Sod it I think i'm gonna resub in a couple of months. Unfortunately my toons will be stuck in hostile deep 0.0, so I'm hoping a DM will kindly move both accounts worth of toons to high sec where I can relearn the game.
EHKOS said:
Well, I guess this is good press seeing as it convinced me to try the trial. I wonder how many other space pirates have named their ship Serenity....
Just try not to be one of those ppl who repeatedly starts trial accounts every couple of months and never getting anywhere. As losing your ship doesn't make the time spent getting the isk to build / buy it a waste of time, it's like darksouls in that regard, no there are only 2 ways wasted effort in Eve, #1 lost time in skill training, so forgetting to log in and keeping your toon learning new skills all the time, or wasting time on skills you don't need. Just messing around with trial accounts is the ultimate waste of time as your toon is wiped clean everytime.
So if you're playing Eve and undecided on if you'll like the game, Add another 30 days to your trial. For starters if you quit and decide to play again in the future you can use the same toon. Plus you will find alot of the best corps have no interest in trials and ppl with under a month playtime. If you give the game alittle longer you should start to see the better sapects of Eve open up, as the game doesn't show its full colours until you are 2-3 months into the game. Not that you won't beable to find lots to do to keep yourself busy but you will find yourself playing a supporting role. If you want to fight fleet battle like in the vid, then try out Eve University for a taster, but after that you will want to get into a 0.0 owning corp, when I played the game most had an requirement of a toon trained up for battleships, the standard ship of a fleet battle. It will take you 2-3 months of skill training atleast before you can fly one properlly.
The other way of wasting your time is loosing your main PVE ship that is the best way of generating ISK, there are several tiers for ISK generation and it can take a while advancing to the next tier, loosing your main PVE ship can set you back to earning peanuts until you can replace it. Having a well stocked hanger is a must. And while you can lose your ships in the game, if you are PVEing loosing one is usually down to stupidity and laziness or not knowing the rules, Or been in a corp at war.
You race is important for PVP too, as many fleet commanders don't want missile armed ships in their battle fleet (as it takes time for the missiles to hit the target and by that time the insta hit weapons will have destroyed it. So if you pick Caldari who most of thseir ships are missile boats you wont beable to fly them in fleet battles, and while you still have a small selection of gun ships they are expensive to buy. That said Caldari missile ships rock at PVE like mission running, when I played the game the (missile) Drake was the only battlecruiser able to run lv4 missions, they are much cheaper to buy and dont take as long to train to fly compared to Battleships which is the main lv4 mission running ship
I'd suggest you start an alt account too, even if its just trial accounts, as you can do so much more, especially if you get it into an hauler. The best way to play Eve is to have 2 accounts 1 with skills for PVE (Caldari) and the other training up for PVP, specialising will let you do those things quicker, a jack of all trades toon is something to avoid for newcommers. Also if your'e running 2 accounts top 0.0 corps you apply to join will take you more seriously. Plus you will have more fun running dual accounts at the same time and its much safer in 0.0 / low sec
sorry for the wall of text but tips on Eve is something difficult to put across in one paragraph.
EDIT BTW you can be an pirate in the game, it's a good way of making money while pvping, attack ships in low sec and ransom them, especially their escape capsule as if that is destroyed theylose an small % of their last skill trained, so if it was a major skill they wont want to get podded.