Originally posted by: Martimus
I finally started this game last night. I can honestly say that I have almost no idea what I am doing in the game. I am a Gallente Immigrant, but I don't really know what that means.
Is there anything you can suggest for me to get a handle on how to play the game? I just went through the initial tutorial and flew back to the starting base and logged off.
Races and lineages mean pretty much nothing now since they changed the way you make characters now.
As far as learning goes - the question is what do you want to learn? Do the tutorials for the basics.
- If you want to know how combat works, learn about (google) topics like transversal velocity, signature radius, tracking speed, optimal range and falloff.
- If you'd prefer to go the "carebear" route (what I am), you want to look up topics such as mining (pretty straight-forward), refining, trading (buy/sell on the market), industry (manufacturing). <-- This route is quite a bit easier, but to be optimal you'll still need to know how combat basics work too.
- There's all sorts of subtopics besides those two "basics"... command, covert-ops, etc. Since restructuring the character creation in EVE, they basically give you a clean slate to do whatever you want to do. So the real question is - what do you envision your character doing 3 months, 6 months, a year, 5 years from now? There's nothing any one character CAN'T do... provided you train the right skills for whatever it is.
- Look up your race's ship types (or whatever race/ship you would like), see what bonuses they provide and direct your training to those strengths. (Again, slightly less important - you can train ANY race's ships, there's no penalty to do so, you get the bonuses based on your trained skills, not your race).
In the meantime, you'll want to either mine Veldspar in safe space or run level 1 missions to make some cash.