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A little lost on what to do next
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Yakumo Smith
No End To Infinity
#21 - 2012-01-15 10:56:58 UTC
You've already said you'll be looking at RVB so it's all pretty much covered. Get a stack of cheap fitted frigs and spend a week enjoying pvp...for new characters, there is a lot of overlap with pvp skills and mission skills (tank, cap, fitting, dps) so after your week of fun, you'll find the lvl3 missions will be a tad easier with your extra week of skills. You have a large number of skills that can be trained within the week that will give you a significant boost.

The thing to remember is, when you are a new player, it takes time to be able to do things, that's how most MMO's work. You are looking with glass half empty eyes. Right now you are able to do lvl2 missions, your skills are probably spot on for lvl2's. You don't have the skills for lvl3's, yet you are running lvl3's...some of them anyway. You should be thinking "i'm punching above my weight here and managing some lvl3's early" instead of getting frustrated that you aren't managing all lvl3's.

Back when I started I hit the exact same wall and I found an unorthodox method to get around the problem, my method doesn't work as well as the other suggestions, but at the time it fit rather nicely for me.
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#22 - 2012-01-15 11:19:38 UTC
Brady Hunt wrote:
Now, I'm having a hard time completing a number of level 3 missions
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I can't figure out what I should do.


Funny, I have been playing EVE for over 6 years and I still haven't figured everything out. Have you lived in a wormhole? Have you taken part in null sec fleet battles? Have you commanded your own fleet? How many original blueprints do you own? How many player owned structures do you own? How many people are in your corp? How many suicide ganks have you done? How many complexes have you completed? How many incursions have you beaten? How many incursions have you fleet commanded? How many billions have you scammed?

EVE is a sandbox. You are not supposed to play it like a regular game - in fact I can't really blame you - most "games" suck and you are trapped in a "follow the path and do X, Y and Z before getting the "game over" cutscene". So it's not your fault. Be creative. Set yourself goals. If you think EVE stops at level 4 missions you are missing out on 90% of the EVE experience. Tell yourself you want to become a trillionaire. Or tell yourself you want to become a nefarious pirate and "own" a low sec system, killing anything that moves in there without your permission. Tell yourself you want to rise to the top of a 1000+ man alliance. Tell yourself you want to build capital ships from original blueprints you researched. Tell yourself you want a perfect skill-set.

In this game YOU set the goals. The game doesn't "force" you to do anything except obey some basic rules (in high sec). You won't find a guide on "winning EVE" anywhere online. And please do not kid yourself into thinking that EVE is about the ISK you have in your wallet. ISK is so irrelevant that you can even buy it. No, EVE is about setting goals for YOURSELF and meeting those goals YOURSELF, or with the help of friends you make in the game.

Have fun.
Syme
Umbra Scientia Muneris
#23 - 2012-01-15 12:04:20 UTC
Confirming that RvB is a great choice. I put in a low skill alt this w/e and have the most fun I've had in Eve for YEARS.

As for your skills, you do need to get your fitting skills up quickly. Electronics, Engineering and Weapon Upgrades should be at 4 at least, with Energy Systems Ops and Energy Management following quickly afterwards (especially if you are flying Amarr).

Also if you want to PvP effectively stop training Caldari NOW. Not that they are worst than other races (well maybeUgh) but you have already gone far enough down the gunnery route that Minmatar would be a better choice.

If you don't want to PvP straight away, start talking to locals and join a mission corp, there are plenty of friendly ones out there and alot of older players really enjoy helping out new players.
non judgement
Without Fear
Flying Burning Ships Alliance
#24 - 2012-01-15 13:05:09 UTC  |  Edited by: non judgement
Has anyone suggested a shower yet?
Also I'd add maybe a good meal. You can't just play EVE 23.5-23.8 hours like the hardcore people do. Unless you take a break every now and then and eat some food. I think by the time you make it to lvl3 missions that's about time you need a shower.

I don't mean to judge anyone... BUT: Please don't fly Drake. It's like wearing floaties in the pool. I suggest hull tank Blackbird. Once the enemy realises you have hull tanked your ship they'll just give up. Also Blackbird so you don't use missiles. Everyone knows missiles are too easy. Just fire and forget and you don't have to worry about traversal. I think you should learn about traversal. Medium railguns should be your best friend from now on. It'll make you a better pilot. Last reason for blackbird is its name. Who hates black? No-one! Who hates birds? No-one! You will do fine, from now on, with your Blackbird. If you really have to maybe use Ferox. Everyone knows real men use hull tanked Ferox.

1 damage control and fill the rest of the lows with reinforced bulkhead. All medium slots should have small hull repairers. It's 130% tiger blood winning.

Oooooorrrrrr...
I hear RvB are good little fighting alliances to join. Sadly, they might not like the hull tanking Caldari ship method of fighting.

Good luck!
PS: please try hull tank once, maybe? I don't want to be the only one doing it. Sad
Keno Skir
#25 - 2012-01-15 13:16:40 UTC
OP, contact me in-game and i'll run some missions with you. I also fly amaar ships for missions.

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#26 - 2012-01-15 16:57:21 UTC

Wait until you hit against things like this. As you can see I came to EVE but as you can see from my signature I am probably going to take a break soon. Depends on a friend whether I stick around to play with them or not.

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Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#27 - 2012-01-15 17:32:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Solstice Project
Let me give you an advise.

I'm a dedicated solo player, which many see as the most impossible thing to do in EvE.

That said, there is never a time i don't interact with other people, in one way or the other.

I don't run missions. At least not my own. For upping my sec status or just for fun,
i scan down missions and do them ... usually faster than the mission runners,
even if i do it in a cane.

There are times i do this, or i do "that", or whatever.

I've found it fun to wait for gankers to blow up, so i can pod them and collect their bounty.
I've found it fun to fit ECM and a warp disruptor on a Stiletto and wait for a -5 ganker to show up
so i can instalock him, point him, ECM him and deny him his kill ... and then blow his pod up.

Sometimes i just travel around and find stuff worth a few millions just lying around somewhere at a gate.
Or, which has to do with my luck lol, i suddenly talk to people who give me money "just so" or for a small duty.

I'm not trying to tell you how to play your game. In no way i would ever want to do that,
but as you're asking, i'm telling.

This game, what plenty of people don't seem to feel, gives you the opportunity to form and build a character.
Unlike in any other MMO, this actually has meaning ! In a player driven universe, you are the guy who makes
stuff happen and potentially has impact on the lives of others.

I realized that this game gives you the opportunity to just live here and do whatever you want.
Others dedicate themselves to a single purpose and then use alts for other purposes ...
... while i just "am" and do and skill for whatever i want to do.

The best part about my kind of mental state is, that i can never ever get bored.
In EvE, as in real life. Boredom is nothing i encounter, simply because i enjoy live as it is
and accept the opportunities that happen around me. Somebody who believes that there are none,
just happens to be in a state of mind where he doesn't recognize them.


Long story short:

If you don't know what to do, then give up thinking about what you COULD do ...
... and just do WHATEVER ! :)

It's like sitting at home, bored, unknowing of what to do next.
The best thing, in that case, is to just do something or ...

go out,
walk around and
let Life give you opportunities !

Open your mind and you'll see them,
try to find a goal (which narrows your mind) and they'll hide from you !
Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#28 - 2012-01-15 19:52:01 UTC
looking at your skills i see your amarr, now for me i can't stand amarr BC for missions i cross trained to drake, but for level 4 missions i love the amarr Apocalypse.

you need to get tech 2 drones, you want to use gallente drones they do the most damage.

your missing many gunnery skills that are important, like controlled burst, this saves you Capacitor per shot.. go to a system with NPC seeded skill books and buy and train to level 1 everything you can, i did this every other month when i started playing and i'm glad i did.

tech 2 tank is important. hardeners then repper, just make sure your cap stable or very close to it ( if your tank last 15 mins while firing your fine)

i would also start doing ll 2s instead. level 3s much harder then 2... and lvl 4 are significantly more difficult then lvl 3. but level 4 should be your end goal for a while, get a good stockpile of isk just in case you die a bunch then do whatever you want!
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