EVE New Citizens Q&A

mining is the worst thing you can do in this game, try following the missions, security missions are ok and will provide you with ships and isk, or you could throw £10 and buy a plex that will give you 800mil to play with.

battelships i would forget about till you get some experience, that experience wont come from mining :)

missions pay well but you need the higher missions lvl'4 etc, unfortunately you have to go through lvl 1's etc first

Find something you enjoy doing, enjoy spending your time in EVE. ISK will come and go but you'll go and never come back if you are only grinding for ISK without having fun.

You can always spend 20$ for a PLEX and sell it for 800M ISK, that should be more then enough ISK to find your way without putting yourself into pressure.

A rookie friendly corporation can be a great help, too.

faction warfare is great fun too :) i guess it depends what you really want to do in the game, do you want to be a miner or do you want to shoot other people?

Is there anyway I can move my post to that category?

and I was thinking of doing a plex but I have to convince the wifey lol she has a tough enough time with paying 15 a month on a subscription lol

so security missions would maybe be the best?

yeah i would say so to get you some basic ship flying experience then move to faction warfare (if your interested in pvp)

bit more exciting than orbiting an asteroid

faction warfare is a bit like domination in call of duty, capture the points to eventually takeover a part of space, they fly mostly t1 cheap frigs, you still have a limited amount of protection in faction warfare from gateguns etc, nullsec you dont and nullsec has really big ships bigger than battleships

what are buy orders? I was reading something that said to try and get those?

It is true you can make good money running missions. But you need to grind standings with an NPC corp so you can get level 4 mission agents available. The pay and LP are much better.

Loyalty Points (LP) is where the money is at for missions. Finish mission, get LP. Buy stuff in the Loyalty store. Sell stuff on the market for isk. Learning Implants and faction ammo are always in demand. (No guarantee they are a good LP-to-isk conversion though.)

What you do in Eve really depends on your mindset, what you wish to achieve, and how much time you have. I assure you that no matter what you want to do in Eve, there are other players somewhere with similar wants and requirements. You've taken the correct first step simply by asking around.

I cannot recommend strongly enough that you join a player corporation. Associate with other players and have fun. Eve is so much better when played with friends. If you are so inclined, you and your wife can even form your own corporation and recruit others. Just be careful about giving out hanger access roles to strangers. Theft is allowed in this game.

For new players, salvaging is actually pretty good isk and can be done easily enough in a tech 1 destroyer. But that depends on someone making wrecks for you to salvage. Security missions are good for making wrecks. One of you can do the pew-pew while the other hoovers up wrecks in a salvage destroyer. There is even a specialty salvage ship, the Noctis.

You also mentioned exploration. Exploration requires relatively little SP or isk investment and can bring in good isk as well. But it tends to be hit or miss depending on what sites you find.

You mentioned you can mine in a Venture. If you are willing to accept more risk, you can train Gas Mining and some scanning skills, find a wormhole, and take quick trips inside to mine Fullerene gas clouds. 15 minutes sucking on one of those will give even a new player with minimum skills several million isk in gas. Even if you lose your ship once ever ten trips, you will easily pay for everything many times over.

Fair warning, w-space is similar to nulsec in that there are no rules. Everything goes. Local chat is on delayed mode as well, meaning no one will show up unless they start chatting in local.

You can be a ship builder, a miner, an explorer, a market tycoon, a scientist, a leader, pretty much anything you can imagine.

that's your opinion. not everyone will share it.

However, OP should be aware that there are things that can be done in the game that are very different, more risky, more rewarding, and more requiring of attention and skill in varying levels (ingame and out of game).

Don't be tempted to throw cash at the game though. that's a slippery rd, especially at this point. Earn your money, know how to get it without throwing cash at the game, and you'll not only feel good when you've got it, you'll want to keep it more, which will raise the stakes when you go into combat. The adrenaline rush of battle when you appreciate how much something is worth 'to you' is great in this game.

How do I get to the loyalty point store?

and this is making me way more interested and excited to play haha (ugh work in 2 hours nuuuuu!)