EVE New Citizens Q&A

Now that I didn't know, TY for the correction.

I give back occasionally, I'll often drop a bunch of frigates from a hauler in newbie systems, only seems right when I'm low balling my buy orders for their loot.

Markets are made to exploit, just don't make it impossible for rookies to complete tutorial missions.

Sounds like a job for the Knights of the New Order tbh.

First off thank you for many of these posts. It was very helpful to see the discussion for it helps me as a new player to understand the pros and cons of various aspects of EVE and play. Yes i realized some of this, like how to warp to a source of my already owned objects to get home and to set destination for missoin objectives ...i found the first mining mission did have an already supplied asteroid. I figured out about people mining out once that first post was made and I saw the same ships in each area combing the region for rocks, over and over. I was not happy about it but didnt know what it really was. botting just like other games.

As for bumping, i am grateful for the kindness of the one poster for trying to stop one of these "farmers" ..as i do have 8 more industry missions to go and more beyond that. But i dont want to encourage people to use my thread to learn and share aggressive tactics in excess of my initial post. I am NOT a fan of PVP at all, tho I realize it is part of EVE and i will be as careful as i can to avoid it. It does help to know some of the tactics that I may have to develop counters for.

You mention 11 EVE time as re spawn, what time is that in in US time terms if anyone can tell me? that way i can re visit those astroid pockets I was supposed to learn from .I ended up buying my ore from the market, and that was a good learning experience, i had not realized 1. Setting up a buy order was different and more epensive from buying direct, ie i had to pay the seller fees, 2. you have to GO to the source if it is in another system. Luckily i didn't encounter any baddies as I am not confident of my skills to defend yet.

final note, some "nice" person challenged me to a 'duell just outside the tutorial station. I merely re docked and they went away. Nice guy/gal ... ah well i suspect they knew i was a noob and wanted some fun. not from this rookie.

thanks again for the positive help much appreciated. It helps to know there are people here who WILL help, as it is a bit daunting, i am no noob to space sims as i have collected and played most of them for many years, but this is my first "live" mmo one and i an hopeful to at least complete the 21 trial tour.

UPDATE: EVE time zones

i found a time conversion chart for EVE time, Downtime is 5 AM Mountain time my zone, here is the chart:

http://www.eveinfo.net/complexes/inde~246.htm

I will plan my learning of mining times for early AM. I may also bump some farmers if i find them. There ARE three police cruisers stationed in Field 2, can I report bum asteroid snaggers to them in game?

I still need to insure my ship and get all of the details on updtaing my clone and jump clone. but thanks for that advice appreciate it. I think i understand most of what you say ..except where you said..."getting into structure' which I think means structural damage on my ship? thanks again.

And until i can take the ship control or navigation tutorials or study up i have no clue how to move my ship other than using warp and gate jumps commands. Would not be much good in any ship to ship action.

I hope we get a detailed ship handling tutorial, and if not, we need one.

I think that rule only applies to newbies themselves. I think I'm actually going to partition that question to get clarification, because I find it quite untasteful that people bend this rule for their own benefit.

But as someone else mentioned in this thread war dec's work just as well

The OP specifically mentions Mission 2 in the Industry Tutorial, where the agent asks for the ore to be mined from a belt, so there is no mission location to warp to.

What is not made clear, though, is the point made by Major Trant: you can just buy the ore from the market and the agent will accept it.

thanks again for the advice. I will be careful about taking any kind of aggresive action against greedy farmers.... and will just do my own thing. I may not stay in EVE if it is all about competition and PVP, i Hate those in real life and enjoy exploring and playing WITH other players but not against them. That is not my desire in either games or life. But I will do my best to learn the basics and enjoy it while i can. There Should be ways to play EVE without having to become an aggressive monster bent on beating every one else. I will see, but I do appreciate all the help. I will keep one finger on the warp button and have a safe haven selected in advance of any sortee for the meantime. I will also arm and armour my ship to the best of my ability. the best offense is a good defense.

thanks

I have seen exhumers referred to..are those like mining droids? I hope to avoid jet canning as it seems a silly waste of time since ppl will grab them if they can.

thanks for the tips on what to watch out for. I plan to run if anyone shoots at me, and if they chase me i will run faster. or get faster drives. I have no intention of fighting with anyone.

Well, the game is really what you make of it You just need to keep in mind that other people have their own ideas of fun, but there is nothing keeping you from enjoying yourself even if you never pvp at all, but if you don't want to pvp, you will need to learn to understand how the pvp players think in order to make yourself a difficult target, and to easily recover from the rare times when normal avoidance measures fail.

edit....Somehow I made that all one sentence.......