Hello!
As title suggests, i am new to the game and jumped on with 0 experience. Upon start up the game looked pretty good. Plenty of UI customisation, Clear communications and prompts aswell as sizing/ layout was done well by default.
However after changing my Graphics/screen settings the game bugged and i was no longer able to continue the tutorial as the ‘next’ button was no longer responsive when clicked. i was able to find a way to skip tutorial and join the full game.
I explained the problem in rookie help and was shortly gifted a million coins and messaged by a ‘GM’ who gifted me what looks like a starter pack containing a few ships to aid me in playing eve. From there he suggested i join ‘sisters of eve’.
I joined the clan and was messaged by the guy to do a scholarship program where i learn the game. From there he took me through wormholes to a base in the middle of nowhere and gifted me a ship. He then got in a healing ship that healed me and filled capacitors for me to fight a narcotics warehouse.
We were able to beat the narcotics warehouse and received a drop worth 32million coins, i then requested split between us 3 and received 9 million coins. (coins is isk). However after completeing the encounter i was at a random base 66 jumps away from the starting point and my closest mission was very far away.
I went and mined and did some combat however where i was it was 0.6 to -0.4 and i was trying to mine in beginner venture so i was getting attacked often and taking alot of damage. i went to a level 0.8 area where a rare event shortly spawned and 2 hit my ship into the grave. i stopped mining at this point because i then believed mining is group content.
from there i was down much more then i had made from mining and decided to try pvm with the ship the scholarship guy gave me. The ship was strong and completely kitted out. It could handle small encounters and some waves of enemies. the combat in it felt pretty okay. I was able to do damage.
I had at this point put a few levels in to turrets and relevant abilities but most of the combat i was facing was 0.4 to -0.4 so my ship was struggling. i was making 12-36k coins per kill averaging 20 minutes per hideout with a yield of 600k. the ships cost is 20 million and the amount of times i get close to death is scary. the 2 million varient is significantly weaker and would not have a chance of defeating a -0.4 hideout.
After a day of struggling to find a viable method to make coins i ran into the issue of the lasers that i was buying had run out. So i was stuck unable to pvm and running veldspar was risky in 0.4 areas as npcs often attack and my venture cannot defend itself. I reached out in rookie chat and was met with a private message that helped alot.
So the area i was in i was selling ores for cheaper and paying more for most tier 1 items. The area is almost covered in nullsec so getting in and out of the area is alot of jumps if you want to be safe. The person i was talking to said i had been exploited at this stage for cheap ore and expensive tier 1 weapons.
I had then worked out what it ment by the average price in grey text. I had luckily not changed my home portal so i could die and return to main base area where i would be able to buy weapons and sell ores for a normal price.
From there i had also learnt it is 100x easier to select chips on the right hand tab then actually clicking the ship. That should be number 1 info you give to new players 100%. After learning that i was able to fight ships 10x easier and teleport away quicker and safer.
Overall the game is pretty fun, has alot of content and activities, there is pvp and pve aspects. The ‘sisters of eve’ group probably shouldnt be adverted by GMs and if they were adverting a group it should be at the starting areas of each trade hub for each faction to prevent players in sisters of eve taking you to the middle of nowhere. The activity was fun and paid alot but being stuck in nullsec area is not worth it.
