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I have started playing it and I'm enjoying it, but I have some n00b questions..

I have finished the first Career Agent and now I need to move on to the next one:

How do I get my ships to the new station?
Should I use one station as my home base and leave all my stuff at that station?
Id it possible to catch a bus or summing back to the other station to get my other ship? (:D)
Should I just sell the ships and keep one?

And finally the biggie .. any tips on how to train faster?
 
Hey!
Welcome to Eve, its a deeply rewarding game with a ridiculously steep learning curve.

1.) well you have to do it the long way, if you have multiple ships at different stations you have to get out of your current ship, fly to the stations where the other ships are in your pod and fly them to wherever you want yourself.
2.)Well at this point in time you probably don't own enough items to actually make much fuss about if you do die, and you will be flying around so much to various different locations finding the right agents that it becomes a hassle leaving everything at one base, so until you find a homebase of operations just keep what you need on your(AMmo, caps ect)
3.)Like I said above, you can get out of your current ship and fly anywhere in just your pod ;)
4)nah keep them, you will find a use for them sooner or later.(unless your strapped for cash.
5)To train faster you need to get attributes in the school of the skills you are interested in through cybernetic implants.

Have fun ;)
 
1.) As a beginner player, your only real option is to fly them one at a time. If you still have under 900k SP, a quick way to get back to the original station is to set the original station as your medical clone "home" and to just undock in your pod and self-destruct. This will "teleport" you to the clone home station. If you have more than 900k SP, make sure you update your clone, or you will lose SP (costs money)

2.) This depends on your playstyle, but as a newer player, this won't matter much. To start off with, yes - use one station as "home" (i'm a neat freak, I hate having many stations on my asset list), but there are many reasons to use multiple stations

3.) No, there isn't a bus, but a shortcut is to "pod travel" if you are impatient. See #1

4.) Again, up to you, but keep them for now. At some point you'll lose your current ship, and unless you know how the markets work, you'll likely end up paying more to replace your ship than what you got from selling what you have.

5.) Train your learning skills. Get Learning and the other Tier 1 learning skills to 4 (they are cheap to buy). The Tier 3 skills are quite expensive for a newer player but also worth getting fairly soon. Also try to train Cybernetics to at least 1. This will allow you to use Implants that will increase your attributes by up to 3 (you need to train Cybernetics higher to get other bonuses from Implants). I suggest you get EveMon (http://evemon.battleclinic.com/) - you can use it to plan your training (eg I want to fly ship x) and it will help you with the skills you need and even suggest learning skills to train first to speed up your training plan.

Some more tips:

Join a good corp, it really makes a difference. Once you start to get to know more experienced players (and trust them), they can help you with things like moving your stuff from one station to another, or just help out with missions/etc if you can't handle it on your own. For a newer player, I'd recommend Eve University (http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Applying_to_Eve_University). They are diverse enough to give you a chance to experience most of what Eve has to offer, and are patient with newer players.

Don't fly what you can't afford to lose (you'll see this everywhere). If you can't immediately replace the ship you are flying now (with fittings), you probably should not be flying it.

High sec isn't safe, just safer

Join a good corp (yes, this is important enough to say twice)



Can't type further, but feel free to ask more questions here or PM me and I'll send you my in-game char name if you have more question.
 
http://rattlab.net/wp-content/uploads/eve-online-learning-curve.jpg

Ok so mentioned you've finished the first Career agent ? Do you mean Career tutorial agents ? If so, you should do ALL 4 or 5 of those agents to get all the free goodies as well as the faction Destroyer ship........ after that dive into the Epic Arc series for some good money... but beware...... there is a mission called "Burning out the Hive" ..... If you not careful you will lose a few ships thanks to webbers/scramblers...... I lost 2 -.- ... dam annoying.

I was hoping to move all my stuff around, but yeah its a hassle and at the moment there are about 6 or 7 stations with stuff that I looted/salvaged.... I'm just leaving it there until my refining/reprocessing skills are high enough... or oneday when I get a nice transport ship I'll go pick everything up and take it to my home.

Pod travel is an option, but at 140km/s its really slow..... a faction shuttle costs around 20k and goes 500km/s :P I have a few of those when I need to get around to another ship.

You could always sell your ships, but early on they are quite useful if you want to try out different things.... if you going to sell them, try find a station that will buy them from you for a decent price.

Eve University is good for learning.... I'm still waiting in the queue for my Corp interview... but I found a LOT of useful information (if overwhelming) here.... http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Guides

Regarding training faster.... do you have an idea of a career you want in even ? Trader/Industrialist/Combat pilot etc ?
Download EveMon http://evemon.battleclinic.com/ - this tool can help you plan future skills and also can recommend skills to learn to improve your learning speed/time.......

An option I have done, since I'm going along the mining/industrial route, so committed to a neural remap, which is an option listed under Character Sheet/Attributes and put all my points in Memory and the rest in Intelligence... Reason for this is that Industrial career skills use those 2 attributes during the learning process, thereby speeding up that kind of training massively..... the downside is that when I do my Mining Barge V training.... instead of taking maybe 10 days it will take 29 days to train because I removed the majority of my Perception points....

Make sure you buy all the "Learning" skill books.... helps a ton, but if you don't have the 4.5 million ISK for the expensive ones, don't worry about that too much right now.

Also feel free to join RSAChat1 chat group, you can do this by clicking the join button on your chat interface..... the guys there are also really helpful and LOCAL.
 
Really good replies!
Thanks!

Ok so:
leaving the ships where they are for now.
I am going thru ALL the Career Tutorial Agents

I still have not decided on a career path, this is way more intense than I expected.
Ah well. I'll give it a good go.

Ok Corporations...
Eve university seems to be offline right now, I'll give that a look later on.
What are corporations exactly? Are they just groups of players?
 
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Yes corps are just groups of players.

You will find many different types of corps out there, eve uni is a good place to start and you can leave once you know what you enjoy doing. There are corps based around mining, wormholes, pirating, 0.0 pvp, mercenaries etc. etc. So once you have a better idea of what you enjoy, you can join a corp aligned to your time zone and play style.
 
A corporation is the equivalent of guilds or clans in other games. As fonoi mentioned - check the timezone for any corporation you are considering joining. Because Eve Online uses a single realm for all players worldwide (excluding China), you get many corporations where most players are only logged on in US timezones or during the Australian timezone/etc. I have seen a couple of SA corporations recruiting in the past, and you'll be surprised how many South African people you'll see in the various EU corporations.
 
Ya, the timezones thing is important if you plan on taking part in Call to Arms and roams in nullsec space. I made the mistake of joining a corporation full of Americans which are in an Alliance made up of predominantly Americans....so I can't really take part in much because everything happens at the most retarded hours possible.

That being said, I like the group of people I am with so I'm sticking with the corp. Just gonna focus on industry and hauling. Just yesterday I finished training for T2 haulers and the Obelisk :D
 
It's not just Call to Arms. In my early Eve career, I was in a corp where I was the only person online in the entire alliance about 1/2 the time I was online. I can't think of a worse way to play the game than alone...
 
Ok I have finished the tutorial agents..
I lost the battle cruiser :(

Anyways. How do I start on the Epic Arc thingy? I have applied to Eve-Uni. Now I wait for the email and we see how it goes.
 
I don't have the exact details (no access to the game at the moment, so this is off memory), but you need to go to Arnon - dock at Arnon IX - M3 - Sisters of EVE Bureau and talk to Sister Alitura (agent tab in the station). This epic arc is a 50 mission chain (doesn't have to be done in one sitting) - the difficulty ramps up gradually and can mostly be done by a newer player. There are certain missions (two, I think) that you will require help with (you need to destroy a very big ship in those two) - don't be afraid to ask for help in local. Chances are there are other people that also need help (or bored people passing through), and you can easily fleet up and help each other.

When I used to be able to enter highsec space (yarr), I'd often give people a hand if I saw them asking, even though I didn't have to do it myself and i know there are many other people that don't mind helping as well.
 
Ok so Ive been playing for a few months, Joined E-Uni and I'm dead in the water. Bored.
E-uni is at war every second week, and I can for the life of me not wrap my head around the whole PvP policies thing.
I finished the Epic Arc, now what? become a pirate?
 
lol, join a nullsec alliance and go do sum real pvp. Or steal from em. Or go become a bear. Or or or...so much to do actually...lol
 
Best advice from me, would be to tell you to find a bunch of friends who are on your level. Stay far away from people on trial accounts (they disappear without notice). Make friends, trust them. Eventually one of them will betray you and bang, the fun starts. Nothing better than revenge in a game like eve.

Its a very social game, and you need to form a tight group of friends. You have to be able to trust them, because you will never be able to trust anyone else. Eventually you will need to trust some one to advance, and rather it be one of them, than some one who is not who they say they are.

From then on, follow the path of the guiding star and just go with it.

PS: There is a very large South African community playing EVE. Morsus Mihi has a high percentage of RSA players in it and a good percentage of its leadership is South African. Not the easiest alliance to get into though.
 
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inferno said:
Morsus Mihi has a high percentage of RSA players in it and a good percentage of its leadership is South African. Not the easiest alliance to get into though.
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I was keen on joining one of their corps a while back, then my back-then-current corp got wardecc'd by a mutual alliance of theirs :whistle:
 
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