EVE New Citizens Q&A

Griefing and ganking will happen in this game but there are certainly things that you can do to reduce the risk of both. What can be done is really context specific and blanket question is more than I can think of a way to sum up in a few paragraphs. Just know that as you learn more about the game you will learn more how to avoid this kind of stuff but often that knowledge will come from the school of hardknocks.

As far as solo play it most certainly can be done. This game intentionally is designed to encourage group efforts and group play but solo play is certainly viable. To get more specific than just one sentence that solo play is possible I'd need to know more about your goal and likes and dislikes.

As far as your comment:


When you loose a ship or even a pod in this game your character looses nothing. The only thing that you loose is the ship. Fly cheap and shrug off the loss. If you are looking to "not loose" then you have already lost. I say a better way to proceed is to focus on succeeding. Don't worry too much about the losses just learn from each one and then each lost ship is gained knowledge.

Eve is not a progression game and there is no balanced content in this game. Ten years down the road and a couple hundred million skill points from now you will likely still be flying cheaply fit T1 ships on a regular basis. Don't get caught up in the trap of thinking bigger or more expensive is better. Again I say this is not a progression game. You are not constantly looking to upgrade to the "best available gear"

Eve is a game about doing more with less. So focus on learning and gaining experience and don't look at loss as a bad thing or something to be avoided. They say never undock in something that you can't afford to loose and I would say a more acurate statement is you should not be undocking in anything that you can't shrug off. If loosing the ship is going to cause you emotional stress or conflict then I'd recommend not flying it.

I like my solo times, but currently i have found it to be personally more fun to be with some other guys rn.

That said, when I played solo, it was fun to live in Black Rise, if youre in a quiet system, you can base out of it and go out and PvP for fun!

Eve is never truly solo... but it's easy to play without allies.

The point is there is pretty much always a threat of another player engaging in PvP with you... regardless of what security space you fly in. To me... that threat is what makes Eve fun. Even if you are just hauling stuff... you have to worry that someone will gank your hauler to take your cargo. That threat is what adds spice to activities that would be pretty mind numbingly boring otherwise. Same goes for mining, exploration, whatever. You may not be searching for that player interaction, but the fact it might come find you anyway is what makes eve fun.

Playing with a group of players allows sharing of intel and working as a group to add security to your operations. Without that you'll need to be very good at monitoring other players and setting standings so you know which ones might be dangerous. You'll need to be good with D-scan so you can see someone warping in on you before they appear on grid (actually... you need to do this regardless). If you're in an area where locals have developed intel channels... making friends enough to get on those channels would probably be wise too.

I will say most players are usually "doing their own thing"... even if they're part of a corporation and helping out with corp ops too. A good corporation offers the player benefits in exchange for having the player help the corporation.

Sure, I show up to mine some rocks every now and then or press F1 on command... but in exchange I get a 0% tax rate, corp buy back of loot and minerals, access to rigged corp and alliance citadels, convenient jump bridges, intel channels, cheap tax rates for exporting/importing PI... stuff that helps my plans along.

Youre seriously trolling in NCQA? The only thing I see valid in that post is the last sentence.
Work to get plex? Thats basically telling someone "Hey, go grind for 30 hours instead of flipping burgers for 2 hours".
Mining ore in mission sites? Thats way less profitable than blitizing sites. If what you said was true, then mission runners would be mining for ISK instead.

Actually no. Trying to show a different perspective. Since most of oppinions here I saw and received since I joinned the game 8 months ago, are like 90% biased towards the pvp / low / null area, what is not wrong but do not cover all. Maybe the great majority of the game are pvp avids, but some (like me) are more like pvp meh!!!

So the path I choose and worked very well for me was do npc missions, mine inside missions to avoid any kind of unwanted disturbance, research market, develop skills, craft according to market value. From time to time scan anomalies, run sites to change a bit. Once I had enough isk, bought my first plex (old one), wich allowed me to craft / use bigger stuff. 2 months in game and I already was able to buy my first Megathron, and worked hard on keeping it on run.

I remember when I was at new player dockup players offering chances of 10M isk/h. Once you have chance of joining incursions that ammount is 10M isk / 5min tops. I believe the alpha status is good on certain level, to make player confortable with game mechanics, but once you reach certain point, no longer attracts you, that's IMHO is what driven the players away from game, I mean the ones most people on this forum complain. I saw a peak of 60k players when I started to play, now average 21K.

Botton line, don't get me wrong this is a new player advice for newer players. Take it or not is up to the one who reads it.

Simply being killed is not griefing. You choose to play a massively multiplayer game.....alone. By definition, you are doing it wrong.

You can succeed alone, despite the game strongly lending itself to playing with others. But that is not the focus nor thrust of the game. Eve is a multi-player game and is designed with that core paradigm. The answer to virtually any problem in the game is simply- fleet up, make friends.

Doing that would save on forum threads about how playing a multiplayer game alone is not the ideal game experience.