OK you EVE Online guys...I'm logged in how about some tips

tmeacham

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After writing this article and this article I received a torrent of emails and feedback about EVE Online being the solution to all my problems. This culminated in CCP, the company that makes EVE, contacting me.

Now that I've gotten my feet wet a bit, lost a ship or two, and wasted many thousands of ISK on weapons that won't fit whatever ship I'm in, I've settled comfortably into a Kestrel and completed the 10 noob missions that are strung together into that little story.

Bring on the tips now. Do I just find a green star system and keep doing agent missions while my skills level up or what? I went with a combat special forces type character.
 

Wolfy

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You were contacted by CCP? Sweet. Tell them to donate me some money :)

Anyway.... Welcome to Eve. What you do next is pretty much up to you. There is alot of scope here so a taster is......

Mine... lol.... Start in a bantam, move to an osprey when you can then to mining barges etc. You can make some serious money mining but you will also hate eve :)

Mission run. Kay, get some social skills and in particular train up your connection skills. Run missions for the caldari navy, security or command agents as you get mostly kill missions that way. With connections up to 3 you can pretty much bypass the boring crap that are L1 missions. Grab a cruiser (Caracel is the best) and run a few of these. Once you can afford a battlecruiser get into a drake or a ferox and start on your L3 missions and by now you should be bringing in reeeeasonable money. Keep saving and eventually you can access L4's. At this stage you'll want to be in a Raven and bringing in money from here on in is easy. But missions are, once you're skilled and experienced enough, boring. Like mining they are there to provide a source of income to fund what is the most fun thing about eve.

PVP!!!! A kessie is a good starting ship for piracy. Find yourself a nice area of low sec and learn to use your directional scanner (criliere and olettiers are two places where noobs often fly altho be warned, it's also a place I hunt in and it's currently teeming with gate camping pirates). Set up some safe spots and then hang about... Eventually a another noob in a frig will appear, so jump him, use a warp scrambler to stop him warping and hopefully kill him :) Use the eve forums for ship set up guides. Good caldari PVP ships are kessie, Moa (bear in mind you will have to train guns to be effective in this) Ferox and Drake are both decent). After that you would have the harpy and the crow but you're getting alot more specialised.

It's not all belt hunting tho...... You can join a corp with 0.0 access and go have some fleet battles (a titan, the biggest and most expensive ship in the game for example was taken down in a pretty big battle a few days back, titan kills are pretty rare and this was the first lost in actual combat)... Large scale battles can be hard with lag but you often go on patrol and have medium and small engagements which can be great craic.

I think in fairness I could be here all morning and type about what you can do..... mine, pvp, trade, scam, build, research...... Eve is what you want it to be. My main recommendation however is to join a player corp, one that is relatively big, like 50+ players in your time zone and make sure they do what you want to do, no point joining a mining corp if you wanna fight.... Once you join your player corp then they will guide you best.

I won't lie, the game can be slow at the start and fairly overwhelming in terms of what ships, skills and things to buy (it's a pain when you buy something that you later find out you can't use :) If you want to fight it's best to get a friend of similar skills and head to low sec space and cause some trouble :)

If you want some more specific advice just ask.