EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey there,

I am new as well, 2 weeks in.

Here is what I did, from the start till now.

I did all my career paths, started reading up on everything EVE (well, alot at least, including player provided links and google-wealth).
My reading and Q&A threads lead me towards the Sisters of EVE epic arc and did that. Good fun, and some challenging fights at the end to undertake solo.

I continued with a few missions for a Gallente Agent and put some more ISK in my pockets. Not a great deal, but enough to push me further forward.

* I made a secondary account during this time, after asking around how useful one would be.
She mines, trains for the necessary skills for a Noctis and later on, Transport Ships.
A moneymaker and support account so to speak.

I made a fair few friends in the meantime and asked them where would be a good place to begin getting my feet wet., PVP wise.

That caused me to sign up for Faction Warfare yesterday and I captured my first two 'points' yesterday, dwelling solo in lowsec.
The loyalty points you gain from participating in Faction Warfare, should you be curious, can be traded in for goodies you can either sell or use yourself.
That should ensure I can - seperate from my secondary account - keep myself shipped.

Where it goes from here?
Only one way: forward.

Brave Newbies is a fairly legitimate corporation that takes on noobs all the time. You can read a bit about them here:

http://themittani.com/features/life-brave-newbie

You may also want to look into Eve University - they take new people as well and train them in the game. Check out their website here:

http://www.eveuniversity.org/

Be sure to bookmark their wiki in your in-game browser. You can type just about any ship a noob would want to fly into their search bar and get an article with recommended fits and equipment. You can also research different game mechanics and professions there.

This character profile I'm using says I'm a year old, but in reality I've been only playing a couple months (took a looong time between the free trial and paid subscription).

Here's my own history:

I completed the newb missions while a trial account, and was just starting to jump into anomalies and fight NPC rats in my Cormorant and running exploration sites when my trial ran out.

When I re-subbed I started doing exploration again, since that's what I really wanted to do. Hacking and stuff. I know the payout in high security space isn't good with these, but it's the best place to get really good at scanning and hacking. But there weren't really enough hacking sites to make it an active job, so I started thinking about other things to do. Did a bit of highsec ratting, but that wasn't too much my thing. Then I read about "ninja salvaging."

Look it up on Eve University wiki and on YouTube. You basically locate other people in highsec who are running missions. Warp to them, and salvage all the NPC wrecks they just made - with or without their permission. As long as you only SALVAGE the wrecks and do NOT loot the wrecks, you're fine - they can't shoot you. All they can do is cry about it in local.

And if you want to provoke some fights, go ninja salvage in a ship that can fight back, loot AND salvage their wrecks, and if one of them tries to fight you, great!

Salvaging really doesn't take much to train, so it's something you can start doing pretty quick. You should also train Astrometrics to level III, then train all the other astrometric skills to III, then the original Astrometrics to IV.

I did all this for a while and it was actually kind of fun while it lasted. Eventually a player invited me to go out to low security space, so I did. I did some exploration out there and found I could easily make 10 million in one night of hacking sites. The biggest challenge was getting my loot out of lowsec to highsec markets to sell. Have to do some blockade running in order to do that.

But I did this on a two-month account with only 700,000 skill points or so. Eventually, my contacts led to me joining a corporation where I'm... I'm doing other stuff.

Things can work out fine for a newbie in this game as long as you're willing to practice hard at the things you can do, never fly something you can't buy ten more of with your wallet, aren't afraid to jump out and sink or swim at something new, and are friendly to the other people in the game. Opportunities will open up.

Friends are people, you have to keep from helping you.

This is a great thread. I have been playing since December and I still feel a bit lost myself. I joined EVE with some RL friends as well but we were all in the military so we can't play on the same time table. I have since gotten out and have more time and find myself solo a lot. I have been toying with the idea of leaving out 6 person corp for one that actually plays and get some practice in. Also I have heard of FW but I have no idea what it is so I guess I need to do some research on that. Once I move and get a reliable internet connection again I am going to actively pursue something worthwhile. I have been using my downtime wisely training up all my skills so hopefully I can put my SP to use!

FW or Faction Warfare is simply put, an opt-in set of rules and conditions in which you and the enemy militia can always pew pew, even in hisec. It has a very low bar of entry, and players fight over control of specific lowsec systems. At least that's the concept, it's still Eve so you will face shameless farmers and ruthless pirates all the same