EVE New Citizens Q&A

A. Anybody can train any skill.

B. The price on the market is the price you pay, your character race doesn't matter in that.

Nope. Players do (almost) all of the buying and selling in eve, as well as the manufacturing. Which means you can buy or sell whatever you want and the prices tend to even out around the galaxy, at least in high sec. There is at least one major trade hub in each faction's space, but that is a result of players choosing to do business there and is not mandated by the game. There are also many minor hubs where smaller numbers of players do business.

No.

Each region has "it's own" market.

But the entire market is all open to each other and for 99.7% player controlled

Other then skills and some other basic stuff, everything you see on the market is made by players, sold by players, bought by player and used by players.



Really, from what I've seen so far:



FORGET ALL YOU LEARNED IN WOW.


You clearly have other MMO experience, forget all about that.
Most of that stuff is useless in EVE as EVE has it's own way of doing stuff.

If I could give this 77 likes I would. This is the most important thing that I feel I can pass on to players coming from other MMOs which are mostly all WoW clones. All those games are basically the same which understandably leads many players to come to think that is just how MMOs are.

Eve is very very different. I can only speak for myself here but I could not really start to understand Eve until I let go of nearly everything I learned in WoW.

My first year or so in this game was spent having the WoW be slowly and brutally beaten out of me one hard lesson at a time.

Not everyone wants to play at max ISK efficiency, some folks (myself included) find fun in just doing everything myself. Sure I'm not running at the highest levels of ISK gathering in the game (not even close if my wallets are to be believed), but that kind of grinding bores me. I did that in almost every other MMO I've played and it bored the crap outta me. I am hoping EVE is different.

So if taking a moment to salvage my own mats, maybe supplement it with purchased mats when the cost vs. benefit drives me to do so, and I'm less ISK efficient than someone that just grinds out the ISK and purchases/hauls everything that's okay. I get the satisfaction of knowing I built most of everything up from scratch and did it that way. I'm not sure what the "Net Gain" difference would be, could be 5% could be 50%.

The objective of the game is to have fun. If mini-maxxing ISK is how you accomplish that, more power to you. If salvaging and selling the salvage is it for you... go for it. My definition varies, but I do have fun clobbering stuff and cleaning up the mess then either moving on or doing a little building or some buying and hauling. It's more mood based than anything else. It's subject to change.

I guess the main MMO difference you need to be wary of--re: thread-- is that EVE uses missions as income or faction grinding. The number of missions are actually quite small, and for the most part all repeatable. Missions, unlike quests are NOT content in EVE, content is Player interaction.

In other games, Quests are content and tie into other content. This isn't true with missions in EVE. Missions are just a dead end really, they don't take you anywhere. So PVE players who retain the habit of following game content through quests and apply the same methodology towards missions, find themselves feeling abandoned by the game.