EVE New Citizens Q&A

I played some EVE last summer and really got into the game. However I canceled my subscription when I got accepted to a higher vocational education school - mainly cause it's full time, and I have to commute every day leaving me with very limited spare time every day. I simply quit EVE due to a lack of time.

I recently got back into it with a new character though. I'm still on the same schedule but I feel a bit more confident about the time I have and I think EVE is worth it. It's a damn fun game.


However I'd like to ask some of you more experienced capsuleers about what I can do in the game with my limited time. Alot of people ask "What is there to do in EVE?". I know of most of the things you can do, but I have barely any grasp at all on how time consuming the different occupations can be. What is there to do for someone who can only spare a few hours each weekend in EVE?

Right now I'm basically just doing a few lvl 2 sec missions every now and then and I'd like to get more involved with the player community. PvE can only entertain you for so long.

There's PI, it's not the most exciting of activities, but it earns ISK and can be done very quickly.

At the end of the day you simply have to make a decision:

Dull and uneventful life in college/whatever with responsibilites nobody could give a hoot about except you. Or a fun and exciting life in New Eden where you experience new people and exciting events every day for a fraction of the price you pay for college.

To any extend...anything.

You can find anything you want for the amount of gametime you have.
The bigger issue, trying to find it.

Missions can be done easily with limited game time, so is mining and incursions.
FW can be done with limited game time.
PI and Trading are semi passive income ways.
But even PvP can be very real life friendly if you look for a good way to satisfy your spaceship violence.

Sorry, what's Pl? Thanks.

Taking your question very literally at several hours on a weekend : same as any MMO or MMORPG really, you don't have much time to learn through playing, though you may be able to find time to read up on stuff.

Even if you cant be online more then a few hours every week it actually wont limit you as much as you might think.

You have already discovered missions, PVE is nice and easy like this since you can log on, do a mission or two and log off.
Same goes for mining, exploration, PVP..almost anything.

However, it can make leadership positions more difficult (even tho some make it work as already mentioned in this thread).

Just stay away from corporations who says you have to be online so and so many hours every week, or that you have to fulfill other requirements such as get so and so many kills every month, or mine so and so much every week.. you get the idea.

Now also remember EVE is a more mature game, which means that you will find a lot of people with full time jobs, families, or college such as you self.
In general recruiters and people in the leadership knows this, and has a more relaxed attitude and understands that sometimes people only have a couple of hours on the weekends.

So, here is my advice.
Find a corporation. The few hours you have will can easier be filled with various activities when you have other people around you can join

Og det er mange Svenske corp i EVE, så hvis du vil være sikker på at de er i samme tids sone burde du sjekke om det er ett av de som høres bra ut