EVE New Citizens Q&A

Add Rancer to that too...

I didn't do this but it comes over rookie help ALL the time...

Do not refuse, delay, or otherwise tell ANY of your tutorial agents anything vaguely resembling 'NO' in any way, shape, or form, ever. at most, close the window.

Every hour or two someone is worried because one of the tutorial agents won't talk to them any more. This should not be anything that the new player can inflict on themself, but they do it all the time.

Where do you start the Sisters of Eve arc?

- This has been said before but needs repeating: Do not fly anything you cannot afford to lose. Always have a spare ship or enough isk to replace it. You will lose ships sooner or later. No exceptions. When a ship is destroyed it's gone - you need to buy a new one.

- Likewise don't stuff too much valuables in your cargo hold. You can get suicide ganked even in high sec if your loot is more valuable than the ganker's ship.

- Do not sell your old ship to get a new one. Should your new shiny ship go boom, it's noobship time again.

- All ships are good only in specific areas. There is no one best ship. Just because you have that awesome battleship you just learned to fly doesn't mean that you can wade through swarms of frigates and cruisers at will.

- Ask if you don't understand something. Even the veterans do not know everything. If someone ridicules you for it... well, tells a lot about that person.

- Before jumping head first into something, read about it in evelopedia, forums or google. This increases your efficiency and chance of survival by a good margin.

- Just because you can join a corp right away doesn't mean you should. If you happen to meet some nice people or you know them from elsewhere, then sure, but otherwise learn the basics while in your noobcorp. NPC corps cannot be wardecked and that makes them good for learning at your own pace. Also do a quick search about the corp you are about to join and hang in the chat with them beforehand if possible.

- Always double-check everything. Scams are common and even encouraged. Don't give stuff outside your control either if you cannot afford lose them.

- Don't take items from yellow containers. This will give the owner and his corp a permision to destroy your ship.

Getting into Manufacturing early on can save you lots of ISK in Ammo. If you can build ammo out of Drone Compounds and reprocessed modules, you don't need to buy ammo.

No matter what kind of corp you get into, they can always use an industrial wing. Even PVP-Corps need to get their ships from somewhere, and having an insider who can build ships for them can be handy when the prices for ships start to sky-rocket.

In my opinion, everyone should try flying in low-sec at least once. I know I was reluctant about entering low-sec at first, but when you've been there long enough, you start to learn how to avoid getting ganked. Trust me. I don't know how many times my D-Scan has saved my ship. Besides, saying you don't like being in low-sec without having tried it is like saying you don't like some food without having tried it. You can only base your opinions on what you've read, not what you've seen. On a side note, if you know how to avoid getting ganked, low-sec is a lot safer than those silly high-sec Mission-Hubs.

Edit: Oh, and most (x1)-skills are not only important for higher-end ships, they're also generally nice to have. While the boosts they provide are often limited, they can still be good enough to be worth training to at least level 3.

Join a corp as soon as you can, I joined Coreli after about a week and never looked back, I miss Coreli :(, so anyway, join a corp, dont stay in an NPC corp.

Consider everything you undock is lost to you (otherwise known as dont fly anything you cant afford to lose)

Old advice but still the best

High Sec is not safe.

Pew Pew is fun but not he only thing you can do, this is a sandbox and is whatever you make it, play hard-core play casual but always play for fun, it;s a game though it can often feel like more.