EVE New Citizens Q&A

Quit buying big ships to fight in.

Learn in a t1 frigate instead. If you have awesome drone skills, try a Tristan, if you have awesome hybrid skills try an Incursus or Atron. Buy a few of them, like at least ten or twenty. Fit them up the best you know how with somewhat cheapish stuff. No tech 2, no meta 4.

First, go fly around a highsec system and hunt miners and ratters and whatnot. Don't attack them, just try to sneak around and pounce on them and say "boo!" at the screen when you get close to them. Then fly off.

Next, find some yellow wrecks in a belt somewhere. Loot them. oops! You're a suspect! Don't dock up, don't warp to a safe spot, just bounce around and see if someone takes a swing at you before the timer runs out.

Open your star map. Click the "Star Map" tab. Now start looking through all the options there. ooh, you can find out things like "How many pilots were in space in the last half hour or so?" "How many pods have been blown up in the last hour?" (This is a biggie. Mission rats don't do that.) Start scheming about what that all MEANS.

Then, fly into lowsec and go hunting around for a bit. You might not find anything to do there right away, but look around and see if anyone sneaks up. You might get in a couple fights there.

If that's getting too quiet, try going somewhere like Rancer or Egghelende or Amamake or Old Man's Star and start looking for a fight. Those are a bit busier; they're chokepoints, so they got a lot of traps, and got to where people start fights there because that's where the fights are.

After that, you can look for a lowsec jump into Curse or Syndicate and go poking your nose in there. That's NPC nullsec, and there's no sovereignty in those regions. Those are about the most profound hives of villainy that exist. Just your kind of place.

This bit is important: Every time someone blows you up, chat them, be friendly, and ask what you did wrong and how you could've done better while you board the next ship. Try to use all the skillz you learned from googling all over the place.

Your first couple tries are going to be full of fail and that's OK. That's why you're using the cheap ships. If you can't fly a cheap ship well (and I mean really fly it, not just sit in the capsule making "Vroom vroom!" noises) then the only thing a big ship will give you is embarrasing lossmails. In a lot of ways, a big ship is much more vulnerable, and you will end up getting killed embarrasingly by a couple of teenage newbies in Rifters (because all the cool people used to fly Rifters, because they're reading out of date guides). They'll tackle you, and buzz around you, and you'll flail around in your expensive battleship unable to even scratch them, even worse than the mission rats in your Cruiser, while they slowly peel your armor off and blow you up.

By the way, you can't hit worth a damn in a Cruiser in a 1-2 mission because you're shooting at little teeny ships. Your big guns have a big radius, so It's like trying to shoot a fly with a shotgun (you put a bunch of holes in the wall behind the fly, but likely don't hit the fly), and they have slow tracking - which means the turrets can't turn fast enough to keep up with the fly buzzing around your head.

By the way, this is something I need to add.

By the time you're up to the point of going and picking fights? Your GOAL each time needs to be "I'm going to get this ship BLOWN INTO A MILLIONBILLION LITTLE PIECES! YAAAY! I might even get PODDED! AWESOME!" Don't come home unless it's in a capsule or a clone bay. Fight like a demon to prolong that time, but it's still your goal. You've got a bunch of little ships. If you have any left over in a month, shame on you.

Skill points do not make you good. This is not WOW, where a level 300 character can just walk around hitting everything with his big stick and brushing off all their arrows with his 3 foot thick armour.

The only way to get good is to get experience. Flying cheap ships for a start. And joining a newbie friendly corp who can help you.

Epic!

The other one, is to approach hi sec scanners 100km off the sun and type "Don't you ever look out your window?" in local.
You should see them panic.

Tthe game is about WHAT you know and WHO you know. Not your SP count, wallet or faction fetish ships. So if you want to get better then focus on learning more rather than flying more expensively.

less SP , helps if it's more focused into a smaller area of expertise


but the 2 best bits of advice have already been given

use cheap frigates & destroyers
expect to lose them

im merely repeating them to emphasise thier importance

But it could make you the latest lol-mail for all Goons and Testies to laugh at.

That's not _entirely_ true. Your SP total means less than nothing, but your specific SP allocations can make a big difference. Having the skills to equip T2 modules means that you can afford to replace significantly more powerful ships in PvP more times with less farming, for instance.

But yeah, in general just going ahead and joining a corp and admitting you suck is a good way to get actual good advice and practice.

You need AT LEAST 25m SP to play worth a damn. Just give it another 9 months.

Burn your main like a boss.