EVE Online - Catch All & new meat check-in

Considering giving this a try. Would anyone like to "recruit" me? Seems we both potentially get some perks...

Maybe start with Eve University, to learn how to play, and also to learn how you *like* to play? That's a very traditional route. A few months or a year with them and you'll be well-rounded.

Math wrote:

Considering giving this a try. Would anyone like to "recruit" me? Seems we both potentially get some perks...

Here ya go, it's a handy amount of XP for you.

https://www.eveonline.com/signup/?in...

MrDeVil909 wrote:
Math wrote:

Considering giving this a try. Would anyone like to "recruit" me? Seems we both potentially get some perks...

Here ya go, it's a handy amount of XP for you.

https://www.eveonline.com/signup/?in...

Thank you sir!

Hey guys, I'm back for my annual attempt at getting into Eve. This time, I'm thinking about hopping in to FW. I'm currently just staying at alpha, unless I can stick with it for a month. Anyone know of any alpha/noob friendly corps doing small gang PvP in FW? If not, I may just have to start my own and learn the hard way.

I love EVE drama.... just not the game so much.

Did anyone else get into the echos alpha?

Not sure how we have a message from the future. Anyways, playing around in Eve Echoes as well, it appears to be GA. I tried Eve a decade ago, and like that it is now a click game without the bait. I do need to replace Star Trek Fleet Command though. Eve as I remember was super heavy though with spreadsheets and engulfing everything, not something that transitions to my iPad. Thoughts?

That message was from *last* September lol.

Wow, this thread is about to hit its 12th birthday!

I'm still hanging around, if anyone is playing join the channel and say hi:

Channel is called 'GWJ'
Password - 'gwjeve'

If you're on in EU timezone, then I'll possibly be in there.

Doctor Who is coming to EVE Online!

This event is live as of today. I know I haven't really paid a ton of attention to EVE Online in the past few years, but... WHAT?

Another meaningless cash grab by CCP, to try to convince people to go scanning. There's very little buzz in-game about it, apart from the 'what's this crap CCP are shilling now' line.

It'll be NFTs next.

EVE Evolved

Goodbye DX9; Hello DX12. A bunch of other improvements along with it.

Man, I love everything about EVE Online except for the whole "Online" part of it. I just want to do some mining, build some bases, and kill some pirates, without constantly looking over my shoulder for a gank squad.

Have you heard the good word of Astrox, my child?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/9...

That's why I always went with a corp, merphle. Do your part and they usually cover your losses. But... At that point, it's a part-time job. And that's why I stopped. Sooo torn right now...

Veloxi wrote:

Have you heard the good word of Astrox, my child?

I've heard you mention it (a few times), but I've been really trying to avoid getting myself invested in Early Access games, just kinda on principle. Does it feel complete at this point?

Robear wrote:

That's why I always went with a corp, merphle. Do your part and they usually cover your losses. But... At that point, it's a part-time job. And that's why I stopped. Sooo torn right now...

When I first got into EVE, I joined a small highsec mining corp of friendly folks, and life was fun for a while. Then some asshole corp wardecced us and we were totally not suited for fighting back; we'd just hang out docked in our home station while enemies circled around outside. It was extremely demoralizing, and broke up the corp. There was no cause for the wardec, other than the lols, as far as we could tell. I quit the game not long thereafter.

Then a few years ago I picked the game up again and joined one of the giant nullsec corps (goonsquad maybe? I honestly don't remember) and that was kinda fun fighting off small invasion forces and occasionally going out on attacks. By now, I'm sure I've been kicked out of that corp, and all my stuff is presumably in a long-since-destroyed or captured station. Not that I really want to do that stuff any more, though; I'd much rather just do single-player stuff at my own pace.

merphle wrote:

I've heard you mention it (a few times), but I've been really trying to avoid getting myself invested in Early Access games, just kinda on principle. Does it feel complete at this point?

IT does, but he keeps adding to it. I linked the much-expanded sequel though. You can check out the original too if you want to see what the developer is going for.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4...

Veloxi wrote:
merphle wrote:

I've heard you mention it (a few times), but I've been really trying to avoid getting myself invested in Early Access games, just kinda on principle. Does it feel complete at this point?

IT does, but he keeps adding to it. I linked the much-expanded sequel though. You can check out the original too if you want to see what the developer is going for.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4...

Ugh, fiiiine. I hope the dev's at least giving you some kickback.

Just love, man. Just love.

merphle wrote:
Veloxi wrote:

Have you heard the good word of Astrox, my child?

I've heard you mention it (a few times), but I've been really trying to avoid getting myself invested in Early Access games, just kinda on principle. Does it feel complete at this point?

Robear wrote:

That's why I always went with a corp, merphle. Do your part and they usually cover your losses. But... At that point, it's a part-time job. And that's why I stopped. Sooo torn right now...

When I first got into EVE, I joined a small highsec mining corp of friendly folks, and life was fun for a while. Then some asshole corp wardecced us and we were totally not suited for fighting back; we'd just hang out docked in our home station while enemies circled around outside. It was extremely demoralizing, and broke up the corp. There was no cause for the wardec, other than the lols, as far as we could tell. I quit the game not long thereafter.

Then a few years ago I picked the game up again and joined one of the giant nullsec corps (goonsquad maybe? I honestly don't remember) and that was kinda fun fighting off small invasion forces and occasionally going out on attacks. By now, I'm sure I've been kicked out of that corp, and all my stuff is presumably in a long-since-destroyed or captured station. Not that I really want to do that stuff any more, though; I'd much rather just do single-player stuff at my own pace.

Wardecs in hi sec now no longer work unless your corp allows them, so it's safer to operate like that now. Your stuff from null sec will have been sent to a lo sec location in bubble wrap - if you look in the 'asset safety' tab in personal assets, it will tell you where it is.

If you do come back in, drop into the GWJEve chat channel, and I can hook you up with some stuff if I'm on.

davet010 wrote:

Wardecs in hi sec now no longer work unless your corp allows them, so it's safer to operate like that now. Your stuff from null sec will have been sent to a lo sec location in bubble wrap - if you look in the 'asset safety' tab in personal assets, it will tell you where it is.

If you do come back in, drop into the GWJEve chat channel, and I can hook you up with some stuff if I'm on.

That's good to hear about highsec wardecs and about reclaiming my stuff. Not sure I'm quite ready to jump back into EVE though. I'll give Astrox Imperium a try for a bit; it's clunkier than EVE is, but it might be enough to scratch that spacey itch for now.

Dave, is running indie a viable path these days? Or is a corp still a necessity?

If the former, is there a good guide?

Hi Robear

You can still work on your own, it just depends what you want to do.

I'm in my own 5 character corp which can't be decced, I just do missions and exploration when I feel like, making sure that I salvage all missions and combat sites to keep a steady stream of minerals coming in. If you feel like you need a little help, then just join the GWJ Eve channel or mail me (my main char is called Elizabeth Lockley, I'd just rewatched Babylon 5 when I was creating my first toon). If you need a little more, then I'd recommend signing on with someone like Eve-Uni, although they are war-eligible.

Just doing that, and based in Gallente hisec, I'm making between 500m and 1bn a month. though I'm already tricked out with large ships to make missions go faster (I can fully recommend lvl 3 missions in a Marauder for around 20m of no-stress work).

I played long ago, for several years. Still have a ton of ships and skills. I never thought of incorporating for safety... I enjoyed mining (weird, I know) but I'm afraid to take out big ships by myself after being ganked one too many times...

I haven't mined much in ages, apart from the shipwrecks of mission npc vessels. There are a fair number of hisec mining corps which usually have people hanging round in command ships to boost and provide fire support if required (I've done it in a Eos, which has huge damage resists and can run 5 sentry drones dealing massive dps). Alternatively, you could go gas huffing in wormholes - the ships are cheap, and there are many WH corps who will teach you all you need to know.

There's not huge amounts of money to be made mining - I don't know when you stopped, but ores have been redistributed so most of the decent ones are in lo sec or null, and the prices have been depressed again, so tritanium is back below 3 isk /unit (back in 2020, it was close to 8). You'll need to do a lot, so a boosting fleet is probably your best bet.

Anyway, let me know if you are on.

I think the last time I played was a few months in 2019... Before that, it would be in the runup to the big Goonsquad takeover.

I just found mining kind of peaceful. Zenlike. But doing missions is lots of fun as well.

Robear wrote:

I just found mining kind of peaceful. Zenlike. But doing missions is lots of fun as well.

This. I definitely enjoyed lazily popping rocks with a crew, dropping cans of ore for transport back to the refinery. And clearing pirate dens / scannable regions / whatever they're called.