienced players to remember what it was like when your only income source is level 1 missions or highsec mining in a Venture. It's easy for my FW alt to take fights I know I'll probably lose when I've got an L4 grinding sugar mama ready to deposit another 20m isk into the "die stupid" fund on a moment's notice. It might be a lot more painful for you. If your corp is good and genuinely noob friendly, you should have access to good moneymaking opportunities you otherwise wouldn't, even if it's just playing garbageman (looting/salvaging) while they run L4s in a fleet. Otherwise, if you're not earning more in a corp than you could be outside of it, then honest you're probably better off leaving for greener pastures. It doesn't mean they're a bad corp necessarily, but for where you are in the game they might not be the right fit (It should go without saying if you're scouting/tackling in PVP fleets for them they should be happy to reimburse your losses--if not, they're a **** corp). This is why so many people have been suggesting the other tutorials and the Sisters Epic Arc; they're a good source of seed money for newcomers, and if your corp isn't helping you with that, I'd recommend those as well.