You should maybe look into something called Eve University. It's a corporation in the game dedicated to teaching new players.
And on that point, wiki.eveuniversity.org is what I always go back to for damn near everything. They have suggested fittings for ships, even separated down to what you want to do with it (ratting, salvaging, mission running, losec/hisec mining, whatever).
When you guys first started playing, did it seem like you spent a whole lot more time reading than playing? Maybe it's the type A in me, but I like ordered, layered learning as opposed to just diving in... am I doing it wrong in your opinions?
I did a lot more doing. It led to a lot of mistakes, honestly. I made two products in bulk that ended up losing me money, just because I made mistakes in calculations and didn't understand production in general. As I've practiced more (by doing, mind you), I've learned what will gain profit and what won't, and how to measure that. Mix both, depending on your niche. If you're pew pew, read a lot, by all means. Losing your precious ship and equipment sucks. Understanding what you can handle and all would be beneficial.
$17.50 = 1 Plex 1 Plex = 3500AUR (or roughly 580mil ISK) 1AUR = $.005 2000AUR will buy you a fucking shirt? An almost $10 in game item.
If you want to succeed you almost have to spend a lot of time reading. Either that or get lucky. The game requires a significant amount of dedication to play.
Questions about PLEX and alts... When is it worth it to buy PLEX>ISK? What is an alt? The extra character slots under my paid account or a new subscription/account completely? In other words does a paid account = 3 playable character slots (or do you have to buy a new sub to play the extra slots)? And do the 2 extra slots = alts (or are alts considered a completely new paid account)? Are alts necessary/worthwhile? I'd like to create 2 extra players and specialize in other things (Explorer, Market trader, PvP), but not bad enough that I'm willing to pay extra subscriptions.
You can use those other slots but can only train one character per account at a time. So basically, you need an account for each character you want to train. An alt usually refers to an alternate character which in this game basically requires another account. I'm not sure I understand your question about plex being worth it. A plex will sell for about 550 million isk last I checked the market and costs like $20 for one and $35 for 2 and gets cheaper as you buy more at a time. If you have more real money than time or ability to earn isk it can be worth it.
Sorry I'm still unclear... I understand I can only play/train one capsuleer at a time, but to play/train my two empty capsuleer slots (the two empty portrait boxes I see when I login) - do I have to pay another $15/mo each to create/play/train them? Or are they included in my original $15/mo? Maybe I'm confusing the terminology. Is a noob likely to lose the stuff they buy w/ it and have to rebuy later? Am I better off getting a better grasp of the game before I invest in it? If I were to load up on skill points and "insure" my skill gains w/ a good android in case I get killed... or buy a better ship, outfit it w better equipment (and also insure it at the platinum level)... am I pretty safe/covered or am I missing something?
Ok when I say train I mean training a skill. Only one character per account can be training a skill at a time. You can play any of the 3 characters you are allowed on an account but they all can't train skills. So you can login and do shit in the game on up to 3 characters for each account but 2 of the 3 will not be gaining any new abilities or power. With regards to buying plex if there is something you need to buy you can't afford to, go ahead but, all the expensive ships you can't even use right now so you only even need so much money. You could train to be able to use learning implants that increase your learning attributes which reduces your training time. That is definitely worth it if you have money to buy a plex.
Can you store ISK somewhere or do you always carry it with you? I'm starting to finish up the agent learning missions and am wondering when I start going out into less secure space if I get attacked will I lose my ISK? Any tips/hints?
ISK won't ever be lost in that fashion. You can make it work for you though, if you have enough of it. Private loans through enforceable contracts with returns, although I've never done it so far. Side note: fucked up by getting interested in running missions, lost about 10mil fitting up a cruiser and then getting my shit stuffed by level 2 security rats. I just don't have the side skills to be any good at pew pew yet, especially whatever affects my targeting and tracking.
Yeah isk is just permanently with you. You'll never lose isk only what you bring into space. So don't fly anything you can't afford to lose if you are not in high sec. Also even in high sec you can be killed if you make it worth people's while to lose their ship for it. That's not something you'll likely need to worry about for a while though.
Haven't played much this week w the holidays, but just about finished w every training/agent mission and leveling up skills in the meantime. Looking at joining a corp that fits into the RPG aspect of the game I enjoy. Really annoyed with how the RP aspect is invaded by the whole PvP aspect/player base... The Assassin Hit Squad, Murk Yo Ass Inc, You Dun Goofed Elite, or whatever meme centric faggotry the gamers/FPS dipshits think is cool, they should just stick to COD. I hate, hate, hate that shit. I enjoy story, the long game, role playing... not just kill/death ratios and being all Korean/Russian with it (no creativity, button mashing).
Do you just want to pve or something? Pretend you are a caldari fighting the evil gallente? I'm not sure I get what exactly you are looking to do that they might interrupt.
Not so much interrupt, just the overwhelming unignorable presence that doesn't fit with the story, created world, aspects of the game I enjoy. When I see someone is a member of the "Butt Pirate Federation", I ask myself do I really wanna play with these guys? And those types of internet cliched gamers seem to be the dominant player types in the game. I wanna play exclusively with people that take all aspects kinda seriously, get into the role playing aspect of the created world... not the guys who have pink M4's in COD and have 4chan handles.
That's kind of a problem in just about all MMOs. Most of the people aren't going to be heavily concerned about the roleplay value. There are plenty of entities that will though so.
Finally suited up my Retriever, so project solo hisec afk mining is a go. Manufacturing is proceeding as planned, total net worth is just under 100 mil, and I refuse to take the route two of my friends did and buy PLEX to get a jumpstart. Screw turning real money into fake money.
Yeah I understand, just venting. The inverse is also obviously true since EVE is one of/the largest MMO communities, by default it has more players that will take it seriously as well as those that don't.
Well when you mine an asteroid after you activate the mining laser it keeps mining till you run out of cargo room or the asteroid is gone so you can go afk and come back to empty your cargo hold and reactivate the mining laser. Can do it basically afk in hi sec.
Did you already set up an account, not just a trial? With the buddy program thing, if you sign up through a link I send, it'll send me PLEX, which I'd then sell off and give half back to you. Just sayin'.
If there's a solid group of TMBers that start playing this together I may consider downloading it again.
If anyone has any questions don't hesitate to post them here. I've also got a teamspeak server if typing is a pain and you want to chat or something while you play.