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Looking for Fellow New Players
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Nikolai Sarasti
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-02-05 04:37:20 UTC
Hey,

I'm sending out a message to any new players that don't know anyone. I'm looking to meet a few new players that don't have any contacts in New Eden. Playing solo isn't the most exciting thing in the world, I've discovered. I figured we can mission & mine together and learning this game will be more enjoyable.

EVEmail me if interested.
Xerces Ynx
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-02-05 05:31:00 UTC
Create a corporation. It will be much easier (modulo corporation management).

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Liam Mirren
#3 - 2012-02-05 09:17:45 UTC
Other than the obvious "this isn't the recruiting forum" I'd advice against creating your own corporation, EVE is a vast game where there's tons of fun stuff to do and most of them aren't obvious to new players. Creating your own little world with a few newbs is a great way to shield yourself from knowledge, experience and effectively the game. Joining an active, well rounded corp that's not full of idiots is good, creating your own little wall to hide behind isn't.

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-02-05 09:47:53 UTC
There are 2 major things that new players usually think about EVE:

1. Older players look down on them and don't want to assist new players.
2. New players can never catch up with older players.

Yes, both are partially true but also very wrong at certain points.

1. There are a lot of 'older' people in EVE who are willing to help new players out with questions and how EVE mechanics work etc. There are even entire corporations build just to teach new players how EVE works and do stuff together.

2. True, you will never catch up with their SP total, but that total SP they have doesn't mean they are always better. If you specialize in something (say, frigate PvP) and you come against an older player who hasn't been skilled much in your specialization you can be the pilot who wins even though his total SP is by far higher then yours.

So my advice is, don't hide with all new players in a single group (corp or just chatting buddies) as like Liam said, it will shield you from advice, knowledge and mainly progression. I've made the same mistake as the OP did and got into a group of people that were all new, point is you don't have the experienced players to help you out when stuck and a lot of the guys actually stopped playing EVE as most newer players tend to hit the brick wall which they call the learning curve one day or another.

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Amun Khonsu
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-02-05 11:52:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Amun Khonsu
Nikolai Sarasti wrote:
Hey,

I'm sending out a message to any new players that don't know anyone. I'm looking to meet a few new players that don't have any contacts in New Eden. Playing solo isn't the most exciting thing in the world, I've discovered. I figured we can mission & mine together and learning this game will be more enjoyable.

EVEmail me if interested.


Best thing is to get into player corporation like ours or any other who are "new player friendly" corporations, you make many new friends that do things together. Not all corporations want new players. It really depends on how much time people want to invest in their members and many folks dont have the patience.

One important thing is to see if you can find one in your timezone where people will be online at the same time generally.

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Serge Bastana
GWA Corp
#6 - 2012-02-06 16:53:48 UTC
I have recently taken a small group of new players into my corporation over the past few weeks to help them get into the game, find what they like to do in the game and help them work towards becoming more proficient and profitable in EVE. They generally seem to be enjoying themselves and are finding the help we're providing a real benefit.

A few of them are players that tried the game before but didn't take it beyond the trial because they were mostly on their own and grew bored and found the learning curve a bit steep trying to figure things out alone, now they have an experienced player offering advice and pointing them to useful resources they are really picking up the game and thoroughly enjoying themselves learning the benefits of working as a team and seeing the long term benefits of how the corp can help them.

Fee free to contact me in game if you are interested in having a chat Nikolai.

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