EVE New Citizens Q&A

if you are in school, study and prioritize that, don't bother about EvE.

you play EvE when you have FREE time.

SCHOOL > EvE

I can’t tell if you are serious but just in case I will give you the long answer:

Don’t use TOR, it is to slow and can get you in serious trouble at your school. You say you don’t know much about computers and the same may be true for your teachers or the dean. Some other student does something illegal with TOR, gets caught because of snitching, bragging or plain stupidity and you will be collateral. Because “but I only used TOR to play EVE” won’t cut it when parents/teaches googled TOR and are in “torches and pitchfork” mode. They won’t be able to tell who did what with TOR and assume everyone involved was a drug trafficking child molester. Do you like McDonalds? Frying burgers for the rest of your live is the worst case scenario for "I don't know much about computers but used TOR a lot from a public PC”.

Now for 3G: If you aren’t blessed with a perfect connection you probably get a lot of “socked closed” kick outs. Not worth the hassle IMHO. That said: Being good with computers made me earn more money and work less hours like most other jobs. The whole studding thing made me good at EVE (and a lot of other things too) because I don’t have to grind stuff. I blow “a plex” just for lunch at work because those 15 bucks are just the limit for free delivery. You could say I can earn a PELX just by bringing some lunch from home, that’s good ISK per hour. (And to be honest, all I know is a bit SQL, legal stuff, business administration and quality management. But it can get you a looooong way.)

Not going to help you break the school rules / bypass their network security protocols.

For wireless broadband access, though, EVE doesn't use that much for playing. Whatever minimum plan (1GB / month?) will suffice. Problem is the periodic patches on Tuesdays might use up significant chunks of that monthly GB download limit.

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Schools have heavy filters on online games because many games will suck up school bandwidth, remember that you are sharing that bandwidth with hundreds of other people. A lot of games actively torrent themselves distributing the client upload across many computers and potentially ruining the school's upload rate, which is often much lower than the download rate.

If I go to MCDonnalds then I'll work around any stupid blocks to legitimate sites, mainly because I'm not infringing on other people's time, especially in an empty restaurant. But school is different. You can load Aura on your smart phone and that new Eve app that doesn't work on my phone, maybe even load a discord or teamspeak client on your phone to communicate with your corp mates, but generally speaking, if other students are using the internet, then it is better to refrain.

You could use your phone as a tether if you aren't downloading anything and aren't doing anything serious, flying through LS is out, but you could check your buy/sell orders during your lunch break.

Aura, unfortunately isn't updated anymore and basically dead. My former CEO, Marcel, the developer, even before his hiatus in EvE abandoned it's development because he gave up waiting for API to CREST full implementation (so i heard), instead, he developed some cool apps for us. :)

where is the delete double post button gone..

Do they let you use a VPN?