EVE New Citizens Q&A

1) The fun of it really, as you get older you'll want fleets for WHs and fleets are required to do Incursions, but nothing is stopping you from blitzing missions as a group ^^

2) Yup any ship, every character in the game is just as capable as any other

3) No mining required =D

Even if you wanna build your own ammo you can just buy the minerals off the market or reprocess some low end modules

- Wormholes
- Tackling is when another player holds another player down in the form of "propulsion jamming" modules like warp disruptors and webs

"Someone get tackle on primary!"

Here's a Glossary of terms for ya ^^

(The first sections are mostly guns and exactly matching names for them >.>, with the occasional real slang like "1400s" meaning 1400mm guns)

1. Yes it is more fun. You can also take on content you could not do solo. For example level 4 missions can be doen as a group. Larger content like WH and incursions require a group. Early missions are fairly simple but higher level missions give higher rewards so grouping may be an option.

2. Yup, thought it is often best to focus on a single line of ships before spreading out. Swwapping races may need a diffrent set of skills for the tnak and weapons systems. Core skills are usefull for all ships.

3. You do not have to mine if you do not wish to. Many players do not mine.

Thanks guys!! I really do appreciate the responses.

Morgal when you say core skills examples? Gunnery and what not?

For a guide on what skills will help, refer to the certificates. If you open your character sheet in game and look under the Skills section on the left you'll see Certificates. I used these as a general guideline as to what skills would help me to do what when I first started. Open the Certificate planner and have a browse, the button is up on the top right, same as the skill queue button.

Skills are grouped by functionality so you can get an idea of where they fit in and what will be useful for different kinds of ships and activities in the game.

1. Mostly fun. In a group, you can do things you can't supposed to do, like the time I and two in-game friends flew a level 3 mission in 3 BattleCruiser hulls. The mission was about just rushing in and grabbing some loot item and then getting the **** out of Dodge ASAP, while enduring some enemy fire, but I decided to recruit my friends so we could actually pwn the huge rats (NPCs, short for pirates). So we pwned first one group of 5 BattleShips (a BS is 1 size class step larger than a BC), then we pwned the other group. It took a long while (we had to retreat and heal shields multiple times), but it was a lo of fun to go so far outside oft he mission's parameters. I also have a fantasy about leading a large fleet of frigate-sized hulls into a level 4 mission and winning it. Either 6-8 Tech 2 frigates or 20-30 Tech 1 frigates.

You can also group up with a slightly more experienced player. I had a lot of trouble with one of the larger level 1 missions, World's Collide I think it was (nearly 5 full years ago), so eventually two other players fleeted up with me and helped me. Much later a pushy player ended up getting a "job" as my wingman while I flew level 3 missions. I'd fly in a medium-sized hip (BattleCruiser) equipped with weapons that were good againts medium-sized rats, and he'd fly in a ship that was equipped with weapons good against small-sized rats. He got good bounty money out of that, and I completed the missions faster since my weapons were poorly suited at hurting frigat-sized rats.

2. Yes, as long as the prerequisites are met. Back in the old days, when we had to walk uphill both to and from school every day (and twice on Sundays), newly created pilots got a birth gift of skillz, without about 800'000 Skill Points, and this depended in part on what race was chosen, and in part on the sub-race and career chosen within that race. Thats gone now, in exchange for starting with higher attributes (one true "uphill both ways" thing is that we had to train something completely ******** called Learning Skillz - be glad that's gone now).

3. Correct. If you don't want to mine, you can pay others to do it for you. And in fact you already are paying others to do it, indirectly. All Tech 1 (meta level 0) items you can buy on the Market were made primarily out of minerals, and most of those minerals came from players mining (the remainder of the minerals comes from loot that's melted down and recycled).

Each of my characters has a Covetor lying around somewhere, as a backup in case my Hulks are destroyed.And even the Hulks are mostly backups, since I don't mine often. But it's nice to know that I can if I need to.

20-30 million ISK in "a day's work" is an understatement, though. I think the earnings for mining in high-sec is easily 10 million ISK per hour without Orca support.

But sure, relative to paying for a PLEX, you do have to lie there and suck on asteroids for quite a lot of hours. The benefit is, mining can be done semi-AFK, e.g. while listening to an audio podcast or even watching some TV docu with half an eye

The downside is, lots of mining is done by bots, players using automated scripts to go through all the motions while the players themselves are entirely AFK. If CCP could really crack down on bots, mining would become a lot more profitable. I'd guess easily twice as profitable as it is now.

"Tackling" is code for working as cannon-fodder to defend the isk generating assets of the Real Money Transaction Alliances in Zero who are , of course , probably owned by third-party representatives of the investors in CCP. So you see, you get farmed for your subscription by CCP and you get farmed for your isk by the Alliances.

Altogether a highly efficient "fleecing", which makes YOU the SHEEP.
See how that works? Now aren't you excited?