EVE General Discussion

I've just come back to Eve again after a few months off and got a bit nostalgic about what the game used to feel like when it was all new. So as well as reactivating my main I signed up for a trial account and have been having loads of fun flying a crappy T1 fit frig/dessy around.

Has anyone else done this? I mean starting a totally fresh character after years of playing (I played just after the beta but didn't start playing properly until 2006).

I have always done PvP/Piracy for fun and trading for income and not much else, was gonna perhaps try Faction Warfare and see what that is like. I'm actually having a lot more fun than flying bigger / more expensive stuff and worrying about killboard stats and having to FC or endure internet-drama.

Just wondering if i'm the only one or has anyone else tried to rediscover a love for the game by making a new character?

I keep one slot open just so I can play with the character creator. It should be its own mini-game.

Yea, I'm certain vets do it to check out how things are.

Upon realization of just how limited they are in the scope of possible game play experiences compared to their much high skill point mains, they always revert the "new" character to a simple alt and play primarily on their older accounts.

Because being a new player sucks, and eve veterans forget it, try it out, then remember and make threads on the forums about how they wish the game had less people and how new players shouldn't be allowed to play eve, or that they should play other games all together.

#veteranentitlement

Though I'm not that old. I have started about 3-4 new characters.

While I sense bitterness in the post above, I was able to turn my new pilot into a scanning alt then a salvager. Which gave him use in the first week. In the second/third week, I grabbed gas mining.

third/4th/5th week, I hit up some bare bones drake skills so that I could fly some combat sites, solo lvl3 missions.In about 2-3 months I had a decent logistics pilot.

Same character a year and 1/2 later? Perfect booster alt, orca pilot. Great slepnier/EoS combat pilot. Decent recon / Bomber pilot.Currently mapped int/mem to work on core skills. May eventually fly a carrier or a dread.


Now to be completely fair. A noctis, gas mining skill book, a drake, etc. Are all more money barriers than they are skill barriers for a new player.

While it sucks to train for something your new characters can immediately be useful, contribute, or make you money.

I also once made a faction warfare farming alt. After flying a warp stabbed ship around lowsec and hating myself for making such easy money, I biomassed the character and speak of him only in hushed whispers. I could literally alt+tab and make 20 mil a night with that guy floating in the background.

The new player experience is painful. If your goal is to get into a capital ship immediately, you have a long and painful road ahead of you. If you'd like to be able to sit in a battleship, do frig/cruiser pvp, logi, mine, do PI - or any of 100 other things - your wait time is not very long.

dats not my post right? Cause, I forgot how tough the game was when you can't fit 'anything you want'.

Quite fun having to scrounge for t1 parts to make a rifter. Currently cruising about in a laser rifter due to belt rats not being angels lol

I actually recently just started a new fresh account to see if what I remembered was correct about being a newbie skilled character.

Funny. I have destroyed 30 man corporations with pilots less than 12 hours old. Just last week I killed the T2 ferox of a 2007 player with a 2 day old noob pilot in a meta fit Moa.

But don't let facts get in the way of your ill-informed nonsensical ramblings.

Actually since creating this character I've played more than I ever did on my 30m sp "main". I'm in a major alliance and I never show up for ops because I'm durtling around in wormhole space or joining in on orca ganks on this guy. SP does not equal fun in this game.

Wild guess what my level 4 mission boat, and ship for sleeper sites is when flying with my corp? An incursus. A drake pilot throws five remote repair drones on me, and we're fine.

I take all of my alts through the entire career path at one school at least.

I also spend way more time in my 1/2 month trained alts scooting around losec than I do in my main. By the end of 6 weeks they can fly inties and do basic covops in an astero so they are fine for the job.



I have learned to ignore whining new players as ... guess what ... they never actually quit and 2 years later turn into whining older players. The most amusing thing of the lot is 2 years later they are usually whining about how it was "better" in the old days when they were new and how the game is now nerfed:D Whiners will whine, fact of life.

When I first came to CCP and had to forfeit all my existing characters, I started fresh.

It's pretty fun!