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Posted - 2015.08.01 01:31:23 -
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Drackony Alienteen wrote:First, let me give you a rundown on myself. I am a 40 yo man that has played just about every MMO and RPG since Ultima Online. I never was a huge sci-fi gamer but I like sci-fi and am willing to give any game a try with the crap out there currently.
I started playing EVE over a month ago.
The problem I am having mainly is there are so many skills, there are so many fittings for a ship, and I feel like I am in some kind of mind f*ck almost every time I log into the game. What do I train? How do I fit my ship? This can literally take me hours to figure out! And when I read up on fittings, you get thirty different suggestions from thirty different players with thirty different skill sets!
Hey I played UO too. I got in right after launch, was on Pac. Some friends and I started a guild, wound up making it the third largest guild game-wide. We helped form an RP alliance with about a thousand players from about 20 guilds on Pac. Not just "RP" we had huge pvp battles, and with the help of GM's, Seers and Volunteers. Man those were fun times. Blobbing was hard back then 
About same age, maybe a tad bit older.
Don't sweat it, man. EVE is monstrously deep, that's whats so good about it. After years in this game I still learn new stuff, and I'm still far from doing everything in this game or even to begin to try. Just pace yourself, focus in on one thing to do, or two in some cases, for a while, such as if you like missioning that is a really good start for the combat pilot. Even run the sisters of eve epic story arc if you haven't yet.
As you do that, raise your core skills as mentioned. If you focus in on learning a couple-few ship while raising those skills, in time you will fly those particular ships with as much usable SP as most any vet flying the same thing. Having so many skills in the game helps newer players a lot to even out the playing field, since you don't use every skill to fly that ship proficiently, only a handful of them for the ship, fit and of course core skills for that ship.
Don't worry about training the wrong skills, I have lots I never needed on my main char, or didn't need anymore after game changes, but some I just didn't need but trained them. I think the most valuable website wiki is the EVE Uni site, you can find ships and fits there that are typically common, from entry level to advanced fittings on those particular ships. Then just use EVEMon (indispensable app) to hammer out a skill plan for that ship and fitting. Lots of good info on their wiki about most everything game related, they did a good job on it.
Yeah, EVE takes some study, and no quick rewards, but it pays off and makes it far more worth it to you compared to just being hand-led through the game to some silly level cap or whatever. Lucks!
I'm in it for the money
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