EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello and welcome.

You can't kill us all (different time zones, people staying logged off, etc.), but you can kill quite a few.

You can learn a lot about the game from tutorials and guides, and also asking questions here, but to truly be great, you have to 1. dive into the PVP, and 2. find some good veterans to partner with for fights. 2 is difficult, as the tools to find corps and groups of people aren't all that easy to use, and "good" isn't part of the search filters.

You can train everything / anything as far as skills and abilities, so you're not building a character in the "tank, healer, DPS" sense, but rather the capability to perform any role that's interesting to you, with that one character. So sometimes training skills in this game takes as long as building and gearing up several characters in other MMO's. Don't get discouraged.

And don't let anybody tell you that you can't PvP until you have X skillpoints.

Hi new I'm Chainsaw Plankton, welcome to eve \o/

and I'd almost be tempted to hold on to the 300k sp for a while, either that or use them on something a little more goal oriented. Some of those skills are indeed nice to have, some are kinda meh. Although nearly every skill there gets handed out during the career agents.

Eve is easy has a lot of nice videos that should help you get started on your quest of destruction https://www.youtube.com/user/eveiseasy/videos

Welcome to Eve and thanks, reading this made me chuckle. Hope you have a long and rewarding career here.

Just remember this game is more of a long term hobby, not a quick flash in the pan / instant gratification game. At first it may seem tough but after learning the game mechanics, you'll gain experience quickly enabling you to hold your own.

By the way, it's refreshing to see your open enthusiasm. Maintaining that type of viewpoint will help you a lot..



DMC

If you've played other MMOs Eve is not those MMOs. If you can drop any expectations and come to this game with a fresh perspective you'll do fine.

Also a very important point to note. There is no structured PvP in this game. There are no 10 v 10 squad action like most FPSs there are no 3 v 3 areneas or 40 man battlegrounds containing players of all the same level and roughly the same gear score and overly balanced classes.

In Eve a 2 week old pilot in a frigate can kill a 10 year old pilot in a battleship and fair fights don't exist. If you can deal with having to be smarter and having to fight dirtier than the next guy then you'll like it here.

That's the spirit!

Remember, always bring friends.

well this got creepy fast, even for us...

It is the Fluffer's way.

not sure where you got "upset" from but I wasn't. Relaxed is actually my default stance. People that know me are typically more concerned with my inability to get excited. However I am flattered by your concern for my well being and thank you for taking the time to calm me. That was very sweet of you.