EVE New Citizens Q&A

Maybe you should join some player corp and do stuff with them?

A similar thread is going on in another part of the forums, and since i already responded there i will be lazy and just leave a link to said post here. Yes, i am that lazy right now

Also keep in mind that you dont really "advance" in EVE. Mining and missions is not something you do because you are to "new" to do something else, its something you do because you enjoy it. By the sounds of it you dont enjoy either one, so dont do them.

Go to low sec, go into that random WH, get blown up and learn from it, find ways to not get blown up, try other ways or find a completely different profession. And of course, this might give you some new ideas on what you can do in EVE

Try looking at EVE University or Brave Newbies Inc. (Part of the Brave Collective Alliance).

Both have no sp requirements and are good places to start in EVE

Relevant. http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/eve-wtd.jpg These are just the most obvious, If you can't find anything to do in eve you are really not trying very hard.

Go scouting around. See what people are doing. Check info on people who are doing something that looks interesting - often they'll have contact information, and they may be actively recruiting.

When I came back into the game, I was a bit bored doing solo industry. Then a mining op rolled in on top of the belt I was drilling, and their info screens showed they were recruiting. I convo'd, and was a member in good standing within an hour. And then I started to learn how different it is to play the game when you've got someone helping you out, showing you the ropes, covering your six.

Also, the newbie-friendly corps - Brave Newbies, Red vs Blue, EVE University, et cetera - also will probably have connections to organizations that will likely be happy to take you under their wing.

That was a POS.
Maila is a null-sec staging point for some regions.

But that is not what he means, he means, stop playing EVE as a single player game and go out and socialize with other players. If you like mining, try to find fellow miners that are part of a mining corp. If you like to run missions, try to find corporations that have mission runners. If you like to PvP, go out and fight people, likely if you show good quality they migh even try to recruit you.

Eve rewards people who do their own thing. It rewards proactivity and originality. Doing what everybody else is doing only results in competition. You really need to forget the standard MMO mindset if you want to succeed in this game. I am a fairly new player as well and I have managed to make a small fortune (enough to fund my subscription with PLEX) trading on the market on a character with less than 2 mill SP, but only because it is something I enjoy and therefore was willing to put effort into researching.

Forget what everybody else is saying. Find what you like doing, and stick to it. EVE is diverse enough that you can find success doing almost anything (aside from being a Jita "escort"...). Heck, if you were able to come up with a clever scam nobody else has done before, you could make billions.

If proactivity isn't something you are looking for in your games, and if you prefer a more structured experience, then you should find another game. There are plenty of other MMOs that would cater to your needs.

There's absolutely no shame in that. We play games for fun, and if ultimately you aren't finding something enjoyable, it's best to look elsewhere.

This exactly.

To be honest I could take you into my corp and show you how L4s look like or how to derp terrible in lowsec pvp but that aura of helplessness surrounding you and hints of entitlement in between lines of your posts...

I was there when some of my friends have discovered POS towers / POS bubbles for the first time. Most of them said loudly "wow!". They were full of excitement later when we did something as simple as erecting our own space structures. And then they went all over the systems and tried to discover another POSes, some of them has been almost killed, and their reaction was "lol that was fun!"

I'm trying to imagine you in real life, and I see a meadow full of flowers, with waterfall nearby, birds singing, maybe with a vulcan somewhere far on the horizon to make it a bit adventurous. And you , wandering around aimlessly, with an expressions of total boredom in the middle of so many miracles.

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You are still trying to play a sandbox as a themepark game. What should I do? Where should I go? Point me to the fun! Where are questionmarks over the heads of NPCs? Where is my instant fun?
There is none. This is sandbox. It's YOU who creates the contents, not developers. There are no pre-built sand castles you can't touch or change, the only sand castle around is that empty place in front of you. You keep asking: but what to build there, and how? And my answer is: I don't know. It's your castle. You can build a simple hole in a wet sand. You can build 2m tall awesome sand statue. But keep in mind: in a sandbox, anything is better than the empty place. You see a useless sand, I see a building material. You see a piece of plastics, I see a spade or other tool I can use to build my castle of dreams. Even if it's often just that hole.
Start building, or try other place. Not every child loves sandbox.

You should proablly just unsub right now and save your money for some other MMO. Unbelieveable the mass exodus from wow has created a steady flow of these crap posts. CCP should implement some sort of screening process before somebody downlaods eve.


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