EVE New Citizens Q&A

I don't understand this.

There's always plenty of small hybrid ammo available wherever you are in New Eden.

The School of Applied Knowledge career tutorial agents are in Akiainavas.

As of a few minutes ago there were over 1.25 million rounds of Antimatter S available there at reasonable price.

About the skills, really, you'll never have them all in the start of the game...it's that simple. You can however change the settings of your skills tab to show skills not trained yet and you will find them. The way I like to do it though is through the market. I browse through it looking for what skills I'd like to have. Skills that are not on your list need to be bought and injected into your brain (right click inject) and then you can start learning.

It seems to me you didn't even finish all the tutorial missions if you were trying to run missions on a bantam. That is a logistics ship. It's disigned for logistics! That means it's used to help other ships, it's like a healer on other games, you only support. Not that the role isn't important, but if you are trying to do missions, it will do nothing to you. Finish all the tutorials and then, find in the wiki where is the next station for tutorial missions (http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Tutorial_and_Career_Agents_in_EVE) and re-do all of them. That will give you quite a few ships to use and lose and you can start having some isk for the future. Also, try joining a Corp as I said before. Please! All your doubts would be so much easily answered if you tried that.

Also, there are scammers, so don't simply trust anyone and decide to give them what little you've got or you'll lose it. Just be smart, if people aren't always helping one another in real like, don't expect that happening in EVE. I'd suggest joining EVE University which has tons of players who can help and teach classes to help you understand the game. Do search the Uni Wiki to learn how to apply. If you don't like it, find another. Brave Newbies is another Corp that seems to be awesome for new players, but their way of acting is more yolo. They don't mind losing stuff as long as they are having fun, and that is a good way of thinking. Always have fun!

I hope this helps you. But if you think EVE will be any different or any easier in a year or so, you are wrong. EVE is just the way it is and that's what is so great about it.

join EVE university, this game's learning curve is high and the inborn tutorials really don't do much to teach you what to do. You need other people to guide you. If you are looking for a game that puts you a railroad track and carries you down the progression then yea you will probably need a new game.

I'm not fancying the idea of doing ALL the tutorials. The business tutorial left me at a mining mission without a mining laser, and I have no interest in purchasing one out of my own cash. It seems I have isk in hock for this mission as well. That's a bit of a hostage situation.

I see where this game is going now, with the steep curve. Its part of the business model to keep you engaged in the game indefinitely.

Do them all. They give you free equipment and a decent ISK and better knowledge of that area of the game.

If you do the first few missions of the industry tutorial (and you can run them at the same time), you'll get multiple mining lasers

To be honost:

That and the other posts: It doesn't sound that EVE is too hard, it sounds like you are impatient and want instant gratification.

EVE won't supply that.


Do ALL the tutorials, even if it's just for the learning how stuff works (obviously, they are tutorials) and/or the ISK you get from them.

If you do the Industry tutorial missions, you get a Venture (mining ship) as well as mining lasers for the ship.

And with all the recent changes...CCP paved a nice road with some hairpins in it on the slope to make climbing it easier.

EVE is now a days easier (but still not easy) to get into if you compare it with a couple of years back.
First thing...the tutorials:

Old system = This is your ship, this is a gun, this is a NPC pirate that wants you dead. Good luck, tutorial is now over.
New system = AURA + 5 x career agents (each 10 missions) + SoE Epic Arc, which explain a lot of the base mechanics of EVE.

2nd:

ISIS. A useful guide about what ships there are, how to get to them and what type of ship they are in general.

3rd:

Mastery system. Though not flawless, it's good to see what are useful skills are for a certain ship.

4th:

Tiericide + skill rebalancing.

Now a days, to train properly into bigger ships takes much less time then before.

T2 Large guns don't make you train T2 small and T2 medium guns first.
Carriers don't require the dreadful Battleship V anymore.

*Of course, bigger isn't always better and rushing to bigger is still NOT good*

Got screwed by the forum software

Tip from a forum warrior:

Before hitting post, select what you typed and copy it.

That way if the forum monster eats your post, you can just paste it instead of re-typing it.

That was part of what got lost.

Is is plausable to just do what you want? Are there advanced exploration tuts that will guide me to proper fittings and such? Is it time to figure outmy own fitting and spend some isk, if I want to explore? I do see the logic in doing all the training to collect isk and ships, and I will try the shuttle to another station trick. Thank you for that.

Most games have a cycle; 3-5, maybe 7 years for a good game (I exclude WoW, because I don't enjoy that style of grind). Of course there are many games than hang around for a long time, but some of those games are also rarely updated and cater to a very small remainder of it's peak subscriptions years. Eve is sort of an enigma in that respect. When I consider Eve, I look at it like a bubble that is bound to burst; yet it never does, so each year it's burting is more and more due.

Anyway. I like the game. I always search for something similar and younger, but never find anything. I have limited play time, and it it takes 10 years to progress in the game and I'm going commit, then Eve better be around another 10 years.

Your rookie ship has a mining laser. You get an infinite supply of rookie ships, and hence an infinite supply of mining lasers.

To get a rookie ship, dock IN A POD at any station you don't have any ships at.

To get more Civilian Mining Lasers, repackage and re-assemble your rookie ship.