I am starting this game for the first time. I want to enjoy it, and I'd like your help to do so.

All I am asking for is a little bit of info - the small little "musts" that can be done early game that only the well seasoned players know, and the "do nots" that us newbies always like to do.

Really, I'm looking more for the "do nots" than anything. I love exploring new games, their UIs, skill trees, etc. I do not like spending time in a new game only to find out most of what I have done falls under "noob mistake" or "useless." If you have sound, simple advice for a new player on a 14-day limit, please do post.

Thank you in advance for any aid.

- http://www.battleclinic.com/eve_online/index.php (search for tips and Ship Fits)

- Join a friendly corp (some corps accept Trials) ex: hand of the ragnarok or something

- Think what you wanna be in the game: merchant, crafter, DPS, scout, tank, EW etc etc. Then find a Fit for the ship you wanna use for the job and train those skills.

- Oh btw, train the learning skills to Lv 3-4 so you can learn the other ones faster.
 

can't think on anything else.

Very helpful! Thank you!

More tips are still welcomed!

Do not fly ship that you can't afford to lost. Join good corporation. Trust no one. There is no safe space in EvE.

You should ask for the 21-days Trial on this forums instead of playing the 14days one.

Originally posted by Darkor_hXc

You should ask for the 21-days Trial on this forums instead of playing the 14days one.

If I don't enjoy the game after 14 days...knowing the type of player I am...I probably wouldn't be inclined to stay after an extra 7. Also, I read they stopped doing that mid december.

Originally posted by goldenr1

Originally posted by Darkor_hXc

You should ask for the 21-days Trial on this forums instead of playing the 14days one.

 

If I don't enjoy the game after 14 days...knowing the type of player I am...I probably wouldn't be inclined to stay after an extra 7. Also, I read they stopped doing that mid december.

Actually the forum still active, they are sending 21-days trails but.....w/e its your call.

I wasn't saying that I was dead on right, just repeating what I read (or misread I suppose) on the first page of that post. I just skimmed and saw "until mid december" and assumed it was because EvE was pulling the plug on it. Thank you for the info though! Also, does EvE support DX10, and if so, is there a special client for it?

As everyone said, don't fly what you can't afford, join a corp, do stuff. :P

Really, just do what you want to do, even if it's "noobish" or "useless". You want to try out everything you're interested in. I have a few skills trained that are, more or less, useless to my current "profession" (ie. I have industry skills trained, but I'm doing all-out combat at the moment)

Practice makes master. You learn from everything in eve, basically. If you're shot down in a ship you just bought with your last isk, then you learn the lesson of not flying something you can't afford. (:

14 days with 200K(?) SP to start with,eh... :-(

I believe you start with a bit more SP, as well as increased learning rate 'till you hit 1.5mil.

Edit: Wait, that's wrong. You start with about 60k sp, but still 100% bonus on learning speed.

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Originally posted by kattehus
I believe you start with a bit more SP, as well as increased learning rate 'till you hit 1.5mil.
Edit: Wait, that's wrong. You start with about 60k sp, but still 100% bonus on learning speed.

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60k?! Doh, that's much less than I thought.
100% learning speed bonus means nothing for 14 days trial period. :-/

Those changes are not helping new players. They work great for additional account where you can get your specialization much faster then before.

I thought it was a lot more, as well. Mostly because one of my friends started half a year ago and he started with about 500k, I think.

Oh well, the new player experience will be like the one I experienced back when I started. -Except with a shorter, yet more throughout, trial that doesn't feel like it takes hours without end to finish.

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Originally posted by kattehus
I thought it was a lot more, as well. Mostly because one of my friends started half a year ago and he started with about 500k, I think.
Oh well, the new player experience will be like the one I experienced back when I started. -Except with a shorter, yet more throughout, trial that doesn't feel like it takes hours without end to finish.

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Let's do the numbers.
Starting SP 60k. Amount of SP you could train within trial period was around 300k SP. With learning boost, you get around 360k SP at the end. of the trial.

Before the changes you started with 800k, 1.1M at the end of the trial period.

I guess the reason for changes was the ratio for trial accounts/subscription increase - too much fun with 800k starter SP :)

Good luck with it. I was looking for a space-based MMO to take the edge off WoW burnout. I tried Eve two separate times, and found it completely incomprehensible, a spreadsheet geeks wet dream.

Hope you have better luck, waiting for STO....

dont expect eve to hold your hand, the tutorial will kick you out into space and you will turn around and blink and ask yourself "now what"

if you cant think of an answer to that question, you will not enjoy eve, like the poster above me.

dont think "quests! i do quests in other games so ill do quests here too!" and then run off and procede to grind missions until boredom sets in and you quit thinking eve is all about missions. missions are there so you can get some quick isk, they're like the daily quests in wow. here are some things you could try:

exploration, pirating, mining (bit dull), manufacture, trading, hauling, ninja salvaging, territory warfare, roaming gang warfare, roleplay, mission running (yawn) there are probably quite a few ive missed out here, basically the only limiting factor in eve is you.

oh, and dont for a second imagine that you are safe anywhere except a station.

Steam has 21 day trials

first thing you do is contact Eve University and join it. They will teach you what Eve is really all about and how to survive and enjoy the game.

Unless you are into number crunching, you don't need a spreadsheet. 

http://www.eve-ivy.com/oog/ivy/

"Helping new pilots in Eve, one step at a time."

Originally posted by Xennith

dont expect eve to hold your hand, the tutorial will kick you out into space and you will turn around and blink and ask yourself "now what"

Have you tried the current tutorial?

nope, i know they changed it but i didnt think they were going to do that much hand holding. why?

Originally posted by supersaint

Good luck with it. I was looking for a space-based MMO to take the edge off WoW burnout. I tried Eve two separate times, and found it completely incomprehensible, a spreadsheet geeks wet dream.

Hope you have better luck, waiting for STO....

 

He was asking for tips not for some idiot to bash the game and its players. So stfu.

do all the tutorials you can get from your starting station, they give money, ships, skills, etc.  once you figure out what you want to be look up cerftificates if you are unsure which way to take your training.  as everyone said do not fly a ship you will cry if you lose, train up your learning skills to at least level 4 so your skills train faster, above all just give the game a chance, the learning curve is steep but if you can find a good group of people to play with or a niche you like playing you will have fun.

Originally posted by Darkor_hXc

Originally posted by supersaint

Good luck with it. I was looking for a space-based MMO to take the edge off WoW burnout. I tried Eve two separate times, and found it completely incomprehensible, a spreadsheet geeks wet dream.

Hope you have better luck, waiting for STO....

 

"He was asking for tips"............

 

 Gotta say i too tried to play EvE 3 or 4 times and couldn't get into it, not bashing the game or the players. Just for me it wasn't something i found myself easily immersed into, further more, in fact i found it somewhat alienating in it's lack of newbie direction.  Plus the interface is kinda baffling too. But i know that it has to be a good game because of its rep and fanbase, just can't for the life of me figure out how to get into it as i guess many before and after me cant either.

I do appreciate everyone's help! Luckily, I started my trial this morning around 1am, qued up the 4 4hr skills before I started the tutorial, logged and went to bed. No I am about to hop back in, finsih all the tuts, grab the "learning skills" which I have been informed are available through the market, and start doing something! I love the idea of PvP, though I am not looking forward to getting demolished time and time again while I am still figuring out what works and what doesn't, so perhaps I will stick to missions and mining for a short while, until I get my bearings.

A side note, what exactly do you mean by "SP?"

Eve is the Marmite of the MMO world.

Your hand is not held, you are not given constant directions &/or goals and some people can't adapt to it after years of  EQ/WoW quest grinding.

Eve requires patience (there are skills that take a whole month to train), use the trial to find out if eve is your kind of game.

Decide what you want to do in the game BEFORE you play game, train accordingly.