EVE New Citizens Q&A

Heyah. I'm kinda fresh player of Eve Online. I play this game for like 2 weeks and i studied a lot of aspects of the game, done huge research on internet etc. My problem is that i want to be mission runner (something what most of players do), salvage wrecks etc. I ran a lot of missions and now i'm doing level 2 missions, but now i get rekt pretty easily on my Vexor in some missions. I can't fit it up well because it takes like 8 days to upgrade single Hull V skill. I tried almost every profession to do something while my skills trainings, but at the end i didn't earn that much.

I tried exploration but there's almost no data sites etc in highsec (i found one and only earn 2 M -,-) and i think it's really small profit compare to time i spent to scan this (maybe should i go into low sec? But for now i want to earn not lose), i tried mining but everyone says that's the worse job you can do and i agree in some way because i like to atleast move around.

And i have big question... What should i do during training period? Almost everything need skills to earn something, so i should just wait these 8 days until i'll be able to handle missions with no problems? I enjoy this game and it's really in my type, because i had chance to play couple of sandbox games before, but barriers like this kinda frustrate me, especially when i have a lot of time to play and i can't do anything special at all.

What jobs i could stick to as low sp and really poor player meanwhile i need to train for more advanced things?

bigger is not better in eve,
a plan for you

Just to emphasize this point I'll use myself as an example. I started mid May of this year, and just went over 6 million skill points. I just flew my PvE Vexor Navy Issue for the first time into a site TWO DAYS AGO. I could probably have done that faster but I have other things to train because EVE PvE makes baby Jesus cry, and it was a 8/10 DED site (had help) but still. That is about 4 *months* to get my skills up to date enough to be able to take on those rats.

Understand OP that this is a game where having "the best" skills isn't going to help nearly as much as you think it will.

I mean... yes, your skills are probably lacking in terms of flying a cruiser... but you don't have to WAIT to do anything. Just change up your tactics and "tools" a bit.

Instead of using a cruiser, use a destroyer. Even with poor skills, you can usually fit a destroyer fairly comfortably and it should perform well in a level 2 mission if you fly it smart (hint: use range and speed).

Drop back down to level 1 missions while you wait. Try other types as well, mining distribution etc.

Do what I used to do, while you wait for an 8 day skill.

At bedtime put in a couple of 2/3 hour skills, that way your main skill is still training when you get up, and you got better overall while you slept.

It's a long game, in every way mate, get used to it. Believe me, some skills are a lot longer to train.

Have fun.

I'm sorry but what are those 28 other people in your corp doing? Shouldn't you ask them to help you and guide you into entertainment? Or is it one of those sh!tty corps where everybody is an island and all you have in common is escaping 11% of NPC corp tax? If that's the case spend those 8 days on looking for better corp.

When I first started i was "almost" in the same place as the OP.
bought an Omen with my first 10 mil and could i hell fly it.
two weeks in and a cruiser just didn't work, thankfully I realised the mistake before getting blown up and went back to flying my Executioner.

Definitely follow the skill plan posted by Ralph and stick with frigates, bigger really is NOT better in EVE.
not when you don't know how to fly, ships tend to go bang a lot though when you rush in.

Hi, sorry to ask this question here.

But I also just started not long(1 month actually but never really play it everyday due to RL)
My current skill plan is pretty much just balancing all my core ships skills, but when i found anything interesting to try like exploring or PI. I stop my current plan and change over to the lower levels of the related skills like remote sensing, or scanning.

However, I am currently waiting for Drones V to be trained after thinking for a while (it's a long wait after all), as I believe having 1 more drone will assist in whatever i am doing, like killing rats from missions.
Is this way of thinking wrong?

thanks.

This is the correct way of thinking IMO.

Pick a skillplan for a longer time, but don't go mental on it, don't be afraid to take 1 or 2 days to train some other skills that lets you try other things.

As for Drones V...that is sort of a must have (I would even count that one as one of the core skills in EVE).

Quite the opposite, I feel. In a drone boat, much of the unpleasantness happens somewhere you are not. The ship itself is relatively safe, especially if one is alert to keeping the range open and even warping out if the enemy closes down the range to bring significant firepower to bear.

... and that means one can use a smaller ship. The OP doesn't need a cruiser, if you ask me; they want a drone destroyer. I did L2s in a Dragoon, and it's plain sailing even with quite low skills. Until targets big enough to justify medium drones turn up, a cruiser can bring no more drone firepower to bear than a dessie, and if it does go pear-shaped it hurts a great deal less when a destroyer hull gets popped.