EVE New Citizens Q&A

You can. You can mission. You can PvP. You can pirate, or gank. You can try building an empire. You can build stuff, or mine, or trade, or haul freight.



That's absolutely not true. The issue is that you don't know how to do exploration tasks. I don't say that to be mean, but to try to help you get your EVE experience moving again.



I'm not an exploration expert, but I've done a little and the above is not how it works.
First, you need to be looking for cosmic signatures, not anomalies. For those you need core scanner probes and a probe launcher.
Second, you need to be looking for data and relic signatures specifically.
Third, you need the appropriate analyzer for the type of signature you're at. Get within 5km, target lock the thingies, then activate the analyzer.
Fourth, play the hacking mini game.

If you're going to anomalies, I assume it's not the combat sites so must be ore sites - are you trying to hack asteroids?



You're new, you don't know how the game mechanics work, and you're frutrated. Understandable. Have you seen the xkcd chart of EVE's learning curve? There's a LOT to this game that isn't straight forward. That's part of what gives it it's depth and sandbox quality. You need to adjust your attitude though - when you can't do something, like exploration which some people make billions of ISK doing, don't assume it's because everybody is lying about it and that it can't actually be done... instead realize that you need to do more research on how it's done.

As for the point of EVE - well, we each find our personal meaning.

You're doing something wrong. But I have honestly no idea what exactly. Well, maybe you should fit analyzers too and not just scanners.

Did you do the tutorial? May explain what you're trying to do.

This is definitely not true at least not in this day and age where vaccine additives have pushed autism spectrum stuff through the roof. Some people and probably a lot more than most people think lack the basic ability to function socially. I would guess that number is much higher in an online game like this than the general population also. It's a common mistake for people to assume that other people are as competent as they are in various areas. The fact is everyone has stuff they excelle at and stuff that they fall below the curve. I would guess that the whole point of social interaction is so we can help where we are strong and seek help where we are weak.

The OP probably means they cannot get to 100% and therefore cannot access the sites to attempt doing the minigames.

1 and only post on forums from OP is winge disguised as legitimate question. Eve requires near adult levels of intelligence, and is thus too hard for OP. Dude you sound like a 10 year old yelling about call of duty, this is not the game for you.

I just had a thought. Were you trying to use a "civilian" data/relic analyzer? They only work in the tutorials. You'll need a t1 or t2 version to do real sites.

I am kind of in the same boat as the OP. I should love the game as it is what I want, i.e. sandbox, space ship and PvP but I have played and quit 2 times (3rd reactivation now) and for some reason I can't find a way to enjoy the game.

I think the problem is that the game needs a quest system to introduce you to the many areas. Such as a quest to get into factional warfare, exploring, wormwhole etc. And maybe a training system for PvP as I keep getting ganked in low sec systems but not sure what I did wrong.

Yes I know you can "research" stuff offline but the game should ease new players into the many cool areas it has. Sandbox does not mean newbie-unfriendly.

Also the UI is not good. I have mapped hotkeys to orbit/approach target but for some reason it does not work. No idea why. Other problems with it as well, such as having to toggle the overlay and zoom out to get a decent "mini-map". That should be provided as separate component and maybe the new map will do that?

Anyway, I am digressing. Hopefully this third time will be a charm for me as I joined a wormhole corp. No idea how it works though yet :)

The developers have mentioned more than once that they realize that this game is not for everyone. It is a game about player created content. The quest system that you speak of is easy enough to do when you have a linear game like WoW. In an open ended sandbox of player created content there really is no easy way to create a standardized quest system without standardizing game play.

Eve is not supposed to be handed to you on a platter. If you are the type of player that doesn't mind looking stuff up and like figuring stuff out and coming up with your own way of doing things then this is the game for you. If you want someone to tell you how to do everything so that you can duplicate it then this is not.

There is no eve equivalent of icy-viens or elitist jerks and there is a reason for that. There is no one way to do anything in this game. There is no 2 v 2 arenas or 40 man battlegrounds. There is no level cap. There is no BiS. There is no limit to how many players friendly or otherwise can be in your mission. You can have a swarm of noob ships take down a titan. It's all up to you.

Often the devs come up with content or new mechanics and the players do stuff that they could have never anticipated, it doesn't get "fixed". In other games if player figures out how to do something in a manner not intended it gets hot-fixed. You can make a quest system for a heavily controlled and restricted game environment like that.

I'm not saying that there is no way that CCP can improve the tutorial system or improve the new player experience. Certainly they can and constantly are. What I am saying is there is no way to make what you are suggesting without streamlining game play. That is not what this game is, that is not what this game is supposed to be and hopefully that is not what this game ever becomes.

OP is a troll. 10/10 for catching so many.

I disagree.

A troll would have worded it very differently and would have played with way more emo-rage in it.