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Giving Advice To Noobs
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Eternus8lux8lucis
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#1 - 2014-08-26 10:00:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Eternus8lux8lucis
What piece of advice would you give to a noob in game?

Keep it fairly short and actually be helpful, yeah I know asking a lot from the GD crowd but Ill give it a go.Big smile


EDIT: Now for those of you that have gotten this far.... What piece of advice would you give yourself when you were just starting out in your Eve life?

Have you heard anything I've said?

You said it's all circling the drain, the whole universe. Right?

That's right.

Had to end sometime.
Unezka Turigahl
Det Som Engang Var
#2 - 2014-08-26 10:02:23 UTC
Battleships suck, don't make them your goal. Max out a frigate and all its support skills. Then a T2/pirate frig. Then max out a cruiser. Then a T2/pirate cruiser.
Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-08-26 10:05:07 UTC
Trust no one, but don't lock yourself out of the possibility of trusting someone.

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#4 - 2014-08-26 10:06:26 UTC
whatever they ask for , generally.

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

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Vitiges
Marenhide Tax Evasion Company
#5 - 2014-08-26 10:09:16 UTC
Make instadocks and undocks everywhere!
Yang Aurilen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2014-08-26 10:15:06 UTC
Don't fly what you can't afford to lose. REPEATEDLY.

Post with your NPC alt main and not your main main alt!
Ottersmacker
Genos Occidere
HYDRA RELOADED
#7 - 2014-08-26 10:23:45 UTC
you don't need your character to have 'the necessary skills maxed' before you can have fun (despite some snobs telling you otherwise)

eve is a game of diminishing returns, especially when it comes to the size and cost of .. stuff

i just locked an open door.. strange, yet symbolically compelling.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#8 - 2014-08-26 10:31:28 UTC
look at the kill mail....you sploded them right?right? is there anything up with it?
anything obvious?....did you get their pod as well? if you did , talk about getting the pod out.

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Blue Harrier
#9 - 2014-08-26 10:35:51 UTC
The fact someone has ten times the number of skill-points than you does not make him ten times better than you. A small gun travelling fast can always hit a barn door travelling slow.

"You wait - time passes, Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold." from The Hobbit on ZX Spectrum 1982.
Tamazaki
Doomheim
#10 - 2014-08-26 10:39:10 UTC
Don't go into wormhole space in your little T1 exploration frigate. Bad things will happen... as I discovered to my cost.

These are the most common questions I see in rookie chat:

How do I copy names into the chat?
How do I find asteroids to mine?
My overview disappeared, how do I get it back?
How do I find agents?
I'm stuck in the solar system map, how do I exit/view the star map?
What is high sec/low sec?
My ship blew up, can I get it back?
Where is Jita?
How do I sell my ore?
How do I split stacks?
Is it possible to afford a PLEX before my trial runs out?
Where are Sisters of EVE?

CCP needs to mail the answers to these questions to every new player when they log in for the first time P
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#11 - 2014-08-26 10:42:14 UTC
get out of that ****ty npc corp right ****ing now!

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Ryder 'ook
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2014-08-26 10:43:22 UTC
Find a group of people to play with. Said group should match your sense of humor and your preferred playstyle - in that order because playstyles can and will change over time.

Every atom in our bodies was forged in the furnace of ancient stars - it's time we return home.
Slicr
#13 - 2014-08-26 10:49:47 UTC
Be willing to do research.

I believe in being Pro-Active as Opposed to Reactive. Reactive tends to be more costly in time and money.
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#14 - 2014-08-26 10:51:38 UTC
Join a player Corp.

Playing this game with others and having others to provide advice, is way more productive and fun than playing alone.
Yarda Black
The Black Redemption
#15 - 2014-08-26 10:52:46 UTC
Play your own game
Derrick Miles
Death Rabbit Ky Oneida
#16 - 2014-08-26 10:53:06 UTC
Don't believe anything in Jita local.
Belt Scout
Thread Lockaholics Anonymous
#17 - 2014-08-26 10:55:56 UTC
Low sec is more fun than anywhere else in the game.

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They say most of your brain shuts down on the EvE forums. All but the impatient side, and the sarcastic side. No wonder I'm still awake.

**This IS my main so STFU.
Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2014-08-26 10:56:57 UTC
EVE isn't a job. Fun/hour > isk/hour.

“Some capsuleers claim that ECM is 'dishonorable' and 'unfair'. Jam those ones first, and kill them last.” - Jirai 'Fatal' Laitanen, Pithum Nullifier Training Manual c. YC104
Don Purple
Snuggle Society
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#19 - 2014-08-26 11:17:08 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
get out of that ****ty npc corp right ****ing now!

Lol ^

I am just here to snuggle and do spy stuff.
Mithandra
B.O.P Supplication For Glorious
Dracarys.
#20 - 2014-08-26 11:20:48 UTC
Accept the fact that you are not the centre of the universe

Eve is the dark haired, totally hot emo gothchild of the gaming community
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