EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello everyone!

My name is Face Blob and I have been playing eve for a week now.

In my limited play time, I have seen a lot of new players complain about various things about the game. Most of the time it’s something like “This game is too hard” “The game doesn’t tell me what to do” “This ***hat killed me for no reason and there is nothing I can do about it”

Don’t get me wrong. I do understand that this is how a lot of people feel, especially if their past gaming experience are more “modern” MMOs. I have played a lot of MMOs in the past myself, including WoW, and if that is the gaming experience you are used to, it’s completely natural to feel overwhelmed, lost, powerless and frustrated.

I haven’t had those feelings when it comes to EVE. At least not yet. :D
My advice to anyone who just started, or are planning on trying EVE is to see it as a learning experience. There is no need to be in a hurry. No matter how much you play, your skills won’t train faster. So every time you get those negative feelings, take a step back and relax for a while. Then come back and find out how to avoid that situation in the future. “Meditate on this you must!”

I saw someone complain about getting War decced by an experienced player. The lovely people in here had different ideas about what this person might do in this situation, including trying to fight back and learning from it. This person responded with something along the lines of “What in all of New Eden can I learn from getting killed?!”. The answer to this question is quite simply “A hell of alot!!”

Let me give you an example from my own experiences.

A few days ago I decided to travel into low sec. Why? because I’m doing exploration, and the competition is just way to high for it to be worth it as the loot in High Sec isn’t worth a lot.

I found myself in a Low Sec system with no one else around, so I thought to myself “I’ll warp to this planet, that way I’m not a sitting duck at the gate if someone comes in here”.

A few minutes later, a guy appears in the system. I don’t pay much attention to it and keep scanning. 2 minutes later he’s next to me and pods me in 2 hits. He had me scrambled, preventing me from warping, so there wasn’t really much I could do about it. At least that’s what I thought for the first 10 min.

But instead of getting down, I went on the interwebs and found out that there were a lot of things I could do about it.

This one experience taught me about Warp Core Stabilizers, The importance of paying attention to local, cloaking, and most importantly, how to make safe points in a system to make you harder to find.

Today (2-3 days later) I’m now traveling in null sec/unknown space looking for stuff to loot, and I haven’t been killed even once after that initial experience of getting ganked. (THIS IS NOT A CHALLENGE!! :D)

So my advice to you is this.

Whenever something bad happens to you, find out how to avoid it. Go online and watch videos, read guides or ask the nice people here in the forums for guidance! There is always something you can learn from bad experiences in EVE, and every time you do, you are less likely to experience the same thing again!

I do apologise for the wall of text, but I had to write this as it’s so sad to see new players give up within the first week. If you are new to EVE, I do hope that you do decide to slow down and learn how to avoid bad situations. If you take the time to do research, this game seems to have a lot to offer, and personally I’m only getting more excited about the game as the days goes by! :)

To any veteran players who ends up reading this.. If what I have said in here isn’t true, please call me out on it! This is just my experience so far as a complete noob, and I want other new players to see that, even for a complete noob, there is a light on the other side of the wormhole. It might only be the slight reflection of a cloaked stealth bomber waiting to pod you, but it is a light none the less :D

Newbro is faced with the challenge of learning eve, rises to it.

Fantastic.

Next step for you should be finding a Corp and making friends and enemies (particularly enemies, they're way more fun)

*stuffs cigar in OP's mouth*

You deserve it!


In keeping with the theme of this thread, let me say one thing to all newbies;

Yes, we are cruel in-game. Yes, we will gank you... scam you... use and abuse you... send you out as cannon fodder...

But if you ask (nicely), we will also give you all the advice you could have ever hoped to want. Advice that will help you not just survive but thrive. We will even tell you how to effectively fight back against us. Hell... we might even give you you stuff if we like you and think you have potential.

*Vigorous applause*

I never stick in the same systems to do exploration, I typically roam around, so leaving sites sitting there isn't a big deal. They despawn naturally so long after someone first warps to them. I forget the exact time frame.

How I do it might be more relevant to W-space than low/NS. I personally hunt explorers by having a cloaky-warp in alt and a bubbler to warp in when they do the last can, just so I have a shot at getting a bit more loot and the pod. Doing it in low when you're alone in a system would probably be overkill.

Welcome to New Eden

New player with a 10 day old account. Joined a damn awesome exploration corp and I've made 300~ million ISK in that time playing casually. How? Exploration of C1 - C3 class Wormholes that lead to null and low sec. It's really not that hard as long as you are really careful and do a lot of research and what to do and more importantly not do. I've only lost one ship worth 2 million roughly so far and that was because I hadn't yet learned the lesson of not to do any hacking if someone else is in local.

I am currently looking for a corp, as any game (for me at least) is a lot more enjoyable when playing with others. I'm gonna take my time and research the corps though. I don't want to join a random corp and end up leaving quickly because it doesn't suit me :)

It's going to take some time, but I think it's going to be worth it in the end :)

OP - You need to teach the lessons you have learned to other players.

Remember to take advantage of those who whine about the game.

Like, forming a corp with them. Have them bleed corptaxes.
Blow up their ships if they're worth it.
Ransom them.

OOOOOrrrr ... mail me the names...... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

*coughcough*
*sips coffee*