I've looked at some corps and it seems like most of them require a mic and participation on voice com. I don't really want to do that, as I've had very bad experiences with that in other mmos. There are just so many creepy guys that play games, and I've been borderline stalked a couple of times before - and when I quit playing two of those mmos, those creeps were one of the major contributing reasons for quitting the games. I get enough unwanted attention in real life, and I just don't want that in games. I just want to relax and have fun! So I don't want to share my real name, social media profiles, show any pictures of me or talk on TS/vent/skype or whatever. Of course - most of the players I've played with haven't been creeps like that, but when some are, then I just want to take that precaution. Also the "OMG girl" comments are also incredibly annoying, I just want to be treated like everyone else. If there are any good corps that doesn't require me to talk on voice com or share any private information, I would really appreciate if you could mention some of them so I can maybe try them out.

Voice comms are usually required for the bonding aspect. Plus it's really easy to get distracted and miss chats. While I am a firm believer that online harassment should not happen, unfortunately it does and sometimes you gotta put them in their place. At no point in time should you ever share PII ( personally identifiable information) unless it's with somebody you really trust. Even then think twice and three times about it.

I don't really expect to have even close to the isk or skill points as the veterans in this game, but I do want to progress. I did buy 3 PLEX which I sold and bought 4 skill injectors, an outfit, a fully fitted astero (which I can't use that well yet, but probably at the end of next week) and some nice implants. That helped a lot :)

I've been exploring a lot, but I haven't done high sec at all. The first time I tried it I just went into a wormhole and I've kept running wormholes since then. It's really profitable and fun :) Just use a heron though, so I can't fight other explorers yet. But I'm really looking forward to doing that!! I love pvp, so I want to do that in the future when I got better ships and skills! :)

I'm not sure if you can see my skills on the forum, but if you have any specific advice, I would appreciate any help! Especially for pvp! As well as any ships for doing lvl 2 missions maybe?

For a combat exploration ship the astero, stratios and tech 3 cruisers are your best bets. Skills are not naturally published. So you would have to use a site like eve board. Just be careful with displaying/giving away to much info like asset location, implants, etc.

I have played several MMOs before, so I'm used to min/maxing. But the thing that I really like about Eve, is that it's just so different from anything I've played before. So I'm having a lot of fun trying to digest all this information!I really want to do lots of different things, so I don't want to specialize yet.

Could you tell me about space trucking? I haven't heard about that before. I've just traded a bit, done a bit of mining, some exploring and a bit of mission running. Also, is ratting doing missions? I've heard that you can also be a pirate - which seems kinda fun :D There is a lot of different things in this game, but I just don't know where to start doing it all :P

Space trucking is literally just that. Moving stuff through space. Nothing in eve moves by itself so there are people who all they do are courier contracts moving stuff from point a,v,c and t. Personally I never understood the appeal but I know a few individuals who do it 23/7 and can talk your ear off about dodged gangs, etc.

Ratting is pretty much killing npcs without traveling much. People in low/null sec would go around to gates and belts killing rats akenpcs. Now a days the term also applies to killing rats in anomalies. Which are just sites where rats spawn at. Missioning isn't the same because it's not allstate a kill objective and often times you have to leave the system to go somewhere else to complete it.

Space pirating is not what it used to be but definitely do able. It's usually done by an innocent looking ship stealing your loot and gearing a suspect flag. You look at the ship and are like man I got this. Only to have this happen. Instead of killing them you can just hold them there for ran some. People usually don't pay anymore because they're rarely honored.

Thanks a lot again! This really helps me out <3