EVE New Citizens Q&A

Trading the poorly-named npc "Trade Goods" items is not, in fact, the best way to make isk as a trader. Or even a good way.

its almost always a trap

This may have already been answered but the noobship comes pre-fitted with 1 turret and a miner iirc?

I wish someone had told me how helpful people are. About a month into the game I was killed mining in lowsec (had no idea solo mining in lowsec was stupid at the time). The guy started a conversation with me asking if I was new, and when he found out I was, he spent 45 minutes explaining how the game works to me and gave me 50M isk.

I wish I knew the game was one where someone will kill you without a second thought, but then spend the rest of their night helping you improve. I reached out to the community for help all the time after that

When i started, was so excited to see the area around that i got lost..... litteraly. Somehow i didnt know how to go back to were i was. I would have liked to have an annoying "noobie flashy button" in screen, where i could have press on and get instruction. I think ccp might somehow forget how beautifull it is in there, easy to glance at and forget what you were doing. Figuring out what to train first, is an heavy investement at the beginning. I would have actually quite appreciate and still would, to see an intensive 3hours minimum, video of obejective overview. It is EvE, to my knowledge the best game ever, you can get out of EvE but ya cant get EvE out of you, so go pro, a little investement in a good interractive video/movie Big Fat How-to.

Ps, been gone since 2010 and coming back in, cant stop thinking of it. I tried!!!!

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That level 5 skills are not that important and that bigger does not equal better.

I came here from WoW and I have noticed a lot of other players suffering from a WoW mindset that I had difficulty getting over. I wanted to max out my skills as fast as possible and get into "the best ship" as quickly as possible. Coming from WoW where there is a level cap and most certainly a BiS ( best in slot) for every class in game it was hard to get used to the fact that you can train for 20 years and still have skills to train in this game. My first toon I focused on max skill points and literally that toon was 3 years old with an ass ton of skill points and totally useless where as I started an alt shortly after and the alt quickly became my main as I was able to train what I needed and not what I was ideally remapped for. Also lots of newbs myself included try to get into a BS as quickly as possible but that's already been mentioned here

Another thing that I see a lot of newbs do is they come to the game party because they hear that you can pay for game time with in game money and then set out to do that from the get go and the game quickly becomes a job as they spend all their time earning isk to pay for the game. I will tell you now to have enough free isk to be able to do that you will most likely have to be playing the game for at least a year to do that and not spend all your time in game earning isk. It is most certainly possible to do it from day 1 especially making isk on the market but you'd almost have to be a vet on a day old toon to do that. Any way my point is play the game to have fun and plan on paying the monthly fee and when you find yourself having more isk than you know what to do with then buy PLEXs.

Other newb common missed tid bits:

Faction specific resists are a huge deal for PvE know who you are going up against and what kind of damage they do.

The best defense is a good offense. I focused on getting really good tank skills early on not realizing that when stuff dies fast you don't need tank nearly as much. I guess the old saying " an Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is very fitting here.

If I had appreciated how important and useful belonging to a corporation could be I would have saved myself many months of frustration.

I don't know if any of this is posted before but I wish I had known these facts (trying to remember my first days...)

- I evemailed (in-game e-mail) a pirate who stole my jetcan asking "why did you do that?" then he replied to me "take a coke, sit back and relax, this is the way it works". Then I learned not to do jet-can stuff without proper security.

- Tractor beam. I learned that there is a tractor beam on my 6th month. Before that, I was going salvage by salvage with my cyclone battlecruiser (projectiles weapon back then) with a single salvager I and without any propulsion mod. I did this until I realized that it takes too long and nobody was complaining about this situation on the forums, so there must be a module for it ^_^

- When new, do not use smartbombs in hi-sec during missioning. I lost two ships (one being a maelstrom battleship).

- If you are a new player and starting to pvp first, be careful when using utility ships that has both support and ewar modules. I learned it with the hard way by mistakenly target-painted a fleet member instead of remote sensor boosting it. Well... In the low-sec near the gate. Gate guns will give your frigates a lot of love.

- I wish I had known that players are very helpful (well I was scared of them because of the first incident I had).

- I wish I had taken a basic pvp knowledge from the start. I leaned it through the hard way by being caught by a drag bubble in null sec.

As someone already said, that double clicking in space allows you to manually pilot.