FoH guide to EVE Online

[ZyrKx]

Originally Posted by Tirinal

First month is 20$. Subsequent months are 15$.

Kali is due out on the 28th, though it will likely slip. The bonus is about a month's worth of SP.

You can also activate your first month with a standard game time code which you find at various places online for around $15.

[Lorrac]

Each 16 regular missions you are given a storyline mission. At level4, storylines (usually) reward a +4 implant.

At this time courier missions are bugged - 90% of lvl4 couriers involve small loads that can easily fit in a ceptor. Just find a few lvl4 courier agents bunched together, take 4-5 missions at once and voilá - you get one storyline mission per hour (aka one +4 per hour). OFC on top of that you also get the lp from the regular missions and the isk rewards. It's REALLY profitable, too bad the macroers got on top of this - +4 implants went from 100m to 40m in a matter of weeks.

Still, it's worthwile to do this and stockpile on +4's, eventually they gonna shut it down and the price will recover.

[Xequecal]

BTW, what is it about Caldari/Gallente ships that makes them so much better than Amarr? Are missiles and drones just better than lasers?

[Alexzandra]

With missiles and drones you can pick your damage type (em, kinetic, thermal, explosive, though the better drones are thermal damage) and don't use cap. Lasers are limited to EM/thermal (hybrids are kinetic/thermal) which are usually high resists on armor. Plus lasers are the most demanding of the turret types for cap, while drones and missiles use no cap.

Missiles, however, aren't highly regarded for long range pvp as they take time to reach the target, where as turret damage is instant.

[Lorrac]

Gallente = blasters = highest dps weapon
Gallente = drone+nos+ecm comboships

Caldari T1 suck for bare fighting, it's their ecm vessels that are supreme (besides the raven).

[Xequecal]

What about the PvE aspect? You say Caldari is massively overpowered in PvE, is that another bonus for missiles?

[Tolanin]

in pve ya the caldari raven rapes cause it can change dmg types for the rats really easily... plus missiles hit the little ships easier than guns so if you have to fight an npc inty its not so impossible.

People say they are overpowered in pve but personally i like the gallente dominix just as much as a raven.

[Wildstone]

So I'm waiting to reactivate my account till Kali arrives. In the mean-time I downloaded the free 14day trial and rolled a Caldari Missileboat and am just farming rats for money. I expect I'll have an easier time on my main character if I start out with a few million isk.

Question- Is there any way to send money between accounts? Ie, can I send ISK directly to my offline main character or will I have to find someone trustworthy to me a "middleman"?

[fucker]

Originally Posted by Wildstone

So I'm waiting to reactivate my account till Kali arrives. In the mean-time I downloaded the free 14day trial and rolled a Caldari Missileboat and am just farming rats for money. I expect I'll have an easier time on my main character if I start out with a few million isk.

Question- Is there any way to send money between accounts? Ie, can I send ISK directly to my offline main character or will I have to find someone trustworthy to me a "middleman"?

im pretty sure that the trial accounts have some limitations

and one of them is you cant trade your money (i think)

[Gurgeh]

Originally Posted by fucker

im pretty sure that the trial accounts have some limitations

and one of them is you cant trade your money (i think)

you could still buy stuff jetison it and take it with another account.

[fucker]

Originally Posted by Gurgeh

you could still buy stuff jetison it and take it with another account.

thats something i never considered

[Swiftan]

Escrow, trade and the market still work fine with trial accounts. As far as I know it's just ISK donation that doesn't work?

Easily worked around, I assume that was just to prevent mass-macroing trial accounts to transfer the 1,000 ISK you get in your wallet at creation.

Why wait to activate your account though? Unless you have a long skill training you're losing valuable SP which is essential in the early stages.

[Dom Devore]

Trial accounts can do in station trades with items/isk. Just get your trial dude in the same station with your main and you're good to go.

[Faille]

Originally Posted by Swiftan

Escrow, trade and the market still work fine with trial accounts. As far as I know it's just ISK donation that doesn't work?

Easily worked around, I assume that was just to prevent mass-macroing trial accounts to transfer the 1,000 ISK you get in your wallet at creation.

Why wait to activate your account though? Unless you have a long skill training you're losing valuable SP which is essential in the early stages.

I thought it was to stop people making new account, doing the first mission to get the implant and transfering that for a quick few million.

[Gurgeh]

Originally Posted by Swiftan

Why wait to activate your account though? Unless you have a long skill training you're losing valuable SP which is essential in the early stages.

You can start with 800k SP in Kali, so making a char right now would result in having less SP after kali is released than a noob char. You can have a char that can use t2 small guns for instance. So, IF, and that's a big if, kali is indeed released in 8 days, you might as well wait.