EVE New Citizens Q&A

Bloodline is just an aesthetic choice, so is race really. You can fly anything with any character, you just have to invest the time into it (SP).

When it comes to what skills you should train, that will depend on what you decide on doing, but it sounds like you want the more combat oriented skills, in which case I can't recommend the following enough:

http://blog.beyondreality.se/Newbie-skill-plan-2

That guide, and list gives you a good broad base to start with. I've been using it as a guideline since I started a few months back and am very satisfied with it. I can now at 3 months in fly T1 Gallente frigates with mostly T2 modules at a decent level, and have decently rounded 'core' skills (fitting skills, capacitor, shields, armor, all skills that affect all ships).

There is also no best ship, only the best ships for a certain task, and even then it seems people debate that a lot anyway.

Also give PvP a shot once you get a hang of the game's interface and understand some basic concepts. It's hard, and you'll die a lot, but it's also a hell of a good time and you'll learn a lot, even if you decide not to be a PvPer a bit of experience will be useful, you'll learn to think like a pvper and be able to avoid them if you need to. For that I recommend this:

http://www.evealtruist.com/p/article-index.html

Some of it is a bit old, but the concepts he describes are the most important, things like what kiting is, brawling, basic ship fitting principles depending on your role etc...

Hope that helps and welcome to EVE, the most masochistic MMO on the market . If you need any help this forum is great, lot's of helpful people and a lot of information to soak up. Take your time and enjoy.

Five years ago or so, the race and blood line decided what attributes your char would have, and since attributes determine how fast you learn skills, you would have to pick the right race and blood line, depending on which ship you would like to fly. Then, CCP realized that that was a stupid idea and changed it, so that now bloodlines only decide where you start and what NPC corp you land in when you have no "real" corp.

Caldari ships and missile skills, obviously. Then shield skills, and "core" skills like capacitor, navigation etc. The newbie skill plan linked above is a good start.

Pretty much what J'Poll said, but be aware that it is not necessarily a "levelling" process. Depending on what you want to do, a Kestrel might be much more useful than a Raven.


For Caldari missile ships it's usually pretty simple: put Ballistic Control Systems in the low energy slots, a shield tank in the medium slots and the appropriate missile launchers in the high energy slots. Missiles and shield tanks are often tight on CPU, so training CPU management early and fitting CPU rigs is usually a good idea. This is just a general guideline, if you are looking for specific fit, Google and Battleclinic are your friends.


The best and most common advice is to not let EVE become a second job. Once killing pirates for ISK stops being fun, you should stop doing it and look for something else to do. If you find yourself space-poor, you can always buy a PLEX from CCP and sell it on the market.

Regarding the Buddy Account: What benefits do you mean? I mean it has some and people with only 1 account are a minority in this game but from the perspective of a new player I really don't see any advantages this may give.

Just for the isk? No. Wheres the point in giving someone a discount selling a PLEX for you?

No offense. But a new player is NOT helped with ISK.

In general a new player will burn through it and then hit a brick wall when they find out they have been living well above their "pay grade".

A new player doesnt need couple of hundred million ISK as nothing he actually can use / has to buy is that expansive.

P.s. the guys that shoot you the invite are offering to give you that much iSK so you choose them (human nature means people choose for the big bucks) but they also get a couple of hundred mil for each succesful buddy invite and thus gain more from more customers.

I don't think anything meaningful happened there. slight slot layout changes more or less.

As you gain experience, and want to take on more complex challenges, you will almost certainly reach a point where having a second account...or a third or a fourth... becomes very useful. definitely, wait until you find yourself saying "You know, it would be so much easier to do x if I could fly another ship at the same time" which ought to be a good signal that it's time.

Also, you may find it useful to purchase a character from the character bazaar at that point; if you are clear on what you want to do with the second account, it can save you a ton of time to buy a character with the skillset you will need vs. rolling a new one and growing it from scratch.

Though most don't get 700mil. Most offers go up to max 600mil (usually less).

So for each invite someone shoots, they make 100mil. Now if you get 8 invites a month (say you are active on a big-ish forum)...it's easily possible that new players "pay for your sub".

Sure it's a nice gesture, but other then an aspiring market trader, nobody in their first month needs that much ISK.

And (I have this too on alts I created) if you did it all yourself it's much more satisfying when your wallet blinks at 100mil the first time.
With JP it was an actual milestone I reached, I felt happy and even though there were people much richer, it gave gratification that it was "my" money. Now with an alt, it just feels less of a milestone.