EVE New Citizens Q&A

The tutorials will give you instructions on how to make your ship move.

The tutorials are there for a reason.

Try double clicking in space.

the tutorials are being played,

nowhere in the tutorials is this mentioned.

these threads are here for a reason.

thank you for ultimatly stating to double click. (hmz thought i tried that already, well ill try it again tomorow morning)

pan camra, double click in space

Yes it is.

It's in the very first tutorial that you did at your starter station, the one that teaches you basic ship movement.

I just don't see why people come to a game, do the tutorial and then expect the game to be different.

experienced the same thing when i started playing .. course there wasnt a tutorial to help me .. or a forums ... or people on TS or a voicechat ... or anyone in local (if i even knew what local was) --- so i just flew straight for a realllly really long time. Good times.

Think of it this way: you're not directly controlling your ship so much as you're commanding it. The equivalent would be not so much Freespace as Homeworld. I got confused on that point when I started, as well; it took me a bit to realize that I wouldn't be able to "take the helm" of whatever ship I was in.

The Server clock has been mentioned as one reason why direct control over a ship is not available.

Another more "Immersion" based reason is not directly obvious to new players: EvE ships are too slow and large to make this Kind of "fighter" like flying practical.

While you start in a frigate that at first glance can be mistaken for a fighter craft, and I admit some of the more speedy frigates may even be pilotable as such. The General eve ship behaves more like a seaborne warship than a fighter plane.

You do not do dive bombing attacks, you maneuver for an advantegeous firing position for you weapons batterys or send your drones at the enemy while trying to move into a disadvantegous Position for the enemy to shoot back.

The moment you reach cruiser sized ships these also tend to maneuver so slowly that any twitch based kind of control becomes cumbersome.

EvE ships are best seen as being commanded by the admiral on the bridge and not the lone pilot in a cockpit. (Well technically there is a lone Pilot in a capsule.... but I mean the cinematic picture...)

But you can "just steer the thing". You do it by double clicking in the direction you want to move.

The server clock is irrelevant; the game features a particular sort of ship movement command – why it does so is immaterial, all you need do is use the method that is provided.

Nobody is berating the OP for asking why something is missing, since they asked no such thing. They asked about controlling ship movement and it was pointed out that ALL the answers are clearly explained in the starter tutorial – and then they had the damned cheek to come back with an assertion that this is not true! I make no apology for taking offence at that.

Guys... I think we are beating a dead horse here.

Newbie asked about how to do something. Newbie got the answer plus an explanation on why it is the way it is.

If you want to discuss the merits and flaws of the tutorials take it to F&I, Jita Speakers, or Assembly Hall.