EVE New Citizens Q&A

Do all of the tutorials, you can repeat them with other career agents if you want to. Then try a little of everything, find something you enjoy, and do it, if you find it boring 2 weeks later, try something else. Google and youtube will yield a vast wealth of eve related stuff including tutorials on things like scanning and playing the markets.

Whatever path you choose, you can do something else on the same character, or use one of your remaining character slots to specialise in something.

Personally I do mainly bear stuff; I mine, I mission, I do a little production and trade on the markets amongst other things, but after 4 years of doing so I feel a lack of fun and a slight excess of isk leftover from bills and plex... so I've spawned myself a new Gallente alt for the purposes of making other people explode.

The new Tristan is boss btw especially with good drone skills, got some big love for that ship. I've yet to try the other racial frigs.

noob here.... i do notice in my account settings online 2 empty character slots. i can fill those for free or do i have to pay? Thanks for the replies!

Thanks!

if u just finished the tutorials this is a good arc :
https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/The_Blood-Stained_Stars

Mining is about the only thing that is completely incompatible with combat.

You can for example, do combat, while doing industry or trading on the side with minimal skill investment into non-combat skills.

But to even remotely approach an acceptable isk-making level with mining will take a massive skill investment, and even after that, requires numerous alts or other players to bring the income up to 'minimum wage' standards.

By contrast, putting a week's training into (for example) salvaging will give you the potential for a much higher income than months of training into mining barges, and only requires that you have/find an experienced friend who runs 'high-level' PvE content to tag along behind. The minimal isk and SP investment will leave you with money and training time to work on combat skills/experience.

Equally so, a little bit of training and isk into planetary interaction could be a good choice to make some (relatively) passive income while focusing on combat training.

Even basic production can be profitable with few skill points, but the profitability will usually come from trading opportunities rather than the production itself. High sec production is rampant, so the margins have been squeezed quite thin over the years by those with maximum skills. You will need some good trading sense to generate a profit with lesser skills. A good example of this would be producing tech1 frigates, microwarpdrives, and cloaking devices, or cynosural field generators and putting them on the market for 200-300% profit margins in out-of-the-way systems where there are few markets. Selling these 'travel frigates' at the right locations is a great way to triple the value of minerals you get from reprocessing 'junk loot' (synergising nicely with 'salvaging' profession).

Greater opportunities you'll have to figure out for yourself, but they do exist for the creatively-minded.

At the CSM 8 Summer Summit, CCP and the CSM addressed player retention vs. activities ingame (pages 25-27), and found that those who split their activities ingame across different areas/professions tend to stay longer and quit less often. So there's that...anecdotally, I agree with them since I'm someone who has explored most of the professions ingame, and I know first-hand that one can only take so much of repeating a given activity before moving on/quitting.

All those words were really to discourage you from getting too deep into mining. The skill investment will not leave you with any room to train other options for several months, and the tiny amount of isk you can earn will lock you into the profession, barely paying for the skills and ships you need to mine 5% better so you can afford a ship 200% the price so you can now mine 10% (!) better.

Win eve, game the system. Don't become another cog/victim.

To add my own take on the above. I got into manufacturing after playing 5 years, it can be cutthroat in terms of competition but it depends where you are and what you are doing. It can also be time-consuming. I think it's best left to when you are a bit more established, but for someone that likes that aspect of MMOs (crafting in other games), sure, dive in.

Trade again benefits from some depth of game knowledge but like manufacturing you can do it from day one if that is what you like doing.

Thank you all for such good write ups and opinions on the game. I enjoyed reading each of them. I guess i will diversify myself in the game so it doesn't become boring.

I'd be an awoxer/safarist, mission invader and general scumbag. Unfortunately I'm far too honest to do any of this stuff currently. It's something of a curse.

My advice is to try everything. Missions, high sec mining, FW, Exploration, low sec piracy, high sec ganking, wormhole life, gas mining, Griefing, scamming, code enforcement, white kinghting, Trade, ect.

If I had it to do all over again... I'd join Brave Newbies Inc. and start having fun from day one, even though I knew nothing.

Even as a vet I'm consider joining them with a rookie alt, because they seem to have too much fun.

EVE is more about the people you meet than the spaceships you shoot.