EVE New Citizens Q&A

I could be wrong but I believe the reason people thought you were trolling is quite the opposite. Your questions were pretty in depth and not typically what a new player would be asking at your stage of the game. You basically sounded too smart.

Frankly it's because "oh look at me I'm so funny like I'm 12" names scream disposable forum troll alt from miles away or even worse a disposable forum warrior corp awoxer.

Check our latest two wars and realize Eve University outperforms all hisec merc corps together if you push them hard enough. Really, I respect these guys for what they can muster and for making us fight like lions to keep a semblence of our posture. That being said, as a CEO I wouldn't have issues with OP's character name at all. As long as I get to call you Butts on Teamspeak we'd be cool mate. Don't change your name if you like it yourself.

The in game activities are just a small part of what is EVE.

In certain situations, it's even only a majority of what is "the game".

A lot of things are done "outside of EVE", for instance:

* Diplomacy
* Spying / stealing
* War stuff / propaganda


If you look at SOV null, when in state of wars, a lot of stuff happens "behind the scenes". Be it from diplomacy (getting allies and contacting enemies) to mass planning of war movement and tactics to making sure everybody is up to date on important things (like using jabber pings if some titan jumps instead of bridges and throws feces at a rotary object).


What it also includes:



Occasionally you have "old guys" that played for years make a new alt (usually with a not so thoughtful name that matches your pick) and pretent to be new. Yet when they talk EVE, it clearly shows they know quite a bit of EVE instead.

Wow. I had no idea the game was so... intense; or so involved, outside the game. I don't even know what the titan stuff you were talking about means (I know what a titan is, but jabber ping bridge throw rotary etc. is jibber jabber to me). Are you referring to how titans cannot use gates and have to warp to beacons or some such? Remember, despite the level of game-understanding I've shown in some of my posts,I'm sure I only understand, oh say 10%. It's just that when I like something, I try to study and understand it very intensely.



Same here. When I started the game it was on a Friday after work, and I just wanted to get into the game and see if I even liked it. I didn't spend too much time on my character's look (though it's def grown on me) and the name I just poached from one of my GW2 characters. I wasn't trying to be 12 or anything, just get into the game and see what it was all about. With RPG-ish games, I'll often skip character creation to get right into the game, see how it runs, see what it looks like and how it plays, and then go back and spend hours and hours making my character. 18 days later, I'm still playing and totally forgot to reroll.

No word from CCP yet on the name change, and given the reaction here I def want to change it, or reroll I guess. I don't want people making assumptions about me early on w/o a track record, and I don't really care about the name at all.

Kinda understood this. Looks like I'll be dedicating the new few hours to reading about titans/supercapitals and how they work. I'm at work on conf calls and literally didn't realize how much time I'd spent reading on these forums. I just discovered the existence of "sov-null" which I think to understand as being areas of 0.0 that are controlled and have sovereignty to a corp/alliance. It sounds to me like a whole other "gameplay mode", as the characteristics of it are very different than other thigns I've read about.

Every time I think I'm starting to understand EVE, I stumble upon some word or phrase I don't understand, google it, and then spend the next X hours reading about some aspect of EVE I have NO IDEA about.. and then inevitably while reading about that thing, people are using phrases and talking about some OTHER thing I had no idea existed.

I gotta say, at least for the first 18 days of this game, so far it continues to baffle, intrigue and amaze me every day. I can only assume those are experiences that continue to occur for years and/or lifetime of career.

Titans and other super capitals works like any other ships in the game but they have some things that make them apart from the flock mainly in that super capitals cannot:

- dock to station ever meaning you have to have a sfae place in space where to 'park' your shiney each night usually on an apply named "titan POS" and everyone wanting to steal a super capital means that you can also never ever leave from your ship.
Hence these boards have continuing supply and demand for the so called "baby sitter" characters that have only one meaning allowing that super capital to log off from the game so that it cannot be stolen.

- Cannot use stargates they have to use jump drive to move between systems (this applies to regular capitals as well) this will change in the next patch how ever.
- Cannot enter high sec ever only ones still remaining in high sec are a special case governed by special rules that are monitored closely by GM's, goes for smaller capitals as well.
- Require sovereignty to build and cannot built on stations this once again doesn't concern regular capitals.

other differences are mostly because of the ship characteristics and modules that can be fitted only in super capitals.

Yeah... I know this probably isn't much, but I already have a little folder on my desk with about 15 pages of maps, charts, outlines etc. that I reference regularly while playing! My GF looks at me while I'm playing and teases me that it looks like I've come home from work to research and do more work; like a lawyer.

OIC, the "paranoid" OOG activities that people engage in for intelligence/counter-intelligence and political work?

LOL, here's some more terms I need to look up (with respect to EVE):
comm routines, doctrines, fcs, super pilot, sov, pos