EVE New Citizens Q&A

IMO the most effective method of making ISK as an alpha newbie is scamming.

One form of scamming that works surprisingly well is begging.

Have you had a ship loss yet? If so, go into a mission hub (such as the system Osmon) and link the lost ship with a sad story about how you lost it and can't afford to replace it. A number of players will drop you 20m or so, often more than needed to replace the lost ship.

Once you've been paid a few times, you should be able to afford a bigger ship that you can then deliberately lose, to restart the cycle.

If anyone calls you out on posting the same thing again and again, just flat out accuse them of lying.


Other scam methods tend to involve contracting which (IIRC) is not available at all as an alpha.

To be honest, when I go exploring I don't really have a plan. I literally just undock from whichever station I'm at, scan the first cosmic sig I see, and if it's a wormhole I go through it.

And like I said, I haven't died in at least two weeks now, and I am using an Imicus, which is immediately available (or the other racial equivalent) to new players.

And you're never gonna get the experience if you don't experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjvQFtlNQ-M

Your character's skill points aren't going to help much with this. Your players skills however will. As you have noticed playing with other's helps out with this on multiple fronts.

The 650s are a far better choice IMHO. The 720s show as having higher DPS but paper DPS that you are shown in the fitting UI and actual applied DPS are not the same thing. From my experience the increased range on the 720s does not make up for the reduced tracking. Of course everything in Eve is situational and if you are only shooting at larger targets then maybe the 720s would be ok but in level 3s the 650s seem to work much better for me. Also the longer cycles times of the 720s seem to lead to lots of over kill and the smaller clip size is noticeable with a 10 second reload time.

You should probably link your fit. Which SB are you using? Also mission specific hardeners are typically much more helpful than just using invuls on everything.

You seem to talk about skill points a lot. I'd recommend focusing less on skill points and more on what you are doing. Eve is not nearly as much of a min / max stats game as other MMOs. Eve is all about doing more with less.

Eve is also a game which means it's about having fun so if you like mining and industry then do that. Fun / hour is a far more important statistic than isk / hour.

Why you left is not really important. Worry about now. If you want to focus on the past or try and get back to where you were, keep in mind that you left back then. If you try to duplicate what happened then don't expect a different result. As far as being oddball I think that you are probably a lot more typical than you think.

The market in this game is a huge part of the game. Buying and selling stuff is the core of this industrial / war simulation. Try telling a farmer that property isn't money he'll laugh at you. Money is just a representation of value not actual value.

So when running missions you get LP. You do a bit of homework to figure out what to purchase with that LP to be able to sell for decent isk with a reasonable turn around. LP are the main isk maker on mission running. It's the reason that you run missions. If you don't take LP into account you will not see much profit from mission running. Indeed the people who make the most isk from mission running pretty much ignore everything but LP.

Eve is not like other games. I've not been in any corporations in Eve that demand I do things. I am sure corps like that exist but I assume that they are in a minority. Eve is about who you know and what you know and not your character's stats. Eve is a true MMO in the sense that it's meant to be played with others.

Corps may not be for everyone and some people may do well outside the corp structure but you will need to make friends in this game and find people to do stuff with or there really is not point in playing this game. Joining a corp is a good way to find like minded people to fly with.

However more important than joining a corp right now, I think is looking for one. Start looking for a corp to join but don't be in a hurry to join one. Many corps and alliances have public chat channels that they use for recruitment. Use those as a means of gaining access to vets that you can chat with and ask questions. This not only gets you access to advice in real time but gives you a chance to feel different corps out and see what their players and activity levels are.

Some corps function as chat lobbies and some as academies. These corps tend to impose low requirements on members.

Others function as cohesive groups working together to impose themselves on the game world. These corps may require you participate in strategic operations, structure or sovereignty defenses or the like.

Ask questions and determine if the corp is indeed a fit for your goals in game.

There are hundreds of ways to get ahead in Eve... and none are really wrong.

For a truly new player, the first thing I'd do is the career agent missions. Not just one career agent... all 5 of them. This should leave you with around 10 million isk and an assortment of ships (couple of ventures, couple of industrials, 3-4 frigates and a destroyer). There are 3 sets of career agents for each faction (Amarr/Caldari/Minmatar/Gallente) and they are incredibly easy. The "toughest" missions are where you have to manufacture a ship... but if you do all the missions you should already have the ship they ask you to manufacture as a gift... so no real problem there.

So... if you do all 3 "sets" of career agents for your faction... you should have 15-20 ships and 30m isk or so. But... you can also do the missions for other factions as well. If you're alpha... you can't fly the ships so there's not much of a point... but for a new Omega that's 120m isk and 70+ ships of various factions to start with.

Now doing all of those missions might be tedious... but it's pretty much risk free. With a little drone skilling... you can literally do every single mission in a venture (other than the ones your ship blows up... use something else for that). Once you've had enough of career missions, do the SOE arc in a cruiser of your choice... you should be able to afford it. Or take up exploration. Or join FW. Or grind standing for missions. Or just go to null.

The point is those career missions are an easy (though somewhat tedious) way to get yourself on your feet isk wise if you're struggling to get started.