Delt0r Garsk
Tartarus Legion
Domination..
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Posted - 2013.06.30 14:56:00 -
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Well i am pretty new to the game. I have been playing for 5 months. My wife has been playing for 2 months. So i feel a little qualified as a new player. My wife 2x so.
First of all i didn't really want to use all the skill tools on the internet, so i just skilled up what looked like fun. I am 6M now but this is a very un optimal 6M sp. My wife is about 1.5M since she has never bothered with implants at all.
Sure we mission together and stuff. Kill rats etc. But i have the most fun PvP. We run sites in low and null sometimes and can take cheap ships. (Rifters are AWESOME!)
We went out on our first roam the other day with the corp i am in. Its in the wrong time zone so its not perfect, but these guys are great with newbs, even flying back several gates in null to get my wife when she got lost. She found it very .... nerve racking. I loved it. We got a 2 good kills worth more than 2x the fleet before getting bubbled. And half the fleet got away. I suck at it. But will get better.
When i solo or its just me and my brother, or my wife. We just go for it. So when you have a 1.5M isk rifter. You get *any* kill your going to be a 90% pilot for a long time! (its called my c fit for cheap. I don't always use t2 guns even! still can rat kill).
We got jumped (yes i know watch the dscan) when we were running a site by a daredevil. I didn't know anything about them, but i had my first Jaguar assault frig and my wife with a rifter in both PvP fits. I guess he would have expected PvE fits. Well we are new so he did get us both since i didn't know about the web bonus he gets and the PvE towers did 50% of the damage. But he was in hull when we died, which probably caused him/her to have a "oh crap" moment. Recon a little more frosty on the dscan and we could have had a great kill.
I don't want first time players to be the same as the vets. Its not fair and then there is no reason to ever be a vet. Right now there is a good balance of playability for new players with so many things to build up for while being rewarding for vets as well.
For max fun. Find a good corp or just group of people. Despite the reputation of eve being a really unfriendly galaxy, its mostly untrue. Outside of scamers most people are helpful and at least honest about if there corp is newb friendly. Even with a few weeks of skills you can be useful in a fleet. And still do some lowsec and even null sec if you look at the star map properly. The corridors have the camps.
I hate to think how hard eve was when it first came out without all the internet sites and things to help you. Respect the Vets. Even after they podded you and +70M of implants. (yes it happened to me, because of lag!).
Also i don't understand why so many complain about cash flow. A poorly skilled BC pilot can do lvl 3 missions pretty easy for the most part. I get between 5M-10M in loot and bounties per mission for the good ones. Average around 3M. I can do a few an hour. A bit of highsec PI on the side (about 4M a day before oxygen prices went down ) and i have cash to burn.
The plex from getting my wife to sign up didn't hurt either. |