Samroski
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Posted - 2011.09.16 22:24:00 -
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Did not know skill training had to be turned on
My first silly mistake was not to start skill training for the first 10 days. I trained all the new skills I got to level I, and then thought they would get automatically trained as I used them in game. I could have kicked myself when I realized my mistake. For a new player 10 days of training is a lifetime! I am sure my slow progress in Eve is linked to this :)
How to avoid: You must train a skill 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Skill training can be started from your Character Sheet.
Launching containers is not enough
I did not know cans had to be anchored and wondered why they disappeared overnight. I though launching them was enough. One day I saw someone steal one of my cans, and realized what was going on.
How to avoid: Train the skill Anchoring to level I. Now you can anchor containers in 0.7 space and below. It takes a while to anchor items (there is a countdown timer), and a light on the container changes colour when anchored, and a squiggly symbol under the container changes. Now, no one can steal your container. You can right-click the container to get all the options, including one to set a password, so the contents are also safe.
Right-clicking to sell items
I was mining in a frigate in a remote system in Heimatar to make money. My friend, who had also started eve a week ago, told me, "Refine, refine, refine. Refine is the way to go." I had poor refining skills, but refined the minute amounts of ore I mined and right clicked to sell. I noticed I was getting less money by refining, but my friend insisted that he'd done the math. . Strangely he was mining in the same system. To be honest I did not know that mineral prices were set by players, and remote systems generally have extremely low buy orders. I thought I must be selling to NPC orders.
How to avoid: Be a little patient and take your items to a nearby trade/mission hub where you will get a much better price. You can also right-click and View Market Details to see where you can get a good price. Even better to train the skill Trade and put the items up for sale yourself.
I also fell for this Ransom Scam:
It was a quiet day at Hek. I commented in Local that it had never been this quiet. Soon afterwards I got an invite to a friendly fight to structure. I had a newely acquired super tanked Drake and thought why not. He named his ship and I had no clue what it was, but said ok.
We met at a nearby planet, and he told me that I had to steal an item out of a can to get the fight going. Soon as I had picked the item up, one of his friends warped in and they took my ship down to 10% hull and asked for 40m ransom. I had spent all my money on the Drake, and would not have paid anyway.
The experience was totally worth it, not only for the lessons learned but for the feelings and emotions during and after the encounter. No other game does this, and Eve is tremendously more fun if one can enjoy the feelings triggered by encounters and ship losses.
How to avoid:
Never trust anyone in Eve, without good reason.
Never take an item out of a can that does not belong to you.
Try and take friends along in tough situations. |