EVE New Citizens Q&A

Basically, find a corp that can teach you things. No one is gonna want to individually invest time into a new player in industry since for you to actually end up helping them will take lots of time. They will get you to mine for them though and pay you below market value so they can make more money though. If you are cool with that then you can work your way up and maybe run your own miner group that you can make money off of. As for other things in game, plenty of people will help and teach you things. Lots of industrialists do other things in game as well. I give trading advice to corp members i fly with and risk assets with, not with strangers.

So again, find a corp, earn trust through helping for common goal, they will teach you about the game there on out.

Yes, right here https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=topics&f=265

Also join recruitment channel in eve. Best to find a good group before you have anything. Never pay to get into a group either, eventually you do need to trust someone though, just not with all your assets lol.

minor note,
before you join any CORP read this:
https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Wars

bottom line in npc corp other player can't legally target you anywhere while in player owned corp they can. so be prepared that if you join a corp and you are in war to expect hostiles everywhere actively aiming for you.

My a shameless advertise the Help Chat - Reloaded chat.

As Cara said, there are near to none people who would love to spent their entire gametime helping a new player around.
But there are a large group of players that love to help you when they can, be it in space or just by answering a question, give you a fit / help you with your fit, give you ideas on how to approach something.


HC-R has just that...quite a large bunch of new players and vets that are in there to chit-chat about just about anything...but also there to help anybody who needs advice / a question answered.

As for a corp, what would be a great option would be EVE University (among other options of course) if you just want a "classroom" enviroment.

Recruitment is the official channel and is usually filled with corp-recruiters advertizing their corp.

A player made channel is called Unemployment. It is the exact opposite, there recruiters sit and the people looking for corps advertize themself....

I would try to use both. But in my honost opinion, they both suck. Mainly cause of the type of corps that use them most often.

A good corp doesn't have to actively hunt for players. Players will find that corp.

What I prefer is looking through the forums linked above and look at 'active' recruitment threads (aka. The once that are kept up to date and not just the daily allowed bump. But actually with some more up to date info).

I agree with those that say forget what you've learned from other games. I've played WoW in the past and Eve is totally different. Everything in Eve is about efficiency. One example would be that the most common way to judge someone's PvP success is with the destroyed versus lost ratio in an isk value. What that means is that it's not how many times you've been blown up versus how many times you have blown someone else up it is what is the isk value of the ships that you have destroyed versus the isk value of ships that you've lost. All that best in slot crap from WoW get's thrown out the window here. In many cases Eve is about doing more with less.

It is kind of difficult for someone to take you under their wing and show you industry in this game it is just too involved. You would be much better off just trying it out and working your way into it. Make friends and when you have specific questions they can answer them. Start out with something cheap like ammo.

Eve in general is a game where you kind of need to be self motivated. If you are the kind of person that doesn't mind reading up on stuff a bit and then doing some trial and error and have some knowledgeable friends to ask questions of then Eve will be good for you. Another thing is eve is just too big and too open ended. In WoW if someone has been playing the game for a year or more they can pretty much show you how to do what ever. I could walk you through WoW professions in like 10 minutes. I've been playing this game on and off since 2009 have well over a 100 million skill points and there are entire aspects of this game that I know nothing about. So for anything that you want to do there is someone that can answer questions for you but there is no one that can answer any question for you.

Also there is no best anything in this game. You will need to develop your own playstyle and find what works for you. Others can tell you what works for them but you will need to develop your own style.

The market in this game is local, things are sold at a specific station. It's not like WoW where you just put something on the market. Because of that trade and manufacturing are very involved. It's one thing to build something and another to build at a profit. As far as trading goes even at the busiest market hub in game if you pick any item and start producing it or trading in it you will notice the affect that you have on pricing. Because of that no one can say to you "here is how I made my isk just do what I did and you will be fine" because the minute you start doing what they are doing the margins will drop for both of you.

This game and especially the market in this game are very deep and very complex, it is what makes this game fun an challenging even years down the road. Because of that depth you will need to just get into stuff and grow.

WoW is extremely linear. Your path through the game is very scripted and directed. The entire game basically is designed like a map to get you to a specific end point they just keep moving the end point further down the road. Eve is open ended. There is no end point. You play the game for the fun of playing. No one can walk you through this game from start to end as there is no end point. There is no end game. There is no best in slot. None of what you learned in WoW will help you hear and honestly you will be better served in this game and probably in life in general if you forget everything you learned in WoW.

Finally the best ship in Eve is friendship so make some friends and go have fun. This game is a true MMO, in that it is about player interactions. I mean what is the point of a massively multiplayer game if you can only actually interact with a maximum of say 40 people at once?