Welcome! Sounds like you're off to a pretty strong start. I was playing a lot longer than you before I ever saw 400 million.

I converted somebody into an Eve player yesterday. It left a terrible taste in my mouth and I felt like a bad person afterwards.

I converted somebody into an Eve player yesterday. It left a terrible taste in my mouth and I felt like a bad person afterwards.

I converted somebody into an Eve player yesterday. It left a terrible taste in my mouth and I felt like a bad person afterwards.

Welcome! Sounds like you're off to a pretty strong start. I was playing a lot longer than you before I ever saw 400 million.

My 4 weeks in - saved enough to buy a Vexor... new players have it way too easy nowdays

Wouldn't trade it for anything though.

/c

The learning curve has not been that steep for me as I have my corpmates to thank for answering all my noobish questions.

So my first month of eve is over (still have 3 weeks because of 21 day trial) and I must say I'm addicted to this game. I have not experienced the road bumps that is basically the advertising for this game and I guess I can count myself lucky. The learning curve has not been that steep for me as I have my corpmates to thank for answering all my noobish questions. In my first month I have
-joined a corp
-made 400mil station trading
-gone into a c2 wormhole with a corp before subsequently being tossed back out.

.........yeah that's about it. Will be moving to nullsec soon where the real fun is so definitely will be resubscribing. Congratulations CCP, eve online playerbase +1.

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-joined a corp
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(aptly named Team Pony Express)

So my first month of eve is over (still have 3 weeks because of 21 day trial) and I must say I'm addicted to this game. I have not experienced the road bumps that is basically the advertising for this game and I guess I can count myself lucky. The learning curve has not been that steep for me as I have my corpmates to thank for answering all my noobish questions. In my first month I have
-joined a corp
-made 400mil station trading
-gone into a c2 wormhole with a corp before subsequently being tossed back out.

.........yeah that's about it. Will be moving to nullsec soon where the real fun is so definitely will be resubscribing. Congratulations CCP, eve online playerbase +1.

Welcome to the community! Take the forums with a grain of salt, as they are typically over the top.

I converted somebody into an Eve player yesterday. It left a terrible taste in my mouth and I felt like a bad person afterwards.

Let me finsh your EVE experience for you OP.....

You'll go to a 0.0 corp....You'll rat your little heart out until (A) Some cloaky guy parks in your ratting system and you all dock up or (B) You'll get bored to tears ratting your little heart out.....OFC you can do exploration for plexes and sites, but they'll most likely be found and farmed out by the time you go looking for them.

Oh wait, you went out there for the epic space battles! The battles where hundreds of players slug it out for control of a vital solar system!

It does not exist in EVE under it's current mechanics...It's blobbed or be blobbed and 9 times out of 10 these days the defenders would rather pack up and leave if the know that the aggressor is even slightly stronger than them.

Sure, you can go out on a roam with your corp/alliance...20,30 or 40 guys! Personally, I'd go to church first (or whatever religious domination you are,if you are) and pray that you might actually get someone or don't get hotdropped within 40 jumps of your starting point....Oh and take your time at church, it will most likely take at least and hour for a gang to form.

:shobon:

Can't handle the truth, eh CCP?

Banned for "Untruthful Rumors"???


LOLOL.... It was MY OPINION !

YOU HAVE NOW EARNED MY ETERNAL DISFAVOUR ON ANY AND ALL GAME REVIEW BOARDS.

All datamining supports the notion that players who join player corps on during their initial experience with EVE stick to the game. It's why we put a tax on the NPC corps, it's why we created the recruiting tools, it's what we're currently looking at trying to ensure people do.

Have you considered just doing away with NPC corps and making players individually wardecable?

Have you considered just doing away with NPC corps and making players individually wardecable?

That sounds like a good idea to you and me because we know EVE. But players who are still getting to grips with EVE will just quit rather than try to engage a corporation of grifers in a discussion on how the hell they should undock to complete the tutorial without being pwnt.

Sure we could continue enforce rules about newbie griefing. But the definition of when you're a newbie and when you're capable is highly nebulous. Furthermore we cater to the griefing crowd so it's only natural to expect our players to try and poke at whatever laws we put up. There was a topic here on GD recently which was essentially people trying to get a GM to paint himself into a corner by defining what we consider "newbies" and I see no reason for that to stop.

And if we exclude newbies from this system, what's the point? They'll have quit the game before anyone decs them and thus prompts them to seek protection.

But this is just me being a negative Nancy. Nobody likes my ideas SO I'M NOT GOING TO LIKE YOURS!
I kid, of course all ideas are welcome and this one is very good although it suffers for not being OmgIDontKnowAnythingAboutEveWhatShouldIDo?!?-centric. If that makes sense.

Wow, 400 mil in a month, grats. I wonder why people cry about Lvl4s after seeing that.

That sounds like a good idea to you and me because we know EVE. But players who are still getting to grips with EVE will just quit rather than try to engage a corporation of grifers in a discussion on how the hell they should undock to complete the tutorial without being pwnt.

Sure we could continue enforce rules about newbie griefing. But the definition of when you're a newbie and when you're capable is highly nebulous. Furthermore we cater to the griefing crowd so it's only natural to expect our players to try and poke at whatever laws we put up. There was a topic here on GD recently which was essentially people trying to get a GM to paint himself into a corner by defining what we consider "newbies" and I see no reason for that to stop.

And if we exclude newbies from this system, what's the point? They'll have quit the game before anyone decs them and thus prompts them to seek protection.

But this is just me being a negative Nancy. Nobody likes my ideas SO I'M NOT GOING TO LIKE YOURS!
I kid, of course all ideas are welcome and this one is very good although it suffers for not being OmgIDontKnowAnythingAboutEveWhatShouldIDo?!?-centric. If that makes sense.

As a fan of the market trading profession, I'd be curious to know what the OP was buying and selling to make his first 400 million.

As a fan of the market trading profession, I'd be curious to know what the OP was buying and selling to make his first 400 million.

As a fan of the market trading profession, I'd be curious to know what the OP was buying and selling to make his first 400 million.

There was nothing sexual involved. Ugh. Perverts.

To be fair though, another very nice player gave me 50 mil when he saw I was having trouble getting started.

no, Spiderman turn off the dark is over the top
eveo forums are more like underneath the septic tank

anyhow, sounds like you are doing eve right, good show

Let me finsh your EVE experience for you OP.....

You'll go to a 0.0 corp....You'll rat your little heart out until (A) Some cloaky guy parks in your ratting system and you all dock up or (B) You'll get bored to tears ratting your little heart out.....OFC you can do exploration for plexes and sites, but they'll most likely be found and farmed out by the time you go looking for them.

Oh wait, you went out there for the epic space battles! The battles where hundreds of players slug it out for control of a vital solar system!

It does not exist in EVE under it's current mechanics...It's blobbed or be blobbed and 9 times out of 10 these days the defenders would rather pack up and leave if the know that the aggressor is even slightly stronger than them.

Sure, you can go out on a roam with your corp/alliance...20,30 or 40 guys! Personally, I'd go to church first (or whatever religious domination you are,if you are) and pray that you might actually get someone or don't get hotdropped within 40 jumps of your starting point....Oh and take your time at church, it will most likely take at least and hour for a gang to form.

As a fan of the market trading profession, I'd be curious to know what the OP was buying and selling to make his first 400 million.

If you do the math, he could have taken 50mil, and rolled it up to 400mil just by flipping items for 10% in under a month. And it could be done during breaks while doing mining/mission/etc. Going from 50mil to 400mil sounds like a big jump, but it can be done fairly easily in lots of smaller but growing leaps.

People think the big secret is what item and where, but really the big secret is understanding compounding numbers, and things that can be flipped for small amounts lots of times can be just as good as trying to do few massively profitable flips.

My 4 weeks in - saved enough to buy a Vexor... new players have it way too easy nowdays

Wouldn't trade it for anything though.

/c

So my first month of eve is over (still have 3 weeks because of 21 day trial) and I must say I'm addicted to this game. I have not experienced the road bumps that is basically the advertising for this game and I guess I can count myself lucky. The learning curve has not been that steep for me as I have my corpmates to thank for answering all my noobish questions. In my first month I have
-joined a corp
-made 400mil station trading
-gone into a c2 wormhole with a corp before subsequently being tossed back out.

.........yeah that's about it. Will be moving to nullsec soon where the real fun is so definitely will be resubscribing. Congratulations CCP, eve online playerbase +1.

well yeah.....it is a game so obviously people won't be playing it for their entire lives.

I joined the game and immediately started doing what the ISD suggested: read Halada's glorious mining guide, buy a Bantam and hauler.

After some guy can flipped me and killed my Bantam I went to take revenge on my powerful first Rifter (had to use MAPC because I could not even fit T1 modules on it ).

The can flipper quickly warped in vagabond + 2 RR ships and killed my rifter (you know, he feared my Rifter).

I started to... let's say it mildly... "speak" in local chat about that guy till a Man, a soon to be Friend called Roful Koptur convoed me and invited me in his corp.

5 mins later I was out with a new bantam and let the flipper do it again.
This time when he arrived with his stuff, he found multiple battleships, tacklers and whatever and he lost ALL his ships.

About 2 weeks later I was in 0.0 with them and loved every instant with them till Roful had RL problems with work and had to quit EvE


I then joined Dark Rising (still with T1 fit Rifter!), where more epic moments were to be had, from FW to low to null sec, till my job commitment made impossible for me to stay online and I had to leave them.

If I had not joined those 2 corps, I bet my idea of EvE would have been much different, and certainly worse.

If this is your EVE experience you are doing it wrong.

Telling this to everybody in a public thread (with dev badges, no less) doesn't seem like a great idea to me - unless it was generic trading. Finding specific items that can be bought & sold for a good profit are better kept private ;)
Good times - I remember making my first serious amount of money (back when 100 mil was still a huge amount of ISK) flying my trusty Iteron IV for dozens of jumps, trading mostly NPC trade goods.

So my first month of eve is over...
-made 400mil station trading

-joined a corp
-made 400mil station trading
-gone into a c2 wormhole with a corp before subsequently being tossed back out.

.........yeah that's about it. Will be moving to nullsec soon where the real fun is so definitely will be resubscribing. Congratulations CCP, eve online playerbase +1.