I'm talking about spending a week trying to find the old Villard Wheel that never existed. Oh, was that not the best mission ever =P

I was getting owned in early missions for lack of knowledge about how to fit a ship. After someone mentioned railguns in rookie chat as being long-range, I though "score, I'll just blast 'em from far away!". After a bit of wrangling with the market system (totally got lost in that ocean), I found some. Needless to say, I realized some time later why my Minmatar ships still weren't faring so well. I think I discovered artillery in my third week.

The moral? Stick with the weapons that fit your starting race. It'll save you a lot of heartache. Better yet, check out your ship's info and find out just what you should be fitting to make the most of what you have.

Use [CTRL] and left-click on the overview to lock a target.

It is embarrassing how long I spent chasing targets up and down the overview, right-clicking, and selecting lock-target from the drop-down menu.

So, I was thinking about what it was like for me when I was truly new at EVE Online, and the little silly mistakes that I made that now, as a veteran player, I laugh at myself over.

I'm talking about spending a week trying to find the old Villard Wheel that never existed. Oh, was that not the best mission ever =P

But I think one of my biggest silly mistakes was assuming that it would be bad for me if I took every single mission that I was offered. This meant that I was trying to do missions that I really wasn't qualified to do. For example: taking missions where the final item was too large for my hold, or missions where my ship and/or fit wasn't the best thing to use, and not learning that after rather gorgeous explosions, I probably should upgrade from my very low-end ships and modules.

Think back to when you were a noob. What silly mistakes did you make, and how would you advise new players to avoid making them?

So, I was thinking about what it was like for me when I was truly new at EVE Online, and the little silly mistakes that I made that now, as a veteran player, I laugh at myself over.

I'm talking about spending a week trying to find the old Villard Wheel that never existed. Oh, was that not the best mission ever =P

I didn't go to 0.0 until I was almost 3 months into the game. I should have done it at least a month sooner.

1. Never EVVAH trade when under the influence of your favorite drug. EVE does not ask you "are you sure?" if you have a typo in your market order's price.

2. Even if you're sober, check at least twice before hitting Enter or the OK button with your new / modified orders. I learned that especially well after wanting to set up a buy order for two T2 cruisers at around 100 M each and the game decided there was one more "0" in my oder than I thought.

Losing 1.8 B in a second really hurts.

Don't do something incredibly boring just because someone told you it was a good idea.

For example, don't spend months training a hulk on your main character because someone told you it would help you pay for your PvP ships. This happened to me, and I haven't touched a hulk in nearly two years. I wish I could put all those millions of SP into something useful.

Also don't mine just because. There are far better ways to make isk. If you're going to be a miner, you have to WANT to be a miner, just like beekeepers have to want to keep bees and taxidermists have to want to fill animals with sand.

I trained Citadel Torpedoes to put on my shiney new megathron.Took forever! Then realized (after torp 5 was complete ofc) that a citadel launcher used way more cpu than could ever be dreamed of on a mega.

My advise :Right Click and Show Info on EVERYTHING!


Oh And : Read and re-read everything thrice.

Everything is free. Even the most expensive ships are just made from rocks. And the right corporations can get you going down that path.

> Turn off Auto-Lock

Taking sooo long to join a great alliance. I ran missions forever just to pay the deposit to join Goonswarm Federation.

For the new guys you want to run missions or mine as quick as you can save that isk and contact a recruiter and pay the minimal deposit to join the best alliance in the game.

See you in Dek.

I learned early on when in a fleet ships on the overview can be 'tagged' with numbers/letters so people in the fleet know what to concentrate on and in what order (or not).

Well after three years it dawned on me even if alone, you can invite yourself to fleet and basically create a one-man fleet, then - yup - you can use tags just for yourself! Great for marking spawn trigger ships when running missions or marking containers in radar sites etc without losing track.

If you come home drunk from a good night out.........

DO NOT

1) Start Eve
2) Decide to use your yearly remap to make your Charakter "more charismatic".

2 things never change in EVE:

n-¦1 - there is nothing that can substitute a good corp.
n-¦2 - Murphy's law.

Taking sooo long to join a great alliance. I ran missions forever just to pay the deposit to join Goonswarm Federation.

For the new guys you want to run missions or mine as quick as you can save that isk and contact a recruiter and pay the minimal deposit to join the best alliance in the game.

See you in Dek.

Taking sooo long to join a great alliance. I ran missions forever just to pay the deposit to join Goonswarm Federation.

For the new guys you want to run missions or mine as quick as you can save that isk and contact a recruiter and pay the minimal deposit to join the best alliance in the game.

See you in Dek.

While I find many of these advice to be very helpfull i must ask:

• Just how do i find a good corp anyway? (I have been in quite a few meh-ones. Wish I staid in 'school', then I would at least not have to worry about wars)
• What is a care bear? From the adverts I vaguely remember from my adolescence they where brightly coloured and used some kind of chest mounted beam weapon. Avoid lasers? (or why are you using in-game jargon in a thread aimed at noobs)

And of cause, how DO I find a good corp?

-Don't join a corp. People will grief you and by grief I mean blow you up and pod you.