EVE New Citizens Q&A

As the title says, I'm brand new to EVE Online with a 30 day trial and looking for some help and guidance as I learn to play as well as determine if this is a game I want to continue to play. I'm not new to MMO's, but am definitely new to this one. The idea of EVE intrigues me a lot, but it seems very in depth and somewhat complex and some guidance would be most appreciated.

I'm wondering if there are any corporations full of people that would be willing to assist and provide guidance as well as answer all of my annoying newb questions. A "mentor" of sorts wouldn't be so bad either. :-)

I just got the game, so I'm sure I will need to go through a tutorial first, but I'm sure I will have tons of questions during the tutorial as well as after the tutorial. Any help or pointing in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time to read my long (and most likely incoherent) post.

Awesome. Thank you for the heads up. I'm assuming that's searchable in the game?

That's kind of where the guidance part comes into play. I've seen there's an option for mining, what are the other options? I'm assuming there's one for pure fighting as well? I feel like the fighting is what would best keep my interest in this game, but also might be one of the more complicated choices and maybe not as fruitful as others.

Welcome aboard OP. All of the above is good advice.

To add to it, the best advice I can give you is to forget everything you learnt in other MMO's and to start with an open mind because here other players are your content, and you are theirs.

Couple of things:

1. Technically nobody is allowed to recruit in any form in this forum, recruitment is restricted to the recruitment part of the forum.
As a trial you won't be able to post anything there but you can look up adverts set up by other corporations.

2. There are some general corps that are generally well accepted by people, things like RvB (Red vs Blue - PvP community), Brave Newbies or EVE University come to mind. But keep in mind there are many many more (and less well known corps around). Take your time finding the one that is right for you.

3. Don't think you NEED a corp to play social, it helps but it's not a MUST. There are plenty of public communities around EVE (chat channels - occasionally with open voice comms etc) that you can hang out with.

4. To help you in the search for a corp, read this forum thread:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=331341&find=unread

5. As you found the forums...ask your questions here. IMO these forums (the New Citizen Q&A) is way better then having a mentor. Why... Because you get feedback from multiple people, so many different views on things or you can verify the answer is true (if 10 people all say the same thing, it's likely true. If you get 10 totally different answers, we are doing a bad job).

6. Forget all you learned in other MMOs. Very very likely it works differently in EVE.

http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/


To give you an idea what you can do.

Keep in mind: EVE is a sandbox, you create your own content and gameplay.

So, technically, you can do what ever you want (as long as it doesn't breach EULA/ToS rules).

I am PvP driven in MMO's. That's all I did in SWTOR and WoW. I definitely think PvP is going to be the way I go, but I need to get much better at this game first and clearly have a LOT to learn. I was reading that chart you sent in that URL and wow...I had no idea there were THAT many options! Thanks again for the info.

I'm hopping on in about an hour to finish the tutorial and then...who knows. So many choices. Thanks again.

Really? Interesting. That's not normal for PvP in most MMO's haha. Good to know though. I think I'm going to go through all the specialty missions right after the tutorial and then look into PvP. Does EVE University teach PvP or should I look for a more PvP only corp?

Many would suggest two prominent newbie-groups: E-Uni and Brave Newbies.

However I'd like to point out that where E-Uni is apparently politically neutral, Brave Newbies is very likely not. What this means in practice is that should you join Brave Newbies, there is a fair chance that you will get pigeonholed in which corps and alliances' doors are later open to you, and which are shut. By contrast, if you join a non-political group, seemingly such as Eve University, then you should likely not have any trouble later on joining any corp you wish.

Something to be aware of.

EVE-Uni are far from neutral too. They are neutral with respect to nullsec alliance politics, but not neutral with respect to highsec.

OP, here's a few activities in EVE you might consider. Tell us what you are interested in, we can then provide more guidance.



1) Fighting against NPCs that get tougher over your career (Incursions/Missions)

2) Infiltrating player corporations with treachery at heart, stealing everything you can, burning everything you can't steal (AWOXing/corp theft)

3) Fighting alongside large fleets of fellow players, defending your space and attacking the space of other players (Nullsec sovereign warfare)

4) Hunting solo or in small groups for players that pose easy targets, stealing from the prey and fighting other predators like yourself (lowsec/nullsec piracy)

5) Declaring wars in highsec against other corporations for profit, revenge, or in search of 'gud fites' (highsec predatory wardecs)

6) Illegally attacking targets of opportunity in highsec, knowing that you can steal more from them than the damage the police will do to you (highsec ganking)