EVE New Citizens Q&A

Joined a corp that would help with cheap stuff (ships/skillbooks) while I did frigate pvp.

The amount of ISK you can make as a new player is so low its not even worth it. Make friends who dont mind sharing.

As a I vet I will tell you what I wish I had done my first month instead of what I did. You can fumble around like a deaf man in the dark just as well if not better than I did back then however I have some experience with the game now that can help you.

You should take advantage of this time in the game to try different things out. Minning is far from the best isk per hour in game and some would say near the worst isk per time frame in game. I'm not saying don't mine if you like minning do it I'm just saying if you are only doing it for the isk that is a dumb idea.

I would say that doing some kind of NPC combat like mission running or ratting is a good way to get familiar with basic ship piloting and combat as well as ship fitting. Learn how to fit a ship then learn about gunnery so that you can know both how to apply damage and how to avoid damage being applied to you. Play around with those mechanics a bit until you feel comfortable then maybe try some PvP.

You could also try out some exploration and see how the scanning life works for you. Then try out some various kinds of trade and if the industrial thing interests you then you could give manufacturing a try. Once you've found what aspects of the game appeal most to you then figure out how to make decent isk doing that.

If you just try to go after the isk then the game will quickly turn into a job and you won't be around long. So play around with the game and enjoy it or just quit now. If you are chasing after a pay check your time would be better spent working an hour of overtime to pay for a PLEX to fund your activites rather than spending hour after hour "working" for isk in game.

Almost every time I hear a vet talk about how he's had fun in game over the years it almost always involves the word "fail" repeatedly. It seems funny to me that new players often try to avoid the fail that the vets look upon with fondness.

Fail = experience. If you want to become good at eve you'll need to make friends with taking your lumps in the school of hard knocks. If this sounds fun and exciting to you then you'll fit right in here. If you are looking for an instant win button or are going to try and minimize losses then it's likely you won't enjoy this game all that much.

Pretty much, you fail at eve till you suck just a little less than the next guy (which is usually enough)...at that point your actually succeeding.

Pro tip: we are all (the vets) terrible at eve and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

My first few months were spent mission running with the occasional side of mining. I joined a corp and did what I could to help. I made most of my early isk writing for other people's websites. I never became rich but that was never my goal.

That is kind of important, learning what is possible in the game and choosing a goal within the known or setting a goal nobody has ever tried or achieved before. Win by your rules, your goals.

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Let me preface my reply by noting, 1) I'm a woman, 2) this is my first MMO, and 3) I had only played one other computer game.

So, I was really a newb.

Luckily, I found a good corp. And while I was finishing up the SOE arc, I started looking around for something to do. A goal. My corp was based around tourism, yes. tourism, and taught nullsec survival. So I opened up the map one day, looking for inspiration, and saw the word Curse.

My fate was sealed. I would go to Curse.

I posted here on the forums asking for advice, and started planning.

At two months and one week, I went to Curse in an Atron. During the journey, I was attacked by drones, got caught in a bubble, attacked by gate campers, chased all through Great Wildlands. and made it all the way to Curse. Where I loitered, looking for someone to kill me, because obviously I couldn't kill anyone with my Atron. I mean, afterall, I was too young, too helpless, too unskilled. I was fresh meat waiting to be slaughtered, and I couldn't find anyone in Curse with the decency (or indecency) to kill me. And I loitered! (This last is punctuated by a footstamp!)

Heck, I would have kicked a station, if I could have, to get someone to pay attention to me.

Well, I was incensed! I got on corp chat, found some corpies to verify that I was actually in this infamous place called Curse, which was turning out to be terribly boring, by this point in time, and asked what I should do.

Numerous suggestions were put forward, but we settled on a bet.

I would auto-pilot out. Of Curse.

I set my auto-pilot to my starter system, and hit the button. And waited.

Various bets had been proposed. I would be shot down in five jumps, seven jumps, etc.

My corpies and I held our collective breath and watched the map, and waited. And waited. And waited.

Those low life Curse residents didn't even have the decency to shoot me as I auto-piloted home to my starter system. LOL.

We had a great time in corp chat that night discussing just how many gate campers, gankers, and soloists watched little ole two month old me, with pity in their black hearts, auto-pilot home, probably laughing themselves silly at the notion of a newb auto-piloting out of Curse.

And it was wonderful! I had a great time. I had gone to Curse AND gotten back!

That did it, I was bitten by the travel bug, and I haven't stopped since. I circumnavigated New Eden at six months. I've been to about two-thirds on New Eden's systems, and I intend to see them all. Oh, sure, I lose a ship every now and again, but then....

....... I just build a better one.

I joined eve uni during my first month of gameplay (not to be confused with my first month of being born) and began to learn how the game worked. I salvaged for some guys doing their epic arcs for isk and made a small fortune (for a new player). I was also killed very early by some wardeccers and subsequently spent the next several months fleeting up with every anti war target fleet that happened while I was online earning myself 2 medals for being in the top 10 defenders of the uni. This was perhaps the most fun I had in eve to date with the possible exception of evicting care bears from wh space



In closing I recommend hooking up with a good newbro corp and getting into the game with that leg up.

reading about being a pirate

After I did the career agents I did a little bit of mining and security missions for 2-3 weeks until I joined a NullSec corp/alliance. In NullSec I did nothing but mine for a couple weeks or even longer because with about 1m Skillpoints I couldn't do any PVE that involved rats of some kind. I joined a couple (but not too many) little roams, too. But all this mining was getting quite boring after a couple weeks and I jump-cloned to highsec for a week to do some exploration which I really liked. After some experience with highsec/lowsec/WH exploration I jumped back to NullSec and I'm doing exploration there since then (I'm still in the first couple month of my eve life).

In a couple weeks I might be able to fly and fit the ships needed for the more serious fleets down there.
I think I'll stay with exploration as my main ISK source and use the ISK to get blown up.

Guys this is the new player forum on a post asking about our experiences new in the game. Is this really how you want the newbros to see us? Let them sub and have their magical month or 2 until they see the forum drama