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orik Kado2/14/2024

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Without a doubt, EVE Online is a game with a learning curve that's almost like climbing a wall without any footholds. However, I want to leave you with a series of tips that I hope can guide you on your journey.

  1. Patience is the key to everything; this game isn't one of those where you're rewarded in 5 minutes. Advancing in EVE requires time and dedication, and with enough perseverance, you'll reach the point where something clicks internally, and you start moving like a fish in water. It's basically playing Dark Souls with spaceships, so patience and learning are everything.

  2. Don't try to do everything with a single character. At the beginning, you might feel tempted to do industry, PvP, mining, trading, etc. This implies having to level up many skills that will make your character have various abilities but ultimately not excel at anything. Try to focus on a few activities first, and then you can start creating other accounts to focus on those other skills

  3. When starting out, try to find one of the many ISK-generating activities that you enjoy. Don't go for the one that generates the most ISK regardless of whether you like it or not, or you'll end up seeing it as a job and eventually stop doing it. EVE is more than ISK. If you find something you enjoy doing, I assure you that you will specialize in it so much that ISK will never be a problem again.

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greybill2/13/2024

$3

Never trust Jita local chat.

  • Nobody is going to double your ISK, no matter how well you read the rules in their bio.

  • That contract with the faction module that has a buy-order up for a couple hundred million? If it was legit, the guy would have sold it already, instead of lamenting about a 'firesale' in local chat.

  • Blueprint Copies aren't Blueprints. Now the difference.

  • Triple-check that contract with the shiny navy ship. Is it truly the 'navy' version or T1?

  • Trade-window deals are always shady if you don't know the other party.

  • Don't click away pop-ups when buying and selling things on the market. You might have forgotten that important digit, changing millions to billions.

Greed makes you rush, realization makes you regret. Take your time to double-check.

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Rixx Javix2/12/2024

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Lots of great advice here. But I want to share something about expectations and a more accurate description of Eve than you might have ever heard before. I share this in various forms with all new players I encounter.

Eve is a game in which nothing happens. Unless you do it. Do not be daunted by this fact. Eve is one of the largest science-fiction sandboxes ever built and it is just sitting there waiting for you to do something with it. If you choose to just sit there in your hangar all day, Eve will be more than happy to let you do that. It isn't going to do anything for you. You have to do it for yourself. This can be intimidating for many players, but those that understand this fundamental fact are the ones that can excel in this universe. Take charge of your own fate.

Secondly, Eve has no end goal to achieve. There is no finish line, no end-game, no pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Eve never ends. It is a stream that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without end. All you can do is jump in and join the flow. As long as you are in it your character is immortal and every action and decision you make will live with you, but it will be just a part of that much, much larger story. This can also be somewhat intimidating for some players, until the realization that this is actually means you have immense freedom. What you choose to do with that freedom is totally up to you. And that is incredible.

Everything else is HOW. This is WHY.

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Kane Carnifex2/12/2024

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Enjoy the cinematic universe and lose yourself. You can't die here, you are immortal. Step by Step the universe will offer you more secrets.

And the biggest tip from myself is about playing to plex the game. If you like the grind, we welcome you. If not, you can pay for the gametime and compare it to like 100 Hours of playtime. Also all the ISK you get can be used to actually play the game.

More stuff to lose ????

Profit

Now listen to Permanband

Wadd Enderas's avatar
Wadd Enderas2/13/2024

$3

EVE is a big game with almost an infinite number of things you can do and ways you can play. Do not try to do it all, especially not from the get go.

Once you're dropped in to New Eden, the sheer scale of the universe and choices you can make is daunting and can be overwhelming for a lot of new players, leading to either quitting due to 'decision paralysis' or quitting because they've tried to jump into an element of the game that really isn't accessible (from an enjoyment point of view) to new players.

My advice is to take the game one step and a time and very much learn to walk before you try to run.

A few people have already mentioned, but the AIR Career Program is a huge help. Make sure you complete all the career agent mission paths, reading carefully through all of the descriptions, to learn the mechanics of the game and to discover an element that seems most interesting to you at that stage.

Once you've picked that element, start pursuing it gently and focus most of your energy on to that. Try not to be drawn into every different aspect of the game before you've had a good go at what first drew you in.

Equally importantly, EVE is a social game, in my opinion that is it's greatest strength. You don't have to socialise, but find a new-player friendly corporation (there are guides out there) and leave the NPC corps behind. Then engage as much or as little as you'd like with that corporation, but have them on hand to answer any questions or provide any support you require as necessary. Other players in this game can be and want to be a huge help to new-players. Let them.