EVE New Citizens Q&A

You sound like you already found the best maintained third party site I know of, the uni wikis.

The Eve community has produced volumes of material about the game, but with any game this old, stuff naturally goes out of date.
Sorry.

When I started, I found it easier to read everything, then ask folk how it currently works ( if different at all ) for the specific thing I was learning in game.

A lot of specifics changed over the years, but the more general stuff was just tweaked.

TL;dr
I recommend reading everything then just double check on current mechanics for the activity your currently trying to do.
Uni wiki is generally considered the best maintained third party site on this forum, but even it can be a but out of date.

Hello! Welcome to EVE.

You are correct that there is a lot of misinformation on the web. EVE has gone through some major changes in the last few years and since most of the resources are provided by third parties, they may or may not be updated.

Most recently, the entire industry system was revamped, wormholes have seen big changes, and all the ships in the game have been (or are about to be) re-balanced. We are also just embarking on a module re-balance (often referred to as tiercide, because they are trying to make all modules useful for a certain niche instead of having "tiers" where some modules become obsolete because there are better options. This is similar to what happened with the ship rebalance).

All these changes are great things (well depending on who you talk to. There's been quite a backlash with some of the wormhole changes). However, it does require a bit of searching to find good information on them! As you've found, EVE Uni generally has pretty good information. There's a few others...

-Here's CCP's official method of communication for new releases (dev blogs). (see the blogs around the Crius expansion for industrial information)

-EFT is an third-party fitting tool that allows you to design ship fittings. You can even import your character API to see how your skills affect the stats of the ship. It's great because it allows you to fiddle and optimize without spending money in-game, and it is kept up-to-date for new releases. Pyfa is another similar tool which some people prefer.

-If using battleclinic, or another similar site, try filtering fittings by date. For most ships the slot layout hasn't changed in the last few months so the most recent fittings will be good by that standard. (Possibly only that standard. Batlleclinic allows anyone to post fittings so you can't be sure of the quality and it's always best to check them yourself in EFT with a healthy dose of common sense!)

-For general ship knowledge check out this blog which has some great guides and videos. It's mostly PvP focused, but a lot of the information is applicable in other areas of the game. Some of it is a tad outdated, but there's still plenty to learn from there.

Finally...yes learning skills have been removed. That was a great change, because it was quite silly to have to spend time training useless skills just to make your other skills train faster. We have remaps and implants for that now.

Hmz. EVEHQ is working for me.

But you are correct...but this is always true with the internet....there is some incorrect information on it.

But what did you expect, 11 year old game, with up to this year 2 expansions a year, so stuff changed. So with anything you read about EVE, check the date...if it is older, verify it is still true.

The official EVE wiki is horribly out of date and the ISD dept that is in control looks like it's sacked or something (which IMO CCP should look into as new players will look at the wiki and get wrong information).

As for the industry, that is because this summer there was a COMPLETE overhaul on how industry works.




The go-to resource....in game players, specially the "older" ones. They know from playing how things work and there are plenty of helpful people around


Good channel for this: Help Chat - Reloaded.
It's a player ran, unofficial help chat. But because it's player ran, there is better monitoring to keep trolls out then there is with the official help chat (which relies on a CCP employee or an ISD volunteer to be online to be moderated).

Google search on whatever topic using one of these special search terms as the first term:

site:community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/
site:community.eveonline.com/news/patch-notes/

This also works well too:

site:forums.eveonline.com cabalander

+1 for eve HQ , loads more fufunctionality than most others

We're even better of a community when you want to get shot in the face multiple times and want to come back for more.

Most of the info you find on google from 2013 is almost in every single case outdated, you can try to use the search tools to lower the time to a month or 6 months depending on search results. If you cannot find something specific on one topic or three, start a new thread in this forum section and you should get fast responses.

What Adrie said.


This is NCQA, the whole reason it exist...Q&A.

So if you ever have a question you need answered, just make a thread (AFTER having used the search function to see if there is already a same thread that can answer your question - again, check age of that thread though).

You Tube videos, EVElopedia (found all the info I needed on jump clones, for example), forums (just start a thread like you did and ask questions)

I'd have to add to the above advice that while research is good, don't be afraid to ask ask ask questions. Much like ship fitting, you learn a lot by the mistakes of others. I started out as a miner and manufacturer in high sec, and now I don't do that much due to extreme competition in most areas. So if you're dead set on industry, ask around, and do some looking for a good spot to set up shop. I provide ammo and small ships for a wormhole corp and that suits my inner industrialist fine. But the love I found in the game was exploration. Lots of fun and isk there for me. So in short, try everything before settling, you won't regret it.

*random pilot signing off*