EVE New Citizens Q&A

I joined a corp with a bunch of real life friends. They had all been playing for three to six months when I joined. We had a headquarters in Blamestone. They were mostly running missions in Sinq Laison and mining in Everyshore. They helped me out with some implants and a few million ISK and pointed me towards missions. I ran missions in my Tristan, then my Catalyst, then a Thorax, then a Myrmidon.

Somewhere along the way I tried to run a Level 3 mission in Eggehelende, but lost my Myrmidon to a gate camp. The "evil pirates" told me how I had screwed up, threw me a few million ISK, and asked me if I would like to join them. Sadly, I declined and went back to mission running. It was a good experience for a first ship loss.

After about three-four months of running missions, we got wardecced by a small corp. I now know that it was probably one dude (Eug316) and his out of corp alt. He liked to use a Navy Apoc and a Navy Raven, with an out-of-corp off-grid booster. He could fly more different ships than I even knew existed. He also had out-of-corp scout characters. He killed one or two of us, including me in my salvage Catalyst. Due to some lag, his Wolf also caught my pod and I learned the hard way about keeping your clone up to date (that was one good change in the past few years). That first pod loss still stings to this day. Lots of grinding for those +4's.

Then we brawled with his Navy Apoc on a station in Blamestone. We had him in low structure when he managed to dock up. We did not know that he had deaggressed, or that it was even possible to deaggress. Our knowledge of game mechanics was miserable. Then, he undocked with full cap and full everything and killed two-three of us. We read up on Eve PVP and managed to catch and kill him in a Myrmidon. Felt pretty good about that! Then, unfortunately, it all fell apart. Half the corp wanted to keep fighting him. The other half thought it was horribly unfair that this player with tons more SP and ISK than we had could pick on us like this. We tried to reason with them - tried to explain that in Eve you had to fight for your right to exist. They maintained that we should all just log off for a week. Or drop corporation and dodge the war dec.

In the end, it tore our corporation apart. Three people quit and went back to their previous games. Six logged off for a week and resumed playing for a few more months. Three of us went looking for a corporation in 0.0. I'm not sure how he picked it, but my friend Jim chose Intrepid Crossing. And so, within six months I found myself moving to Etherium Reach. Two months later, I was leading fleets...

Since then, it's been a long list of adventures and mishaps, but eight years later, I still love this game...

My first month and a half ish were spent doing most of the tutorials and some of the SOE arc. When I figured out missioning wasn't really for me and I felt like I had a good grasp on how things worked in terms of the UI, I jumped into exploration. I enjoyed that for about a month but eventually I got tired of that but I learned good lessons such as how to use D-scan(and also not to ignore it!). But I didn't like inconsistent loot and how I could go days without finding anything worth while. Being that PVP was, and I guess still is, new to me I jumped into Faction Warfare and I haven't looked back since. I love it. It is by no means a perfect system but it's a great ISK maker for a PVP habit.

i remember looking at the map after a couple of days playing and hearing "see those red places, dont ever go there" so i thought im gonna go there... feeling impressed with my dual tanked arty, blaster, rocket atron i figured i would be able to kill something but it was far away and i was hungry...

so i undocked my bad-ass atron and set autopilot for nullsec and wondered off to grab some food, thinking about the excitement of what i was making to eat and sitting down to do some serious gaming action little did i know autopilot wasnt a good idea. On my return i was intrigued at the pretty big blue spheres that were all around me and somehow i stopped inside one and was like sheesh what happened, why am i stopped here i still have 3 jumps to get to my location. So i started burning out and i seen what looked like star wars x-wings flying super fast at me, so i was like yeah ok ill take you both on, i was redboxed and killed before i could even lock these 2 things.

so there i was in a pod burning back like 90km to the gate with these 2 x-wings flying around me, they must have been impressed with my atron but too scared to ask me about it, anyway they shot me back to highsec and ever since then i wanted to be a pirate :)

i spent the month fitting more super atrons with weapons i knew were good in rl situations, "autocannon" it has cannon in the name it must be awesome right? i died over 100 times before getting a kill and i shot at many pirates just because i wanted to be like them, i was very careless in my young days, if i landed in a gatecamp i would fight them all without trying to get away.

I got nearly excited one time when i had a ship, 4 pirates (2 logi) jumped in and i thought yeah ill take them on, so i was winning and i was excited, then the reps landed and they started killing me, i was sad, then they started repping me, i was like wtf!, well i died again but yeah they were repping me for fun, i was happy because these guys were like playing with there food sorta thing, i was such a noob i didnt really know what was happening.

anyway thats my story about being a noob in eve most fun i ever really had in a game

Exactly the turn I thought it was going to take, haha!

Summer 2012... Well, I started with missions, and soon discovered the advantages of ninja-salvaging and stealing from the wrecks of other mission runners. That was quite a fun time, although scanning back than was terrible compared to today.
After about a month I started my second account, since I wanted to dip a toe into industry and mining without switching the focus of this character. So I had a combat pilot, who soon ended up doing lots of exploration instead of missions, and an industry character, who did occasional mining and sooner than later some serious manufacturing and researching.

About a year later I started a third account, did some PvP in RvB, but that is another story...

Mostly started by shooting stuff. No wait, that's pretty much all I do, shoot stuff

Why did you feel this was relevant?

I started my first trial Christmas 2006, mostly ran lv1 missions, bought a bunch of ships and skills, traded it to a friend. Made Plankton, got all my stuff and went back to missions. Joined IDLE not too much later. Did a ton of intercorp frig pvp. kept grinding standings 8.0+ to caldari navy for corp jump clones, and 5.0+ caldari state for a pos, as back then you needed corp faction standings to have a pos in highsec. had a few wars, where in one I learned (the hard way) not to go afk in a fleet. Spent a lot of time on the learning skills. Went to nullsec for a while, learned (once again, the hard way) just because there are a bunch of blues in system they aren't going to do a thing when a bunch of neutrals come through.

being a newb was awesome!

This!

I started out mining around the starter system I began in. Began a little corp for my alts and I. I'd talk a bit in local, always sociable, and ended up meeting a lovely pair of can flipping pirates who were also a RL couple. Became friends and they showed me around beyond the starter areas, got me my first pvp experiences and even showed me my first wormhole.

Later I'd make another friend who had a dream of living in wormholes and had found some crazy German guy living alone in a C1 who was willing to share. So both our corps moved in and I fell in love with wormhole space. I'd barely been playing a few months, would die a lot in the WH and in the end wanted to learn how to fight back better. So took my main and couple other characters and joined faction wars. Did the FW thing for maybe 6 months, along with a couple of pvp classes (Agony Unleashed's courses were great). Returned to wormholes, been there since, winning most of our fights!

Ended up moving into bigger WH corps for bigger action, while still maintaining a wormhole of my own and alts on the side that dabble in everything from mining to highsec ganking. My mains (and heart) will always be with wormholes, but you can never have your fingers in too many playstyles. So much to experience in EVE.