EVE New Citizens Q&A

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Be careful with the "earn everything"; in this game the skill points (the equivalent of xp) just accumulate by themselves whether you're online or not, so the grind becomes about money (ISK). Some people set lofty goals of earning enough money in-game to do whatever, and it becomes a job.

Just like it's acceptable to get a PLEX for $15 and turn it into 700 million ISK (way more than a new character would need for several months), it's also ok to accept a few million here and there from friends and your relatives. All it does for you is take away the ISK grind a bit, so you can concentrate on learning the game and figuring out what to do.

The career missions should set you up with several million ISK, and a few more from your family won't be too bad. The money will let you buy some more skills from the market and train them. This game has 200+ skills, +2% this +5% that, all cumulative, and a typical character needs to buy and train at least close to 100 of them.

In broad categories, the skills can be divided into:

- Spaceship Command skills unlock ships for you. The prerequisites they have force you to progress from frigates to bigger ships in order.

- Weaponry skills (gunnery, missiles, drones) unlock weapons for you, and also make said weapons do better DPS. You need to train the weapon systems for the ships that you're going to fly (i.e. don't train Projectiles or Lasers if you're going to fly Caldari ships, train Hybrids and Missiles, and later some Drones).

- Support skills (armor, shields, navigation, mechanics, etc) will make all your ships fly better, be better protected, be faster, etc. You're not expected to have many of these skills for frigates, but as you get to the bigger ships you'll need them.

- Industry, Trade, non-combat skills - these skills will unlock various activities, mining, refining, manufacturing, etc. Train as needed.

want to be posh, buy a monocle! there are some other expensive dress items, like cybernetic arms, or limited edition tops.

after that buy some t2 bpos and/or alliance tournament prize ships. or think small and buy a titan, don't forget the plex per month for your titan alt account. On your main never fly anything but t2 or pirate faction ships. welp isk like a boss!

on to the more mundane subject of quests. do all the Epic arcs, and then go for the COSMOS missions. there are quite a lot of COSMOS missions out there, I suggest researching them before hand as they can only be done once, and a messup can prevent future progress.

there are a ton of good corps out there, join a few and learn. some of the best likely wont accept you yet, but get your feet wet, stick around a bit, and prove you are worth something and most will be interested in you.