EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I've been playing eve for a few months now after a long break. A lot of things seem familiar but afew have changed. No big deal really. The big problem I'm having is that my skill sets don't seem to enable me to do all the things I'd like to.

I'm struggling to finish level 3 missions in a battle cruiser while a friend of mine is already doing level 4 missions after a shorter time. I'm having a hard time making isk while others are making millions and buying more and more awesome ships.

I'm starting to feel that the way to play eve is to not play at all but just train skills until they all reach level 5? Finding it had to figure out what to do here to progress in the game.

Read what I said a few times more..

Getting Trade to V will not instantly make you millions on the market.
Getting Battleship to V will not make you a PVP god
Getting Production Efficiency V will not make you a market-moving industrial powerhouse.

They are merely tools. How much you benefit from them is entirely up to you. While it is true that training up to get some of the more focused and specialized tools takes awhile... they won't take the place of actual in-game skill, regardless of what it is you want to do.

True, but is there any way to enjoy that game while still at low level? I thought of doing the level 2 missions again or moving onto some thing such as research missions, until I'm able to do the level 3 missions. Also are there any skills which make the level 3 missions a lot easier? I know it can't be the ships because they are recommended by other people:-

Harbinger
Prophecy

The problem I have is that when I fly in I get hit by 6 ships firing heavy missiles and I'm not able to destroy enough of them before they destroy my armour.

Another missions I tried is to fly and attack the Gallente ambassador. He is say between about 10 minmitar ships and 10 Gallente ships which open fire on approach. I'm fitting a t2 armour rep and some mission specific hardeners and still I can't tank all these ships. Pulse lasers only have a range of around 20 meters max and beam lasers 35. So other than my skill level I can't see why I can't tank these ships

Hi I tried eveboard its awesome :) Heres the skills I have currently:

http://eveboard.com/pilot/Tatyana3033

You're currently training Caldari Frigate which won't help you do missions any faster. You need T2 guns and gunnery support skills.

Don't go for L5s unless you need them for something (equipment or another skill)

Eve is heavily based on the idea of diminishing returns. It's better to pick up a different level 1 skill giving a 5% bonus, than level 5 in a skill which gives the same bonus. Because you'll end up with 126%. They don't just add together. They multiply. And it'll take a /fraction/ of the time.

I will leave it to Amarr pilots to comment on your fit, but in which faction space are you running missions? Amarr shoot EM/Therm, so if you are running missions against, for example, Serpentis you may be having a hard time because you are dealing the wrong damage type.

Eve Damage types

If your are using lasers you want to be running missions in Amarr space, so you can shoot at Blood/Sansha most, if not all of the time.


As far as the skill gap goes; the best way to play eve is to find a great corp. Eve is a social game, and there is a reason it is very hard to do anything by yourself. If you are in a corp with a group of people who are super worried about isk/hour to the point they won't let you tag along on their level 4s, your in a bad corp, in my opinion. Those are the type of people you will get burnt out playing with.

I spent most of my first month trading in stations which proved to be very lucrative and doing simple high sec distribution missions until level 4 missions were unlocked. I enjoy trading and am less than a week away in training from having a Viator with level 4 cloaking!

Once I hit level 4 missions one of my distribution storyline agents offered me the Shipyard Theft mission, and considering the mining foreman mindlink reward easily sells in Jita for 1,000,000,000 ISK I clicked accept before noticing it was a combat mission.

So I bought a expensive ship and loaded it with gear and managed to finish the mission with only a few minutes left for the bonus ISK. While combat is really not my sort of thing I will do it for a billion ISK. Until then my Navy Battleships (which I have minimum skills to pilot) will remain in the garage with the rest of my collection.

I am now hitting two months and while my combat skills I did this mission again with a slightly better fit which took me a bit less time than it did my first time. People say that a Navy Dominix works on this mission better than the Navy Megathron, but considering I have barely any drone skills I took the Megthron. I have no idea how the Shipyard Theft mission compares in difficulty or rewards to any other level 2-4 security missions, but it can be done solo after about a month if you have a decent fitting and a few hours to spare. I would imagine it would be even easier if you focus on combat skills, since I am mainly social trade skill based.

I just compared our skill sets on Eve Board, and you have more a good amount more SP than me, so you should be able to do level 4s with a better fitting. Maybe save some money and spring for a Navy version. Get a small loan from your friend or team up. Also focusing your skills on combat, get your navigation up, at least past your industry SP total.

Like I mentioned above I am not very versed on combat missions, but Shipyard Theft gave me 6 hours to complete, so I took my time. I went back to stations to recharge my shields, made sure that my damage never made it to the hull, took a few trade breaks, etc.