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Welcome! => Reception => Topic started by: Felix Rasker on 30 Jun 2013, 18:45
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Hello, folks. Just upgraded my trial account and found this forum while doing my research, thought I'd make a profile and get acquainted with everybody. A little about myself, I came here at the suggestion of some long-time players I know at my local hobby store, and having become thoroughly bored of WoW, I decided to give it a shot. I'm still deciding what my path through the game will be (the combat roles all seem so confusing and there's so many skills to learn! x_x) and my character isn't quite up to snuff, but I'm working on those shortcomings.
Looking forward to learning about the game and the community, until then I'll be lurking in your channels like a creep.
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Looking at the picture, first thing in my head was....Sid alt?
Nevermind that though. Welcome!
Yes, the game can get confusing. But just ask and we will do the best we can to help. And don't worry too much about finding your path super early. I did what a lot did when I was new, I was a miner for months. Now I am anything but a miner.
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Welcome 8)
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Looking at the picture, first thing in my head was....Sid alt?
Nevermind that though. Welcome!
Yes, the game can get confusing. But just ask and we will do the best we can to help. And don't worry too much about finding your path super early. I did what a lot did when I was new, I was a miner for months. Now I am anything but a miner.
That's kind of what I like about the game so far. It seems like you can basically do anything, so, I'm having alternating periods of elation at the prospect of "My god, I'm truly free, I can be anything!" and the crushing stress that comes with the realization that maybe I don't want to be a hauler as much as I thought I did when I bought and trained Industrials.
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Looking at the picture, first thing in my head was....Sid alt?
Nevermind that though. Welcome!
Yes, the game can get confusing. But just ask and we will do the best we can to help. And don't worry too much about finding your path super early. I did what a lot did when I was new, I was a miner for months. Now I am anything but a miner.
That's kind of what I like about the game so far. It seems like you can basically do anything, so, I'm having alternating periods of elation at the prospect of "My god, I'm truly free, I can be anything!" and the crushing stress that comes with the realization that maybe I don't want to be a hauler as much as I thought I did when I bought and trained Industrials.
The cool thing about it all is I didn't go -entirely- gungho into Mining. So I didn't spend forever and a day training that. But I can fly the mining barges so if the mood strikes me I can undock with some corp buddies in mining ships and we go terrorize an asteroid belt and chat away over Teamspeak.
The name of the game early on is specialize. If you wanna be Random McFlyseverything then you're gonna suck horribly at it, skills only train so fast. I specialized in mining first, then logistics (healer role). For a while I thought as far as combat I would want to do lasers, but eventually realized I like the mechanics of missiles. My character is about 18 months old and just in the last two weeks have I ever been able to use my first T2 weapons system. That is in general roughly forever compared to most people.
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I definitely don't want to be a jack of all trades. Right now the most attractive thing to me looks like frigate hulls. The Slasher is my favorite ship so far, and I like EveUni's pages on Interceptors and AFs and the like. I definitely want to try PvP combat somewhere down the line, but, I think I'm going to avoid it until I have a decent bundle of skill points.
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Minmatar frigate pvp combat? Where's Ava when you need her.
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Welcome! I'm a frigate pvp enthusiast, with a penchant for Minmatar ships, so I'll say that you're both setting yourself up to play the game in "hard mode", as well as setting yourself up to have a huge pile of fun. :D
It sounds like you're off to a good start: the Eve-U pages are a nice way to get up to speed with the game.
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Welcome backstage.
Also, give sub-warp frigate racing (https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=235185&find=unread) a try. All you really need is a standard frigate and a microwarpdrive.
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Welcome aboard! I've been in plenty of frigate fights (on the amarrian side, of course) and it's plenty of fun! But do be ready to devote time to learn EVE, the learning curve is long and even after some time you'll end up meeting things unknown or new. :)
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Would you like some Vherokior tea?
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/me applauds frigate pvpers
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I definitely don't want to be a jack of all trades. Right now the most attractive thing to me looks like frigate hulls. The Slasher is my favorite ship so far, and I like EveUni's pages on Interceptors and AFs and the like. I definitely want to try PvP combat somewhere down the line, but, I think I'm going to avoid it until I have a decent bundle of skill points.
First off, welcome to Summit and to New Eden in general!
If I could give one single piece of advice to you as you're just starting out, it is to never, ever think ^^^ that way. Apart from burning out, the biggest Eve subscription killer is psyching yourself out too much and putting things you want to do off until you're "ready for them". Eve is a game that, by the very nature of its progression system, won't ever make you feel like you're "ready". There's always more to train, that next ship to fit, and if you hide in high sec hauling or mining while you wait, you're going to get bored and quit before you do anything you actually want to do. It'll make you feel like this game isn't "for you." Unless you love high sec and/or hauling and mining, and in that case keep doing what you're doing!
If you're looking for small gang frigate combat with a low SP threshold for usefulness, I would advise you to do some research on Faction Warfare. Because the FW plexes (the nodes that you fight over) are only accessible by activation gates with ship restrictions, you can be extremely effective early on as a frigate pilot because you can be reasonably sure the enemy won't drop anything too big on you for you to handle. The novice FW plexes only allow T1 frigates, so there will never be a point in FW where you will feel like you can't do anything just because you're in a frigate. Also, training for the T1 logistics frigates allows you to contribute even if your support skills are total garbage and your DPS sucks, if you don't just want to be in a flying warp disruptor, which is still vital but can be a bit dull. FW plexing is also highly profitable, albeit extremely boring if there's no one around to fight.
But there are other options besides Faction Warfare! I'm likely biased because it was my first and semi-current Eve career (this character is my main, about two months old, has been an effective PvPer for most of that time). But honestly, you can be helpful just about anywhere. Null sec alliances need fast tackle as much as FW fleets do, and while you're waiting to skill up you can make a boatload of ISK just fitting a Salvager to your frig and scavenging the wrecks of the massive fleet battles. Null sec alliances are also usually obnoxiously rich, so they'll be able to set you up nice from the moment you join just because they can afford to treat all new members that way.
Honestly, the only career path I would advise you don't try to tackle immediately after the tutorial stuff is wormhole space, as the bare necessities for survival in that environment have a higher SP threshold than usual. But hell, if you were to train up your exploration skills, honestly a wormhole corp would probably take you just for the dedicated scanning character, if you can manage to convince them you're not a spai considering your character is pretty new.
Anyway, I hope that was in some way helpful and/or interesting to you. Welcome to the last MMO you'll ever play, look forward to seeing you in Summit and fly safe!
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Welcome!
...maybe I don't want to be a hauler as much as I thought I did when I bought and trained Industrials.
This was the plan on my first day of Eve. Isk and explosions are a bit more fun than space-trucking.
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Knowing how to fly an indy isn't a bad thing, though. Sometimes it's nice to be able to haul an itty full of guns and ammo across the cluster as part of war preparations. :)
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Good advice.
That makes a lot of sense. At the moment, all I'm training up are the core competency certificate skills - felt like I should get a solid foundation for improving my ships' PG, CPU, capacitor and such so I could jump into anything and get a good start. But it's comforting to know I can try a little of everything early on without being penalized for it.
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Yeah, there's a ton of utility skills you need to get out of the way, so if you're still uncertain, those are a good choice to train no matter what. And like others said, even Indy ships have their uses, whether you're in high sec or a warzone. You can also find a lot of decent 30-60 day rookie skill plans that train you through the necessary shit as efficiently as possible. I think the Eve Uni wiki has one.
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Heyo man. Welcome to Backstage and EVE in general. Play how you like it man, good thing about frigates is you can get stuck in early and hey if you get blown up it is cheap as hell. Don't worry all of us are salivating at the chance to recruit an eager pvp/RP pilot. You will find your place soon enough.
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Welcome!
...maybe I don't want to be a hauler as much as I thought I did when I bought and trained Industrials.
This was the plan on my first day of Eve. Isk and explosions are a bit more fun than space-trucking.
Says you...I'm still having fun with it, which goes to show there are all types here.
Welcome though!