EVE New Citizens Q&A

Here, that's already a small improvement.


For combat missions (the PVE kind), just pick a ship / setup you like and run missions for any agent you like.

"ship progression" for missions:

Level 1 - Frigates / Destroyers
Level 2 - Destroyers / Cruisers
Level 3 - Cruisers / Battlecruisers
Level 4 - BC / Battleship OR T3 cruiser


Another goal you could work towards it doing Incursions. These are fleet-sized PvE encounters but do require T2 cruisers or a proper skilled (pirate) battleship.




What is even better then seeing NPCs die...see other players die.

For that, just have a look at:

* RvB
* Faction Warfare
* NPSI fleets (public fleets that will take on nearly everybody).

Yes but everyone and their cat looks to get into eve uni and last I heard they were stretched,
try taking to them, they have a public channel you can join and ask things in.

Red v blue is also worth mentioning (and actually has been )

Re Eve Uni;

Ralph - not sure what you mean by "stretched"?

Eve Uni is definitely a good group to look at getting into. Yes, their recruitment process is somewhat intimidating, especially for newer players, but it's more of a case of their popularity over the number of recruiters they have active. They have 24 recruiters listed of which some are management-level types, but realistically perhaps 15 of them are fairly active in the job.

They have to go through a few checks, similar to many other larger player corps, so all the work that needs to be done for that, and then you get an interview... well, it can take a few days on average. Historically, they've had backlogs running into several weeks, so they've improved on that overall.

They do have some rules, but they really aren't that bad. Mainly just about how to act with each other, rules of engagement, and some minor internal stuff that may seem silly or archaic to outsiders. They really have shed a lot of the old, archaic rules.

The whole point of Eve Uni is that you join for a time, learn some stuff, make some contacts, and then move on, although it looks like a lot do stay around. It's a huge advantage being able to count on a couple of hundred active players at any given time. And they cover a lot of different areas of the game.

Eve Uni does suffer from an overly bureaucratic set-up and their directors are laughably absent from the game a lot, but the managers are a good bunch. For some, their style of things and their notorious slowness at certain things is a real turn-off, and for others their structure and (very light) regimentation is very desirable.

Of course you can learn most of what they offer without being in their corp/alliance as all their classes are public and they do allow outsiders to join them on fleets and PvE stuff. The one thing you'd really miss-out on is really getting the contacts and camaraderie.


Re RvB;

good bunch of pilots, two eternally at-war alliances/corps with each other so you can get your fill of PvP and blow up a lot, and have fun doing it. I've seen them tangle with Eve Uni in a few wars and these guys bring the fights, which everyone loves.

I don't really know too much else about them such as rules and stuff, but they do have some, that much I know.

Well there are other organizations.

The requirement of having a pulse to join Brave Newbies Inc. was removed some time ago, though other BRAVE alliance corps may have stricter recruitment policies.

Red Republic and Blue Federation are similar.

All of these (BNI, RvB) are more "learn by exploding" than by formal structured lessons of EVE-Uni.

EVE-Uni is worth the time and effort of joining, if you are the type of pilot that needs or prefers this style of education / gameplay.

Eve Uni sucks. I applied and they rejected my application. So they suck.

In my opinion you should join FW and learn the mechanics. Plenty of people to taunt and pick fights with there. And you get a very decent reward for your time there. But you gotta learn the mechanics.

Go to Harvard instead.

It does happen on occasion, usually it's the spais and alts, or sometimes someone just isn't compatible. It's extremely rare for a new player to get rejected, and more often than not, it may be technical issue (standings with either of our jump clone corps, for example) and often those can be corrected.

In my time involved with Uni recruitment (Jan 2011 through Aug 2014) both as a recruiter and eventual director, our requirements have evolved to where we're very open and accepting even of more experienced players.

One thing I did notice is that for those who applied and did have something missing from their application it was often that they would just "give up" on the process, for example, not providing the correct API mask we need (we do provide all the details and a link to get it set up properly), and we'd just never hear from them again. And as Celine and Ralph have mentioned, just due to how popular we are and limited number of recruiting staff (they do volunteer their game-time to do the job) the process can seem long and frustrating to some. It has gotten a lot better over the years.

In short, it is rather difficult to get rejected by E-UNI, hehe.

To the more general point, there are lots of great corps out there to assist new players so this shouldn't be about E-UNI alone. We welcome all to our public help channel "E-UNI" in game (no outside recruitment there please) and anyone can attend our classes and join us on our Mumble voice comms. You don't have to be a member for a lot of our services, although as mentioned above, registration is required to access the private Mumble server (classes occur on our public Mumble server).

RvB is a really good bunch and you can't go wrong with them for PvP stuff.

Brave is also very popular and very active. They require a full API check and I don't know their process beyond that. They're one of the biggest organizations out there.

There are several active Factional Warfare groups, too, if you're interested in both PvP and the FW rewards.

An API key is simply benign pilot and/or corp information. There is no personal information involved at all. No one can access your account, or your in-game assets. They can only read what the API mask will provide them.

Most larger and corps worth being part of will ask for some form of API, whether it's a full API or select information.

They use this to check information for their own security. Any corp accepting pilots in that don't perform background checks including an API check of some form are just asking for trouble, and those corps probably aren't worth being in.

This is from the page where you create API keys:



Several of the very useful third party tools such as EVEMon, PyFa, Eve Fitting Tool, and such use API keys to help you get the most out of those very useful tools.

Of course you don't have to provide any corp recruiter/system any API key at all. You just won't get into any of them that ask for the information.

Okay, cool deal. Not trying to convince you that you "have to."

They do. So I guess you'll just have to count all those off your "probable/possible" list of corps to try for.