EVE New Citizens Q&A

So you've done the missions from the career agents.

So you know some of the things you will be able to do in the game.

A lot seem to do the Sisters-of-Eve mission arc after those career agent missions.


This game is sandbox style, so you make you own entertainment with what's available in-game.

You can use a station agent finder to look for an agent to work for. So you could do mining, hauling or security (combat) missions depending on which style of mission you like doing and which agent you choose.

Player corp. would be a good bet, unless you like to do things solo.

You could scan down sites or explore wormholes.


It's your choice really.



Edit:

As for the disconnects, I couldn't say.

This is an MMO with a focus on group PvP. I don't care if you join an NPSI roam or just ask me for a pile of cheap frigs to take into low sec but two things you need to do in this game to say that you've even given it a chance is to make friends and at least try shooting at some other players.

For sure though if you are going to sit in high sec and solo mine or do missions then you might as well just quit the game now.

Make friends and do stuff with them.

Did I mention the part about group ops with friends?

Please don't make a final decision to leave until after you've been in at least one decent sized fleet action with a competent Fleet Commander.

Groups like Spectre Fleet regularly organise NPSI roams (Not Purple (eg: in fleet) Shoot It).

Getting out of the NPC corp and into a good player corp is also a great aid to enjoyment. EVE is, at it's cold black heart, a social game. It's much easier to get things done when you have a group of friends to help you do it.

Just to add to the other great responses, don't feel any decision you make is all or nothing. There's no harm in trying a few things out before dropping your skills into want to do well.

And yes, join a corp. People are awesome

I don't think the problem is with the learning curve (the complexity of the game mechanics), but rather with the fact that it's a sandbox. You're supposed to come up with your own plots (quest lines), there aren't any in this game, and not everyone enjoys that. I'm kinda in the same boat; I love reading books and suck at writing my own.

So, in a sandbox, if you don't want to build your own sand castle, then join a corp and help them build theirs. Their CEO and corp leadership will have plenty of grandiose plans of conquest and winning that you can just participate in.

You've expressed interest in industry (mining, manufacturing, trading), and that's fine as long as you realize that the main point of this game is to shoot spaceships piloted by others. EVE is really a strategy game; our ships are the "units" and we get together in a big alliance and go conquer space much like in a strategy game. The "building units" part of a strategy game is secondary; not the main point of the game.

So, high-sec is safe-ish, and there's little that a corp can offer that you can't do solo, so as a result you'll see mostly crappy corps in high-sec. And if you try to do your industry solo, you'll basically be up against all the veterans who are also manufacturing in that easy space and selling their product for cheap. If you really want to have fun at this game, you should try to find a corp that operates in dangerous space (low or null sec, or wormhole space), and see if you can manufacture for them, to basically support them and help them with their goals.

do u know how frakin awesome it is when scouts are reporting intel over comms and u and ur compadres co-ordinate and organise a gang on a ship or another gang.

such a satisfying pop when they go down. ice cream on top if u get the pod.

do you know the feeling of ur heart beat becoming an audible sound in ur ears as u punch a plex gate wondering how ur target is fit.

do u know how awesome it is when the spoils of ur pvp fund more pvp?

do u know the awesomeness of being hunted but being too on the ball for ur enemy to catch u.

do u know how awesome it is when u land a massive bump on a target so it cant get back to gate or dock?

there is so much to learn and do in eve. i cant recommend the game enough.

i dont blame you for not being sold on it as u are mining. that imo is like watching paint dry.

edit- recently i was killed by a freaking moracha, yes a MORACHA. even that was awesome. an honour in fact.

Interact


Learn


Die


Have fun


(Not necessarily in that order)

Hopefully from the above you have some suggestions on the things you can do from here so I'll leave that except to say that if you want any general advice on Industry or Trading as a career send me a convo if you see me online (I'm usually on during Euro primetime, though often on my trade alts so an evemail might be better).

As to socket closed, see Tau's post above. Also, this is a general error message that the server gives when too many packets are lost or there is a timeout. This seems to happen most with WiFi, router problems and some ISPs. There is also a known issue with some hubs, e.g. Virgin recently issued a statement that one of their hubs is not suitable for online gaming. There is a FAQ here :

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=334556&find=unread

I don't have a link to the Virgin statement but it was posted in the Issues & Workarounds forum a month or more back in reply to a thread about socket closed errors.

Hope that helps.