EVE New Citizens Q&A

Greets!

I wish I had known about:(that is, the tutorials don't mention)

1. The COMPARE TOOL (dragging several weapons onto it to compare stats, for example.)

2. The STAR MAP and its STATISTICS features - so I could see where the action was!

3. That TRADE HUBS exist to (possibly) get good prices.

4, How to CAPTURE THE PIECES from a decrypted, exploding can.

5. Train and fly what you have, get good at it first! Then train to the next step up (only) etc.

i wish i'd known in advance the only way to have friends in Eve is to drag them from RL pool of friends *
Never mind - i should adapt :) in order to survive.


(*) first rule of Eve - "You shall not believe anyone".

Ship fitting, and one, if not the best place to start:

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Template:ShipsMatrix

battleclinic is horrid for the most part, so I direct people to the above.

Well I have played before, but I made up an alt and tried being "new".

When aura gives you your first weapon, she says you are probably used to not needing ammo - but at this point in time the player has never owned a weapon at all. Maybe add some information about the rookie ship coming with the ammo-less gun if you get another later instead. Took me a while to figure out what those ammo-less weapons Aura talked about was.

And some of the things I had to help the most with in Rookie Help was:

Hardpoints: "My ship has 3 weapon slots, I have 2 blasters but when I try put in the third it says I can't" and "how do I attach a gun to my Condor?" is something I heard a lot. And I understand the confusion, all other demands a weapon has for the ship fitting is listed in fitting information, but nowhere does it say that a turret needs a "Turret Hardpoint" and a launcher need "Launcher Hardpoint". Would be much less confusion for the new player if hardpoints were added to the fitting tab in weapon info screens.

'You get ammo from Aura right after the gun, if you were on the station when you got it, it is in your item hangar. The tutorial could use to be more clear about when to undock at this point. Maybe change tutorial to teach people to load weapons in fitting window while docked - then undock them and tell how its done in space when need to. This will reduce all the flying back and forth - which I at least would find disheartening when only 5 minutes into the game.

That there actually is a wide range of chat channels to join.

How to look for a corporation, search tool, recruitment channels and forums.

If you do tutorial and then start with business career, you do not have a mining laser, your first ship is boarded in space with no mining laser / gun - not the default rookie fit. And you get your first laser as part of the Industry career.

How to buy and sell. Why is there no market tutorial? A lot of people are also looking for a vendor to sell their loots to.

That you can't change ore holds, drone bays, drone bandwidth, hardpoints, energy slots on your ship (except in the cases that the bonus from ship skills increase it).

Scamming is a fact outside Rookie Help - it is not rare, it is not uncommon, it is normal and you have to look out for it.

*EDIT* Layout fix

Something that is very common in other games is to highlight a piece of equipment and see how it compares to items that are already equipped. Or at the lest, be able to click multiple similar items and see the differences.

E.g. click 3 types of ammunition for a small gun. Bring up a compare screen that highlights the differences.

If that ability is there, make it easier to find.

LOL! - I just caught that! Nice! :D

--Gameplay--
That it's a broker market system and works totally unexpected to what I am used from other games, lost alot of money without any scam just by not knowing this!!!

Besides of that nothing, because discovering and making mistakes is fun, if you can recover and can at least gauge what will happen (risk/reward)
For example it's ok to lose your ship the first time vs warp disruptors, because you knew about that in the tutorials.
Or it's ok to die in low sec, because you didn't expect someone else to scan you so fast, but it's ok because you knew ppl can scan you down. That Discovery and making experience is fun - that's the beauty of EVE, the hardcore feeling if you want it. (risk/reward)


--Social--
In terms of help I wish I had known, that there are people who will help you out personally via messages - which I think is difficult because of all the trolls out there not thanking you at all or behaving disrespectful towards someone wanting to help (just in chats).

You just have to find friendly people under all the black sheeps, for example in my first forum I was there were like only 2 people active and I got nasty answers for not knowing how stuff works... so by that I don't wonder why it's only 2 people (battle clinic).

I suggest a list of volunteers perhaps where the volunteer will become invisible if he has one person that he is helping.


I think it's a good hint, but should clearly address gameplay related friends, not ingame friends who just help you with their knowledge, and are not correlated to your progress - if they aren't they can't scam you just by helping with knowledge - that makes those few people trustworthy.

--Edit--
Here is one feedback that I agree with:

It seems there's a lot of people here that wanted specifics.
If any source of information tried to explain every detail of eve, it'd be thicker than a dictionary.
Also, there'd be nothing left to learn or discover.
Yes, the learning curve is a steep one, but isn't that a good thing? I've only had 3 months of sub time, but I'm still learning new things every day.
Can't get enough of this damn game!
The only thing I'm kinda half and half on is the pvp. In some ways I wish it were easier to get into, but the fact that it's so complicated is what makes it so epic and unique.
Tried it once, got popped and almost had a heart attack when I saw my naked corpse floating in space.
No pvp has ever made my heart pound like that. Losing (almost) everything makes for thrilling pvp!

Scanning, not very well explained in the early mission. I still am a bit lost on how to do it right and efficiently

Skill Learning: Injection over Training Time, never was explained. I just saw the difference now!

Weapons/Ammo: Which is best or better in a situation.

Ships Uses: What situations are bad for "x" ship? Are good for "x" ship?

I would like the attributes of the ships (or any object) to be explained a little better. Like, what does changing my Velocity Modifier do? There are just some attributes that I don't understand. They make sense, but right off the bat it's all very confusing. For example: The fact that a given turret's optimal range is 10km but the falloff range is, say, 6000m, is confusing to me. Turret tracking, turret signature resolution, signature radius, etc., is all confusing stuff to a new player.

I know this can all be looked up online, but a basic overview might be nice so I know what I'm using on my ships and how to use them. And if there is an in-game guide on that stuff then I missed it, but I believe I completed all the recommended starting missions, and I remember a bunch of tutorials and whatnot.