EVE Online - Catch All & new meat check-in

New players probably have the hardest time with EVE, so here's a few helpful things (that many probably never hear about until it's already too late):

Project Halibut - New player help (modules and more) (free)
EVE University - General EVE education (free)
Agony-Unleashed PVP Training (costs ISK)

there is also a channel in-game "Mentors!" (pretty sure it has the "!")

Those should help level out the notorious "learning-cliff" that EVE has.

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After hitting any of those, you'd probably start finding out other resources from them.

new-old meat coming back to the game after almost 2 years absence:

Severi Erkko.

o7

I'm on gwj channel all the time although I may be missing you due to living in Europe.

You've already spoken to me, matey

So CCP just gave me another 5 free days. I bought EVE on a steam sale for $2 and have played it about 15 hours, but have never subscribed. I'm thinking about finally subscribing if I enjoy these five days but I'm wondering what I should do from here. I think I've played through all the basic tutorial missions, enough that I know how to buy things and equip things and do some basic combat with the bots. Do I keep finding tutorial missions and do them, or fly around exploring and probably getting murdered, or try and specialize in something, or what? If I subscribe I will probably join the Reddit Corp, but what would I enjoy for the next five days?

DF7 wrote:

... but what would I enjoy for the next five days?

That can be a tough question to ask.

- You could park yourself with a cargo-scanner and/or a ship-scanner outside Jita IV - Moon 4 Station, and boggle your mind with the loads and/or load-outs people are flying around with in their holds/fit to their ship.
- If you can use scan-probes, you could scan down Cosmic Signatures (wormholes (group up or be well skilled), salvage (rig components), gas harvesting (fairly high skill reqs), 'roid mining (better than avg, and not on overview), NPC combat sites) or Cosmic Anomalies (always a 100% hit on 1st scan, straight-up combat with NPC 'rats)
- Related to scanning: using Combat Scan Probes, a small/fast ship and a Salvager I fit - find someone else killing NPCs, and salvage their wrecks with or without their permission (up to you)
- Epic Mission Arcs (never done them myself) - repeatable once every 90d per character iirc, good payouts, harder than your average bear mission from what I've heard
- High-sec Missions - with the right skills, equipment, knowledge, and location = steady, "easy" ISK (not really a goal, but helps pay for other things)
- Professional Courier - from what I've discovered with some minor poking into this - not really feasible for "newer" pilots: what you could haul, there's little to no demand for your services. What older characters could haul (ie: Freighters): there are LARGE deliveries, with equally LARGE security deposits.
- Station Trading: Setting up Buy Orders and Sell Orders in the same station = profit on the difference. Research is the only part of this that takes any real effort.
- Hauling (also somtimes called Trading): find items for sale in one region for much less than they sell for in another region, buy low, haul it to the other region, sell for profit. (Important to measure your time investment in these, and the danger that someone else has filled the order before you got to it)
- Low-sec Piracy: Fit up a combat ship (or 10 :p , also assuming a Frigate (Rifter/Punisher/etc)), and troll around the 'roid belts in low security (not on stations or gates, unless it's a ship that can handle gate-gun aggression) Warp-Scrambling ships and demanding ISK to let them go, or you convert their ship to scrap -- This one reqs some real effort, knowledge of aggression mechanics, ship capabilities, travel, and availability of targets. Not to scare you off, but expect to lose ships while learning this stuff. Learn by doing = best learning.
- Visit the EVE-Gate - The collapsed wormhole that led back to Earth's galaxy. Quite the tourist spot, but be aware that the route there can be pretty hostile (Low-sec).

- Join a Corp!!! - You could check out the Corp/Alliance recruitment section of the EVE-O forums, see if any catch your eye, or more importanly... your imagination. Many will be doing any or several of the above activities. My main advice with that is to try and find one that you don't think you'll just be a cog in someone else's machine, or they just want to pad their numbers, this tends to lead to burn-out. EVE is better with friends, old or new.

Most corps won't take trial accounts, so that will likely limit you. There are definitely places that don't care. But with that said, I'd find a cheap gamecard online and use that. 5 days isn't really a whole lot of time in EVE, but with that said, the Epic Arc for Sisters of EVE is a fantastic line to run. The payoffs are indeed fantastic, and while I got to where I am at in them using an Assault Frigate, it is definitely doable in a Tech 1 frigate or a Destroyer, although some of the later missions might require you to be in a cruiser. With that said, you won't be burning through them nearly as fast as I did given that *nothing* was a threat to me.

I'm a bear, so hit me up ingame and I can help with things too.

ZellbrigeN26 wrote:

I'm a bear, so hit me up ingame and I can help with things too.

Z, I was thinking about dabbling again. Are you in a Corps that is accepting new players?

SpyNavy wrote:
ZellbrigeN26 wrote:

I'm a bear, so hit me up ingame and I can help with things too.

Z, I was thinking about dabbling again. Are you in a Corps that is accepting new players?

we are always recruiting, but its a nullsec corp, so we ask that you have around 10mil sp points before applying. The corp is "aftermath".

ZellbrigeN26 wrote:
SpyNavy wrote:
ZellbrigeN26 wrote:

I'm a bear, so hit me up ingame and I can help with things too.

Z, I was thinking about dabbling again. Are you in a Corps that is accepting new players?

we are always recruiting, but its a nullsec corp, so we ask that you have around 10mil sp points before applying. The corp is "aftermath".

Well that would be a long long time. Oh well, gives me time to brush up on Madden

Steam has it for $5 today so I picked it up. I played a long, long time ago but haven't touched it since. I'm looking forward to getting back into it for something fun to do while watching Netflix. Once I have a character name, I'll post that (it's downloading now).

If you're buying EVE from Steam, don't activate it immediately! Start a trial account, play that for the 21 days, then enter your CD key from Steam to activate the account and get another 30 days.

Elycion wrote:

If you're buying EVE from Steam, don't activate it immediately! Start a trial account, play that for the 21 days, then enter your CD key from Steam to activate the account and get another 30 days.

Not sure how that works, but the 21 day trials are (only?) through the "Invite a Friend" program, otherwise it's a 14 day.

"Invite a Friend":
I send you an email with a link (I'm loath to ever click on links in emails, I suppose you could just retype the link), and bam you get a 21 day trial. If you end up subscribing I would then get 30 days added to my sub as a "thank you" from CCP.

I add all this in the interests of transparency, but am perfectly willing to whore myself out for +30d extensions to anyone interested. (these 30 day extentions are non-transferrable, they get auto-added to your sub)

Dang. I wish I knew that before I activated I would have loved to give someone 30 free days!

Anyways, my name in game is Psypher Locke, feel free to shoot me a tell. I'm going to be doing the tutorial stuff then start on mining to make some bucks I think.

Wink_and_the_Gun wrote:

(these 30 day extentions are non-transferrable, they get auto-added to your sub)

No longer true. CCP started awarding PLEX for buddy rewards instead of directly crediting the referring account's subscription time.

Elycion wrote:
Wink_and_the_Gun wrote:

(these 30 day extentions are non-transferrable, they get auto-added to your sub)

No longer true. CCP started awarding PLEX for buddy rewards instead of directly crediting the referring account's subscription time.

*does his best Ed McMahon: "You are correct sir."

There's a thread on the EVE-O forums by a character that has made up 2 (reportedly) good YouTube Playlists focusing on Tutorials and PVP.

I haven't watched any of these yet, but there seems to be some positive feedback in the thread. (Well, I've probably seen some/many of these vids before, but I haven't pored over his lists)

EvE you sweet sweet mistress why do you tempt me?!

I reactivated for my free 5 days - Guess I will dabble a bit.

I jumped in again. Let me know if any corps has space for a newbie.

I usually point new pilots in the direction of Eve University. They have plenty of members across all timezones, and provide training and opportunities for all types of activities.

Thanks I have joined Eve University, waiting for my interview

Hey hooked me!!! ...and the 60 days for $19.95 did not help either!

Anyone remember the GWJ chat channel info? Still using one?

I have been having lots of fun, the new tutorials are pretty well done. I like the explorer stuff, pretty well done. How did you get the 60 days 19.95?

just fyi...i am always in the GWJ channel...and my name is Xandila....incase anyone needs help.

armedbushido wrote:

Hey hooked me!!! ...and the 60 days for $19.95 did not help either!

Anyone remember the GWJ chat channel info? Still using one?

Channel - 'GWJ'
Password - 'gwjeve'

If you are on in EU timezone time, my toon is Elizabeth Lockley, so say hello.

I am a little worried. I have tried to play Eve since, day one release and every time I start to play again I end up getting deployed or some major crisis occurs.

An oldie but a goodie:

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karmajay wrote:

An oldie but a goodie:

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From about ten posts back, filthy skimmer

Hey, I don't keep up with the Eve thread! hehe