EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello everyone,

New player to Eve and after taking a few days to look round and reading the forums I wondered if someone could point me in the right direction.

I was hoping to try and aim for a mission and ratting type career with some exploration thrown in, but dont know whether that going to be too spread skills out to far but wondered what would be the best sort of skills to concentrate on at the moment.

I have only just finshed the tutorial missions so do not have destroyer trained up yet, but I guess that is something I should do quite quickly for the mission/ratting idea?

Just really looking for a little imput from the many experienced players one here.

Building off of the previous post....

I would train both Archeology and Hacking to lvl 3 and eventually lvl 4 when you have time, it will make hacking a lot easier, then when you have 2 weeks to burn, but Archelolgy at lvl 5 and get a t2 relic analyzer. The t2 stuff will majorly help you in hacking harder sites in low and null (Helped me when I HAD Hacking 5 :( There are also many rigs and modules to assist in scanning and there are rigs to increase your virus coherence for relic or data analyzers.

There are minor RL skills that you will find in the minigame, but even w/o the loot spew anymore, fit a cargo scanner to your ship to see which cans are worthless or empty and which ones have the valuables. In the harder relic sites you may find BPC's that are actually worth something (Unlike most of the junk ones) so check their value on the contract market and if it is worth you building the item and selling it yourself (Which isn't too often).

Feel free to mail me if you need more info on exploration!

hi

Do the tutorials - they set you up with an overall understanding of game basics .. show you some parts of the game you might not otherwise have discovered right away and give you some structure that is otherwise lacking in a sandbox. You also end up with skills, ships, mods and stuff .. which will help get the proverbial ball rolling.

Sisters of EvE Arc .. i have never done it .. but i plan to .. even as a veteran noob .. just to see what its like .. its the first step everyone says try after doing all the totorials.

Missions - Research which NPC corp you want to work for .. usually one that has plenty of Combat Mission Agents .. in all of the levels. There is a small list of the usual suspects that i am sure will show up with a bit of reading. Learn Connections to increase your standing .. instead of doing a ton of low level missions a few days of Connections skilling will work wonders. Get that and Negotiation.

For skills .. there a core skills that help everything in eve .. if you park youself in a school for a bit .. and just browse down the list of skills .. keep an eye out for all the cheap, low level skills, in most of the sections .. maybe skip the few that are very specific - like Leadership and Manufacturing .. but using a bit of logic .. you can sort out that getting all the cheap, low level skills, in the main sections to lv III is a great place to start. This will improve your ability to fly almost all ships, and open up the use of most of the common Tech 1 moduals. When i make a new toon .. i just go through and buy every skill under 100k to start .. One might not have the isk, but just get started .. for example .. Navigation makes every ship in game go faster .. going fast is a good thing whether you are hauling .. moving to a new asteroid, chasing a npc rat or running from a gate camp.

There are specific skills for exploring - simple look up of a Exploration guide .. for example wiki.eveuniversity.org/Exploration should get you the info you need to know what ship, mods, skills are needed .. then you just need practice. Google info and read the forums, check out links people put in this forum section, take notes, watch videos .. there is a wealth of information out there .. too much really.

Finally I would highly suggest joining a player corp .. be patient and careful to pick the right group .. no need to rush, to research, ask questions ... and if that seems like too much work then join one of the long time successful new player training type corps like EvE University. You will learn faster in a corp, and feel more engaged in the sandbox then out floating around on your own.

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer and your wise advice and recommendations all of you, really does give me an idea of where to go and what to do skill wise.

It seems that there is even more to the subtleties of learning Eve than first appear

Train your core skills first. Every kind of ship uses them. They will be handy for you no matter what you do. Google a lot.

Some tips I found useful when I started out:

always have the rookie help channel open in your chat window. You'll learn loads from it just lukring about whilst doing downtime things like fitting ships, selling your stuff, or browsing the market.

Same goes for the Eve Uni chat channel

If you see a cool fit someone links: save it. Always useful for later

DO NOT rush to bigger ships. It's useless and expensive. I'd say train up to Battlecruiser at max (cause they still use medium guns) to start with.

Try out exploration, it's relatively cheap in T1 frigs, and can net you some nice cash too. Also get's the adrenaline pumping, cause you can and will lose your ship when you venture out into.

Don't neglect your drone skill tree: usefull for nearly all ships

Train up both shield and armor tanking skills




As stated by others: ratting and missioning can become boring. You will tire of it, and leave Eve. This would be a bad thing. Therefore: meet and talk to people online. Ask people questions if they are doing things on grid you find strange. Interact. Join a corp.

never checked it out myself but this thread might be of intrest

Some great stuff here as well.

I am over 21 million skill points, and I spend almost all my playtime PVE'ing in my assault frigate of much gimpness, and I have a bunch of bigger ships. Hurrying into bigger ships = bad.

And yes yes yes to drone skills. I blew off drone skills, and even simple things like low level mining suffered. The core drone skills make combat, mining, and logis

you might also see if you can find a post from Tippi, she's got a newbie skill plan that's pretty decent, will give you a good base of skills