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.

Originally posted by goldenr1

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

SP is short for Skill Points.

Also, if you want to venture into PvP, join a corp. There are a few out pvp-related ones that will take new players in. Also.. Pirates could probably use an asset as a new player. :P

Seriously do missions or mine at the start itll get you some ISK which is what you really need. These are the two most generic ways people start out, you can always try something more fun if you know what you want to do but most people feel lost at this stage.

But whats much more important is to be looking at the market and particularly the skills tab and picking up everything and training it. This should pretty much be your initial aim make some ISK and get some skills. Upgrade to the best frigate is probably a priority.

Constantly read the rookie help channel and join the recruitment channel and join a newb friendly corp. Ask questions constantly. Really this is what will show you what you really want to do eventually and once you start gaining knowledge and resources you'll be able to put it into practice. Ill summarise some of the stuff you can do starting with the easiest most casual friendly yet boring (IMO).

Some of the things you can do and ways to get into them (all inaccurate)

1. Mission whore (train for a cruiser then a battleship and get your racial weapons trained)

2. Miner (go for cruisers then a mining barge)

3. Killing NPC rats (same as missions)

4. Trading (train for industrials and trading skills get the ones that let you make remote buy and sell orders ASAP)

5. Manufacturing (train mining barges probably best bet no experience here) and Research (get science skills get blueprints and datacores)

6. Exploration and mini professions (train missions then get the astrometrics skills and probing skills)

9. Low Sec Piracy (join a piracy corp and learn find a T2 ship you want to pilot and train for it)

10. Factional Warfare (same as above)

11. Mercenary (same as above)

12. 0.0 Warfare (decide if you want to fly big (BC and up) or small ships if you want capitals train up to Battleship then move onto capitals if you want small ships can stop at cruiser or frigate training, join a 0.0 alliance or corp)