EVE New Citizens Q&A

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/The_Blood-Stained_Stars is a nice starter :)

awesome! I will for sure check out the sisters arc! it is a bit intimidating to know I can get nuked at any time haha but oh well i guess thats part of the fun!

Gives the place an edgy fearfull mood i found, i fell in love with that.
When you are in any of the career systems or doing the sisters ark you should be free from getting ****ed with,

If you do get ****ed with ,poke yer head in here and we can advise on what to do about it .

Hello and welcome to Eve.

Most players will tell you this is a PvP game and that you create your own story content. While that may be true I'm here to tell you there's more to this game than just that. Despite what the other players have posted, this game is very heavy with PvE content and if done correctly it will indeed direct you to more PvE content.

Now I'm not talking about regular missions, I'm talking about doing missions for Event Agents.

Event Agents are special. Most offer missions that can only be completed once in the life of the character. They don't give Loyalty Points but they do give both Corporation and Faction Standing increase. The missions themselves are a bit more difficult and have a good story plot. Not to mention some very interesting / unique loot rewards.

Career Agents

Circle Agents

Data Center Agents

Epic Arc Agents
Mission Guides

Cosmos Agents
Amarr Guide
Caldari Guide
Gallente Guide
Minmatar Guide
All Factions Cosmos


Factional Warfare and Sansha Incursions are another aspect of mission type PvE which also includes PvP. I guess the last type of mission type PvE would be expeditions gained from doing exploration combat sites.

Good luck to you and may you have a long rewarding career here in Eve.


DMC

There are four arcs (one for each empire), one starter arc (Sisters of EvE) and two pirate arcs (Angel and some other irrelevant faction).

Epic Arcs.

There are also several player-run missions. For awhile, Lenny Kravitz payed quite handsomely to take down ships around the deklein region marked red, and word has it you can run courier contracts for players or assault POCOs and earn SRP that way.

I'll add an opinion.

Eve is mostly about PvP. There is PvE in Eve but it's limited and repetitive, the game is mostly focused on players shooting at other players, or shooting at stuff that belongs to other players.

The only areas of the game where CCP takes a strong stand against players attacking other players without warning are the beginner/rookie systems where all new players start the game. If a player attacks new players without warning inside any of the rookie systems, CCP can ban that player. Outside the rookie systems, everyone is fair game.

There are bannable offences outside the rookie systems, but the offence needs to be something fairly serious to result in a ban for being naughty outside a rookie system.

PvE in Eve.

There are only a limited number of mission (quest) arcs in Eve, and other people have given links for information about them, so I won't bother repeating it. There are several different types of missions in Eve. The most obvious type is "security missions" where you're expected to shoot at server controlled NPC ships. You get a cash reward for completing the mission and a second cash reward (bounty) for all the NPC ships you blow up.

There are also "mining missions' which are what they sound like. An NPC will ask you to collect a certain amount of a particular type of ore and bring it back to them. You don't have to actually mine the ore, you can just buy some, the NPC agent doesn't care how you get the ore, you just have to get it and deliver it to them.

Distribution missions. These are basically fetch-carry missions where an NPC agent asks you to collect a particular item (the NPC agent normally gives you that item) and deliver it to another station.

There are some other types of missions but if your objective is to earn isk to buy bigger ships and shoot stuff, those three types of missions are the main ones.

The mission arcs are the only ones where completing one mission directly leads you to another mission. The security, mining and distribution missions are stand alone. When you complete one of those missions the game does not automatically prompt you with a new mission, you need to ask for another mission. Each type of mission has it's own specialised NPC agents. A security mission agent will only give you security missions, a mining mission agent will only give you mining missions, a distribution mission agent will only give you distribution missions.

Does Eve have raids? Yes. In Eve they're called "incursions". This is fairly high level PvE content for Eve. The basic story is that there is a large pirate faction which regularly invades Eve space and kidnaps a bunch of innocent civilians to turn them into cyborg slaves. These NPC pirates are much tougher than normal NPC pirates and fighting them is meant to be done by groups of players working together. Players normally need to be able to fly a battleship class ship, or a specialised support ship called a "logistics cruiser" fairly well to be effective in an incursion group. The locations of the incursions changes regularly, controlled by scripts running on the server.

I don't think that this is true in all cases. We just had a new player posting in here last week about not being able to complete a mining mission because he started it before downtime and finished mining after downtime. The ore respawned during DT so he had enough but not all of the ore in the mission space was minned. He had to go back and mine all of the ore in the mission space before he could complete the mission iirc.

I know this sounds like nit picking but I just did not want to mislead the new player. The rest of the post is great advice and I gave it a thumbs up. Just want to clarify this one point.

Just a few things to add to what has been said above. First terms like questing and clans are not used in eve. Their use by a player will result in razing and grief. Also despite what folk say eve does have a story arc. There is actually a lot of lore behind what is going on in the game. The missions all more or less relate to the lore. Of course apart from role players the lore really doesn't drive player action like it may in other games. But eve is a sandbox and if you feel like you want to have your actions guided by eve lore that is perfectly ok. In fact maybe you want to go to provi space since they seem to love that sort of thing.

To clarify, there's a region of stars called Providence that's inhabited by players who role-play Amarr sympathizers and anti-pirates (the Curatores Veritatis Alliance, CVA). Opposing them was a group of players (the Ushra'khan Alliance) who played Minmatar freedom-fighters, anti-Amarr slavery. Not sure if they are still active. The CVA, of course, regarded them as nothing more than pirates and terrorists. So there was / is role-play in this game.

We don't speak in thees and thous, and we don't sit in a bar chatting. It's futuristic sci-fi, so you speak normally and you demonstrate your role-play beliefs through your actions.

In any case, most player alliances that have conquered space in the wild 0.0 regions will defend that space. Meaning that they blockade the entry stargates, and will do their best to hunt anyone who enters. It's called a NBSI policy, if the ship is Not "Blue" (not a member), Shoot It.

Providence operates on a NRDS policy (not red (enemy)?, don't shoot). They allow neutral pilots to fly around and even use their stations, as long as you don't cause trouble. So as a result, Providence is a popular destination for solo pilots who want to experience 0.0 gameplay but aren't members of a large alliance already.

It's also a popular destination for the NPSI (not purple (not in your fleet), shoot it). These are pick-up fleets that just form up, and you can go shooting even your current buddies, all sins forgiven afterwards, in the name of "good fights." But a lot of the time, the NPSI fleets will go to Providence to engage CVA and the random defenders there, because there's less blockading of the approach lanes.

wow so many awesome responses, thank you!

so much to look forward to!

one more question I have though... aside from obvious pilot skill is there a specific class of ship I can obtain or a specific point I can progress to where I can start to look for PvP opportunities? I feel like at this point I have a pretty newbie ship (forgot the name but its this ship ) and Its fitted with just items recieved in the military agent missions.

I dont really know exactly how to read the specs and stuff like this but are there specific numbers or stats I should look for before I start actively seeking out PvP? thanks!