EVE General Discussion

Have you ever applied to E-Uni? I can tell you, it's only worse now than when I joined over a year ago. That took nearly 2 months and multiple psych assessments and security checks.

University is far easier to get in to, provided you can pass the entrance exam for what you're interested in. Wait.. I live in Canada; not talking about Yale or Harvard here. Those schools only really have one entrance requirement anyway: money. j/k but actually somewhat true if you don't have all honors and a scholarship.

Here, we don't limit Universities to absurdly low numbers of seats with massive population bases, but instead, build more Universities so there is enough room for the majority of available applicants.

P.S. I smell an Alt in the OP. Could be wrong, but just saying.

Here is the basis of your dictatorship-oriented version of EVE.

Congratulations. At least you are honest enough to publish nyour viewpoint openly.

So many replies....

That right there told me everything anybody needs to know about you. You are an alt of an older player.

Pretending to be clueless and then also waiving off valid replies from people that actually try to help. I find it odd this thread has so many replies.

First of all if you want to PvP Red vs Blue is a very good place to start. If you are searching for other corps the timezone/s they are operating in is one the most important factors and of course what kind of PvP you want, small, med or large scale. Check their killboard to get an idea what the corp/alliance is doing. Do not join a corp instantly, ask to fly (including access to their voice coms) with them for one or two weeks to get a feeling if you fit in and like what you see.

What do you need is a source of income and there are a lot of different ones. The main difference is the amount of active played hours you have to invest.
Mission running: Time consuming, tedious and boring but a realiable source of income.
Wormhole: In principle like mission running but far more lucrative if you live in a Wormhole and farm it. Difficult as a starter profession.
Exploration: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Exploration_guide and http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Cosmic_Anomaly. In 0.0 space it is like mission running without an Agent.
Mining: Even more time consuming, tedious, boring and less lucrative than mission running
Trading: You can adjust your time investment to your needs, it is the most lucrative "job" ingame with the best time/profit ratio.
Manufacturing: You can adjust your time investment to your needs but the real profit will kick in only later when you are able to produce the advanced stuff. Difficult as a starter profession but doable although your profit will be small, it is a longterm (several months) project.
Other professions are Planetary Interaction, belt ratting.

My advice would be to start with mission running and then check out the other options because mission running is a profession you can always fall back to. The hardskills (ingame skills) and softskills you need for mission running are basic skills you need for PvP anyway.


Here are some important links.
Must have:

EFT (Fitting tool)
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=24359
alternative
Pyfa
http://www.evefit.org/Pyfa

Eve mon (Skill planning)
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/EVEMon_%28Application%29

Dotlan (Eve map)
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Aridia#npc24


Nice to have:
Eve Agent finder (mission running)
http://www.eve-agents.com/

Eve Survival (mission running)
http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReports

And to think after Aura told me to not shoot stations, to not shoot asteroids with guns, and not everyone I will meet will be friendly, one swift kick in the ass out of the station later while telling me to forge my destiny and off I went back then.

How did I ever survive without every aspect of the game laid out before me?

Six plus years later, I still discover and learn something new every now and then...

I started EVE and continue to play mostly alone. Yeah it takes awhile to figure things out but that's the beauty of it. I never had so much fun in my life than the first few weeks reading through all the material and figuring out what I wanted to do.

Rule #1 in EVE is to not listen to people who say what can't be done.

Keep your mouth shut when vets make fun of you.
They earned the right to by learning a game with an extremely steep learning curve.
Your tears fuel their happiness.
That and this game is not being handed to you on a Silver Platter like some 'other' MMO's tend to do.
Man-up and start reading forums, and getting tons of ships blown up experimenting.

Ok fair. But eve = not solo game if you do you get bored and fast. Stop playing solo that will kill the game for you at the end. Its a mmorpg and not a rpg single player game. Even you can solo but like i say it will bored you out of this game.

It's a SANDBOX.

you're just being a jackass now.


i started the game alone as well, and i picked what i wanted to do based out from the tutorials.
i didn't have any to hold my hand in the start either, i figured most of the things out by myself. by trial and error. sure i lost some ships, sure i lost and earned money and probably lost more than earned. but i learned what to do, and what not to do and most of all how to play the game.
you can't find some magic guide to tell you what to do, or teach you everything. you have to try it your self before you learn it properly.
i eventually got in to a corp and learned even more as i started to socialise with more experienced players.

if you really need your hand held through every single aspect of the game, seek you the rookie help channel and the normal help channel.

if you want to experience PvP right off the bat with a group of people, find a suitable corporation or join Faction warfare.