EVE New Citizens Q&A

one of the biggest reasons why people quit,besides the abundant trolls/douchebags, is because of that feeling of never catching up(pvp wise). Which is true to a certain point and it doesnt help that hi-sec alts/losers camp noob systems padding their lame KB with max frig stats wanting frig 1v1.

The other reason is the skill training times. Nothing worse than needing to wait for 16-30min a skill to level in order to do a mission. The game is almost 9 years old, new characters should have a maximum of 1m sp spread into fitting/cap, industry, exploration,pi,navigation,gunnery,some into missiles, tanking, and drone skills. This gets new player out of the stations waiting for skills to train and quickly onto doing what ever they deem fun. Running the tutorial missions is a must though and after wards there could be a pop up asking which profession they enjoyed the most. Then there could be a message like

" Hey there capsuleer, so you want to be a explorer huh? Well here is everything,well almost, you need to know"...points out which other skills need to be bought for exploration and other skills which help such as drones.

Ive said it before and ill say it again eve is at its best when you can do multiple things. Being about to do it right off the bat(and suck but still) would be very nice.

typical old tired excuse to not change anything

Im not sure how letting players dabble in the goods right off the bat is a bad thing nor do i see how this slowly turns EVE, of all games, into roller coaster mmo. What im trying to say is those are skills your average noobie is going to skill into anyway during the first month,which is easily the worst part of the game. The first month is pretty much all about getting a good base of skills, my idea does away with that and moves onto the much enjoyed and less skill hectic 2 month.

On the tutorial missions i had to wait for 2 skills to train first since i completed the other agents, Industry 1 for manufacturing and Astrometrics for exploration. then there are those times you need a certain module and have to train for it.

As apart of our job as ISD:STAR members we do contact new members.


We do our best to help guide new players into the game and welcome them. Since we are volunteers we can't always get to everyone but we do our best to provide as much help as possible. If you asked any ISD member that you might see in Rookie Help or even the Help Channel and would a few links that we know are useful to new players feel free to ask for them as we have them.

I know while I'm in Rookie Help I post 1 link that answers a lot of common questions and I have a lot of links on specific items/mechanics/Guides.

If you are interested in helping out new players please feel free to apply to ISD:STAR or come talk to me (Mail or Convo) and I will do my best to answer questions as best as I can. We can always use more volunteers to help us greet the new players and welcome them into the EVE

Fly safe o/

I've been playing for about a week and I don't really experience any of the problems you mention.

The tutorials basically hand hold you through the 101 stuff, rest is easily available in evelopedia/google, or the (i) button next to basically everything.

Don't know what signature resolution means? Google. You'll find your answer in 1 minute.

This is further helped by the fact this game is very alt-tab friendly.

Also, the tutorials explicitly mention that IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN ITEM X, buy it off the market, which is exactly what you should do. I never ran to that problem myself anyway, seeing I had multiples of Civilian X everything in my inventory (I completed the advanced career tutorials in the order they appear on the tutorial pop-up list). The civilian versions have no preqs, so you don't even need to skill up on them to finish the tutorials.

And like it's already been mentioned, I absolutely LOVE the fact this game actually requires you to think/read/study (it's basically a requirement to be able to play EVE in the first place).

The problem with joining ISD:STAR is you can't recruit the newbies you're helping into your corp .


To the newbies: Eve was fairly complex to start with and then they decided they like doing 2 expansions a year, for 9 years or so... so there is a great deal to learn.

Eve's community has a reputation for being a despicable bunch of scammers and scoundrels, but there are more than enough people who are willing to help out a newbie, even if it is through enlightened self interest. We've all been through the pain of learning the upside down logic that has been used at some points in Eve's development.

The very best way of learning is a combination of "give it a go" and "ask a friend". Try things out and if you are feeling lost, or a finer detail eludes you, join the help channels and ask.

Last thing: I've been playing for 8 years, and I still feel lost and confused by some of the random details; I still pickup things I missed and never knew from the help channel answers; so don't be overly concerned at the lost feeling if you get it. The worst that can ever happen is you get dead, but in Eve your immortal, so don't worry about that too much, just make sure you're enjoying the ride.