EVE General Discussion

Double Quoted for Truth.

Welcome to EVE OP o/

It is important to understand that this is a long game in terms of your characters evolution. Through the Tutorials, you will have to experiment to develop your play-style. Will you specialize, as most will recommend to do one thing expertly of will you go for broad training (As I recommend - Fly Every Tech 1/2/3 ship, market, mine, transport & scan). You can always change your mind and try something new as time moves forward.

Once that's done, it's time to find a corp that jives with your style. Take you time and vet the corps just as much as they vet you. Keep your connections strong, but don't be afraid to burn a bridge or two along the way.

Keep it in the game. Ganking/scamming/griefing are all part of the game, but DO NOT take it out the game. The community/CCP will school you if you do.

In the beginning, Trust No One There are bitter, hateful capsuleers who have nothing left after a decade of play than to make you rage & cry. Nothing in this game is free or safe Keep you wits about your and always ask, what's this player's angle? Half the time, they will help. The other half.........

Don't rush to get the next best ship. By the time you fly cruisers, you should be able to fit tech 2 defensive modules. By the time you move up to Battleships, you should be able to straight fit all tech 2 modules.

Don't carry all you stuff in one ship....EVER. What is lost is lost.

There's more, but for now, fly safe and see you among the stars.

Actually, the CEO has plans to pay dividends on manufacturing jobs to those who own shares in the corporation.

Others may do it differently, but this is a friend that I've known in real life for many years. Why are some of you so adamant about how shares allegedly do or do not work, when I'm telling you how my CEO intends to make them work?

*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal.

OP, you received some valuable information in this thread. Chief among them was one pertaining to your immediate concern:




Now, just because you don't like the answer and/or it doesn't benefit what your RL friend (who none of us know), does not mean you should begin to berate the posters in this thread. This is GD if people think you are being rude or flippant with their genuine attempts to help, the will turn full troll.

As mentioned before Corp shares are usually kept very tight by a CEO as they dictate control of the corporation. The only real reason a CEO would offer shares would be as an incentive to get some type of investment into the corp. That being said a Corp that offers shares too freely, I would be wary of. There is too much of a risk of AWOX/Failure/Loss that can be damaging to the corp and its members. Also, owning shares tend to equate to more responsibility. If that's you thing and you two are tight and you like that then go for it!

Personally, I keep it simple. I do the thing, you give me the Isk

I have removed some rule breaking posts and those quoting them. As always I let some edge cases stay.
Please people, keep it on topic and above all civil!

The rules:
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Let me assure you I will not tolerate any more patronizing down talk of the ISD STAR division. They are a good team that does their utmost best. Do not only judge them on the occasional troll stampede that overruns them in the Rookie Help Chat (Which is only one of many places where they offer help to new players.)

Me too...

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At what point in my OP did I request help? Feel free to indulge everyone.

This topic was created to shed perspective on Rookie Help and the misuse of it by other players. Perhaps reading the original post (and my subsequent replies) you'd have arrived at the simple conclusion that I'm not asking for help. I've reiterated this time and again throughout the topic.

You (as well as others) took it upon yourselves to derail the topic into an offhanded discussion about shares that I couldn't possibly care any less for. I know what they are, why my CEO would like offer me some, and how they will impact me going forward. What someone else speculates they will be used for is irrelevant.

As I stated previously in this topic, this thread has only furthered my final point about the general toxicity of this community. Half of the responses here were misinformed and lacking the information provided in my original post; the remainder were belligerent attacks on my choice to invest in a corporation owned by a friend.

Forgive me if my desire to be "respectful" has long since passed.

Somehow I'm not surprised that you'd be ignorant enough to label the post as "whining". Carry on, troll.