EVE New Citizens Q&A

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It spells properly or gets the troll again!


*snickers*

He's at the same time one of the most well mannered, reasonable and down-to-earth people I ever met in EVE.
He is honest, intelligent and open for possibilities and change.

And that's why it hurts so much. ^_^


Now back to your regular thread.

In this game it's more often the other way around. Corps claiming to be PvP when they are only PvE.

First off that only happens in high sec. You have high sec corps looking to make isk from taxing new players and don't care about much else. Null sec corps are a totally different story. You basically need to submit DNA samples and go through a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test combined with a full NSA above top secret background investigation.

As far as what you have to offer them most corps do not care. At least not from a character perspective. Your skill points don't mean much in this game people just care if you are fun to play with.

Most other MMOs that I've played have some type of heavily structured game play. In WoW for example if you were doing a 25 man raid each person had to be well geared and able to pull the right numbers or the whole group would suffer. Same thing in a 40 man BG or a 3 vs. 3 arena match.

In Eve you can run a mission by yourself or bring 750 of your closest friends with you. If a group of 7 guys is going out on a PvP roam an 8th person in group is typically more than welcome to go. So the basic structure of this game typically encourages a "the more the merrier" kind of attitude.

On the flipside of that all the spying and infiltration and such encourage a level of paranoia that I don't see as being good for any game. But then I have yet to find the perfect game and to me Eve has a lot of ups to offset the downs.

Hope all your queries have been answered. Be on the lookout for you in help/eve uni chat :)

can anyone supply me with a upto date link on the correct way to setup my overview, i tried to do this blind and think i have messed it all up :(

many thanks

That actually proves my point, why would people buy a noob ship off the market, when they can just get one for free? Obviously a certain type is more valuable than others. It is a pain in the arse, having to go to a market hub to get the required noob ship.

EVE University guide
Fix-your-overview blog

Realize, though, that everyone's got their own preferences, and what others do may not work perfectly for you.

You have a few very important things in the overview to worry about:

1. What columns are displayed?
Icon and Name are a given, but you also want Type because you need to see what ship players are flying. Distance, Speed are important. Angular is a column that you can add, so you can see whether your guns will track an orbiting enemy or not. Others also add the Tag field; if you operate in a fleet, the fleet commander (FC) will often order "primary target tag 1, secondary tag 2, jam tag 3."

2. What ships are displayed?
Whenever CCP introduces a new ship, by default nobody's overview has it. You have to keep track of patch notes and put a checkmark for these ships to the "types" settings, so they're shown. Several tabs are available for you to pre-configure, and the most common configurations just show ships, stations, and stargates, along with a few miscellaneous player things like POS towers and bombs and deployables. But you can also preconfigure some of these tabs to show everything, or to show every structure, to show drones, etc.; these would be too cluttered to look at, but can act as useful filters when you're using the directional scanner.

3. What color tags are displayed?
Like it or not, the list of pilots in the local chat channel IS a source of information. You will see every pilot in the same solar system as you, even if they are cloaked, as soon as they enter from a stargate, and they're displayed with the same colors as you configure in the overview. The default configuration for color tags is screwed up, though: you want the most dangerous colors first (war enemies, militia enemies, criminals, limited engagement (meaning they're shooting you now)) at the top, and then you want the various fleet, corp, and alliance mates, and finally all the "standings" tags.

This is because the colors that are higher on the list will cover the colors that are lower (only one color can be displayed), and you don't want the color for "has excellent security status" to cover the "he's my war enemy".

You have to keep in mind, though, that certain color states are mutually exclusive (someone can't be in your corporation AND a corporation war enemy, for example), but others are not (someone CAN be in your corporation AND limited engagement (shooting you right now)). That's why you don't want the "corporation" green tag to be higher than the "shooting you" red tag.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=442944&find=unread
A bunch of resources curtisy of my old mentor, the "un-**** your overview" one is what memphis tried to link.
Its got a heavy bias twords pvp so you may need to tweak it but the best advice i can give on the topic is
just to get yer head around it.

Reason being is the only correct way to set ot up for you is to set it up acording to your specific needs and likings.
No pack or link will give you that, they may get you close but you should certainly figure it out.

People are buying all the rookie ships on the market.