EVE New Citizens Q&A

First, since it will come up anyway: http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/

Other than that, it is up to you to define and achieve goals. Some people want to settle their own wormhole, others try to become 'good' at pvp, yet others just try to become filthy rich. As long as you are not too lazy to read and learn, you can literally do anything you want, including scamming, robbing and trolling other players.

Eve's not really a questy game. There are missions, but it's a relatively small pool, which you'll see over and over. No main story.



Afraid not. You can have planetary mining (Planetary Interaction) but it's just resource extraction and processing. You can have Player owned Structures in space, but they're mostly for production too. Limited customization options.



Eve lives and dies by player interaction. There are many many corporations and alliances (groups of corporations) out there.

Firstly, welcome aboard!

You're going to be a bit disappointed with EVE, if you're looking for quests (aka, "missions" in EVE). The vast majority are essentially radiant quests, where you get the same missions from the same pool. There are special "Epic Missions," and if you're a new player, there's one that's geared towards helping you get your feet firmly planted.

Look into the Blood-Stained Stars mission, http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/The_Blood-Stained_Stars

There are a total of 50 missions in it, and it's geared towards taking a new player from frigates into destroyers (and potentially cruisers). You get lots of useful rewards from it, and a fair bit of ISK, as well.

Other than this, there are the COSMOS missions, and Epic Arcs for all of the factions, but there aren't too many things beyond that. EVE is an MMO, and it's geared towards PvP, so our PvE content can be... lacking.


Now you're starting to talk EVE-language. While there's no way to go down and declare yourself a goddess of a primitive planet (damnable CONCORD would probably have something to say about that, anyway), you can set up a player-owned starbase (POS), but you can't walk around in one. They're expensive, as one can imagine, especially for a newer player, and you have to keep them fueled (the smallest ones cost about 150 million ISK a month to fuel, AFTER the actual purchase investment). They're also destructable, and are considered corporation assets, so you have to have to be in a player corporation that gives you access to POS management (a very risky thing, so most won't let you without some serious trust-building).

If another player corporation wants to hit you hard, they can declare war on you ("wardec" in EVE parlance), and they can destroy it. You can defend it, of course, and you can set up some automated defenses, but you have limited Powergrid and CPU on the towers to work with (much as with your ships).


You'll probably catch a bit of flak for calling them "guilds," as they're called corporations in EVE, but considering that EVE is an MMO, the community is the big draw for it.

Check out the "how to find the right corp" thread, at https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=331341

It's a lot of reading, but it's also a lot of great information. EVE, when played solo and just doing mission grinding, is actually really boring. You'll want to get involved with a player corp sooner than later. You may occasionally run into people who try to bully you into staying in a bad corp, people who claim that "corp hopping" looks bad on your character and will prevent you from joining other groups, but don't you believe it. Everyone in EVE (that isn't a complete cur) understands the challenges of finding a good group of players to play with, so only the most up-tight and undesirable groups tend to consider a long corp history to be a bad thing, and those tend to be the same groups that you want to avoid, anyway, because they take the game much too serious.

Nullsec is definitely one of the three big options for "player-owned things," with the other two being wormholes and faction warfare.

In nullsec, you're a part of a large coalition and you actually "own" the space you're in. This includes everything much like running a country would be like, which also includes the need to be in very tight with the group before you'll be given access to actually run much of anything (spies, backstabbing, theft, and any form of trechery you can imagine are not only acceptable in EVE, but they're basically the name of the game in nullsec).

In a wormhole, you're a part of a much, much smaller group, and instead of being a part of an alliance or coalition, you're in a single corp. Wormholes are very dangerous places as you can't see who is in the area with you, like you can with nullsec, so you always have to be on your toes. It's PvP-centric, but also has some of the most lucrative PvE available in EVE.

In wormholes, instead of outright "owning" your star system, you basically put up your towers and then declare the system yours through right of force. They're very much an "it isn't yours if you can't defend it" type of gameplay.

In Faction Warfare, you join a militia (and you should join a player-ran corp in the militia, getting out of the general militia ASAP, as, again, EVE is a player-centric game). Your goal is to take space for your faction, be it Gallente, Caldari, Minmatar, or Amarr.

Faction Warfare is great for a new player looking to get into PvP, as you can make some pretty good ISK from it, and it's really easy to get into since you really only need a cheap frig to get started.

One thing to note about Faction War, though, are the general dispositions of the militias...

If you want good PvP, go for Gallente or Caldari. The Minmatar and Amarr are better for farming and for drama, if that's your thing (in fact, one of the Amarr militia corps has declared a civil war recently).

In-fighting is pretty common in faction war, but it's most prevelant in the Minmatar and Amarr areas. Civil wars are declared at least once a month, last about two weeks, then everyone comes to a very bitter and cold cease-fire while focusing back on the warzone, only to have everything repeat the next week when a new player accidentally kills a friendly frig due to an unfixed overview.

Gallente and Caldari have their own infighting, but usually it's kept a little more private.

1. EVE does not have the typical "Quest line" that most MMOs have. We have missions, but those are just picked at random from a mission-pool by the agent and have some Epic Arc missions which are more like the quest line you know. But they aren't that big (50 missions each).

2. No. EVE is all about spaceships. And let me warn you...EVE is also unlike any other MMO. Bigger doesn't always mean better. More expensive doens't always mean better, just a more expensive and ridiculous killmail. EVE is about matching a while bunch of things into the "mose effective trade off". So something might not be the best in stats, but if it is 100 times more cost effective, you go for that.

The closest to a "House" you can get is a POS, which requires a bunch of modules and then a montly upkeep in fuel. But then again, you really don't need it and it is even that common that it's a generic thing. The next step would be an Outpos in null-sec but to build one, you will need a very large alliance with deep pockets to fund it and protect the construction.

A POS can be "upgraded" by adding modules. An Outpost can be upgraded.
A POS doesnt let you dock and thus you can't even walk around, and with an Outpost...you are stuck with the general default Captain's Quarters like any station. There is no "let's decorate my room" option. Same with the outside, even though you can upgrade the services, it will always look the same.

3. EVE in general, not only null-sec is about player interaction and thus also about corporations. As for which guild is Nicest and most mature...do your freaking research. Mainly cause what I like is totally different from what Winter likes and what you like etc. etc.




p.s.

From the looks of all your questions...Can I ask something in return?



Did you even read up on what EVE is before you started?
As all the things show you just jumped on the bandwagon and expect it to be like WoW / RS / SW-TOR.

1. If your "complete all the quests" is a desire to see the main story line of the game, in EVE you'll have to change this to "make my own story." The reality is that most people don't manage it, but a few of them get good enough / popular enough / do something significant and get recognized. Don't just train skills and grind missions in this game, make a name for yourself.

2. Ships here are treated as tools, to be used and disposed as necessary. There's nothing unique about them. Some ships are rare, others are expensive, but they're still tools. That said, CCP said they're looking at adding special paint jobs, and you can definitely customize your avatar's outfit, but as far as walking around on planets, in stations, etc., CCP started to develop that but then they changed their minds and stopped after giving us a couple rooms to walk around in and that's it. They decided to make a whole other game for the avatars, Dust 514, and it's popularity is a bit less than EVE's.

3. There are good corporations. They are somewhat difficult to find / get into. The game atmosphere is more "business-like PVP or PVE" rather than the "let's all hug cause we're bestest friends" that you get in WoW etc. This is because corp members can shoot each other and steal all of a corp's assets (if given a chance), so you don't have the blind trust that other games have.

Well unlike 99% of the other MMOs that are set up as a theme park, EVE is a sandbox.

So you have to create your own content and goals etc.
There is no overall quest line to follow or something. There is no grind to end-game, as there is no end-game set by CCP. You have to set your own end game and work towardnit.

Yeah I was just talking to him. He offered me a bunch of free stuff but I told him I want to earn everything myself, so he's going to log in later and show me some things and meanwhile told me to do the career path quests so that's what I'll do.

I checked https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=77549 for info on what good general skills I will need but I soon realised that nothing described in the guide even exists anymore so I don't know what the new essential skills are XD

I'll ask on the rookie channel and start training them to 2/3 while I do quests

Also this is very cool:

http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/

Thankyou for this, I'll reference it while I play :D

There are plenty of quests in this game, just the difference is that you're the quest giver and the rewards actually mean something.

You can endlessly customise an empire of pilots, systems and structures. I think the best equivalent of a player house would be null sovereignty. It just take a lot more effort than your house in runescape would.

As said before, EVE would die without guilds.

As jpoll pointed out, it's a sandbox with very little in the way of rules.
there's nothing to stop someone from utterly ruining your day,
There is nowhere in eve where you cannot be ****ed over in some capacity or another.
skaming ,theft,nonconcentual PvP and abject humiliation(to a point) are common practices here and actually facilitated by the game mechanics.

Once you've lost something in eve , it's gone.

You should be safe in the systems where the career agents are and while running the sisters of eve ark missions but outside of that you are effectively fair game (and may well be treated as such).

The most important thing to remember is not to get wound up about the game , and when you do suffer your first loss at the hands of another player (And you will, regardless of being willing or not) don't fly off the handle about it, many of us like to poke the newbros just to see how they handle losses before deciding whether to offer helping them out (and for the giggles).

Remember that you are the actual content in eve and because of that your attitude will get you much further than anything else .

Seeking godhood (in a video game) doesn't sound psycho at all.

While it can't be done on any esoteric level you could take over a planets customs office and build one for your corporation. You would levy tax from players (which are interstellar demigods anyway by any human standard). So basicly you get paid in demigod money (ISK) too. In Eve Online, this is what is meant by "ownership" of a certain planet, and it is completely within your reach to be part of a corp that conquers them.