EVE New Citizens Q&A

When I first looked at the site I found a list of player friendly corps but have been unable to find it again.

As a new player, can anyone give me some helpful tips on finding a corp?

And maybe things I could hope/expect to find? Ideally I want to learn to Pvp.

I've looked at the recruitment channel in the game but it just seem like spam. Tried to ask a couple of questions, didn't go well! :)

As a noob that play the game for only 2 week I found this lesson painful. Also I plan to quit the game and biomass this char.

I never saw a mmo with such a paranoid community. I was invited to a corp to have a nice start and a chill out experience and it turned out that I landed right into a heavy war between the corp members. I tried to stay neutral and enjoy the game, but after 2 days I was asked to leave the corp because.. I was considered a spy! Now I landed in that crap Scope npc corp with huge taxes and I dont trust anybody anymore.

Not to mention that everybody's first question is: who's you main. And if I say that I have no main and I just started to play the game, I turn into a target for bad jokes and even I'm cursed!

So this is a warning for all those who wanna start playing this game... the first weeks or month can be a extremely unpleasant experience. Better find someone to activate your account with a plex for the first month, so you will not regret later spending real money for subscription.

As a former Recruitment officer, CEO and Alliance Executor, let me explain that any organization in EVE which is not at least a bit paranoid in its dealings with new members will shortly be separated from all its assets and isk.

There are quite a few players in this game who like nothing better than to infiltrate and rob, and more power to them, as the potential to commit 'crime' and 'betrayal' makes EVE such an entertaining drama fiesta, where even the mightiest alliances (BoB anyone ?) might dissolve overnight due to 'treason'. If your alliance does not have at least 50 spies in it from other rival alliances you hardly count in the game

So actually the more tedious and Kafka-esk your recruitment process seems, the more likely the group you are joining will actually be successful in EVE. Don't worry about it, just never EVER pay anyone isk to get accepted because that is a popular scam.

That said there are many organizations like Agony Empire and EVE University and many other corporations that are very noob-friendly and will take you in without a lot of fuss.

Don't despair ! As time passes it will get easier to get accepted. Just don't switch corporations every week, recruitment officers will find that very suspicious.

Look in the EVE Corporations, Alliances and Organizations Center for serious recruiting.

Is the reason I biomass my first char after 2 weeks of play. To call me a scumbag spy when Im just a noob is one thing. Being asked to quit a corp only after 2 days I was invited in, that's something completely different and will give everybody a very good reason to think that I'm really a spy or a scammer and refuse to recruit me in the future.

Considering that I have only 600 skill points, I don't have anything valuable to loose. I'm not een sure I will continue playin after this first month. But lesson learned. Never trust in "nice guys" who wanna help and recruit. Find the corp you need by yourself.

Agree, but there is a problem. Most of the community seems to be paranoid and they tend to consider new faces as a spy, a walkin bomb or whatever. So later on if I explain what happened and why I left a guild after only 2 days, I can make things worst as ppl will tend to say: nice story bro, now gtfo. Similar to J'Poll;s attitude.

I think this is a problem where ccp should step in a bit. A new player should have some mark or something so nobody will consider us like some pro spies, or even worst.. get some bounty on our heads just because you can't convince someone that you are a new player for real.



I heard about EVE Uni watching the evefest stream and indeed they seems to be a nice corp. How can I join them? And also, now that the faction warfare is comming, can I join EVE Uni as a gallente? I still learn the game, not sure how the corps work...

Haha.. good one and also very good advice, thanks. I will keep this in my mind next time someone will ask me about my main!

Well, its too late now as I destroyed all my PI on this char and hit the biomass button. But I will recover soon as now I have a much better picture about what I need to do and how to survive in EVE. But I still dont understand how to join EVE Uni, can you point me in the right direction please?

Thanks again, I really appreciate your post :)

Yes, any races/factions can join EVE University, however we aren't involved in Faction Warfare so you wouldn't be able to do that while in E-UNI, however once you have been accepted, you retain access to things like the forums, classes, and so on even when you leave the corporation, so leaving for some FW isn't usually a problem.

Indeed awesome. Also happy to see a EVE UNI and CSM member writing back, I really appreciate it.

Ok, so I will stop the biomass process and see if I can recover anything from the assets I transfered already to a new toon because he has no skill for trade yet.

Thanks again guys, happy to see nice people around :)

PS: If a EVE UNI member will ask me whos my main its safe to say that my main is in goonwaffe? :D

Confirming that agonies classes and people are top notch.

But Christina dont you have to pay to get in them?

Maybe I got my wires crossed

Ive mentioned RVB and Eve UNI alot I havent mentioned you guys because I thought you charged.