EVE New Citizens Q&A

At least that's what someone called me anyways.

Just started playing this game. I am in amazement at the complexity of it all, and the venues it can allow one to pursue are rather intriguing. I've heard about this game ever since it came out, but never had a decent computer to run it (seriously.)

There's just one thing (that I am willing to admit at the moment) that I am a bit confused about. Are the Opportunities the tutorial missions, or are there actual tutorial missions? Any extra tips are appreciated as well.

Thanks again for the help in advance.

-Zon

(Edit: Most of you have been extremely helpful and insightful. I know I could Google most of these questions that I am asking the Community, but I feel that this is more real. You are what help people like myself. I thank you all, and I will keep coming to you. You all add personality to what would be an otherwise dead site found though Google. All I ask is for you to bear with me, and hopefully others will be able to see this and have some of their questions answered as well.)

No, opportunities are a new system that CCP coded; they're more like achievements in other games, where the game tracks what you do and congratulates you / gives you a medal whenever you complete one of the tasks it tracks.

The Career Agents are separate agents; the game used to send you to talk to them, but now it doesn't. But they still give you the career missions if you somehow find out about them and open a conversation with them.

Here's an EVE University tutorial that covers Opportunities, and also lists the Career Agents and their locations. You just travel to the nearest career station and double-click the agent, for the missions.

Thank you all for your prompt replies. They were very helpful. I will definitely take a look at those links.

Again, thank you.

We pointed out that it was confusing, and (I don't remember the exact blog or dev thread, but) CCP said something about the confusion actually causing the newbies to pay attention, try stuff on their own, and ask questions, which resulted in MORE newbie retention than the old tutorials. When the Opportunities system was in beta testing, they started random newbies with it, and other random newbies with the old tutorials, and concluded that Opportunities results in more newbies choosing to subscribe.

In any case, the old career agents are there and still offering missions. They aren't tutorials per se, they're more intended to give you starter cash, as the career mission payouts are greatly exaggerated. As I said, if you keep the ships and modules and sell them on the market with sensible pricing, you should get approx. 10 million ISK per set of career agents.

Then you can do the Sisters of Eve epic mission arc, for another influx of several million ISK.

After that, though, the game becomes a true sandbox; you're expected to invent your own epic story, and play it out with the ships that you unlock as you train skills. Kinda like little kids, where you give them a ball or a simple toy and they'll have a whole day of epic adventure with it.

Or, if your mind doesn't work like that (mine doesn't anymore), join a good player corporation, so that their plans, goals, and attempts to do something in the game can become your epic saga.

could you please stop giving new bros bad advice like this? Minmatar have not been the PvP kings in like 4 years. Options are typically better than focus in this game due to the exponential increase of training times and the five fold diminishing returns in that respect.

good advice, grand


this can be safely ignored

Hell, you can do all but Dagan in a frigate as a new player.



Welcome to EVE. Two years in of playing regularly and I still get that feeling.

Hello again,

So now I've started an agent's scanning missions. In which applications would you use the pinpoint probe scanning and which for the spread formation? Should one just always do pinpoint or should one start with the spread?

-Zon

You can safely use the pinpoint for most if not all pve scanning.
Most pve sites and wormholes spawn within 4au of a celestial (someone correct me if I'm wrong) so you should only need the pinpoint

IMO the broad one is primarily usefull for combat probing (scanning for a ship and/or player asset in space to murder) when trying to see if there is something somewhere in system you for some reason can't narrow down with d-scan.

You would do well to pay attention to thoses tutorials as probing skills (player skill at the act rather than sp) are valuable for both pvp corps and pve.

If you are totally confused, but still having fun, you are wining EVE.

Everybody has their own goals, plans, and agendas. Everybody has their own opinions. Form your own!

I've been around for over 7 years. I still don't know everything, nor have I done everything, but my EVE-mail inbox never closes, and I always try to do my best to help should you have questions.