EVE New Citizens Q&A

Welcome to EVE, im fairly new myself. And my moms not cool...she can only play pac man. While I cant fully answer your questions as a new person, Im fairly confident in saying that as long as EVE has been around, Im sure there is some dedicated site for the various mods, ships and the like somewhere to be found. So far the community here has been very helpful to me.

And for your first question...I wouldnt even speculate. I find it sooooo strange that guys actually want to play with female avatars. And with that, its hard to tell what is what online lol

You'll go far, very far in EVE.

I can't speak much for the gender ratio, but here's a link to the item database: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Item_Database

As to where or how to get various items, browse the wiki for a while. The vast majority of items are made by players through industry. Some of the rarer modules are drops from NPCs in exploration sites or wormholes. The base materials to build stuff are mined from asteroids, moons, or planets. I believe that covers most of it.

The brilliant thing about EVE is that you as a player don't have to worry about any of this if you choose not to. There are no "soulbound" items, everything in the game can be bought and sold on the open market. So you only really need to invest in one or two professions to make yourself money, and just buy everything that you need for your career.

A well-presented blog, easy on the eye. Welcome to EvE!

I see you're into roleplaying. If you head towards a sub-forum here, you'll locate the Intergalactic Summit, where roleplayers hang out, insult one another and discuss various topics of the day in-character only. What's interesting in your case, is that The Elder Fleet have a very canonical spot in the mythos of the Minmatar people and their endless struggles against the Amarr.

You could have some serious fun with that, if you wanted to, after you get your bearings.

At any rate, keep up the good work!

J'Poll is apparently awesome and answers every noob's question completely. <3 Thanks J'Poll!

About 5% girls, the felt amount is much lower. I can count the number of female players I encountered on voice coms on two hands.



There is no real need for drop location databases. Items are more or less grouped by faction and drop chance is governed by location. (office mods drop in 0.0 from officers, dead space items drop in complexes, cosmos stuff drops in cosmos missions ...)



You can look that up in the static data dump. l337 SQL skills may or may not be required.

According to what I've heard CCP say there is a dismal 95/5 male to female ratio in EVE.

But fear not! There are groups of females that band together into their own little communities to keep their sanity.

They tend to make great spys, esPECIALLY if you do voice coms cause that makes you that much more convincing xD.

Goodness! What a delightfully warm welcome from the community! Thank you very much everyone!

Lord Arakkis: Thanks! Hehe well I actually created a male avatar too, just because the character creation system was so fun :-).

Rabit Lanky: Yeah I've been sniffing about Evelopedia. But for instance in the case of Dairy Products, Evelopedia was of little use. I know this as an item (versus say a ship part), seems mundane and unimportant... I mean all it is, is a carton of milk, right? But how can I know? In WoW, items would be marked by color. Grey items could be sold off to vendors no problemo and served no use. White items however, meant that the item is useful for something and most likely and ingredient. I find that in Eve my storage is starting to fill up with a whole slew of items that I dare not throw away or put up on the market because I'm not sure if I'll need them. As silly as it feels to keep something as seemingly unimportant as "Dairy Products", who knows - it may just be a rare ingredient to a formula I'll find myself using next week to create something I actually need. As a new player, I really cannot know. Had this been WoW and Wowhead, I would have been able to immediately check whether Dairy Products are used in a recipe to create say pancakes that give a magical bonus for an hour, or whether it's an item that has no use and can just be vendored. But Eve does not have a vendor store, does it? Am I to assume that a) all buying and selling action happens in the market and that b) every single itsy bitsy item in Eve has some use for something?

Thanks btw for the Eve University link, I haven't been there yet. However I've been watching Seamus Donohue's "How to survive" videos on YouTube and they've been a LIFE SAVER!

I work for Digital Chocolate which is currently focused on social games in Facebook etc. Here are some samples of what I've done. I'm hoping to move into MMO development in the future though, since it's such a huge passion.

Abdiel Kavash: Thank you for your encouraging words! I'm hoping this game will be a good fit for me :-).

And indeed, I really appreciate the lack of "soulbound" items as well. That has always been something that gave me stress in previous MMOs.

J'Poll: Thank you for the welcome and all of those scrumptious links and bits of information! I can see there is a ton of info out there, really nice of you to gather this "starters" pack. Trying to find info on your own when you are new to such an old game (that has had changes done to it and probably a lot of outdated stuff) can be bewildering.

Ssakaa:Ah thank you for the Summit tip! I shall be sure to venture there once I find my bearings. And I had no idea about the Elder Fleet being part of the lore. Obviously since the guild I've run in WoW etc has been called "The Elders" for years, that was my first choice when setting up a corp, but the name was already taken and I had to make a plan B. So I thought to myself that since we're flying ships in this game, it should be a fleet of some kind. Thus The Elders Fleet and with an "s". But now knowing that "The Elder Fleet" is part of the lore, freaks me out a bit! I've never been much of a fan of people representing themselves or their guilds as something that was already in the lore. It's always seemed a bit arrogant to me. And now I'm actually worried that if someone sees "The Elders Fleet", not only will they assume that I am referring to the in game lore version, but that I even spelled it wrong - doubly crass. Argh! I wonder if one can change the name of a corp after founding it. If not, is there any time penalty or anything if I shut this corporation and create a new one?

Peri Simone: Ooooo I hadn't heard yet of WGOE! Thank you for the link!

Adam Junior: Thank you for the information and links! And I'll definiately have to look into those stealth bombers, thanks for the tip!

gfldex: I'm surprised there are so few women in Eve, because at the end of the day - all of those 5 top reasons I like Eve, are things that any gender would enjoy and appreciate. And does Eve have to change in any way what so ever to attract more female players? Not at all, it's perfect the way it is (at least so far it feels that way). In fact I really appreciate the fact that the game feels extremely equal and gender neutral to me. As an example, the way avatars are. In a lot of games male avatars would have full body suit armor where females would have skimpy sexy stuff, but in Eve it's all very mature and sensible. In other games there would be a focus on making females very sexualized compared to the males, where as in Eve it's completely and utterly equal in that respect as well. I love that I can modify my female avatar's breasts to be small, large, set far apart or together, high or low - but what's awesome is that I can do the exact same thing to the male character as well.

So basically there is absolutely nothing about the game that is pushing possible female players away. My guess is that they just haven't discovered it yet, hah! Now if only that Summerfest text would have been "families enjoying spas instead of wives" :-).

Xercodo: Hehe, well so far I've been greeted with nothing but friendly open arms in the Eve community, not only in the in game chats and now here as well, so I hope I won't ever feel like I need to band up with the girls. Then again, I haven't yet experienced the voice chat scenarios in pvp battles, so who knows how I'll feel in the future. I am hoping however to lure my guildies into the game. So far around 10 of them are now trying the trial and going through the "How to survive" video walkthroughs. Our community is around 60% male and 40% female. Most in their late 30's, 40's and 50's.

I don't think it's so much there being few girls/women playing EVE, as simply fewer playing MMOs and computer games in general. I don't think EVE has a significantly lower female population compared to other MMOs.

While I am pleased with all of the heartwarming welcomes and friendly info... I guess I should be the one to warn the OP of the "darker" side of EVE and one of the primary reasons this game is not as popular as it quite honestly should be.

You remember all of the "bad" things in pre-Trammel Ultima Online? PKing, thefts, scrams, subterfuge, no one was "safe," etc.? Take all those things and dope them with crack.
- You can kill anyone in the game, anywhere in the game (yes, even "high-security" space), for any reason (profit, vendetta, "looked at him funny," and/or "tears").
- You can steal from people or organizations you are a part of, leaving dozens... even thousands of players... destitute and defenseless.
- You can pay off a disaffected ally of your enemy for info or more.
- The only people who can really defend you are yourself and other players. NPCs don't care what happens to you so long as no rules are broken. And when rules are broken, they only punish the offender. Nothing more. Nothing less.

That said... there are a few "rules" and "pointers" the EVE community jokingly tosses around...
- Never fly what you cannot afford to lose.
- Never buy what you cannot use.
- Don't wait for skills to train before doing something. Try doing it anyways. Unless it is a "specialty skill" like hacking or probing, all character skills do is make it easier to perform certain actions.
- PvP occurs in stations too. It is called The Market. Every player is trying to buy the cheapest items they can while selling their merchandise for the highest price. And there are no rules preventing someone with a lot of money buying out the whole market and fixing prices.
- T2 is not a "minimum baseline" for being effective. Cheap, T1 ships and equipment can be equally devastating if used correctly.
- There is no such thing as "opting out" of PvP. You're stuck with us and us with you.

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Can't say for percentages of male vs. female players in eve I do know there is a coalition of female eve players (they are not part f a specific corp but they have channels and comm) I believe it is called women of eve or women in eve.

As to where items can be found or uses for the most part it's pretty generic, faction mods come from faction spawns or lp store, dead space mods are from dead space complexes, officer loot from officers. Though items like janitors are used in outpost construct. Some are not very useful others none at all but google becomes your friend when playing eve and there are a lot of third party programs.

If you have any questions feel free to mail me or post here, I may blow you up but I'm not a bad guy, and always willing to share my knowledge.