EVE General Discussion

I think the best help one can give a new player is advice. If I kill a ship and see it was terribly fitted I'll often convo them. Sometimes you get the "I hate you... You're the devil" but most welcome the help. If I only got such help with my blaster, railgun, autocannon fit Cormorant lol

Unfortunately we have a large segment of the EvE population thinking by coming across a female in EvE is paramount to finding the holy grail. Although, you would think that if they went outside they would find a wondrous world of social interaction with a different chromosome designation.

However, in the time I had spent playing internet space pixels, I have found that most of the females have more balls than that of 90% of the nerds in EvE. They are much more aggressive (hot), have more grasp on getting things done and much more coordinated in which with their intense OCD tendencies, evens out their male counterpart autistic squirrel behaviors.

it took a bit but once i had set on a purpose i pursued it relentlessly until achieving whatever that was and then just invented a new goal and repeated the process. and still doing that today lol. it's the only way i know how to play this game.

All I recieved as a new player was a number of -isk incidents that were finalized by CONCORD.

A few years after I Started playing I recieved a number of items from friends who quite and a hulk from one of the Black Rabbitts which I had to fly out of their home station

I have helped out new players much more than I have been gifted.



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Freebies I've received included 10M in my first month, for simply asking intelligent questions, 1B ISK a few months ago for simply being on Twitter at the time, and a few free ships along the way ("I"m quitting, here have my stuff" or "I'm leaving EVE for a while, here hold my corporation for me.").

I've also had productive partnerships with mission-runners who got into battleships far too early and decided having a logistics pilot along to help complete missions faster was worthwhile. So I got a split of the mission rewards and salvage in addition to the bounties. That was an awesome income for me at the time.

In the recent past I have given away Noctises to wannabe salvagers, helped others run their missions, and even given away PLEX.

Why would you return donations?

I got ganked one day hauling mission loot, maybe 2 months into my game, and a random duder at jita sent me 1bil and friendly advice

I start EVE in 11 with a different toon, completely new to the game and joined a random corp, the kinda corp that ruins a new players time. CEO was barely on and he was the most veteran of everyone in the corp. He had let in a couple random ***hats who were only a couple months shy of me, and they acted as though they knew everything about EVE, advocating things like duel tanking, mix guns, basical any fitting sin you could muster to think of. We got wardec and we got thoroughly smashed.

Basically quit the game, until my brother got me back into it, Joined with his corp and learned more about EVE, how to fit what to do during engagements, how to kite and so forth. Been a much much much more enjoyable time. We have active members, and everyone gets along wonderfully.

Since then, I've been pretty open with newbro's, if I happen to kill one are two, if they seem like decent players, who just manage to join the wrong corp, I'll send them a mail with advice on how to fit the ship they lost, and sometimes I'll even buy and fit up a new ship for them and contract it over, if it was near a trade hub.

I really hate it when I see corps like the one I started in. If you want to be a PVE carebear thats fine, just when PVP comes knocking and your CEO hasn't even tried to help you or give advice on how to avoid a ganker or Wardec'er I do my best to make them understand why they lost. I was in a wardec once and the CEO never logged in for the whole Dec. It was a pretty sad sight because the newbro's in the corp, they tried fighting back and lost horribly with ships that well...did not follow the EVE Fitting 101, if you know what I mean.

So if you are new to EVE, your find a corp that will teach you. Rather than use you for taxes. It's a pretty important step into EVE-Online and if you miss that step you're in for a rough ride.

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Everybody's play style is obviously different -- if you're fiercely independent and don't want help, good for you. But eve is intended to be an mmo. Hence, good relations with other players gives you a leg up over the independent types. When I first started out, I couldnt finish the soe epic and so I gave a shout out in local looking for someone to help me - two guys answered, helped me out, eventually becoming my eve mentors. Many years later, I have had a lot of folk throw me help from time to time - when I was young, pirates would on occasion replace the ships or give me isk to replace the ships that they blew up. Later a bud gave me a carrier and another a billion isk. None of it was asked for, it was just the result of people passing along their good fortune. I try on occasion to do the same. If I've killed a newer player and they not being an asshat, if I can ill give them isk or a replacement ship. Its always a good idea imo to pass it forward if you can.

Hehe..I was alluding to the fact that there is in fact a real person behind that there avatar, "Human Soul" was a poor description and one that did me few favors xD