EVE New Citizens Q&A

I'm on day one of the trial. I'm reading through the career guide PDF and have explored the EVE activities tree which were posted here by other users. It seems like there is so much to do, how can one try 'all the things' in 2 weeks? Usually I can tell right away if a game is not worth a sub fee, but with EVE I don't even know if I will be able to ascertain which is my preferred career path in that time.

Is this normal, or do players usually figure it out pretty quickly?

Figuring it out is part of the adventure ^^

Don't try to do EVERYTHING cause a lot of people that have been playing for years still haven't done that. Try more to get a feel for how EVE itself works, not so much the individual activities. Your goal or career path will come to you eventually and naturally (at least for most people it does).

Also remember that there is no "career system" in EVE, your career is simply defined by what you do and what you describe it as. If you can do any combo of things too. I myself am built like 80-90% combat so that I can run missions quickly and 10% industrial so that I can make my own ammo without a lot of waste on minerals.

It's all up to you...

Thank you for the responses. I actually became seriously ill today and had to leave the game unattended, but while I was gone someone sent me a million ISK! So thank you, whoever you are!

I'm doing the military tutorials now, between resting and puking. From the guides posted in the new player areas, it looks like I won't be able to do much PvP other than Tackling or Militia/FW stuff. I guess it's better that way. Someone was also offering to do 1v1 Frigate duels outside the STI station but all I had was an Ibis. Probably should have taken them up anyway.

ISD looks like they do some cool activities I would like, but I assume even veteran players get passed over for such an honor.

I guess I will take the advice given and go for the organic approach, starting with combat. Plenty left to read as well.

Thanks again!

You can see all wallet changes in Wallet Journal:
Wallet-button on left, then My Wallet -> Journal -> click Load-button. You can then use ">>>" to see earlier entries if any.

In this case it should say type: "Player Donation", description: "[r] malaire deposited cash into Magda Sinitianen's account". That [r] means that you get additional information if you move mouse over that text, in this case you get tooltip "Welcome to EVE :)"

1 mil ISK is just pennies for older players, but still somewhat significant sum for new players, so I like giving 1 mil to new players as a small token. It's also quite fast to earn back as new player if you somehow manage to lose it, as opposed to say 50 mil, which would take much longer for new player.

You should be able to explore EVE a little further with a 21 day buddy invite. It will mean starting a new character, but 14 days of training on this current character isn't really going to be missed.

Send your real-world email to me in-game, I'll send you a 21 day buddy invite. If you end up subscribing, I'll send you the PLEX reward that I get for your subscription so you effectively get 51 days for free.

In the meantime, some resources to get you started on your exploration of this grand sandbox:

• What to do in EVE Online
• New Citizens Useful Threads

you can play long enough to be the butt of a joke of the griefer alliances in this game and lose almost everything you own. be wary of them assholes

Note that the cost of "purchasing" EVE is only slightly more than the cost of one month's subscription, and includes one month's subscription.

So really, you don't so much make a choice as to whether to buy EVE or not. You make a choice in any given month, whether you want to continue subscribing for one more month. Ignore the fact that the very first month's subscription costs something like 33% more (and also ignore the fact that you get a discount for multi-month subscription intervals).

Go write useless stuff on Something Awful and goons will be knocking on your door in no time.

I love how i notice a lot of names ive seen in game well i am a really old toon so ya but word of advice being in a small corp is bad cause you get ppl like me who like to war deck the small ones and then being in a corp of 100ppl or more is bad as well because then you have to either join and alliance or be war decked by the high sec carebears who want to own the systems lol but ya have fun and i hope you enjoy eve. =]

Thanks to everyone for the responses, I wanted to thank you sooner but I've been playing catch-up at work and my phone's ability to multi-quote is sadly lacking.

The trial is around day 4-ish. I've finished with 4 of the 5 career agent tutorials. When I complete Advanced Military, I'm kind of unsure where to go from there. Is that when I should find a corporation like Caldari Construction and use the agents to find me missions for them? From what I've read I guess certain companies are better at helping players develop certain careers.

Side Note A] Even though you can do a lot in this trial, so it seems, there are some intriguing options that you can't explore I guess. Market trading sounds lucrative, but you can't haul around large commodities. Though, there are probably so many established traders that it would be difficult to break into that line of work. Also, people have mentioned Planetary Interaction, but there's no tutorial for it that I could find. It sounded like it might be interesting.

Side Note B] I guess there is a lot of griefing in the game, as people mention it a lot. Thankfully, I'm used to that sort of thing from other games. Zergrush, Rez killing, exploits... All nature of the beast. Guess I will find out how bad it is here.

Side Note C] People mention High Sec vs Low Sec systems, I suppose this is a point of contention for some players. Do the Low Sec alliances keep newbie freelancers trapped in High Sec, or something? Just curious, since I won't experience this warfare directly during trial.

Anyway, thanks very much for the insight and advice.