[Eve] Guide #1: Newbie Guide to Eve-Online / Ask any questions you have here

jst bought this game a cpl of days ago on steam. dam fine game jst the learning curve sucks!!! going to redo the tut tonight and throw on the irish channel. there any irish corps?

Nevore wrote: »

So, planning on playing again. Moving back into Dublin so I'll have proper bb again at last!

Been... two years since I last played so just going to presume I've forgotten everything and start a new toon, do training missions etc again from scratch.

From what I'm reading though, race and class/background etc isn't important anymore? Does it have any input at all? Ie: are some racial ships a mite better at certain types of pvp generally, so time could be saved in not having to train up cross race ship skills maybe?

Red Vs Blue is apparently a good corp to head to to get a grip on pvp? I'd like to jump straight into basically, last time I didn't engage at all really.

Probably be more once I actually get to log in again. :P

If you still know your old account i would start with that as you have alot more skill points.

These days the skill points on a new character start at 50,000 or something. 2 years ago it was 800,000ish skill points.

It does depend on what you want tho.

ahh, ok. Thanks.

MartinDublin wrote: »

installed it,but wont start.
I am using Tiger. Does the game support the Tiger version or do I have to uograde to Leopard or Snow Leopard?
The maschine is an IMac, intel.
On the download page there is no ifno on the required version.

thanks for the info.

Martin

http://support.eveonline.com/Pages/KB/Article.aspx?id=124

OS X 10.5.8 or later. Which ever animal that is.

So, I'm doing the SoE starting epic line, and I've run into a brick wall.

I last did the missions a couple of weeks ago, so my memory is hazy as to what I might have done.

Long story short, went to pick the missions up again, saw I needed to pick up an item, and drop it off. Mission dialogue said the objective was complete, but I've looked in assets, no sign of the item, went to every station that had my ships, checked them all, and repackaged just to be sure. Still no sign. Thinking maybe it was that I'd blown the hell out of everyone but forgotten to grab the crate, I headed over to the mission space to be confronted with... precisely nothing. Not even a jumpgate to get into the complex.

Any ideas on where to go next? It's possible I sold or trashed the item while house cleaning I guess, it'd be great if it were possible to reset the mission.

Nevore wrote: »

Mission dialogue said the objective was complete, but I've looked in assets, no sign of the item, went to every station that had my ships, checked them all, and repackaged just to be sure.

If it says objective complete can you complete it with the agent? If you really need the item chances are you blew up the ship that had it and left it behind, DT would have cleared the area.

Petition and see what happens, they might reset the mission for you otherwise "Please note: Failing a mission will take you back to the first mission in the chapter." redo from start.

So I did all the tutorials, finished SoE, and was in E-Uni until they got wardecced so Ive stepped out. But I did fleet with them a few times in a Tackler Tristan.

Now though I went and got myself into Planet Interaction so now I only have half a million isk left and im not really sure where to go or what to do now. Planetary interaction doesnt seem like a big honey pot and I don't know where to go for any more profitable missions. Tried looking at Hek and Oursalert but those missions basically comprise of courrier and low level crap that pays out pocket change. What should I do now beside station spin and skill up?

This is my third time trying out EVE!

Started in 2008 and for 3 or 4 months sat in station and skill trained because I was playing WoW at the time. Trained for unbelievably random things for a new player but they certainly will come in handy now, have a couple of skills at level 5 (Min frigate & I think spaceship command) and had high enough weapon skills.

Resubbed in Jan for 3 months, started a new character to run some of the starter missions again and get a feel for the game. I then realised that my original character had all these amazing skills which I could benefit from and switched back. Trained myself up for some hauling, sitting in an Iteron Mark V, I joined E-UNI and sat wardecked for the bones of a month and jumped on an alt for a few simple missions. Eventually left the Uni after the 4th straight wardeck and my sub finished.

Third time is a charm! I resubbed over the weekend and jumped into a Thrasher for L1 missions. Have it setup with 5 guns & 2 salvagers. I have a Rifter which is comfortable for L1 missions as well but I wanted the option of salvaging as well without compromising my firepower. It's overkill and I am completely mincing L1 missions and pulling in some salvage as well as a side income. Ran a couple of courier missions as well as taking a few contracts. The ISK return for the contracts wasn't great (low capital for me to put down any deposit over 3m) but it was AFK money in high sec when I wasn't at the PC.

So yeah, for a "new" player would you have any recommendations? My current plan is:

- Keep going with L1 missions security to get used to basic PVE. I'm still learning, like yesterday I got completely locked out by being chain scrambled so couldn't lock a target. Had to back out and try pull smaller groups and hit them between being scrambled.
- Get some ISK and do some more high sec hauling
- Setup a jump clone or two tonight -- joined a free jump clone corp recommended on the forums.
- Try to latch onto some mates doing higher missions and salvage for them

So Hauling and Salvaging with some basic security kill/salvage missions. I'm going to rejoin E-Uni as soon as I sort the jump clones out but if they keep getting war decked I will have to look elsewhere. I have no idea what to train for at the moment as well

Character name is deiseman (wish I could change it but happy to have the SP)

Yeah it was very frustrating to move from one war dec to the next to the next!! Glad something is being done about it.

Cheers for the offer, I might take you up on it in a week or so once I get my head back into the game a bit and get a dedicated salvaging setup. I think T2 is beyond me income wise, 100% would not be able to replace what I lose currently. I'm considering buying a PLEX and selling it just to give myself a kick up the arse income wise to get myself in gear

Yeah I have my sights on a Noctis and should be in one in a while. When I started it was to play with a few mates and they advised me on skill paths, because I never really played I just trained and kept going with some skills to level V. One of the skills I did train to level V was Salvaging so I'm golden on that side of it

Just looking there my Level 5 skills are:
- Electronics
- Salvaging
- Gunnery
- Small projectile turret
- Gallente Industrial
- Minmatar Frigate
- Spaceship Command

Just need to sit down now and plan out a proper salvaging skill plan for things like cloaking skill which I never considered.

Yeah the guys I started the game with were rather experienced at the time and pointed me towards some of the skills below. The corp they were in was called "Salvage Junkies" if I remember correctly. To start me off they wanted me shadowing them on missions and salvaging but long term I did express an interest in PVP. So to get me into the PVP side of as well they were goign to run me as a jammer of some sorts before I got my core shooting skills up and running. Hence the somewhat weird mix of salvaging, electronics and gunnery skills The other skills I trained because I had them and they looked somewhat useful. What they didn't bank on was me completely not playing the game and just training. So here I am 3 years after the character was created with 6m+ skill points and a nice array of skills to keep me going.


I'm running a few L1 missions still in my Thrasher and salvaging as I go. Up to 10m and made some investment in drones for an alternative Destroyer. On the advice of a mate I am looking at a Caldari ship for a missile boat or a Gallante for drones. This is just to give me a few options for missions and to see different styles of fighting, Right now my experience is numbed somewhat by jumping in and two shotting most of the pirate ships because my Thasher is too powerful. No doubt the other ships are as powerful but at least I get to experiment with different styles without getting blown up

I should have the skills trained for all of them tomorrow and will start working on some for the Noctis setup I have in mind. I can hop in a Noctis at the moment but saving up to buy one, by the time that happens I should be a good deal more comfortable at flying and keep it for longer then a day.

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Looking at starting the game after going through about 5-6 trial periods

Just a quick question: can you buy the game time cards in stores, like you do for WoW etc. ?

Not that I know of. At least not in Irleand. You can either sub directly from the eveonline.com site, or buy a game time code from one of their resellers and redeem it in game. The game time codes can be sold to other players in game however, while the sub from the main site is just that, it only adds time to your account.

witless1 wrote: »

Yeah the guys I started the game with were rather experienced at the time and pointed me towards some of the skills below. The corp they were in was called "Salvage Junkies" if I remember correctly. To start me off they wanted me shadowing them on missions and salvaging but long term I did express an interest in PVP. So to get me into the PVP side of as well they were goign to run me as a jammer of some sorts before I got my core shooting skills up and running. Hence the somewhat weird mix of salvaging, electronics and gunnery skills The other skills I trained because I had them and they looked somewhat useful. What they didn't bank on was me completely not playing the game and just training. So here I am 3 years after the character was created with 6m+ skill points and a nice array of skills to keep me going.


I'm running a few L1 missions still in my Thrasher and salvaging as I go. Up to 10m and made some investment in drones for an alternative Destroyer. On the advice of a mate I am looking at a Caldari ship for a missile boat or a Gallante for drones. This is just to give me a few options for missions and to see different styles of fighting, Right now my experience is numbed somewhat by jumping in and two shotting most of the pirate ships because my Thasher is too powerful. No doubt the other ships are as powerful but at least I get to experiment with different styles without getting blown up

I should have the skills trained for all of them tomorrow and will start working on some for the Noctis setup I have in mind. I can hop in a Noctis at the moment but saving up to buy one, by the time that happens I should be a good deal more comfortable at flying and keep it for longer then a day.

Yeah, the noctis is kind of fragile. Definitely not something you want to be losing on a regular basis

Sure, I'd need to set it up though (Read: I have to buy a LAN cable long enough since the wireless at the house is ****e ).

I'll let you know

I've never had the issue you describe, alttabbing ow Windows key works fine for me. :-/