1 Week’s after my first play note: this isn’t the character i used at my first day
Day 1:
-i tried the game called EVE online on my first day beacuse i had seen its advertisement later when i got home i downloaded the game and launched and i chose caldari as my first empire in my first character ever in EVE online i was shocked by it’s graphics beacuse it was so good but later on i found the truth of this game too while mining at low second i can’t remember why i was in low second but it made my first day worst day possible…anyhow i decided to log on to my account and do some mission but i got killed by NPC’s weapon and that was how i died anyways 1 weeks later i got better at the game and joined a corporation that was generous than all of others i experienced the only corporation that gave me free ships at begining but unfortunately this is for the later
what was your first day like in EVE?
you can share it at comment section or repply section
I can still recall undocking at Trossere with a ’ Hey…look at me, everyone…I’m flying a Venture !’ naivety. And thinking how utterly smart I was when a mission called for me to obtain some ore and I just bought the ore rather than mined it. Then I worked out that anything red in space was baddies and needed shooting, which worked out fine for Serpentis but I decided to attack some Autothysian Lancers…and amazingly my Venture survived.
LOL. I think I lasted a little longer. Maybe a couple of hours. But yeah. Confusing. Awful. This was 2009 so the NPE was more or less, “here’s a corvette, you’re in space, good luck.”
After a couple hours of misery, I:
Rage quit.
Biomassed my character.
Wrote a nastygram to CCP about how the game sucked.
Uninstalled and vowed never to play again.
A few months later, after doing some research and actually learning about EVE (instead of making a lot of faulty assumptions), I started over and had a much easier time.
No tutorial, Youtube didn’t even exist yet so no easy access to guides, no career agents, no OP Ventures, much less hand holding than we have now.
Started playing with a friend, joined a corp, got wardecced by GHSC, fled into low sec because of it, got murdered by pirates. “F this” and uninstall. Went back to my other MMO at the time but it kept gnawing on me so 2 months later decided to go at it again but this time I’d be “prepared”, I wasn’t but stuck to it anyway.
I had talked about playing EVE Online for a long time (at least a couple of years) before I actually got the game; and I finally got the game because, as a birthday present, my husband built a gaming computer for me so I could play EVE,
I was excited. I was so excited that immediately after creating my first character, I just had to push that big Undock button before going through the tutorial as it existed at that time.
I mean…what could happen? I’d die? How bad could that be?
Well, it was worse…nothing happened. I couldn’t even figure out how to dock back in the station.
I had to create a second character, Sere (the character I’m using to write this post), go through the tutorial, and eventually log out, relog and rescue Arid (my first character) who was still bobbing about outside my starter station.
Excited and a tad confused… The structure blowing up around me was unnerving as I had no clue what was going on and yelling at this aura gal to get me out of there already.
Then getting to the rendezvous point only for the bad guys to show up anyways. Then came the whole ‘what does this button do again?’. Getting blown up at the end. I looked at the screen and thought. What just happened and why?
But I was hooked. And wanted payback. I wish the storyline had continued, but so far it seems if it does continue, it is buried in one mission or another.
Then came the whole OK how does these skill points all work anyways and what do I really want to do in this game. I didn’t start out with this character. It took a couple of biomass characters as I worked out in what section of space I felt most comfortable to start in.
11 July 2011. A few hours in (with “wow nice graphics” and “ooh, cool music” and even more “how do I…”) and I started to google for manuals, you know why, lol. I came across ISK The Guide, Volume 1, and the Evelopedia.
Life, as they say, changed forever.
The graphics and sound design impressed me greatly. The UI put me off, but I forced myself to keep playing despite everything, believing that I would find a way to sort out the information mess on the screen.
I did the tutorial, then all the career agent missions from the starter NPC corporation School of Applied Knowledge. Then I did the agent missions also from the State War Academy and Science and Trade Institute. Satisfied with the ships and components I had obtained and the ISK, still unaware of how I had soured my relationships with other NPC factions (it took a while to rebuild relationships with Gallente and Minmatar…), I set off in my Merlin with 125 mm hybrid cannons loaded with iron ammo to seek adventure and loot. I attacked the Autothysian Lancers near the stargate. I humbly returned in my capsule to the station.
Not discouraged by the game, I continued to explore New Eden the next day.
My eve experience was really interesting first day I had ended up in null space about 100 jumps from Amarr space. I didn’t realize what I had being inexperienced and left.
Seeing as how Aiko was the first person I met in the forums I reached out, as a crafter in games I was always delighted doing enchantments and crafting gear for friends . I asked about if there was anything I could make, she pointed me towards catalysts and blue prints the specifics. Showed me a great facility, but made sure there was danger so I would be alert and learn. I drilled away with my Venture and produced the tritanium at first, but it was lack luster to provide just 1 mat type I was so above that. The next day I got the blue print copy and fired up the forge. Id amassed trit, Mex, Pyrite, and isogen mostly from rat junk and fired up the forge. I won’t lie I was pretty disappointed to come up with only 200 catalysts, the worst part was I couldn’t figure out how to do contracts. Took me like 2 weeks and Kara explaining it to me to triumphantly hand in those 200 ships but it was still bitter sweet as they came just towards the tail end of the harvest. I received a gift, an original cat blue print and fired up my forge for 400 cats. I’ve been building ever since, my eyes are on Tech II Navy Catalysts, so my bar is set for planetary industry to make my mats from scratch now.
My first day was installing the game from a disc on a copy of PC Gamer, only to find that this version was actually unpatchable to play on TQ (still never found out why) so i had to re-download the entire thing, this was back in 2004 so this was annoying, to login, do the tutorial, accidentally lock another player in the tutorial site and attack him to get a bugged concord timer that required GM intervention to then joining my newfound friends in 0.0 with me coughing up my card details on the 2nd day of a 3 day trial despite me swearing i would never pay to play an MMO
20 years i’m sitting here posting this on the forum while running an EVE fansite
You may have won this time CCP, but next time, i will win
I almost quit when they nerfed the Procurer…back in October/November of 2021…just 6 weeks or so after I’d started. I’d gone to all the bother of training up for the Procurer, training for mining drones, etc, got it all nicely set up with the 4 mid slots giving 80K EHP, and then within a week of that they completely nerfed the ship.
Gone was my 80K EHP…it was now more like 55K…and my align time had changed from 10 seconds to something absurd like 18 seconds.
Well…way to go, CCP, keeping noobs happy.
I sold both my Procs shortly after…and have not mined in one since. But…in a way this was all a good thing as I then focused on PvP instead, and largely gave up mining.
I spent half an hour watching someone play EVE. I didn’t understand anything, I only remember a long series of horrible blasphemies.
But I liked seeing him pissed off.
Choosing a faction (Gallente), trying to come up with a name, making a character and then a plunge into the tutorial of one of the least intuitive games I’ve played.
I liked it, but it was confusing too.
I don’t think I had enough time the first day to complete the career agent missions, but luckily I quickly found rookie help chat and the EVE uni wiki to read through, so once I finished the career missions my next days in EVE were mostly spent mining while reading.
I kept seeing the game mentioned in various gaming publications over the years and always thought it was too late to bother now, then in 2011 decided to just give it a try without any expectations that it would wven survive.
My first day was tutorial and death. I was hooked.
