EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I just join this game like a half hour ago and its laggy and it freezes up and the red dot blew up my ship while I was locked out on the desktop trying to get the prog to open back up and when I came back I look like a frozen pea and don't know what to do.

does this prog freeze often? how do I get another ship? I got 5000 ISK, is that money because it says wallet above it? is that a lot? can I get a good ship for 5000 ISK? How do I do that?

I'm so lost.

The thing you are in is your "pod", it's kind of like a mini-ship your character is in. Your pod goes into any ship you enter and is what you control it from. Your pod will be intact (at least until it too gets popped) after your ship gets blown up in space.
ISK is the game currency.
The ship you fly right when starting the game is a "rookie ship". I think they might be free if you dock your pod back in the station you came from.

edit: Game does lose connection every great once in a while due to it being pretty sensitive to data packet transfer loss, but seems to me a lot of that can be mitigated on our end. I don't recall it doing much freezing. Maybe your graphics are set too high?

Hello and welcome to Eve,

Definitely reset your graphics options and optimize for performance in the 'Display & Graphics' tab of the EVE Online game menu by pressing the ESC key after logging into the game. Lower your Cache Size but keep it as high as your computer can handle so that the game will still be visually appealing. Also you can uncheck the options for Turret Effects, Effects, Missile Effects and Trails to reduce graphics load. There are other options available in the ESC menu to help boost performance so be sure to check out everything.

You can also clear all cache files in the 'Reset Settings' tab. That will help remove little annoying bugs that tend to show up after downloading a game release patch.

Good luck and may you have a long rewarding career here.



DMC

Sounds like the game is downloading game-assets as you need them. You can make the launcher download the whole game by going into the launcher settings and ticking "download all". It will take some time though.

Help put the "frozen pea" in context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5AtqXOe3Jw

EDIT: 10 million ISK is not a lot for an established player. That's roughly the bounty reward for destroying ~10 NPC battleships.

I have 250million and thats not considered very much in general terms

It usually does. When something like that happens to me, I've found it's almost always something I missed or hadn't figured it out yet. Keep thinking and trying, you'll get it.

You should keep-up with major patch releases via dev blogs and news:

News - The 119.5 Release Has Been Successfully Deployed!

Dev Blog - PLEX Changes On The Way!
Dev Blog - PLEX Rework - Follow up

Scamming newbros is something CCP doesn't tolerate. You could petition it, but because of the small amount, I'd recommend just learning from it.

"If it looks too good to be true, it is probably a scam. If it doesn't look like a scam, then it is probably a really good scam."

^^^ quoted for truth

You're only a loser if you don't learn from it.
Don't feel too bad, OP. If you learn from your loss, it will be a more valuable lesson to you in the long run than what you have lost. PLEX are running about a billion isk right now on the in-game market. You can check prices of things anywhere in the game with one of several third-party tools such as evecentral.com Nobody likes to be scammed, certainly, but please keep in mind that scamming is allowed in this game and very common. You might find it useful to read up on eve scams. Never "buy" / trade window PLEX directly from another player.

No, not immediately, but as you go along.

For example, before buying PLEX, it would have been a good idea to find-out what PLEX was and what it was used for first

As another example, before I shot any ship in EvE, I chose to first learn what the consequences of that action was, as well as how to do it. [When I started, there were no tutorials.]

Ack!! Horrible corp then!

Right-click on your avatar in the chat window, and click on "quit corp". You'll be placed in your default NPC corp.

Optionally, just apply to join another corp instead without first quitting, but you may have to select "drop roles" and wait 24 hours before accepting an invitation to join another corp in that case. Quitting corp avoids having to wait, but will add the NPC corp to your corp history (don't worry about that).

Make sure you are docked while doing this.

Now you know about quitting corps. See, you learned something