EVE New Citizens Q&A

First:
Don't fly anywhere on autopilot (autopillock?) if you can avoid it.

Second: the starter ship (You should have been flying an ibis?) is free. Just dock up somewhere, and you have one.

Third: google caldari career agents, go fly to the system they are in, and start running the missions for them. All of them. You'll get rewarded with money, ships, skillbooks, and equipment. Hopefully you'll also learn stuff. Read all the things. No really, read as much as possible.

Fourth: consider signing up with a corp. If you want to learn PvE and some PvP, go join EVE Uni. If you want to learn more PvP, sign up with Red vs Blue (Blue federation or Red federation).

Fifth: If someone tells you you can only do mining, or run missions, ignore them. Mining and missions only help make cash, they don't teach you much - doing stuff, and reading about stuff will help you learn. And the doing of stuff is more fun anyway.

Sixth: mess around, and use the career agents to get a feel for a few different things in game. Try to use this to help decide what you want to do. Once you have decided, focus on that specific thing (and anything that helps support that One Thing). Specialise in that One Thing, so that you can enjoy it more. If you get bored of that One Thing, pick a new One Thing, and chase that dream instead.


The Golden Rule: Never fly what you can't afford to lose.
For now, stick to flying frigates. Maybe graduate to destroyers (maybe...). Don't fly anything bigger than that. Not until you can make enough cash to support something bigger. No seriously, don't. If you fly something big that cost you everything you own, and you lose it to some random guy, you'll feel pretty bad. If you lose some cheap frigate that you own, like, 20 of, then so what, right?



Also - be mindful of who you trust and how much you trust them. I'm not saying, don't trust at all. I'm saying, trust, but within reason. Don't give your stuff away for free, or trust someone else to haul for you, etc etc. At least not until you've known them for a long time. That said, perhaps be willing to take a few risks and chances - that's where a lot of the fun lies anyway. Making friends, and getting support. You can do okay on your own, but you'll find that people succeed and achieve more in this game by working together as a group. Contrary advice, I know, but EVE is like that sometimes.



EDIT: if you ever get stuck for things to do, consult this link:

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

When you start, the advice "don't fly what you can't afford to lose" is quite useless.

You at times must fly what you can't afford or grind for a month.. F that. I have an alt that i have not given any isk to at all to see what it is like. And yea, losing a ship at the wrong time can be really bad.

The place to start with missions is the tutorials, not only are they quite easy, but they also *give* you ships and skill books. There is no better way to get started. And just don't fly autopilot. until you have isk. I didn't grind, i went as fast as i could to lvl 3 missions and spent every isk i had on a battle cruiser i could barely fly. But it burns through lvl 3s fast and with LP and raw isk, i now have a 200M+ isk. You may want to grind missions at the lvl 2 mark more than i did. If i lost the BC i was broke, and i nearly did twice. Once to gankers and once to rats!

As for which battle cruiser?... I when for a myrmidon .. it looks cool and i can fit 2 dual reps cap stable with **** skills.

Thanks for all the replies. My spawned back at kisogo station but only in a pod. In the hangar was my venture mining frigate but no ibis. I have a blueprint for a Corax, so I'm thinking of gathering the materials and making that.

Solid advice all round, but this in particular made me smile.

I'll be using this from now on.

In exchange you may have this for use at your own discretion.

If you fly your pod to a station where you have no ships, a new starter ship will be placed in your ship hanger for you. The reason you didn't get one at Kisogo was because you had a ship (your venture) in that station.

"Don't fly what you aren't willing to lose." Is a better guideline I find.

If you prefer lasers then you want Amarr ships. Just because you started as Caldari doesn't mean you can't train into and fly other race's ships instead. Buy an Amarr frigate, train up small laser turrets, go set up shop in Amarr space and start doing missions for Ministry of Internal Order (if you are going to stay in high security space, otherwise there are other possibilities). It so happens that the Caldari and the Amarr are allies, so you shouldn't have standings problems flying for them except for your standings with Gallente / Minmatar might suffer after some time.

Even after doing some googling and a spending some time on urban dictionary the best that I could come up with is that this must be a british thing. I was able to figure out what a "pillock" was however I could not help but have this quote from pulp fiction going through my head the entire time that I was looking this up.