EVE New Citizens Q&A

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Welcome (back) to Eve!

The most valuable advice I can give you is to echo what others are saying in reference to this being a very social game. Finding a good group of players to work with is, for most people, the key to really enjoying the game and getting darn good at it.

However, this is a double edged sword. Joining a player run corporation should be something you put a LOT of thought into, and something that you take quite slowly. Remember - it's trivial to start up a corp and proclaim yourself a CEO and start hunting for members.

It's quite easy to end up in a very badly run player corp full of people who are going to give you awful advice, awful ideas, and in general make EVE much harder for you.

If they don't ask for a full API and want to at least interview you first and talk to you, i'd stay very far away. Ask questions before you join - questions such as "Are there players online in my time zone", "I want to do X, Y, and Z - do we have players who are experts at these things and willing to teach me?", "How does your corp handle the threat of war-decs?", etc. Get to know them before you even consider joining. Look them up on public killboards, look up their members on eve-who and consider talking to some of the rank and file before you even considering joining.

There should be a entire hour long tutorial section on taking joining a corp as very serious business, but there are not. Don't learn this the hard way. It only takes one bad decision to end up with a group that at best is going to slow down your progress and fill your head with misinformation, or at worst going to leave you with a rather permanent stain on your history.

In the meantime, just be patient. Run the tutorials. All of them. Get great standing with a few NPC factions (pick one that has jump-clone services, you will be very happy you took the time to do this later). Grinding missions is the worst, but getting that nice 8.0 standing with a good NPC corp is something you only need to do once, and it's well worth your time.

Fit up a bunch of trashy t1 throw away frigates and go roam low sec and find creative ways to explode. Learn from those experiences.

Good luck!

Whoohoo another victi...uhm...fellow capsuleer.

As a new player myself, I can most definitely attest to the fact that 99.9% of people on the forums (and in game) are really cool and are always happy to help (I've asked A LOT of questions..... Sorry guys!)... Hope you can get into the game now

Have fun!

This. If you sing for me I'll literally give you ISK.