EVE General Discussion

Hello friends. I am returning to EVE after some years on hiatus. Having left the game out of miner's frustration I return with the search for a new career path in mind. My old character was sold to a good friend so I am quite literally starting over, although I have quite a bit of isk from that character's mining career as well as a few T2 BPOs I was fortunate enough to obtain and subsequently sell.

So I pose the question to you all: Given the prospect of starting over fresh, and slightly rich, what kind of career would you pursue? I ask this out of pure curiosity and perhaps the chance to consider something that I had not previously. This is not a wanton "what is the best," question. I simply want to know what you all enjoy or have enjoyed from an early (character) age in order to better form my own opinions.

Thank you.

Wish I could say exploration.

I would probably station trade. It is my favorite method of making isk and engaging in (market) pvp.

Now wait for all the self-loathing nerds to post how terrible EVE is and why you shouldn't bother. Edit: Looks like they beat me here.

Chribba has a Mononym. You do not. Therefore you are not Chribba.

You've got a crawler bot that finds anytime your name or Veldspar is mentioned in a thread, don't you?

I've had that for years EVE-Search notifies me with certain keywords.

/c

Knew it. ::Tinfoil::


And now, Mr Conway Twitty

Do the tutorials. They have good tutorials for many career paths that are pretty good. Back in the day the tutorials were almost an insult, but now they are nice.

I have no idea what you consider fun, so I can't tell you, do exploration, do PI. etc, but I do suggest trying things you might have been too intimidated to try before. Never tried pvp, starting pvp from day one is actually a very good strategy if you find a good corp. If you are a new player you won't be expected to be self sufficient, so you can explore the different careers.

Careers like Scamming don't have tutorials, but don't dispair if scamming people is what you enjoy. Birds of a feather flock together, find some scammers and they will share their secrets with you to enough of an extent you can make your way. Personally, I think scamming is too hit-and-miss to be a proper career. More of a sideline.

Ninja salvaging is another career not in tutorials, but appeals to some.

PI does not have a proper tutorial mission set yet, but there are good videos on youtube. Exploration has a decent mission tutorial, but the videos do a lot more to improve your technique.

If all else fails, eve is complex enough that you can make your own career. Maybe you can plan to work your way up a corp, and once you get super privleges, you rob them blind? Make your own Eve bank, selll bonds, etc, If it doesn't exist in game, you can often just make it up.

Train up lots of guns and a ship you like to perfection. Find a source of tears and mine that.

So much bitter.