EVE New Citizens Q&A

I think you can play EVE just an hour a day and still have plenty fun.

And I think you're on the right track with doing the tutorial missions. "Tutorial" isn't really the best term for them. They're more like a tour through all kinds of different things you can do in EVE. If you stick with it and finish them, you'll probably find more than one activity that interests you.

Other notes:
-The classic old What to do in EVE Online chart is a good visual graphic of some things you can do in the sandbox.
-Doing the Sisters of EVE epic arc missions The Blood-Stained Stars used to be considered kind of a rite of passage for new players. They're fun, pretty easy, and you get good loot.

Welcome mate!

Thanks for the response people!

I feel like knowing what skills to start training early on is super important as well. Any tips on core skills that I should start queuing up for training right away?

Thanks! Probably the most usable advice I've been given so far! After I'm done the intro missions I shall start messing with people lmao... probably lose a ship or two in the process I'm sure haha

Activate your subscription, then use the Account Management page to buy a PLEX. Go to Jita, claim the PLEX in-game, then sell it; this will give you about 1B ISK, sort of like a safety net so you have more than enough cash to buy the skills you need early on, and also so you can lose a couple thousand (frigate) ships in PVP without worrying about grinding for replacement money.

After that, study the Ships Chart in-game and figure out what you'd like to fly. Keep in mind that some of the ships are more suited for PVE activities and some are for PVP. PVE combat - the NPCs don't run away and don't really pull any tricks on you, so just having an OK tank and some DPS is sufficient. PVP combat, however, there are many roles you can have as part of a group, from scouting to tackling (players run away) to electronic jamming to remote repairs (healing) to DPS to tanking, etc. So the majority of the ships in the Ships Chart have special bonuses that are suited for various PVP roles.

As far as the skills, the skills in this game just give you 5% bonus to various stats, and the idea is to accumulate 5% bonuses to everything so your combat performance increases by a lot.

You can categorize skills as follows:

- Ship Skills - (under Spaceship Command), these unlock new ships for you.

- Weapon Skills - (Gunnery, Missiles, Drones) - train the weapons that your ships use.

- Support Skills - (Armor, Shields, Targeting, Navigation, Engineering, Electronics) - these make all your ships perform better, you'll probably end up training almost all the skills in these categories (you can skip anything that has to do with Capital sized ships for now).

- Non-combat Skills - Corporation Management, Industry, Reprocessing, Social, Trade, etc. - train these as needed. Lower taxes on the market, being able to refine some of the ore you may happen upon, being able to anchor your own personal depot etc., some of these may be useful even if you're pure combat.

Expect to be training somewhere in the vicinity of 180 skills. Training them to 3 is sufficient for newbie levels, but the bigger ships are more expensive, and slower, so they rely a lot more on solid armor, shields, etc. to survive. So as you go up in ship sizes, keep up with the Support skills.

Typically all races have ships that can do well in various PVE and PVP scenarios, but if you want to have a broader selection, train up the lines of ships for 2 races. The races have the following characteristics:

Amarr - lasers and drones, armor tanking.
Caldari - hybrids and missiles, shield tanking.
Gallente - hybrids and drones, armor tanking.
Minmatar - projectile weapons, missiles, and drones, either shield or armor tanking - overall speedy and versatile ships.

Tech 2 modules are better than Tech 1, so your eventual aim is to use T2 modules, T2 weapons, and perhaps fly some of the T2 ships. T2 modules are easy to get; just some support skills trained to level 3. T2 weapons are more difficult, their prerequisites involve some weaponry skills trained to 5. And finally, T2 ships are super-specialized to a certain role, and have prerequisites of several skills at 5.

For now, as I recommended in the beginning, though, read up on whatever guides you can find, get yourself set up with that PLEX and some spare ships, and then try to do everything to figure out what you may like. PVE missions, faction PVP, piracy, trading, mining, etc.

Here's a great skill plan I used when I started: http://blog.beyondreality.se/Newbie-skill-plan-2\

Don't gloss over the stuff he writes, it's important and explains things quite well.

Welcome to New Eden!

Thanks for all the tips guys and gals.

Little update, last night was playing for a little while before heading to hockey. Was trying to warp to an "anomaly" which I was under the impression were asteroid belts... I was wrong... Day 1= 1 Ship destroyed LOL

And yah, as per your advice I think that I will buy 1 plex to get the ball rolling after I purchase a subscription to the game.

Also think that exploration and PVP are probably what I will want to get into to start.

LOL! Yeah, I completely understand!

I named my Venture "Ephemeral" because I figured it would be dead fairly fast. It lasted 13 days until my first adventure in a wormhole. Didn't know about the NPC frigates that would just pop up after about 15 minutes... LOTS of NPC frigates. Went to warp out at the first sign of trouble but discovered that my bookmark attempt at the entrance to the wormhole didn't stick. So panic set in! I had been scanning down other things while letting the mining lasers do their thing on the high grade ore, found another wormhole and thought it might be the same one, so when panic set in, I warped to that one too late, the venture was already in structure as it started to point for warp... blew up before it got enough speed.

Made it to the wormhole in the capsule, got smartbombed by a player with a single smart bomb but I made it through the wormhole with about 30hp left on the structure of the capsule. Turns out the wormhole was a different one so I did some capsule exploration in it while my shields recharged... full pirate wormhole, looked like player driven but nobody really in system, so I had to be very circumspect. Once shields were back I jumped back through to the first one expecting to be wasted by the bomber.

Warped around a bit but the same player that tried to nuke my capsule took pity on me and actually put into Fleet with me and showed me the way out. He only wanted to know how much structure I had left on the pod after the hit. I told him, thanked him and actually gave him a million ISK for his trouble. He could've just wasted me.

That adventure taught me several lessons about the game and about people. You can't take anything for granted and chivalry isn't dead were among the top ones!

This game has a lot of dimensions to it, can be boring one moment and terrifyingly exiting the next.

Some Random EVE Cliches That Happen To Be True:

Look for FUN! first, worry about ISK and suchlike later.
The most valuable commodities in EVE are Friendship and Trust.
The best ship in EVE is the good ship FriendShip.
Never Fly What You Can't Afford To Lose.
You Consent To PVP In All Systems When You Click 'Undock'.
Bookmarks Are Awesome.

Disclamer:

After all these years, i could only tell you that hot night with hot gf is better than hot night in Eve. Especially when you 25 yo.

As others have mentioned finding a corporation that suits you can make all the difference in EVE.
I would suggest that you read over this guide and take your time with deciding.

Except that. .Remember it's a game. Don't let it start to get to you and don't let it burn you out!
Oh and don't start a corporation on your own until you have been around for a while, it's not as easy as it looks

Welcome to EVE!