EVE New Citizens Q&A

1) Many people will try to scam you, steal from you, and /or kill you, even in high sec space, and this behavior is allowed in the game.
2) What are the common scams and how to avoid them.
3) What is suicide ganking and how to avoid being a victim
4) The exploration set of tutorial missions is way too difficult for a new player with limited scanning skills.
5) New characters should start with all the core skills injected already - the tutorial missions are really inconsistent with giving you a few free skill books, but not all of the universally important ones
6) Early in your Eve career, pick one type of tank and weapon system to focus on
7) You an manually check the market prices and set a sell order - you don't have to simply sell your stuff to the highest buy order
8) Double clicking in space will align your ship, allowing you to manually pilot
9) Eve's wonky limited collision system means you can get stuck / hung up on celestial objects like structures and asteroids, limiting your mobility and preventing you from warping away.

The game has intrigued me for a while, but having read that tutorials are getting dropped I had to jump in while they're around - I don't think their absence will be a positive thing to the game's future, it has a reputation for having some big gaps as it is, in a game with a reputation for complexity and ruthlessness.
I've read a bit on it when I join, but there's only so much you can get from reading without getting your hands dirty while getting a little guidance - I do hope at least the early Aura bits are retained for the sake of whomever joins later on...


Tutorial missions expect you to go to a certain place, but sometimes the "place" is the broader galaxy area you're - you have to keep your eyes on the agent/mission related layered menu to to left, so that when you're asked to go mine in a specific place you can expand that and use "Set as Destination", which isn't always clear, at least on one of the early mining missions. I'd find some random asteroid and mine that, but the mission criteria wouldn't be met because I didn't go to the specific spot the mission text linked to, which was so broad I never really left it.


Whose idea was it to have different missions give you the same skill book?
It's a weird way for the game to encourage alts - 2 potential books for players who do tutorials, leaving 1 aside to be sold to super-focused alts who'll skip tutorials and just buy the things.
I've got to admit, it encouraged me to travel a bit to sell mine.
It's still pretty weird how low the buy orders are - perhaps it affects the estimated prices when you hover your mouse pointer over something?


I don't recall if Aura encouraged me to do it, but following the tutorial about setting up the skill queue I took its lead, skiling my faction frigate, IIRC, and kept doing it - it reached a point where I could no longer put anything in the skill queue since one of the skill levels took over a day to finish by default, so I couldn't add anything else, some of which would have been handy for the tutorial missions.
Some warning to let you know setting a certain skill in the queue will lock you out of adding more until less than a day is left on it would be nice (or, you know, extending the queue duration - some of us might want to spend a week or 2 away from the game without worrying about logging in to avoid wasting time, since occasionally people have vacations or time away from the computer?).
In the meantime I read on Reddit that it's possible to drag a shorter skill above a longer one to avoid this problem - I'll need to test this next time I log in.


Redeem items - I was a bit late on collecting a few, so wasted about a day of boosted training from a purchase bonus - when applicable, it would be useful to get an in-game mail informing you of the GUI path to the Redeem items button.
Especially nowadays with those drones being handed out as players meet a few game-wide goals.


Corp searching by alliance would be handy, for those interested in the stories they read about the game and considered joining a specific alliance, but don't know all of the corps it may contain.
The existing parameters in the current search could be supplemented by a parameter to search for an alliance, or the parameter that lets you exclude corps in an alliance could be tweaked to narrow results to those that de belong to alliances.


One of the early mining missions:
- has you being attacked and diposing of the attacker - I'd read before about wrecks, but it turns out they're not visible be default; messing around with the GUI in the vicinity of concepts the early exploration tutorial mentioned I managed to find a list of wreck artifacts, but lacked the equipment or skill to salvage them during that mission, since I was using the rookie ship, so I could only fit a gun and mining laser.
- that area where you mine also has structures that seem fitting for exploration, but as above, I wasn't really equipped to make the most of that, not even close.
So, it would be handy to know how to return there to look into those things, which only seemed viable while the mission was active, but since those tend to have bonuses for finishing them within a certain time frame (shorter than the time my skill queue would be running, so the required skills wouldn't be ready on time based on what I thought I knew then), it would be nice to know if there's a way to return there and recheck; I've read mentions of bookmarks, but the game hasn't taught them to me yet, which is annoying, since it was quite clear at covering control issues and concepts that were indecipherable to be before I started the game.


No idea if there's any use to the Tribal Sponsorship item I had to retrieve in the tutorial - a lore memento, if nothing else?


I don't recall if it was mission reward or a bonus from the Green Man Gaming package I bought the game as, but I had a ship in my hangar that couldn't be regularly viewed - yet it had an Assemble command available when I right-clicked it, which others didn't - it was packaged, I guess?
I wonder if some specific use was possible for it in that state - selling only, perhaps?


One of the Exploration tutorials gives you a Hacking book, but no prerequisite book is provided - at least not in that tutorial mission line, which I'm about to finish.


I've seen a Compare option for equipment, but it's not really clear how to select something to compare it with - this is made more annoying by the fact that if you try and select a 2nd object's "Show Info" window, it replaces the previous one, so I can't get them to display side by side.


Also, sideburns as a facial hair option would be cool - a lot cooler than mohawks, and shouldn't be that hard since beards are already in..

Hello ,

I'm sort a new in EVE. The learning curve was okay after I joining a patient Corp. I have gone thru 3 changes or upgrades with EVE so far and have heard the concerns of mining Corp and the smack talk from your local pirate. Seeing how I like the making of things I'm sort a bias.. Seeing some of concerns happen and some not. Truth be known I like being a miner and have enjoyed the game very much.

Some of the facts (In my opinion) I have learnt so far is:

1) There is no jump clones in wormholes, but you can build ships in wormholes that allow jump clones, that work anywhere else in the universe except in Hi Sec/ W/H's. Yet when my clone dies in a wormhole I awake in a new one (clone) in Hi sec....

2) I will never be able to mine a moon that has the resources I need to make anything of value (not really). I have read that most of the moons in Null / low sec that produces the raw moon minerals to make the materials needed to make the reactions to make T2 parts and pieces have already been taken. Moon resources are monopolized by larger Alliances and Corporations there-by controlling pricing and availability... all beyond anything I can do about it. Hence, will mostly likely not be able to pursue a career in EVE as a marketer much longer...

3) A goal of mine was to own and fly a might Titan, reports say that this ship when built costs $4,000.00 US dollars and something like three years of skilling learning to fly it. And of course by that time I may not be playing EVE anymore or be real close to retirement before I get to fly the darn thing... let alone afford it.

4)Training social skills seems to seems to have been a big waste time. Missions after mission hours upon hours. To get my security level up to 8.01 with a NPC Corp just to get a jump clone, and to raise my standings with that faction to built a POS in their air space. It now appears to be for nothing here shortly? All I had to do is pay 250 million ISK's to get my Security level to 5.0 with Concord like a pirate and wait to June 3rd and I can build a POS anywhere.

5)The game EVE has so many wonderful and exciting things in it. Yet almost all of it now seems like a new angle (in my opinion) to get into my C.C. There seems to be no place a solo player or small Corp can call home from which they can grow or want to defend that has been taken from them. I know the pirates will say those sound like tears, maybe... I have grow to love EVE. But if EVE will not allow me to defend myself or what I like about it by remaining a good pilot. I would rather quit before allow myself to become what I have been fighting sense I started... good versus bad. Making ISK's versus stealing, killing and coning someone out of them.

6)Now I know CCP has been wanting pilots to go into Null and Low Sec and whatever... It obvious the Hi Sec seems to be getting over crowded or at least seem that way to me anyway. But the truth is a solo player or small Corp can not survive there without having the numbers. So if you don't join an Alliance or Large Corp and go into Null or Low Sec you will eventually get killed and suffer tremendous losses and have to go back to Hi Sec. and start all over again or just don't go at all and except what you got and play EVE as best as you can.

7) A Solo player or Small Corp will never be able to control a Null Sec system without paying ransom of some kind to the bigger fish. Because it's still to confined (it can be completely explored). So for us to have an OUTPOST will always be just a dream. Until EVE has and expanding universe one that Large Corp or Alliance can not control and empty POS or Outpost remain property of those who left them. EVE will be just this big.

I hope I have stayed in the scope of this discussion. I don't expected to change anything... I'm just another pilot giving their two sense worth...

i wish i'd realised what the first corp i joined actually were. now i think back to it, i'm sure they were suicide gankers and highsec wardeccers.

i may have gotton into pvp sooner if i'd just stayed with them, or at least asked them questions instead of being almost constantly confused until i left for another corp who taught me the game, sans pvp, and then another corp who taught me how to shoot....

I wish u had see, that this is just a War Economy, just like Old Snake did explain. Everything we do is for money. Mining, Refining, Production, Selling, Buying, Destruction - Repeat. Its a Kapitalism Simulator based on wrong basics. Am i wrong?

It seems you should befriend team Super Friends or Team Karamarko (search the forums).

• Realize, that the Inventory Window has options (see the hamburger menu on the title bar).
• Realize you can SHIFT CLICK on any ship or inventory int the "main" inventory window to open them in a separate window.
• The cargo hold of your ship, when opened in space or in station, the location of that windows is saved separately for both instances.
• The inventory window that probably opens up when you undock, has been open in a certain state the moment you dock. Use the specific windows (cargo hold and others) to navigate the inventory in space, and use the main inventory screen just to open / close the extra ones.
• The one window getting into the other has a relation with snapping and or merging settings, they are located in your General Settings tab in the ESC menu. Realize that SHIFT DRAGGING a window has another affect as just DRAGGING a window.

Hope this helps ;) - If still questions, chat me up in game.

Each skill you learn benefits primarily from one of the 5 you listed, and secondarily from one other of those 5.
You can r click the skill and then info, to see which 2 benefit that skill.
The implants increase the attribute by 1 through 5 points - that decreases the time it takes to learn the skill.
In-game, you can open your character sheet, (on the left, the button with your character's picture) and on the left column, click Attributes (looks like purple DNA) - there you'll find how many points each Attribute has.
You can re-map them annually, that is, put more points to one Attribute or the other, and you get a free re-map when you created your character.

Most will agree that the most bang for the buck is an implant that increases the attribute (Perception, for example) by 4 points. The 5 point implant is very costly (but worth it if you are earning tons of ISK)

There are tools, EVEmon among them, that allow you to calculate how to best arrange your Attributes to best train up skills you desire. http://evemon.battleclinic.com/ <--- EVEmon dowload, top of page, on left.

I wish I'd have known about Instant Warp/Dock bookmarks, the cloak MWD trick, lock times and bubble mechanics.

Once you are no longer afraid and can easily and simply get around low security/null space, the game opens up so much. It held me back for years, simply, because afaik, these mechanics aren't even officially published - or are at least not accessible for new players.

These days the Rookie Help channel helps a great deal - half of it is "Redock and Accept Mission", but people do ask about low/nullsec activities and these subjects come up.

What it means, and how to achieve, a stable capacitor.