EVE New Citizens Q&A

1) yes, everything. its what eve is about.
How to find the corp that is right for you

2) click-drag the location from the top left of the ui into a chatbox and post that, from there your friend can right click and set destination,
this will get him to the system or station you are in.

to find a friend in space you can warp to them if you are in a fleet togeather.

to find a "friend" in space you need combat probes.

3) yes , you can go wherever you like, nowhere is safe though.

4) yes, you can have your sell orders highlighted if you like, check the settings tab in the market ui

5) no but you can pay other players to do that for you.

6) yes but i believe you are restricted in this regard while on a trial.

Welcome.

Now before I answer any of your questions let me say this first...

Forget everything you have learned in previous MMOs. Your habits, tactics, preconceptions of how things should be... all of it. It will not help you here.

The reason I say this is because EVE will basically break all the "standard rules" that most MMOs follow in subtle, but important ways.

For example: In most MMOs, "griefing" is defined as willfully causing a player (and/or his/her playstyle) harm in a way that was not consensual.
In EVE, everyone and everyone can affect everyone else's "game" for better or worse whether or not consent was given.


With that out of the way... let's get started.

You can "group" with other players by forming "fleets" with them. What this does, in practical terms, is...

- create an extra chat window (that only other people in the fleet can see).
- allow you to warp to your fleet members if they are more than 150km from you (as long as they are not docked).
- allow you gain small, almost insignificant "bonuses" in speed, HP, target speed/range, etc (provided that the "leader" has trained up the necessary skills).
- allow you to have a "fleet booster" using warfare links which significantly increases the bonuses noted in the last point (note: this requires VERY particular skills, modules, and ships)


As far as loot is concerned... first come, first serve. It is every pilot for him/herself.


There are a couple ways that I am forgetting... but the oldest way is to fleet up with your friend and warp to him/her. Once you arrive, "bookmark" the location by left-click-holding your ship and navigating the radial until you find the "bookmark pin."



Race is purely superficial in this game. You can visit any area of the game as long as you have the proper standings (which you can find in your character sheet). In order to "lose standings" you have to run missions or attack Faction NPC ships. You only have to worry when you are below -5.0 standing.

Also note that there is no penalty or "special" bonus for training and using ships other than your character's race.


For example: My character here is of Gallente orgin. I was once part of the Minmatar Militia (Faction Warfare) and often use Amarr, Minmatar, and the odd Caldari ship in addition to Gallente ships... along with the respective weapon systems.
I suffer no mechanical penalty for doing any of this.



The box under the "selling window" are buy orders.

Basically people are saying "I'll buy X thing for Y amount of ISK."


I would advise caution when dealing with the market. There are some VERY, VERY smart people who can manipulate products and orders like a combat specialist can use his/her ship.
Don't get greedy!



No. You either have to do it yourself (using an Industrial ship) or pay someone to do it for you (remember to set the proper collateral).



6) Trades between toons

can you trade ISK between your characters?

As long as they are not trial accounts... yes. Simply right click the character in question, "give ISK."

Where do you go to see all the available contracts?

Shipping things around may be a good way to make ISK and visit the world for a new player like myself...



Oh and when you open the starmap, do you see only your racial zone or is that the whole EVE play area?




BTW, I am amazed how helpful the community is in EVE. Thanks a LOT guys!

the starmap is the entire of new eden.

thers an option for colouring it by sovereignty which will show you whom owns where.

ill echo what Saha said, Eve allows for the predator role and even facilitates it in certain regards,
where most other mmos will ban you for ruining someone elses day, in eve this is completely legitimate and a viable play style.

you need to be aware of this as it can be something of a culture shock ,even to someone with a history of mmos.

Im not trying to sound edgy here but i would rather not see (another) ragequitting thread from someone who didnt know they could lose everytng they spent the last couple of weeks working for in a single ship explosion.

i highly recomend you read the New player FAQ,
section 7 is particularly important.

Where do you go to see what contracts are available?

Nice...



Another question just popped-up as I was reading more about the game.

When it comes to Combat Sites, what type of ships do you need to do the lower-ends ones (1 to 5)?


It seems to be a fun and potentially profitable way to play the game.



Thanks

Lots of good answers here. I'd like to add that Eve is a true MMO it needs to be played with other people. Due to it's depth as I think you have already seen you will need someone that you can ask questions as you go so you need to make some friends in this game. So find some public chat channels that are noob friendly or find a medium sized active corp friendly to noobs but these kind of questions and more you really need some people that you can back and forth with.

One tip a lot of corps and Alliances have public recruitment channels so you can join a few of those and talk to people and see which group seems like a better fit for you before you join if you like. That also allows you to see who is more active during your play time.

I came to this game from WoW and I can tell you forget everything that WoW taught you in this game. Bigger is not better. There is no level cap. There is no best in slot. There is no elietist jerks for Eve. There is no one way nor any best way to do anything only your way and someone else's way.

You don't need any best ship or best mod or max skills to do anything. You are perfectly cappable of being productive in fleet from day one. Don't wait for skill to train just go do it.

I meant the website elietistjerks.com which is a web site that tells you exactly how to "gear up" your WoW toon, what the best in slot items are what is the best PvE spec what is the best PvP spec what is the best rotation for the most dps and then people get in raid and it isn't even about following mechanics or participating in the group but if you spent enough alone time on elietistjerks to get ready to top the dps meters.

He being a WoW player would have known that I should have worded it a little better for the non ex-WoW players.

Yes there is. when all skills are all capped at V. The good thing is there is hundreds of mini-level caps (a skill at V) so new player will not have a hard time reaching the level of a bitter-vet

But the thing is in a frigate Vs frigate situation only certain skills come into play therfore a new player can be maybe less than ~10% worse than a vet