# How Can I BEST Help New Eve Online Players? :parrotdad: **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040 "2021-01-20T14:36:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DeMichael\_Crimson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/demichael_crimson/32/514115_2.png) [@DeMichael\_Crimson](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DeMichael_Crimson)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/21 "2021-01-20T17:23:34Z")
And have them join you in Fleet. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Vlad\_Tepes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/count_vlad_tepes/32/252106_2.png) [@Count\_Vlad\_Tepes](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Count_Vlad_Tepes)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/22 "2021-01-20T17:26:24Z")
> [@DeMichael\_Crimson](#): > > have them join you I’ve done this for years. There’s got to be a bigger scale idea out there. 💝 Does Eve University still exist? ---
**Author:** ![tutucox\_Khamsi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tutucox_khamsi/32/430743_2.png) [@tutucox\_Khamsi](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/tutucox_Khamsi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/23 "2021-01-20T17:37:21Z")
show them a whole new world, a new fantastic point of view ---
**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/24 "2021-01-20T17:57:17Z")
Dont be silly. ---
**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/25 "2021-01-20T17:58:02Z")
Lol sorry Mike forgot about your tailoring business. ---
**Author:** ![Kezrai\_Charzai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kezrai_charzai/32/394578_2.png) [@Kezrai\_Charzai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kezrai_Charzai)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/26 "2021-01-20T18:10:56Z")
I’d say the best bet is to hang out in a couple starter systems, possibly in the corp channel for that system, and just let new players know in chat that you’re planning on putting a small cheap fleet together for some fun. Just to get out and do something. Tell them how to fit out a cheap ship, set their home clone, not have any expensive implants, and then filament the fleet into Null or Pochven, or jump them all through a WH, or as DeMichael said take them on an anomaly run. Take them on a poke into low sec and see who’s the last one to get ganked. Basically just organize something they haven’t done before, get them working together, and show them that getting blown up and hopping back to your home system and re-shipping is part of game play. ---
**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/27 "2021-01-20T18:15:01Z")
A really simple answer, OP: teach them not to be wussies. There’s a small window available to instruct these people on a proper EVE mindset, and if you miss it, they’ll join a shitty high-sec carebear corporation, and their minds are going to be corrupted by losers who tell them to log off and play another game any time they encounter any sort of hardship (player or NPC, it doesn’t matter). How you spend time with them, how much of it, and in what capacity is all circumstantial (can be PvP or PvE, but **avoid** mining), but your _goal_ should always be to instill a mindset of curiosity instead of fear. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Vlad\_Tepes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/count_vlad_tepes/32/252106_2.png) [@Count\_Vlad\_Tepes](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Count_Vlad_Tepes)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/28 "2021-01-20T18:16:14Z")
> [@Destiny\_Corrupted](#): > > but **avoid** mining I don’t like to mine but it’s a huge part of the economy. ---
**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/29 "2021-01-20T18:16:57Z")
Tell them to do it on an alt when they’ve learned the rest of the game and have the background info to be able to make rational decisions. ---
**Author:** ![Tipa\_Riot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tipa_riot/32/443513_2.png) [@Tipa\_Riot](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tipa_Riot)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/30 "2021-01-20T18:18:27Z")
Point them to the great NPSI communities like Bombers Bar and Spectre fleet … or if you are German speaking, Black Rise public fleet. ---
**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/31 "2021-01-20T18:47:33Z")
As a newbie I enjoyed mining! It allowed me to make enough ISK to buy skillbooks or new ships in case I needed them, which meant I had the means to come back after a loss. But the best thing about mining was that it allowed me time to read up on EVE in the mean time. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Abaris\_Fagimasad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/abaris_fagimasad/32/280867_2.png) [@Abaris\_Fagimasad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Abaris_Fagimasad)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/32 "2021-01-20T23:44:05Z")
Might I shamelessly plug EVE University here? No corporation is perfect, but I’m so glad to have access to their resources and classes. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Vlad\_Tepes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/count_vlad_tepes/32/252106_2.png) [@Count\_Vlad\_Tepes](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Count_Vlad_Tepes)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/34 "2021-01-21T01:48:46Z")
> [@Mike\_Azariah](#): > > (post withdrawn by author) That ain’t nice. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Azariah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mike_azariah/32/512626_2.png) [@Mike\_Azariah](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mike_Azariah)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/35 "2021-01-21T02:06:06Z")
The removal was an accident, then I reconsidered my post and felt that it was more bragging than being helpful. > [@Operation Magic School Bus](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/operation-magic-school-bus/5352): > > If you are in the career systems keep an eye on local. I drop in, (Usually 2x a week), and hand out free fitted frigates/destroyers and even the occasional cruiser as appropriate to the location and age of pilot. This initiative is sponsored by older players who have donate isk and materials to give the new players a hand up. If you are under 30 days old as a pilot? Speak up before i leave and you will get a ship, wait till I say ‘later gators’ and you will have to wait until next time I pass… you talk, you help but give them things that they can learn from. That is why the Bus gives fitted ships and does the occasional field trip. They learn nothing from isk. m ---
**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/36 "2021-01-21T02:06:42Z")
I managed to catch Mike’s _actual_ post before the edit, pasted below: “Take them to Thera and bathe them in the blood of the diggers. The barge’s wings are clipped and it drags its flightless body on the ground, begging for the final blow. Do not provide indulgence; it must atone. The dark ones arise as the crow flies at midnight, and take their souls to fertile Pochva. The meat remains to rot, but gives birth to a golden egg. And when the shell is shed, they arise anew, serving their Queen, of the three, and the fifteen.” And then just a bunch of triangle symbols. Not sure what any of it means, but when I posted that, I felt really strange, and got the urge to run to the kitchen and start eating salt right out of the shaker. I can’t stop. Help. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Azariah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mike_azariah/32/512626_2.png) [@Mike\_Azariah](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mike_Azariah)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/37 "2021-01-21T02:09:37Z")
Nothing wrong with salt, a LOT of Eve was built upon it. But I fly with Edencom (as far as I can remember) m ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/38 "2021-01-21T07:30:08Z")
``` ~ ~ │\☻.╤╾ 〇̲___(EDENCOM)════ /̲"̲̅"̲̅"̲̅"̲̅ ̲̅ ̲̅ ̲̅ ̲̅ ̲̅ ̲̅ ̲̅ ̲̅▔̲̅╲̲ '╲⊙̲⊙̲⊙̲⊙̲⊙̲⊙̲⊙̲⊙̲╱ ``` ---
**Author:** ![Karak\_Terrel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/karak_terrel/32/373453_2.png) [@Karak\_Terrel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Karak_Terrel)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 7:56am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/39 "2021-01-21T07:56:37Z")
Gank them to free them out of their catatonic PvE activities, and then help them to get back to the real EVE (PvP). ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Vlad\_Tepes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/count_vlad_tepes/32/252106_2.png) [@Count\_Vlad\_Tepes](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Count_Vlad_Tepes)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/40 "2021-01-21T23:44:15Z")
> [@Karak\_Terrel](#): > > the real EVE (PvP) Such a limited perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Mortlake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mortlake/32/510240_2.png) [@Mortlake](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mortlake)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-best-help-new-eve-online-players/291040/41 "2021-01-22T00:13:57Z")
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