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new to eve and got blown away :)

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ozraelised Esil
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2016-09-15 07:50:37 UTC
hi all new to eve and of course in the training mission I got blown away lol. - my boss cam to the room and I had to tun off the monitor .
so I was in my pod and going towards a station which is 8.7 (if I remember ) IU away ?
Where can I read about eve - to get the measurement of this amazing universe - if there is anyone new who wants to join me as we learn that will be awesome - I mean that is nothing like a few newbies getting shot lol.

osraelised who has no idea
Taishoku Mayaki
Feeling Cute Today
#2 - 2016-09-15 10:16:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Taishoku Mayaki
^ lol Eve at work is always dangerous.

Just dock at a station and you will get a new Reaper to fly around in. Press the dock or warp button to actually go to it though, don't try and manually fly there. It will take years.

"Right-O, lets get undocked and see what falls off the ship"
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#3 - 2016-09-15 10:35:21 UTC
Literally years, eve is huge.

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Linus Gorp
Ministry of Propaganda and Morale
#4 - 2016-09-15 10:55:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Linus Gorp
1 AU (astronomical unit) is 149.597.870.700 meters. 149.597.781 kilometers. Your pod goes, and I'm guessing here, 200m/s? So it's going to take you 207.774 hours, or 8.657 days, or 23.7 years to fly that manually, not counting in daily downtime ;)

Just select the station on your overview and press the "warp" icon and you'll make it in a matter of seconds.

Edit: I made a boo-boo and calculated that using 1 AU as base line.. Take the number times 8.7 for actual distance to station. Leaves us with 206.19 years manual travel distance! Start now and your grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-children can dock up for you :)

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Memphis Baas
#5 - 2016-09-15 12:08:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Memphis Baas
You can read:

Eve Online official lore / background
Eve University wiki
EVE ISK The Guide - pdf - detailed guides / advice on most gameplay aspects
Reddit's little guide
A number of guides stickied at the top of this sub-forum
EVE News 24
Official Upcoming Features page by CCP

EDIT: 1 AU = astronomical unit = distance from Earth to Sun = approx 150 million km. Distances between the (solar system) planets are measured in AU, and the game uses the same, for realism.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#6 - 2016-09-15 12:35:16 UTC
As Memphis listed

there's an awful lot of reading that you can do to understand eve a little more

add "islands amongst the stars" to that list

mission guides -- > http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=HomePage
navigation & Sov info --> http://evemaps.dotlan.net/

other potentially useful stuff
http://www.ellatha.com/eve/LP_Stores.asp
http://eveplanets.com/
https://eve-central.com/home/market.html
http://eve-online.itemdrop.net/

that's a small start anyway
have fun.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2016-09-16 00:31:36 UTC
Hello and welcome to Eve.

As for finding other new players to fleet up with, you can ask in Corp chat as well as ask in the Starter systems and where Career Agents are located.

Speaking of the Career Agents, if you haven't done so, I suggest completing all 5 Agents, then run the level 1 Sisters Of Eve Epic Arc. That will give you time to train up the Core Fitting Skills and make some ISK while deciding on which career path to pursue here in Eve.

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


DMC

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Blade Darth
Room for Improvement
Good Sax
#8 - 2016-09-16 03:03:14 UTC
Literally blown away! hahah

haha
ha

You might want to watch this (if already didn't)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui7ZTlfNngc

I'd stay away from 50 page long tutorials and google docs for a year or two.
Fly safe o7

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