Have tried several times. Still not sure how to even pick correct faction or what path to go down. Look for corp, etc. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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There is no correct faction. The only influence your faction has is your character aesthetics, your starting skills, and your starting location in New Eden. From there, you can train into whatever you like, fly whatever you like, etc.
For a starting path, do the following:
- The tutorial (if you haven’t done so already).
- The career agents (see The Agency, under Activities in the Neocom menu). Do all branches and see which career path(s) you enjoy. This will also provide you with some free ships and skillbooks.
- The AIR Career Program (also under Activities in the Neocom menu).
As for a corporation, you’d probably do well to join EVE University, which will get you started with a good support network.
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Hatch nailed it.
The factions don’t matter, you will get 3 characters per account and there are 4 factions. CCP allows us to apply multiple accounts to one email. I have 2 accounts with 6 characters total. The factions have nothing to do with anything but background, in case you like to roleplay.
Amarr is religious zealots who believe they are God’s gift to the universe.
Caldari is a police state government.
Federation is the royals, you are either super rich ( like me ) or not.
Minmatar are the former slaves of Amarr and tribal warlords, kind of Mad Max in space.
No matter what you pick, they can go anywhere, learn to fly all the ships, and even join pirate factions. Most players will pick Caldari only because they start near Jita ( the largest trade hub ) out of 5 trade hubs. The Minmatar are the least picked because their space is most remote.
Join or create a corp as soon as possible, tax on missions is 11% in all NPC corps. Use the utility to find a zero tax corp or make your own. What you do to is up to you.
Have fun!
How to pick a faction in Eve as a Newbro:
- Make a character you won’t care about.
- Go to the Ship Tree and find the faction with ships you like looking at.
- If current character is not in that faction, make a new one in that faction.
- All characters are ugly, and mostly only ever represented as profile pics, so go with the ships you like to fly.
- Profit?
After that, do the tutorial. Let me say again, do the tutorial!!! I cannot stress enough the importance of the tutorial in Eve, as 90% of all questions asked in Rookie Help are answered in the tutorial that most people skip. I’ve taken multiple multi-year breaks from Eve since my first character in 2005, and I do the tutorial again every time I come back just to refresh.
Once you’ve done the tutorial, do all the Career Agent missions, there’s 10 each. You don’t need a fancy ship for those, they’ll give you what you need to run them.
My suggestion on corp differs here. I’d highly recommend joining the Recruitment channel for whatever language you speak, hit the + in your chat window to join new channels, and find a newbie friendly PvP corp and learn to fight other players. Just tell them what you’re looking for and someone will try to recruit you. Even if you choose not to become a full time PvP pilot, knowing even a little bit of what you’re doing there will save you billions of ISK down the road.
Above all remember these rules:
- Never undock in any ship you’re not willing to lose.
- If it sounds like a good deal, you’re being scammed.
- You are only safe docked in a station. There’s nothing preventing someone from blowing you up on a whim, only consequences for doing so in some areas.
Welcome to EvE, where it’s Everyone vs. Everything.
You should play Caldari or Amarr. The caldari are a ”tribal” faction where the tribes are megacorporations. They’ve spent the last couple centuries defending themselves from the imperialistic gallente. The Amarr are the oldest spacefaring civilisation of the four empires, and heavily religious, their practices focused on uplifting others through slavery. The Gallente are an imperialistic ”democracy” (elections are indefinitely suspended) that expands and consumes all it touches. It’s controlled by megacorporations, but unlike the Caldari megas where loyalty goes both ways (the mega nurtures its people in return for their service to the mega), the Gallente megas are just monopolistic and exploitative. The Minmatar are barbarian savages who organise in tribes and wage terrorist campaigns against their betters rather than try to make something of themselves and the independence the Gallente won for them.
I bet you say that, only because, I because I killed my mother over my father’s inheritance. However you have to understand, she hired someone to kill me first. It is all about freedom.
Have fun!
Best advice I’ve heard in a very long time!
You are going to lose ships as you learn. Learn the basics of the game. You will need to find a playstyle that fits “you”. Look for corps that you fit in with. Playstyles that you like all while alpha. Then decide if the game is right for you and start a new toon with all those lessons learned.
They might try to say otherwise and lie to you about the other factors.
I can share with you a secret,
Minmatar have tge best pilot options and we are all better than the other 3 factors by a long shot.
Become a Minmatar pilot today!
What was, was worth paying for. What we have now is up to player discretion.
But I heard a rumor/that I just made up/ that she was really your fathers, brothers, cousins college roomate. What has this to do with anything? Absolutely nothing…\
Prit Chem, yeah it all can be overwhelming. Find the race that you like, makes no difference anyways in the long run. I tried a couple or three different toons. Biomassed each in turn. Until Landed on the faction and race I liked the best.
As for looking for a corp. A good rule to go by, If someone drops a message into mailbox and you decline and they keep spamming you. Do not join. A good percentage will never mail you.. Absolute Order (AO) Gen. Lee is famous for scooping a new player up. Unless you are comfortable role playing Germany 1940 a little to much. Ignore and block him. But that is a strong suggestion.
As for choosing what to do take your time. Those first L1 missions are designed to get your feet wet and make a little Isk as well. You will get ships as you go along. So do not sweat it to much. I would as I am member of Eve University. I would be remiss in not plugging it. It is the oldest teaching/learning corp in the game. It can be a good place to learn. There are others. Eve Uni happens to be the oldest.
Again do not rush into joining any corp until you have researched and decided on what you want to do.
Dotlan.com and zkill.com are your friends. Eve wiki can be an invaluable tool for looking up something. Eve Rookie Channel is there for a reason. They will answer any question you might have. Even a question that has been asked by every new capsuleer since the beginning of the game.
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