EVE New Citizens Q&A

It's been almost a year, and not one person has noticed that those two links are identical? Wow.
Or maybe I'm the only one who'd actually want to read something called "EVE and your CNS", who knows.



It's a rare person who is capable of appreciating this. Thank you (with my other hat on).

AS.

The blind lead the blind and somehow the dumb manage to tell the deaf how to give the demented the instructions to maintain a nodding acquaintanceship with their sanity.

I am well and truly grateful to have the luxury of an unrepentant addiction to EVE. Come on. Let's talk.

with a wide and sincere smile

Hey you guys!

We got PHILOSOPHY going on in the Vomitorium Emporium. You oot philosophy going on in your public channel? How about socciobiology? Huh? Huh?

I thought so.

with a slightly condescending wink and a slightly self important wave

SIXTH VERBAL EXERCISE: Practice getting information from your conversational partner while giving as little as possible in return. Note: this is the exact opposite of our usual pattern where we are blabbing about ourselves while ignoring everyone else as much as possible. A very light touch with this or anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to you can become suspicious.

For the sake of new eve players everywhere, I hereby bump this thread.

The one thing more than any other I'd recommend to any player or corporation that's heading out to nullsec is research. Lots and lots of it. Before you go out there. About the alliance, the corp, the coalition of alliances if there is one. And most of all about the Alliance Executor. In this fantasy MMO world its even easier for organizations to magnify and multiply the faults of their leader than in Real Life and we know how easy it is in RL. Do not make the mistake of thinking that you are moving to your new home and these are your new friends. That may very well be so and usually in fact is so. But there's no reason to accept that on face value. Every alliance is an old boy's network and that is as it should be. Just be very very clear about your place there. They don't care that you are such great guys. They want to know if you are useful. And you need to know that about them. As much as you can before you join them. And to you CEOs entering nullsec for the first time, please try not to lose sight of the nagging little detail that your new Alliance Executor buddy would sacrifice you and your corp in a New York minute if that's what he has to do in order to keep his position. And, 9 times in 10, your Alliance Executor is bought and paid for by another still yet larger alliance and Alliance Executor. But its OK. Even the biggest of the big doesn't get to stay there for long.

OK. So some of you have already read my comments in New Players: Very First Steps on EVE being a gerontocracy. Its true. The pace of training and constancy of one's progression as you go about your other activities mimics RL in a very real way. I wouldn't change it. I'm the kind of twisted obsessive that doesn't mind taking years to build a character, lay my Secret Evil Plans and yadda yadda. To me its just part of what makes it so easy to react to EVE as we do to RL, especially after we've been playing for a while. Just part of what makes the game so intense.

But there's a flip side to this that you as a new player can exploit once you stop being so worried about being new.

Since EVE is so similar to RL, it takes a lot of RL skills to play it especially to play it well. Look at the clues CCP themselves give us. There's a notepad, calculator, and evemail groups.

So what are the short cuts that make the edge that the more experienced players have even thinner?

I'm new to this and those links are very useful.I love the idea of Eve been so complex, my wife will not be happy.

ELEVENTH METAGAMING EXERCISE: Separation of the map from the territory. The thing is not the words that describe the thing. The menu is not the meal. What you believe about the world is not the same thing as the world. Every single time you are confronted with someone who disagrees with you, with information that is in contravention with your current information, especially beloved cherished longheld beliefs, monitor how upset the particular incident makes you and exactly what it was. This includes personal insults and accusations. These are particularly instructive because as we all know, you don't get upset at anything anyone says unless they have touched a nerve. A good agent can tell far more about someone than that person knows about themselves in a relatively short conversation just by tracking these reactions. Bonus Insight: It is awesome, really truly awesome, how much information you suddenly get access to once you can see past your own reflexive reactions. Second Free Bonus Insight: This is really just an elaboration of the Golden Rule exercise.