EVE New Citizens Q&A

Correct.

Little research would have shown you cant train the skill on a trial account and thus might have prevented you to put all your eggs in a basket you cant carry.

This.

My trader started as a 21 trial with a cash injection. He was trading in ships from day one a trial cant even undock in.

You will receive a free iteron when you finish one of the tutorial sets (business or industry I belive, maybe both). In fact the tutorials will provide many skillbooks and free ships that would more than cover your "loss".

The reason for most of the trial restrictions IMO is to keep people from creating a ton of "throw-away" accounts to do things like hauling. Since it only takes a day to skill into a decent hauler people would just keep creating new trial accounts and use discardable characters to do low skill tasks instead of paying to use them, essentially cheating CCP out of a subscription fee (that thing they use to make a quality game for all of us.)

Edit: Not the first to say this. Note to self: read thread before posting

Note to Cara: And definately NOT the first time we had to explain it

Weird that new players don't see that lifting the trial restrictions on stuff is just a prime example of Malcanis' Law.

You will receive a free iteron when you finish one of the tutorial sets (business or industry I belive, maybe both). In fact the tutorials will provide many skillbooks and free ships that would more than cover your "loss".

Both of them

OP: I actually buy and sell exhumers (tech 2 mining barges) for profit despite not even being able to fly the tech 1 version. There's nothing wrong with owning ships you can't fly.

IIRC trial accounts are restricted to cruisers and smaller ships to make some of the things illicit RMT'ers do less efficient.

Being a somewhat new player myself, I can sympathize with the OP to an extent. The trial account does have some interesting restrictions, which I'm sure are in place for good reason(most cheap alt abuse by veterans).

The only thing I can really say to the OP is that you've learned a VERY important lesson about the core nature of EVE. Don't spend all your resources on a single thing, since it can be lost any number of different ways: Ignorance, scamming, outright attacks against you, or just a failure to understand what it is that you've actually bought.

I highly recommend that you just keep playing the rest of your trial. If you can recover from this loss, it's a good sign than you'll be well prepared for other losses in the future. One of the things I've learned about EVE is that recovering from a heavy loss is part of the challenge of the game! It's what makes it so damn interesting. Instead of thinking about how broken and bad things feel, try to ask yourself how you'd overcome, get around, or circumvent the problem instead. Why did you want an Iteron? What were you going to do with it? Are there other ways to accomplish the same thing, even on a trial account?

Granted, EVE isn't for everyone. But if you were having fun before, you really should keep playing. As others have said, it's only $10 to lift the restrictions that you found so hard to deal with.

Look, I sympathize with wanting to get the most for your money, but...

If 15$ to try something out for a month is "too expensive" for you, not only should you not be playing Eve, you shouldn't be playing any MMO or other time-intensive game in general.

Spend those hours applying for jobs so you can be employed... then, even if you're only doing 20 hrs/week flipping burgers, a month of subscription time will be a trivial expense you won't even notice spending hardly.

If you do end up subscribing, this will not be the last time you mistakenly buy the wrong thing. It happens to us all at one time or another. In a hurry? Really should've gone to bed several hours ago? Drinking? I've never understood the restrictions on posting in tech support though. One would imagine that is a vital part of the new player experience.

This is a pretty silly thing to say. Of course an old player who knows the game can do stuff like that, however noobies are just trying to learn as they go!
Anyway, I didn't lose too much ISK thankfully, and I did learn a lesson, but I stand by my earlier statements. CCP could do with seriously improving the situation with easing noobies into the game. It's an enjoyable, well made game by the feel of it, but these little rough edges can hamper your enjoyment quite badly. I agree with the person who said about some kind of filter for new players, one that only shows things they can use.

As for the person who decided to try and insinuate that I'm poor for some reason, I think you need to grow up a little! :)

P.S. To whoever said they found it 'interesting' that I bought the Iteron, the reason I did so was very simple. Higher HP that my Atron provided. Plus I also liked the ship design.. :)