# What would you tell your past self on their first day of EVE Online? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 26, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749 "2024-08-26T18:29:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![James\_Fuchs](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/james_fuchs/32/504955_2.png) [@James\_Fuchs](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/James_Fuchs)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/1 "2024-08-26T18:29:22Z")
What would it be? With interstellar regards -James Fuchs ---
**Author:** ![Salartarium](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/salartarium/32/468818_2.png) [@Salartarium](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Salartarium)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/2 "2024-08-26T18:35:46Z")
She’s just playing games. ---
**Author:** ![Joshua\_Calvert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/joshua_calvert/32/513985_2.png) [@Joshua\_Calvert](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Joshua_Calvert)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/3 "2024-08-26T18:46:34Z")
Buy Apple shares. ---
**Author:** ![Felix\_Frostpacker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/felix_frostpacker/32/515826_2.png) [@Felix\_Frostpacker](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Felix_Frostpacker)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/4 "2024-08-26T19:33:14Z")
Just remember that Princess Aiko is an illusion 🍿 ---
**Author:** ![Aiko\_Danuja](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aiko_danuja/32/481237_2.png) [@Aiko\_Danuja](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aiko_Danuja)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/5 "2024-08-26T19:47:49Z")
"Yes, you are correct - your psychic powers will give you a huge advantage, and you are the greatest player in the history of EvE Online. " ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/6 "2024-08-26T19:49:31Z")
> [@Felix\_Frostpacker](#): > > Princess Aiko is an illusion 🍿 Are you saying Aiko is just the product of your imagination? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Ex-Girlfriend](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/your_ex-girlfriend/32/429252_2.png) [@Your\_Ex-Girlfriend](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Your_Ex-Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/7 "2024-08-26T19:50:23Z")
Read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and find the Guide’s entry on the Population of the Universe. 😇 # “It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.” ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/8 "2024-08-26T19:57:15Z")
> [@Your\_Ex-Girlfriend](#): > > deranged imagination.” That’s one convoluted way of insulting the Frostpacker, I guess fitting his theme as a form of wordsalad. 🤭 ---
**Author:** ![Tsuiroha](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tsuiroha/32/482434_2.png) [@Tsuiroha](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tsuiroha)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/9 "2024-08-26T19:57:22Z")
“Good players are going to offer you opportunities you may never get again. Take them.” ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Ex-Girlfriend](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/your_ex-girlfriend/32/429252_2.png) [@Your\_Ex-Girlfriend](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Your_Ex-Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/10 "2024-08-26T19:58:16Z")
About that offer I made to double your isk… 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Felix\_Frostpacker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/felix_frostpacker/32/515826_2.png) [@Felix\_Frostpacker](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Felix_Frostpacker)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/11 "2024-08-26T20:05:37Z")
Who ever your EX is, tell them that they are an idiot. /ie go back in the past and tell them that they are an idiot for breaking up with you! ---
**Author:** ![Anthony\_FatTony\_Amico](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anthony_fattony_amico/32/391106_2.png) [@Anthony\_FatTony\_Amico](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anthony_FatTony_Amico)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/12 "2024-08-26T20:26:09Z")
That if you have 0 capacitor the ship won’t explode automatically. ---
**Author:** ![Von\_DeMoreno](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/von_demoreno/32/491525_2.png) [@Von\_DeMoreno](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Von_DeMoreno)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/13 "2024-08-26T21:54:44Z")
Learn what a pap is, because it governs everything, for better or worse. ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_Aihaken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arthur_aihaken/32/504104_2.png) [@Arthur\_Aihaken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arthur_Aihaken)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/14 "2024-08-27T01:35:24Z")
Make an offering to Bob. ---
**Author:** ![Hakoke\_Anzomi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/hakoke_anzomi/32/431604_2.png) [@Hakoke\_Anzomi](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Hakoke_Anzomi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/15 "2024-08-27T09:33:49Z")
> [@James\_Fuchs](#): > > What would it be? Don’t bother. It’s a lose-lose situation. ---
**Author:** ![Altara\_Zemara](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/altara_zemara/32/390110_2.png) [@Altara\_Zemara](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Altara_Zemara)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/16 "2024-08-27T14:56:37Z")
> [@James\_Fuchs](#): > > What would it be? I’d focus far more on generic rather than ship specific skills. And not necessarily the ‘Magic 14’. Skills like signal analysis make a huge difference…you can halve the time it takes to lock onto other ships, for example. The full set of armour layering skills also make a huge difference to EHP for amour ships. A lot of these are things people don’t know even after a year in Eve. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Ex-Girlfriend](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/your_ex-girlfriend/32/429252_2.png) [@Your\_Ex-Girlfriend](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Your_Ex-Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/17 "2024-08-27T15:01:59Z")
> [@Altara\_Zemara](#): > > I’d focus far more on generic rather than ship specific skills. And not necessarily the ‘Magic 14’. Except the whole reason to train the Magic 14 first, as a new player, is because you don’t know what ship you want to fly, and this gives you beneficial training while you figure it out. Ship specific training only works on alts that you know exactly what they’re going to be doing. Why train Armor Layering if you’re flying Caldari? ---
**Author:** ![Akkar\_Kardashev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/akkar_kardashev/32/514189_2.png) [@Akkar\_Kardashev](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Akkar_Kardashev)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/18 "2024-08-27T15:05:08Z")
“Biomass this toon NOW and start again as Caldari; you will like missiles and eventually CCP will gimp railguns anyway” ---
**Author:** ![Altara\_Zemara](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/altara_zemara/32/390110_2.png) [@Altara\_Zemara](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Altara_Zemara)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/19 "2024-08-27T15:16:22Z")
I didn’t say the Magic 14 was pointless, only that it should really be the Magic 30 or 40 as I suspect a lot of people complete the Magic 14 and then look no further. Altara has a Navy Augoror and is fully trained in the armour skills and gets 85K EHP in that ship. My noob Omega got into the identical ship and had just 57K EHP. The difference was _entirely_ those armour layering skills. Most noobs would not realise just how _big_ a difference it makes. I’ve flown Caldari, Ammar, Gallente, etc right from the start. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Ex-Girlfriend](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/your_ex-girlfriend/32/429252_2.png) [@Your\_Ex-Girlfriend](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Your_Ex-Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749/20 "2024-08-27T15:21:22Z")
Well, hopefully you don’t actually give this ridiculous advice to new players. Nothing like wasting a couple weeks training when you’re brand new to turn people off the game. [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-would-you-tell-your-past-self-on-their-first-day-of-eve-online/459749.md?page=2)