EVE New Citizens Q&A

You could stay docked. Can get you rich even but tends to be boring.

Sooner or later you lose ships. Good players earn more then they lose. Bad players are driven out of the game.

There are grim men our there. They will eat your soul. Consider yourself warned.

Go die a lot and then you wont fear dying anymore.

Really, I'm not joking or making fun. What separates the vet pvpers from the newbies is the vets have died so many times, they are able to keep everything in perspective when they fight.

If you don't have any isk, attack people with your rookie ships. Someone killed a tornado with a velator , and here's a velator vs. Oracle movie, same dude. What is better than flying a free ship?

The number one rule of eve is don't fly what you can't afford to lose, so if you fly cheap crap, and die, and you learn cheap lessons. Because you WILL die. Keep your medical clone up to date so you don't lose SP and you're golden.

You can also join Red vs Blue

t1 ships with insurance barely cost anything don't be afraid! staying in highsec is pretty safe, as long as you don't carry high value cargo/fittings.

you will want to get out to lowsec and 0.0 at some point, I'd suggest making sure to do all the tutorials first, and joining a player corp.

but when I first started I got in because a friend wanted me to. I screwed about for a few weeks then joined Idle Guns we did a ton of t1 frig pvp. tons of fun and didn't cost much. eventually you will probably want to go bigger, I can only encourage such behavior. hopefully you will have fun!

Wow thanks guys for all the help. The community has been unbelievably helpful.

I understand how you feel... I felt that way when I started to. But the above posts are correct, if you want to do PVP you need to get over the fear of dying. Remind your self it's a game and get out and take risks.

PVP is the best part of EVE, the excitement and thrills of fights are unmatched by any other game.

Also running away like a little girl is fun because the chase gets the blood going

This game is one of the few where, barring one mistake, you never truely die.

Here is the one 'mistake': Forget to update your clone. That one little piece, the one place where you can lose skill points (SP) si your only 'true' downfall. Beyond that, you must consider anything you own as expendable. Once you get past the point that your 'material' possessions are important you can sit back and enjoy being you.

On a similar note, if you want to have 'learning implants' get a jump clone. There are corps you can join to create them after you train the skill. It is free, quick, and worth the time. (why CCP doesn't just start players with a jump clone is beyond me).

If you are a high-sec player, figure out what the 'cost' of your ship is. Work to 'pay it off' and then consider it destroyed. Any time you get out of that ship afterwards is simple 'bonus' time. Now, find an income stream (missions, mining, market, whatever) to allow you to feed that stream.

In my case, I can manufacture, research, trade, and mission level 4s. What do I fly in PVP? Frigates and destroyers. Why? Because I can spend one night a week 'earning isk' and then the next six nights getting blown up (never said I was good at PVP did i?)

Again, my only 'real' worry.... my SP. I use a jump clone... ok, I use an alt these days, but even he has a learning clone when I need a break and a combat clone (with cheap implants) when I want to battle my fellow man.

Once you get the 'income stream'by whatever means you care for, you can sit back and enjoy the game. It doesn't need to be a 'huge' income stream either. Hell, a single level 3 mission nets me 2-3 combat frigates for my faction warfare alt. If you want 'more stuff, just simply put an amount of money asie for that (investment).

Bottom line though, and something I would recommend every player do once, put all your isk and 'stuff' on an alt and see how long it takes you to get back to where you were. It isn't that hard, and once you experience it you can free yourself to do it again in to the game full force, should you fail.

First of all:

Don't be afraid of loosing a ship. You will eventually loose a ship, the question is only when and where, not if.
Ships are just tools and you can choose to use cheap tools (aka frigates) at the start of your career.

Frigates don't cost much, drop an insurance on them and you get it partially paid back when you die. Now just go out and have fun.

In high-sec you are pretty safe as long as you don't make yourself a target:
- Flying a large ship as a new player who clearly lacks all the support skills
- Flying around with something really really valuable in your cargohold

As for my point of view, all my PvP ships have an intended lifetime of 1 PvP operation, if it survives and can be used in a 2nd it's a bonus. I just expect the worst but hope for the best, and that has paid out so far in EVE.