EVE New Citizens Q&A

I have come and gone on this game a lot of times. I always fall into the same routine of missioning for a month or two and getting bored. I come to the forums and ask the same repetitious questions. What to do? corp help? skill build? best ship? how to make iskies?

well, im , quite frankly tired of it.

last night, i logged in and stared off into space looking at my training que. Realizing , im not falling into the trap. I am not going to wait while skilling up.

So, tonight , i am going to log in, sell off some of the junk i have and take my 50mil isk and buy about 10 frigs.

Im going to fit them cheap, then, im going to hop into my frig and im going to find people and shoot them. I will shoot at anything that i fly across, i will start by doing it when i undock so i can learn what happens, i will then venture to system to system, learning things like scanning etc that i read about but never apply.

I am determined to annoy, harass, get lost in space and not sit in my hanger looking at my pve mission runners in high sec space.

So, if anyone wants to help me learn the ins and outs of pvp and what not tonight hit me up in game,

if any new players want to join me in being cannon fodder for a few hours tonight hit me up. i'll be starting my trial by fire learning experience tonight around 10 est.

I have had a hard time finding corps, learning, progressing in eve. I've read about 1,000 pages on eve and understand things, but without application i feel that i'll be intimidated by everyting beyond high sec.

i know its a cheesy post but this is going to be either a new beginning for me or a final hurrah in eve.

If you see me flying around and want to blow me up, or help me out with advice, or just follow me for lols, i am going to shoot at everything till i learn.

hehe, i can fly rifters, gallente frigs. was cross training to fly a machariel and realized how long it was gonna take , it was kinda my que to start this.

if u can sell them to me reasonable and even suggest some cheap fittings that'd be nice, i've got around 10mil sp and im clueless , i will not resort to afk'ing in my domi on lvl 4's.

i want to find the guy who originally suggested i go that route and blow him up first.

fittings generally work out well like this:

hi --> guns
mids --> AB, point
lows --> DCU II, damage and or tank mods
rigs --> helpful ... but not "cheap"



for specifics, I imagine the "Ships and Fittings" thread can help better than I...

tbh though, getting into a corp would probably help you out the most.

It looks like it's just the scram making that 7 mil, would drop to 4 or so without I think (at least according to that eve central list of dubiousness).

You could always t1 fit too.

Edit: Just to be clear, DO fit a scram, just maybe a cheap one.

Also if you're looking for an alternative isk source, it may be worth trying exploration. Can be dull, can be dangerous (Assuming you're not in highsec), and it can be damn profitable. The unpredictability is what draws me to it, and combined with manufacturing I make enough isk.

didnt even know there was an "exploration" profession really, i just thought exploring in eve was as simple as just getting lost.

i found a cheaper loadout, will probably do some variation of this one.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/loadout/39546-Cheap-pvp-incursus.html

As Velicitia said, exploration mostly just requires scanning probes and some luck. There are some ships that are capable of finding and running radar/mag sites on their own - I used to do this in lowsec with a cloaky arbitrator (whole fit was ~10mil isk, mail me if you're curious). You'll need reasonably good scanning skills (astrometrics et al.) and maybe even an implant to successfully scan down some of the sites though, since these ships don't get the scanning bonus.

Check it, peep exploration wiki entry.

Best of luck on your pewpew adventures.

Heya mate. If you're looking for someone to PvP with. I will gladly join you. Contact me and we can go :) nice attitude, keep that attitude and you will go far my friend!

so an update.

friday was a bit rough in terms of getting it done. As soon as i logged in , i got quite a few chat messages and about 4 or 5 people wanting me to join their corp.

i may have come off as standoffish because everytime i've played i've been in "new" or "small" corps where i end up soloing. So if i seemed a little annoyed after asking the question and leaving at the response it's nothing personal just that i dont want to rely on 2 people to log in to have fun.

So after a while i figured if i chatted to much i'd never get anything done and im not playing aol IM i was determined to blow stuff up.

i bought 5 incursus fit them with all t1 stuff etc. i spent a few minutes trying to learn the map, fit my ship using the link i provided.

i undocked and flew to perimiter, 1.0 sec. i warped to an asteroid belt. i saw some guy afk in an osprey.

locked target, orbited at 500m, launched drones, and unloaded fire.

it was very shortlived as concord game and popped me in a few seconds. So, i took my pod back to jita, docked and started reading again. i fit another ship and looked for low sec space. I really had a hard time finding anything, as i don't know how to scan and i don't really know what im doing.

the realization that hit me after talkign to people is that this really isnt as open ended as people say. Or i may be wrong but im assuming in low sec, your really only going to find people experienced in pvp, so going there as a noob is just a deathwish.

i nearly died about 20 times as i gated through in low sec .

tonight, i have a bit more time as i had to put some serious hours into work this past weekend. Im going to head back out to low sec and try again.

one funny story was , one of the corps inquring about joining hitme up.

I was in voice but they didnt know so as i typed responses to their questions, it finally boiled down to me saying.

"listen guys, when i say new, i mean, here is my knowledge of eve totally. I have guns to draw aggro, i dont even know what those guns are useful for, i dont use them to shoot anything, in fact i dont know the difference between a railgun and a autocannon. I warp into mission, fire guns, drop drones and then loot. That is the extent of my eve knowledge."

i really wanted to get a point across that i've been playing this game from the wrong perspective and that , i would need my hand held for quit ea while.

a few seconds later one of the guys says in chat "i think we gotta throw this fish back in the pond" .

Nice to see someone take the red pill.

As someone may have mentioned above, search for a corporation that takes in inexperienced players. Having a good support structure around you when you inevitably lose your stuff (again and again) is invaluable. Plus, there are some genuinely nice and entertaining people out there worth talking to and learning from.

I used to root around the Molden Heath low sec areas now and then. years ago, but I am too old for that now.