FoH guide to EVE Online

[Tripamang]

For anyone looking to get into Eve, here is the best description of your first PvP fight :P I found this hilarious, it's just so true to life.

Originally Posted by High Sierra

wtf? they locking me? panic! (mash hand onto top row of keyboard buttons, typing 12345678 into local)
shit! quick! (mash again, getting it right this time)
oh... I forgot to lock them (panic clicking on overview, locking everything but the target I want)
ok... locking now. good. guns are going. wait..... (frantically double click seventy different spots in space because I stopped my ship from moving)
ok.... guns going.... moving now, pick random direction to fly in. oh wait tank..... (frantically hammer the passive tank icons until I realise they arent meant to switch on)
ok. why is my ship stopping? oh. they got web. wait i have too! (web stargate)
fuck! (web correct target, unlock stargate)
General panic and crying on TS/vent for corp members to come help
(realise I am alone on vent. again. everyone else is in another room>
quick! pick another random direction! (notice my tank appears to be holding, theirs is going down)
MWAHAHAHAHAHA! I HAB JOO NOW! PREPARE FOR BUTTRAPE!
(jump up and down in my seat, alternately screaming and crying for help)
(kill target)
w00t! I survived! (miserably fail to lock pod as usual)
(warp off, forgetting to loot wreck)
(wonder why everything is going dark and I have a dizzy feeling in my head)
(remember to breath)

[FoghornDeadhorn]

Originally Posted by Cynno

Fixed.

I will reiterate what I said. You need some reading comprehension skills. Am I upset with the state of the sandbox, sure. Does that mean I won't log in? No. I still love jumpin in my cruiser lookin for a fight even if I do get blown up.

Again, just for you foghorn fucktard, just because I don't agree with the way the sandbox is currently being run, doesn't mean the game isn't still fun.

Dude if you call me a fucking bitchass again I'm going to call trevor and we're going to fuck you up at your next kegger.

[Tripamang]

Originally Posted by FoghornDeadhorn

Dude if you call me a fucking bitchass again I'm going to call trevor and we're going to fuck you up at your next kegger.

Trevor? Man you're fucked.

[Cynno]

Do I know you irl or something? or was the Trevor thing a joke........that's just weird.

[...]

Trevor is no joke man.

[fucker]

i know im going to risk my life for this but....who is Trevor?

[Draegan]

Alright guys. It's Friday, the boss is out of the office, and I'm gonna load up EVE on my laptop and give it a go this afternoon. Why does bordom often cost you the most money?

After getting through the tutorial can anyone tell me or point me into the direction of an up-to-date guide as far as start skills etc. Some kind of stuff to look over to learn the basics.

[Radahr Manasponge]

First things first:

Take the Learning skill to 3.

PAY ATTENTION through the tutorial, and start running low level agent missions. Cash, drops, and game experience for the first couple days.

That'll hold you through Saturday or so and by then we can have better pointers from the longer term players than I.

[Borzak]

Well the tutorial if you go thru it well can take like 6-8 hours.

[Drtyrm]

How long to train Learning to 3?

[Fog]

Well, I have three pieces of advice:

- Check out this character creation guide.

- Train whatever you want, it doesn't matter.

- After the tutorial, your tutorial fellow will add another agent to your buddy list. Go to that guy, he has cool newbie missions.

[Vorph]

The correct order for Learning is:

mem 1
int 1
mem 2
int 2
learning 2
science 3
cybernetics 1 (install +1 - +3 implants here)
mem 3
int 3
learning 3
mem 4
adv mem 1
adv mem 2
adv mem 3
int 4
adv int 1
adv int 2
adv int 3
per, wil, cha to 4 (order doesn't matter)
then adv per, wil, cha to 3 (start with whichever is highest and then go in order: cha after per, wil after cha, per after wil, and repeat)

Obviously ISK will be a problem for people without outside assistance when it comes to the advanced skills (and maybe the memory implant, since +1 mem costs 4-5x the price of the other stats), but when I did it recently I only had to put off getting advanced mem a little while. After that I was able to afford them all as they were due. It requires a lot of missioning those first few days though.

[Draegan]

Thats pretty lame, I can't delete a character for 10 hours?

[Fog]

Originally Posted by Draegan

Thats pretty lame, I can't delete a character for 10 hours?

There's 3 character slots on your account, just use another one?

[Draegan]

All full now. Using an old account where I had 4mil ISK on one character from someone who was helping me around a few months ago when I gave the game a shot. Oh well. I can wait.