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Crompton Aberforth
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.01.04 02:04:00 -
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After holding out for a loooong time, I have finally succumbed and agreed to sign up for a trial period of Eve. It is day three for me and I am wading through the tuturials. I continually have hair-pulling moments when I am stuck with no idea of where to go next. Luckily I have a committed assistant at my beck and call to help me through the muddied waters. I'm sure a lot of others are not so fortunate, so I thought I would share some of my frustrations as I go along, in the hope the powers that be can take pity and improve the support offered. Alternatively, others might want to comment on this thread about their own issues and how they overcame them.
Career Advancement Tutorials - the blurb suggests you can do these in any order you like. I believed them and headed straight to those offered by Antongase Pandon (Business). All was well until he sent me on a mining mission without any mining equipment or know-how. The support tuturial offered by Aura related to the second part of the mission which was to refine some Veldspar, and this part was hunky dory. Solution: I headed off to the market and purchased a Miner 1, which I then had to fit to my ship before heading back to the mining site to complete the task.
Career Advancement Tutorials - Today I was working on a misson for Potillot Mumnier (Exploration). Tutorial help is offered by Rulie Isoryn who briefly mentioned that pirates call part of the gates a 'room' but I didn't understand what she meant. The instructions told me to head to the third room, but that meant nothing to me, so I lost more hair (lol). Solution: Committed Assistant explained the 'rooms' are the locations as you move through the gates. You warp to room one, 'activate the gate' to get through the gate into room two, and then activate the next gate to get into room three (and so on). To get to the third room, I had to go through two gates. (Clear as mud!)
I'll keep you posted on anything else that yanks my chain. |
Crompton Aberforth
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.01.04 04:20:00 -
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Career Advancement Tutorials - Exploration: Aura teaches you to use the scanner to locate signatures and explains how you can change your settings to 'Ignore all other results'. This is really helpful as the original list can be quite lengthy. What Aura doesn't tell you is how to get the original list up again. I needed this because I stupidly clicked on the wrong type of signature for my rookie mission. Solution: To the left of the 'Scan Result Filter' heading there is a little lined box icon. Simply click on the box and select 'Clear all ignored results'. Clue for next time: don't let myself get distracted. |
Crompton Aberforth
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.01.06 01:23:00 -
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Career Advancement Tutorials - Military. In the second mission Aura pops up to give some help. Aura mentions that so far I have been using a gun that didn't need ammunition. This isn't accurate as I have been using the Light Electron Blaster I and needed to buy Antimatter Charge S for it. Solution: over to the Devs on this one..... |
Crompton Aberforth
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.01.06 01:49:00 -
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Career Advancement Tutorials - Military. Mission 3 out of 10 in 'Cash flow for Capsuleers' has me a little perplexed. After accepting the mission, Aura popped up to tell me to check whether I have an agent-gifted Stasis Webifier and if not go and buy one. I haven't been given one so went to the market and looked it up. The prerequisites for using this item is 'Propulsion Jamming' skill, which I don't have yet. Guess what the reward for this mission is? Yep.... the Agent (Berlimaute Remintgarnes)is offering me the 'Propulsion Jamming' skill at the end of my mission.
Solution: go and buy the skill and train it up so I can run the mission, then later on sell the one the agent provides to me.
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Crompton Aberforth
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.01.06 12:30:00 -
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Career Advancement Tutorials - Military. Mission 7 out of 10 in 'Cash Flow for Capsuleers' had me struggling, and I am now a frustrated wreck of a trainee. I was still flying a Navitas with 75 mm Gatling Rail using Antimatter Charge S, a Civilian Afterburner (Civilian was necessary as I don't have any skills for anything else yet) and the Small Armour Repairer provided as part of the mission.
Warping into the misson deadspace, I got inundated with 'baddies' and proceeded to try and pick them off one by one. Unfortunately due to the hits I was taking (and the subsequent pulsing of the repairer), my capacitor kept exhausting before I could pick more than one of my targets off, so I had to warp keep warping out while my capacitor recharged. Twice I had to go home for repairs. Originally I warped back to my Captain's Quarter but thought there might be a better/quicker option than this.
Solution 1: I swapped my Navitas to a ship in my hangar with a bigger capacitor.
Solution 2: I set a co-ordinate for a distance about 1 million kilometres away from the misson deadspace and then warped back to there each time while I licked my wounds.
I not only got through the mission, but amazingly I still earned the Agent's time bonus. Yay! |
Crompton Aberforth
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.04.14 08:47:00 -
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Well it's been a few months since I did my EVE tutorials and started this thread. It's great that others got some value out of it, and added their own concerns. I have persevered wtih EVE and consider myself to be a hi-sec care bear. I haven't joined a corp, preferring to do my own thing, however from time to time I join a fleet with the other half and their corp mates.
Skills can take a long time to train and initially I injected everything which I came across in the tutorials up to Level 2 or 3. This is fine until you decide what you want to specialise in. Then you have to decide what floats your boat. Do you like blowing stuff up? Do you like the adrenalin rush of trying not to be blown up by some yellow coloured player looking for bait? Do you like the ability to mine and go AFK while the mining lasers cycle, and come back when your can/ship is full? Do you want to explore? Do you want to do research? When you decide what thing (or things) you are passionate about it is time to take the related skills to Level 5.
I've been concentrating on a couple of things so as not to spread myself too thin. I want to be the master of something, and not just an all rounder. I've honed my salvaging skills and am running around in a cool Noctis that can hoover the loot in faster than my fleet mate can blow it up! As well as that I am working my way toward being a Tycoon, and am building up my market skills so I can buy and sell everything that even sniffs of a good deal, with the aim of making heaps of ISK.
I'm tempted to breathe life into one of my two alts so I can go do the tutorials again. That will reinforce my knowledge of EVE, as I'm not sure I took it all in the first time being a noob and all.
I am the space cadet your mother warned you about. |
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