Originally by: Kerrisone

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Originally by: Amanda Ardeur

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Kelduum, Roux, Millia, Toshiro and everyone else:

Just my two cents worth, but my experience was much like Roux as well. I had an account for a long time, still have it, mostly have been doing the "log-in-to-set-up-skill-queue-and-log-off" game, so loads of SP but just started doing level 3 missions. Why? Because EVE is a rather confusing game, and I have a real world job that takes up a lot of time. So I started a second account, in part to join EVE University and in part to actually build a character with some purpose rather than a random skill queue build. I had just heard about it from an EON magazine article, and it sounded promising. They have a reputation of trying to help new players learn how to play the game. Learning that their reputation is not trueàwell, that hurts more than losing all your ISK.

And like Roux, I was denied the opportunity. IÆm still unsure why, although I think itÆs because of my other account. ItÆs the only thing I could think of. But I still donÆt know how to play, and as noted on the forumsàthereÆs a lot of backstabbing out there, so knowing where to go is a bit of a problem.

The problem is that there really arenÆt any alternatives. Yes, yesàthereÆs only 6900+ corps out there that say they are new player friendly. Good luck with that, since 6800+ really arenÆt new player friendly despite what they say, for one reason or another. And with zero feedback on why one isnÆt suitable for EVE Uni, itÆs kinda hard to know what went wrong. Even the folks on the EVE Uni channel donÆt know of a single, solid alternative out there, so what chance does a solo player have to figure it out?

So I can understand Roux. Still canÆt play the game, those that say that theyÆll teach you wonÆt, and not really knowing where to go from hereàwell, why continue to pay for the game? Oh, IÆm sure IÆll still run the occasional hi-sec solo mission, or mine on the other character. But I had hoped for more.

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Read, watch videos, try stuff, fail, try again, then or maybe instead of playing solo join some corps, some will blow, some will be okay, and you might find one that is a good fit. You won't know until you try and keep trying, there is a time to do stuff on your own but if you want to learn more/faster/better you work with other people. Doing that in EVE means you take a chance they are 'worth it' just like they take a chance on you not to mention all the backstabbing that is possible.

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Originally by: Xenuria

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I don't need a LICENSE to take a photoshooped image and lay it on top of the game client and make pretend my character is naked.

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