Lord Regent
Northstar Cabal
Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.05.29 21:24:00 -
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Cael Sunder wrote:So I've played a couple MMO's before mainly WoW. (Also SW tor and Rift) I've always read about how crazy Eve is and all that even my own father got into the game and I remember him telling me all these crazy stories. Like I said I was playing WoW so I wasn't interested.
Anyways, Eve is on sale on Steme for 7 dollars so I decided what the heck I'll try it. So I'm in the first hour or two in the game and I just cruise by a huge burning planet and my jaw drops. I immediately turn to my gf who's playing my Diablo account while I play Eve and have to show her. It looks gorgeous!
So I keep playing and playing slowly learning things about the game. How to do this or that and I do my first probe scan thing. When I finally got it down it felt awesome! I first looked on youtube then got some help from the incredible community.Which as you can tell WoW doesn't have. Anyways on to my point. Is there a safe way to play this game? I'm literally terrified now of dying. Which is weird to me since I absolutely love PvP but this game is on a whole new level. So guys, what tips or stories do you have about when you first started playing?
1.) NEVER TRUST ANYONE YOU DON'T KNOW. Scamming is 100% legal in this game, and they prey on "newbs" (which you are and will be for at least a month or two. Double/Triple your money adverts in the local channel are ALWAYS A SCAM. ALWAYS. NEVER TRUST ANYONE. Need I say it again? also, NEVER TRADE SHIPS IN THE TRADE WINDOW! It can appear that a ship is a much more valuable version, when in fact it isn't. always use contracts or the market.
2.) Join EVE universityhttp://www.eveuniversity.org/, or if you want to get right into fighting other players consider RvB http://rvbeve.com/forums/ join a player corp ASAP, friends are your friend in eve... don't stay in noobcorps/npc corps. also, DO NOT JOIN THE FIRST CORP THAT TRIES TO GET YOU. join the corp that YOU want to join. If they're desperate for you, don't be flattered, be suspicious as to their quality.
3.) Eve can get you down, if you get "ganked" in a prize ship, so to avoid that, don't fly something you can't afford to lose... stay relatively liquid (ISK instead of tons of ships)
4.) Evemail me if you have any questions, I'd be happy to help you out. Also, I'll send you 10 million ISK, just because I can :D
Sincerely,-á
Lord Regent. |