EVE New Citizens Q&A

1.) Never.

2.) Probably, but you'll have dry spells, and then suddenly you'll find a blueprint worth a billion ISK. Mining (solo anyway) is the slowest isk there is apparently.

3.) There's a ton. For fleet stuff in null, you could be incredibly useful even as a week old newbie in an E-WAR ship. The Maulus and Griffin are especially popular for newbies. You could also roam around solo in a Kestrel picking off targets of opportunity. Interceptors are a relatively short train as well and are extremely useful in null. The video maker above has many videos using very low sp characters to solo PvP, I recommend you take a look at some of his other stuff.

Cruiser wise, again E-WAR is awesome for a newbie, the Blackbird could swing lot's of fights for you and your group. When it comes to non E-War the Caracal is awesome. Lot's of range due to the hull bonus, so it's quite forgiving for a newbie. With rapid lights you could chew through opposing frigates and destroyers quite reliably.

4.) You can mess with implants as said, or remap your stats, (I recommend INT = PER personally since those two are the primary stat for many many 'core' and ship skills. Be careful not to remap quite yet, a remap is a finite resource that can only be re-acquired through time (one a year + 2 bonus ones when you start the game). So do your research on it.

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Messing_With_Your_Head

Most PvP is done in small and medium hulls: frigates, destroyers, cruisers, and the odd battlecruisers.

In general, if you are able to keep-up with the fleet, a REASONABLE fleet commander (FC) will let you tag-along in anything, especially if you let them know you are a rookie.

If you can fit one EWAR module, you can be useful in a fleet, even in a rookie ship.
* Warp Disruptor.
* Webifier.
* Sensor Dampener.
* Target Painter.

It takes roughly 45 days to train every T1 and navy sub-capital ship and its weapons to a usable level 3. Focusing on one or fewer ships, and you can be a much better pilot for those ships in that same amount of time.

This is a great question to ask the corp recruitment officer while you are researching them before joining. They will surely have opinions on what is and is not useful in their fleets. It will also give you an idea of how flexible they are willing to be for newbros. Different corps will range all the way from kitchen-sink (don't care what you fly) to strict doctrines (shame and ridicule for flying anything but the approved ship/fit).

The difference is a matter of preference. You'll develop opinions on that as you get more experience. However, it's nice to get a little guidance when you are new so do try and find a group that is going to take an interest in helping you learn, one way or another.

1) Player skill counts for more. A 10 year vet with a new alt can run rings around people with more SP. Partly due to wise skill choices but mainly due to experience, situational awareness, tactical knowledge, manual piloting skills etc etc

Note that you can have close to perfect skiils in a Frigate for a specific purpose in a few months, other things take years. So a 4 year old character may be a veteran at flying carrier with fighter skills maxed but still a beginner with 6 months or a year to go at flying say a freighter.

2) Mining has one advantage. If you need to be AFK randomly at a moments notice cos kids/work/gf/bf etc etc mining is relatively safe to leave the PC for short times compared to most other activities. You even watch movies while doing it. Otherwise it sucks as its boring and low income.

3) Talk to the corp and ask what they need. Do they use doctrines? Do they do armor fleets or shield fleets? Just ask them.

4) Do not stress too much about the SP mini-game as saving even a few weeks a year is neither here nor there long term. Your best bet if you play occasionally is get a jump clone and put expensive implants in the clone that sits in station while your offline and cheap implants (or none) in the clone that might get podded.

You can see subscription info when you login at https://secure.eveonline.com/

For character age, look at a players corp history. When you make a character you are immediately placed in an NPC corp so the join date is the same as the creation date. Your character was created on October 22nd 2015 at 01:14 EVE time.

My combat pilot (this one and only one) has over 6.7 million sp and all I can fly is t1 frigates and t1 destroyers. Although I have learned the interceptor skill but not able to fly them yet. That sp is all combat related.




@ op

I know I haven't yet, but joining a player corp. is one thing you should do.

1.) After a few months I felt like I wasn't a newbie in HS any more. I then moved to null and was a newbie again for a long time. After a while I started to feel competent and I moved to WHs. I now feel like a newbie yet again.

2.) Yes, it is definitely more exciting. If you like mining, grab a venture and ninja gas in WHs. Sleepers don't spawn for the first 15 minutes, for the right sites you can make a lot of ISK doing that.

3.) I would train an interceptor. Bubbles are going to be your bigger enemy, so if you're solo, avoiding gate camps/bubbles in null will be a big problem. If you're caldari, I would personally train for a crow and manticore for solo roaming

4.) level 3 training implants are pretty cheap, I would set up a 'training' clone and one for roaming. Just jump into a blank clone before you enter the WH

My experience with the Ishkur of Awesome speaks otherwise. I Love my assault frig. <3 <3 <3

Got another, So on my training queue the cloak 4 says "this skill cannot be trained on trial accounts". Does this mean that i cannont train this skill, about a week ago i activated a plex on my account to make it so that my character wasn't trial. Is this just the game saying that trial accounts can't train this skill and nothing to do with my account or is my account still trial.

Imagine the fun to be had if you could create dozens of trial accounts and afk cloak all of them in the same bluesec system :D