EVE New Citizens Q&A

Welcome to EvE. Try lots of different things, find what you enjoy doing, and do some more of that.

Dont get too attached to things that can blow up, including ships, modules and plugs in your head :)

You might want to check out some of the fine third-party tools that have been developed, including googling 'ombey map eve' and 'dotlan map eve', if you'd like 2D maps of the universe. For markets, google 'eve central prices'.

If you want to do some trading, find out where Faction Warfare types blow each other up, and go to Jita 4-4. and buy some small Caldari Navy antimatter ammo. Take it to near the FW types and put it on sale for about 50% more than you paid for it ... mmm grey market navy ammunition.

If you like scanning, try and scan out a wormhole or a science site ... or a mission runner for ninja salvaging (note that the Fleet Scanner is the second most important person in a serious fleet, behind the Fleet Commander).

If you like PvP, get a pile of frigs together and sign up in faction warfare.

In short, welcome to EvE :)

Aye, I've been watching all the fun and games from orbit. Saving them from the siren call of The Shiny was one hell of a coup. I understand it had to be sunk, and agree it's best if it stays down there for a while yet, but as a Newbie, it's one heck of a first impression and a very seductive glimpse of future potential.

I think there's more to lose than gain by shooting the survivors, judging by my involuntary and entirely juvenile reaction to starting with my very own interactive big screen TV!!!! :-)

Of course, if I was playing this on my last PC a couple of months ago, I'd probly have the flaming torches and the pitchforks out for it right now...so.. *shrug*

Thanks! That's good stuff !

Sorry, but I thought I made myself clear that I was talking about a player's first days out of the tutorials. Do you really think that player is prepared to do any of what you suggest?
* To PVP with 400k skill points?
* To be a trader with 1M isk?
* To be an industrialist who doesn't know the first thing to make?
* To be an explorer when he has never even been out of his own home system?
* Mining is the only reasonable alternative and the mining missions are the best way to start that off.

No, I think the lost and overwhelmed noob is best served by a kindly nudge to an agent. Maybe even a tutorial mission on using the agent finder.

The only activity that even mentions SP was PVP and it is suicide to PVP with 400k SP. I am not saying that a well informed and adventurous player would be forced to mission, but as I said before, "I think the lost and overwhelmed noob is best served by a kindly nudge to an agent".

I haven't done many of the things mentioned (I've not tried trading yet for instance) but I found that a new player CAN do a whole lot as long as you're willing to put in the effort. I do exploration for my income and have made almost 200 mil with that so far, I'm working up standings on an alt to have a look at a POS (for no other reason than it sounds interesting).

I got an invitation to fly with some pvpers so I made a new account + character, trained stuff for 2-3 days exactly as they told me and I joined them on some PVP runs. While I wasn't at all really that useful I did my part on one occasion and kept someone from fleeing resulting in a kill. While I'm not really interested in becoming an all out pvper just now it gave me the "courage" to go and have a peek at low security space pve.

So yes it IS possible as a newbie to do well, interact with others and play with more experienced pilots but it does take effort and the right attitude.

I wonder if you're meaning to be ironic because at 400k SP a player can easily suicide gank another player....

Skill Points DO NOT MATTER.

Seriously.

They really don't.

A 1 million SP trader character can make billions of ISK. A 500k SP trader character can as well.

A 400k SP pvp pilot can win PvP engagements.

A one day old character can finish up a single tutorial, pack up, and make their way out to 0.0 and live happily.

Established players like to claim that skill points matter because it gives them a sense of superiority but they don't.

There are only a few very specific and unique situations where skill points will make a real difference. Two equally skilled players who pilot the exact same ship, use the exact same tactics, and have the exact same fittings - then, yes, if one of those pilots has a skill at 5 and the other at 4, then the pilot with 5 might win. Depending on luck.

I had meant to address the OP and welcome them to EVE - so where it is. Welcome to EVE Brat. :)

Please continue to post your impressions they are useful to read and provide a good insight on a new player's experience.

I happen to agree with you on the Walking in Station stuff. I think Walking in Stations is awesome I really hope CCP puts it back on their development path to flesh it out. I really want to be able to sit in a station bar (that is player owned), drink an awesome boost drink (that was player made), and watch a view screen that displays a feed from a camera drone placed near a gate camp.

I'd also like to see more options for the character generator in terms of height and hair styles.

Some basic advice: Ignore the bitter players who try and tell you that you cannot do something or that you need X skill points for whatever. They are mistaken.

When I started playing EVE I went to 0.0 on my tenth day of gameplay.

I know of other players who went to low sec / wormhole space / 0.0 on their third day of play.

Heck, one enterprising newbie flew out to 0.0 and chased down all the 0.0 war sites and looted the wrecks for the high-end stuff... in a noob ship. Imagine picking up an item worth a billion ISK (faction mod!) at 15 days played - it has happened and will happen again.

EVE rewards the bold and the risk takers.

I think you all are misinterpreting the intent of my posts. For those of you that can hit the ground running and scan down wormholes on your third day in the game, congrats. My previous post accounts for that, "I am not saying that a well informed and adventurous player would be forced to mission, but as I said before, I think the lost and overwhelmed noob is best served by a kindly nudge to an agent."

I was that lost and overwhelmed noob at the very begining. I knew almost nothing about the game before I started playing, I knew nobody who played the game. I did all the turtorials and then said to myself, "now what?" I asked questions in the new player channel and got alot of good but complicated advice. I searched online for some guidance for new players and found little.

If I knew then what I know now, I would have found a L1 security agent and taken my free Destroyer and missioned while I learned more about what I could do. What I ended up doing was joining a player corp that then got perma decced by some griefer corp and was told not to undock untill they stopped camping our station. Seems like griefers like to target corps that are new player friendly.

Please don't misunderstand me. One of the beauties of Eve is the endless possibilities. But an endless list of options can be very confusing to the inexperienced player. I am just suggesting that for that player, directly out of the tutorials, a little bit of guidence would be helpful.

I find it oddly interesting how much people pay attention to the development of their character pic not just in this but in all games. Being OG, we are happy to be able to pick from a preset group of avatars. Some seem to enjoy creating just as much as the game. It's an aspect I did not see developing into what it has. It's kind of neat. :D

Bet i wish i never asked this.

What does mine say to ya?