EVE New Citizens Q&A

Good luck with this. While I cannot speak to how your run will go, we did this sort of thing over this past weekend with a group of friends on Alphas (and one Omega who could get the missions, cause, rep). 12 of us in total, most were new to EvE, all in frigs, good fun.

Maybe you can coordinate with the Magic Schoolbus. He's been pretty active lately.

Give them 1 MILLION ISK OMG!!!! for participation, and advertise that this is for mad ISK looting and salvaging, and you'll have tons of them.

Gallente University of Caille starter area is Bourynes / Vitennyn, and there are several level 4 Federation Navy agents with security missions right there, or 1 jump away in Fricoure and Mirilene. Caldari Navy agents are somewhat far, I think, from their starter systems, but there are several level 4 agents for Corporate Police Force (CPF) in Waskisen, which is very close to the starter areas and Jita. I'm not sure where the Amarr and Minmatar Navy agents are relative to their starter areas.

Guess I missed the boat on this one. I suggest opening a channel in game, put a MOTD on it for when the next fleet will be. I think it's a great idea, good to learn fitting, speed tanking, and manual flight in a situation where they don't have to worry about losing a pod.

Start a channel, let me know, I will see about rousing up some interest for AU TZ folks.

HelpMyMission channel might be a place to start, though if it gets too busy they might ask us to leave :D

Good ideas all round. Event went ok, had 6 or 7 newbros of various levels :)

I will create a channel tonight and update this thread with the details. I also have a TS3 server that could potentially be re-purposed Any older players who are willing to hang out in channel and lead fleets / answer questions get in touch.

Thanks for the input everyone.

Ok channel is called "New Player Fleets" and is free to join for anyone. I went with a sort of incursion-like system where older regulars will be named on a list in the MOTD as trusted FC's.

The guys who have posted already offering support, join the channel and i'll get some more FC's added.

So, we do have quite a few experienced pilots sitting in the channel already.

So this is your chance people.

If you are new to the game and have questions regarding the game, or want to meet some people to fleet up join us in the channel.

-> In case you don´t know how:

1. Click on the speech bubble on top of the Chat window
2. Enter "New Player Fleets" (without the quatation marks)
3. Click "join"
4. Profit!

We will do our best to answer any question you have, provide you with useful links to make your eve live easier.

If you wish you can also come along with us when we make some ISK (a lot more than you could possibly make alone as a new player).

We also have experienced PvPers in the channel who can teach you a few things or who will give you the chance to join a fleet to get your taste of internet spaceship explosions :).

So join now! It´s a service completly for your benefit and it comes for free!

So far sadly, not many rookies are taking us up on the offer, but that is not really unusual as well. Advertising in those system surely helps in regards to visibility, but from my experience with other channels, the best thing you can do is just buzz around and invite people into fleets and then letting them know about the channel and that they can join the channel too, if they want to keep updated about fleets that are being organised.

It is a lot easier to convince people to join a "community" if they are already having fun with members of that "community" and see that the people there really are doing things and don´t just throw out adverts in order to get peoples attention.

My plan for today for example to fly around amarr rookie systems see if I can get people to join a fleet to run some level 4 missions in a nearby system and will also hand out the ships to them to use for the "event", so they don´t even have to put their few assets they have at risk and then while we run missions will mention the channel and explain to them what it is about.

But yes, helping locally surely helps as well. People are much more likely to follow people who have proven to actually be helpful in regards to achieving their personal goals, even if it´s just simple goals as finishing a basic mission or building some items and so on.

While I have nothing against sheduled fleets in general and surely some of the people will at some point do sheduled fleets they have a big disadvantage.,

For me personally the only reason why I hang out in high sec is that I don´t want to plan my life around eve shedules anymore. I have done that for years as alliance member and I rather just play when I am in the mood to play and have time instead of having to plan everything ahead and having to be there at certain times.

If we would run the whole thing in a form of a serious corp I would agree, but the whole point of just getting together in a channel is being able to be more casual about it and not having any obligations to do things at a certain time.

That is at least how I see it, I can not speak for the others in the channel.

edit: In regards to fittings, when I run fleets I will hand out properly fitted ships to be used (currently limited to frigs). That does have the big advantage that I exactly know how each ship performs and can tell ppl how to use the ships and it greatly reduces the preperation and travel time. That way people can just jump into a shuttle, come over to my mission running system, grab a ship and join the fun.

I am of course also willing to explain to people why I fit the ships the way I fit them. But if people have questions about fittings I rather do it in a quite minute and not while trying to run multiple accounts, lead a fleet and trying to observe the individual members in order to be able to give them some advice on their piloting.

If I would have to check every fitting whenever somebody joins a fleet, this would mean that everyone else in the fleet has to sit around and wait until I have the fitting for the new pilot sorted out.