Aswald McSmith
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.02.26 06:21:00 -
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As a new player myself...probably don't even have 30 days yet, but close, I'll admit, I've been up against the "Is this fun, wtf am I doing" wall a few times.
I gotta say, keep going. I've been in game for just about a month, haven't played or even interacted with anyone yet (relocating mid-March and will be starting a new job, so my time to delve into playing with any group of people or corp will be limited for a bit and haven't wanted to join and then disappear and look like a punk).
I'll tell you this, I'm sitting here at this moment wishing I could train a ton of skills faster. I want to PVP, I want to move to L3 missions, I want to get into exploration and scanning, I want to get more into industry and research. I know that doing all of that to any degree of effectiveness is going to take 1-2 years just to get all those skills most likely (maybe less as they overlap in various ways).
I've just got to the point I can clear L2's half-afk/half-drunk/half-paying attention. I'm not making any isk (because I've lost a couple of fitted Vexor's making stupid mistakes), none, I'm negative atm, but I did the Buddy account thing, sold the plex I got and have 3-months on an alt account that is training for refining to be my marketeer/miner/researcher/b*tch/whatever.
Even by myself for now, this is all fun, even if it is a bit lonely, but I know that will change.
L1 missions suck but you can get into L2 pretty fast if you train into a Cruiser or even play it save in a destroyer (loving my droneboat Vexor now that I'm better trained for drones, forcing a droneboat when I didn't have drones trained well was a nightmare).
So what am I doing now? Practicing my scanning so that when my skills are better I'll know wtf I'm doing. I'm running L2s because the ISK, while low, is decent enough if you're not losing ships and I'm stock piling my loot drops so I can either reprocess or sell on the market when those skills make it worth it. My biggest goal right now? Grinding standing so I can get jump clones and better refining.
The best thing I can advise, if you're feeling lost or aren't sure what to do, set your skill queue for a day or two and walk away. Load it up with a bunch of 1-3hr skills for things you'd like to do eventually so you've got a basic foundation across the board.
tl;dr - Your character is new with very few skills, if you're impatient, it's never going to work. Find something fun to pass the time when you have time to play but for now, understand that yes, you need to train some skills for a few weeks before you can really be good at any one thing. If you want to fight, train skills for your weapon of choice, your tank (armor or shield) of choice and your ship of choice. Early on once you get to the 20hr+ skills, if it's not something you think you want to do right now or want to get into full scope, train a handfull of other skills in that period. I'm finding it very easy having come from many other MMO's over the years to want to rush to the "end game" but that is simply not the case with EVE, there is no "end game" and there is no "rush". |