First off, I'd like to point out that I have been playing since August 2011 and I still learn new things every day. This thread is for general discussion of the game and helping newcomers. Instead of typing huge bibles for you to read, I will instead paste links and videos so you can decide for your own and not judge me on my personal experience.
EVE is a "thinking" man's game. It requires patience and if you have none, don't even bother. Why? because in EVE you can spend a lot of time getting in game currency, getting achievements like big ships, implants and lose it all in less than 3 seconds... shot by a WT (war target). The important rule of EVE is to never fly what you can't afford to lose, always remember this.
The game is harsh in terms of PVP, and that's why most of us who play it like it. If you remember to clone yourself, you will not lose your skill points... if you forget you will lose some of your time. Each skill point requires time, not effort... just time, time away from the computer, or time on the computer... it doesn't matter... just don't forget to clone yourself or your time is lost. Your ship and implants you can easily replace if you are part of a good alliance who will give you spare/free ones otherwise you'll have to purchase / craft your own.
EVE is a PVP oriented game, if you plan to PVE or stay in empire space (high sec) you aren't fully playing EVE.
When it comes to trials of the game... 15 days is not enough to fully judge the mmo, neither is the 21 day program players of eve can email to friends or people on forums *wink*. Also each eve subscriber can send out one 60 day trial. Read the mmorpg.com eve jita forums for opinions and reviews.
Why play or try EVE?
- One server, one community (50k active on peak times)
- World PVP / Territorial combat (like dark age of camelot only in space)
- Two free expansions per year (15 in total so far)
- No grinding, no farming (you can if you want)
- Offline "leveling up" (just queue in a skill and go on vacation for two weeks)
- CCP promised to keep updating for another 15+ years
- 1000 vs 1000 player battles (or 1 on 1 if you want)
- CCP updates EVE graphics from time to time (unlike any other game)
- You can pay your subscription with in-game currency (we call this PLEX)
Introduction
Storyline Intro - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T84nrp08MWo
This is EVE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jOJR5Xauf0 (6yo video)
EVE learning curve (first expansion)- http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3088/2335016192_6003c39c4c_z.jpg?zz=1
EVE Expansions - http://community.eveonline.com/features/
Races in EVE are only for storyline purposes and faction warfare (which is empire space warfare not 0.0 sec). Most people participate in alliance warfare for territorial conquest... the purpose is to own the most space possible, so most players do not join faction warfare because you also can't be in a player owned alliance at the same time. In terms of ships, Gallente uses drones, Amarr uses lasers, Caldari uses missiles and Minmatar uses Turrets. If you do not care about storyline, Gallente is the most popular race therefore your first corporation (guild) will have the most people, we also call starter corps NPC corps. If you want to be Gallente and pilot Amarr ships you can, you just need to train the proper skills so do not worry, that's exactly what I do ;]
CCP owned trailers for expansions... does not describe nor do justice for the game at all, it is just a PR stunt to get more players inside the game. A lot of players who try EVE trials tend to leave easily because EVE is not action oriented (unless you do full-scale PVP which is what the game is intended for) or because there is no avatar currently (will have some in the future as it's been promised). My argument is that as you age, you tend to dislike games more and more... it has nothing to do with your past experience, I played nintendo at age 4 and now I only play facebook and eve. You tend to be less engaging and more relaxed with age and so the EVE audience is typically around age 23-35... you will not find WoW kiddies here. Everyone in NPC starter corps helps you with every question and there is no flaming. This doesn't mean that we are all old and hate games, this only means that we are at a point where EVE is awesome for us, we do not need reflex based games or hyper active games in order to have fun or enjoyment, we can easily relax, drink coffee and kill people while chatting. (though 1000 vs 1000 battles tend to require more attention)
A corporation is a guild, a mission is a quest. When you decide to leave your starter NPC corp to join a player owned corp and decide to leave the player owned corp for whatever reason, you will drop inside another NPC corp where you are safe from war decorations however it is not the starter corp. Depending on your character skills you chose when you first made your char or other factors you will drop in whatever NPC corp. Each time you join a player owned corp and decide to quit, you will always drop back into the NPC corp, so have no fear if your corp or alliance sucks. An alliance is a group of corps. Think of a corp as a division of company, alliance a company. example MSN/Xbox = corps, alliance = microsoft. I would suggest to read EVE university guides and stick with the starter NPC corp for 3-6 months.
Future of EVE
- Future of EVE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ0k0ioROUo
- Planetary Interaction (in the future you'll be able to fly your ship inside a planet)
- Avatar Social Interaction (Walking in Station aka WiS) there will also be mini games with betting and bars to hang out in with other players where you can show off your barbie (eve community word for avatar)
Dust 514 (Console MMO-FPS Connected to EVE)
- http://www.dust514.com/
How to Play / What to do
Basically in EVE you can and are allowed to be a carebear (term in MMO used for people who do not like to PVP) or you can PVP which is what the game is oriented for, you can die anywhere at any time in this game except if you are docked in a station. If you do not want to engage in PVP, you'll probably chat or farm ISK (inter-stellar-kurrency) for no reason. (the bright thing to do if you are scared of PVP at first is to farm isk, get your skills up and then join an alliance ready to PVP otherwise you aren't fully playing EVE). EVE is a sandbox, you do not have to complete a linear quest line in order to get a +1 sword, you are free to do whatever you please just like as if you owned your own private saucer as an alien in space, so please do and finish your tutorial when you first start off, otherwise you'll be asking lots and lots of questions.
CCP's Sandbox Page - http://www.eveonline.com/sandbox/
Graph - http://myeveguide.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/eve-wtd.jpg
Read this - http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/How_to_earn_ISK
Skills
Skills are like spells in other MMO's except they basically are learned through right clicking on a book and waiting from 30 seconds to 15 days. There is over 200 skills so I will not describe what they can do, instead click the link below. Just because you are new it does not mean you have less of an advantage than someone who has been playing for the past 8 years with 100k skill points, what you have to remember is that whatever you plan to do, for example lets say fly a cruiser and pvp, you only require a certain amount of skill points, the points you invested in crafting (industry) or social (mission) or trade (market) or corporate (to help corp/alliance) does not help your pvp cruiser so those skills are either gone to waste or are not used in your task. Players with lots of skills can do more things, yes... but it doesn't mean they can kill you better than you can. In fact you could also own a corp or alliance or be the best trader in the game in 3 months time. Do not worry about a players age in game, it means nothing (especially when they train docked in a station while being offline for months at a time, that means no PVP experience whatsoever)
Basic Skills (Eventually get all these) - http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Basic_Skills
Links
EVE University (Also a corp) - http://www.eveuniversity.org/
University Wiki/Guides - http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Main_Page
EVE Wikia - http://eve.wikia.com/wiki/EvE_Wiki
Battleclinic (records kills and has ship fittings) - http://eve.battleclinic.com/index.php
EVE Influence Map (updates per day) - http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/Verite/influence.png
EVE Radio - http://eve-radio.com/
Red vs Blue (two corps always at war, join a color for unlimited PVP fun) - http://rvb.tech-pc.com/
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note: if anyone wants to suggest anything to add on the first post let me know
EVE is a "thinking" man's game. It requires patience and if you have none, don't even bother. Why? because in EVE you can spend a lot of time getting in game currency, getting achievements like big ships, implants and lose it all in less than 3 seconds... shot by a WT (war target). The important rule of EVE is to never fly what you can't afford to lose, always remember this.
The game is harsh in terms of PVP, and that's why most of us who play it like it. If you remember to clone yourself, you will not lose your skill points... if you forget you will lose some of your time. Each skill point requires time, not effort... just time, time away from the computer, or time on the computer... it doesn't matter... just don't forget to clone yourself or your time is lost. Your ship and implants you can easily replace if you are part of a good alliance who will give you spare/free ones otherwise you'll have to purchase / craft your own.
EVE is a PVP oriented game, if you plan to PVE or stay in empire space (high sec) you aren't fully playing EVE.
When it comes to trials of the game... 15 days is not enough to fully judge the mmo, neither is the 21 day program players of eve can email to friends or people on forums *wink*. Also each eve subscriber can send out one 60 day trial. Read the mmorpg.com eve jita forums for opinions and reviews.
Why play or try EVE?
- One server, one community (50k active on peak times)
- World PVP / Territorial combat (like dark age of camelot only in space)
- Two free expansions per year (15 in total so far)
- No grinding, no farming (you can if you want)
- Offline "leveling up" (just queue in a skill and go on vacation for two weeks)
- CCP promised to keep updating for another 15+ years
- 1000 vs 1000 player battles (or 1 on 1 if you want)
- CCP updates EVE graphics from time to time (unlike any other game)
- You can pay your subscription with in-game currency (we call this PLEX)
Introduction
Storyline Intro - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T84nrp08MWo
This is EVE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jOJR5Xauf0 (6yo video)
EVE learning curve (first expansion)- http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3088/2335016192_6003c39c4c_z.jpg?zz=1
EVE Expansions - http://community.eveonline.com/features/
Races in EVE are only for storyline purposes and faction warfare (which is empire space warfare not 0.0 sec). Most people participate in alliance warfare for territorial conquest... the purpose is to own the most space possible, so most players do not join faction warfare because you also can't be in a player owned alliance at the same time. In terms of ships, Gallente uses drones, Amarr uses lasers, Caldari uses missiles and Minmatar uses Turrets. If you do not care about storyline, Gallente is the most popular race therefore your first corporation (guild) will have the most people, we also call starter corps NPC corps. If you want to be Gallente and pilot Amarr ships you can, you just need to train the proper skills so do not worry, that's exactly what I do ;]
CCP owned trailers for expansions... does not describe nor do justice for the game at all, it is just a PR stunt to get more players inside the game. A lot of players who try EVE trials tend to leave easily because EVE is not action oriented (unless you do full-scale PVP which is what the game is intended for) or because there is no avatar currently (will have some in the future as it's been promised). My argument is that as you age, you tend to dislike games more and more... it has nothing to do with your past experience, I played nintendo at age 4 and now I only play facebook and eve. You tend to be less engaging and more relaxed with age and so the EVE audience is typically around age 23-35... you will not find WoW kiddies here. Everyone in NPC starter corps helps you with every question and there is no flaming. This doesn't mean that we are all old and hate games, this only means that we are at a point where EVE is awesome for us, we do not need reflex based games or hyper active games in order to have fun or enjoyment, we can easily relax, drink coffee and kill people while chatting. (though 1000 vs 1000 battles tend to require more attention)
A corporation is a guild, a mission is a quest. When you decide to leave your starter NPC corp to join a player owned corp and decide to leave the player owned corp for whatever reason, you will drop inside another NPC corp where you are safe from war decorations however it is not the starter corp. Depending on your character skills you chose when you first made your char or other factors you will drop in whatever NPC corp. Each time you join a player owned corp and decide to quit, you will always drop back into the NPC corp, so have no fear if your corp or alliance sucks. An alliance is a group of corps. Think of a corp as a division of company, alliance a company. example MSN/Xbox = corps, alliance = microsoft. I would suggest to read EVE university guides and stick with the starter NPC corp for 3-6 months.
Future of EVE
- Future of EVE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ0k0ioROUo
- Planetary Interaction (in the future you'll be able to fly your ship inside a planet)
- Avatar Social Interaction (Walking in Station aka WiS) there will also be mini games with betting and bars to hang out in with other players where you can show off your barbie (eve community word for avatar)
Dust 514 (Console MMO-FPS Connected to EVE)
- http://www.dust514.com/
How to Play / What to do
Basically in EVE you can and are allowed to be a carebear (term in MMO used for people who do not like to PVP) or you can PVP which is what the game is oriented for, you can die anywhere at any time in this game except if you are docked in a station. If you do not want to engage in PVP, you'll probably chat or farm ISK (inter-stellar-kurrency) for no reason. (the bright thing to do if you are scared of PVP at first is to farm isk, get your skills up and then join an alliance ready to PVP otherwise you aren't fully playing EVE). EVE is a sandbox, you do not have to complete a linear quest line in order to get a +1 sword, you are free to do whatever you please just like as if you owned your own private saucer as an alien in space, so please do and finish your tutorial when you first start off, otherwise you'll be asking lots and lots of questions.
CCP's Sandbox Page - http://www.eveonline.com/sandbox/
Graph - http://myeveguide.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/eve-wtd.jpg
Read this - http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/How_to_earn_ISK
Skills
Skills are like spells in other MMO's except they basically are learned through right clicking on a book and waiting from 30 seconds to 15 days. There is over 200 skills so I will not describe what they can do, instead click the link below. Just because you are new it does not mean you have less of an advantage than someone who has been playing for the past 8 years with 100k skill points, what you have to remember is that whatever you plan to do, for example lets say fly a cruiser and pvp, you only require a certain amount of skill points, the points you invested in crafting (industry) or social (mission) or trade (market) or corporate (to help corp/alliance) does not help your pvp cruiser so those skills are either gone to waste or are not used in your task. Players with lots of skills can do more things, yes... but it doesn't mean they can kill you better than you can. In fact you could also own a corp or alliance or be the best trader in the game in 3 months time. Do not worry about a players age in game, it means nothing (especially when they train docked in a station while being offline for months at a time, that means no PVP experience whatsoever)
Basic Skills (Eventually get all these) - http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Basic_Skills
Links
EVE University (Also a corp) - http://www.eveuniversity.org/
University Wiki/Guides - http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Main_Page
EVE Wikia - http://eve.wikia.com/wiki/EvE_Wiki
Battleclinic (records kills and has ship fittings) - http://eve.battleclinic.com/index.php
EVE Influence Map (updates per day) - http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/Verite/influence.png
EVE Radio - http://eve-radio.com/
Red vs Blue (two corps always at war, join a color for unlimited PVP fun) - http://rvb.tech-pc.com/
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note: if anyone wants to suggest anything to add on the first post let me know
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