BattleClinics_EVE_Guide_March07.pdf

March 2007

BattleClinic’s EvE-Online New Player Guide

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BattleClinic’s EvE-Online New Player Guide

Introduction

The following information has been obtained from numerous sources including our own

personal experience, the BattleClinic forums, and other EVE-related message boards. We’ve

updated this guide from its original publishing in 2004. We hope you enjoy this information

as much as we have had compiling it for you. And don’t forget, for additional on-line help,

guides, tutorials, tools, and forums, visit battleclinic.com.

You will find additional new-player guides at the Eve-Online official site, and of course the

in-game tutorial is now an excellent source of information for new players. We strongly

recommend that you invest time in the game’s tutorial. Who knows…you might find a

reward waiting for you at the end!

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BattleClinic’s EvE-Online New Player Guide

Ultra-Quick Start for New Players

Here’s a compilation of advice from new players for those of you who are completely ADD.

 After you learn how to fly frigates, jump into a cruiser and leave the destroyers for

people that will be killed by cruisers. ~ spanishleo

 Go through the Tutorial and starter agents with your first Character. Then start

thinking about what you want to do... ~ somas

 Don't be afraid to try, even if it means you lose a ship. The best time to learn is

early. ~ metalmonkeymood

 Find yourself a decent player corporation as soon as possible. It will transform the

game for you. ~ Mr Scrapie

 Your first priority in game should be to get all 6 basic Learning skills. Get them all to

at least level 3 before you do ANYTHING else. This will also give you time to choose

a direction you want to go in the game.. ~ Llanthas Freedark

 * Watch local! ~ taB

 Combat = 25% skills, 25% ship setup, and 50% tactics. You can take down a 3 year

old player in a battleship by using a frigate - see the above formula.. ~

FragSyndrome

 A bad ship loadout will lose the fight before you ever undock.. ~ MrCue

 Ask questions, lots of them. You would be surprised the number of people that like

to answer questions.. ~ Xaintrix

 If you get into a fight and click default orbit you might get a nasty shock, if you

haven’t set it correctly, when your ship turns away from the target and goes off in

some random direction out of your weapon range. Your sudden change or direction

and slower speed as you turn will make you a lot easier to hit and if you’re easier to

hit you’re easier to kill. ~ Merrick Tolkien

 Don't sell anything until you have checked you can't make more money by

processing the item to ore first.. ~ Rommy

 Download, Install, and use EVEMon and QuickFit. They will give you a better

understanding of the game. ~ ZMaster

 Don’t fly in anything you cant afford to lose, starting again with no savings suxs. ~

Knighteyes

 Don't try to get into the larger ships/weapons too quickly. What you fly should not be

dictated by what your skills allow you to fly but what your skills allow you to fly

effectively. Also remember the bigger the weapon the lesser it's effect against

smaller vessels such as frigs. ~ Smeghead

 Once you’re in your first corp, always be willing to help in corp events, don't be

selfish. It won't go unnoticed. ~ Christoffski

 Before undocking and moving into 0.4 and below make sure your clone is up to date.

There is nothing worse than getting podded and losing skill points. ~ josh_1143

 Plan not only to be able to fly a new class of ship, but the weapons and other

modules required for it. The best way to lose a ship is to fly one you can't skill

properly. ~ Horace Harkness

 Just because no one is around doesn't mean you should loot a can that is not yours,

looting will get you flagged--meaning that whomever owns the can, can attack you

without worrying about CONCORD until the timer runs out.~ Maior Interfeci

 Right-clicking weapons or modules in space provides options like auto-repeat on/off

 Don’t take anything from a floating space can that isn’t yours or your corp-mates

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BattleClinic’s EvE-Online New Player Guide

The Basics

Before we can talk about outfitting your ship we need to talk about skills and how to create

your character. To properly choose and outfit a ship, you must know what kind of work your

character will be doing in that ship. There is no single ship that is perfect for every kind of

work and it can be a very good idea to specialize. It's true that you can improve and add to

your skill set and eventually you can fly several kinds of ships and do several kinds of work,

but that takes a lot of time and money. So let’s get started!

When you start out, you'll need to focus on the basics: mining, trading, salvaging, “ratting”

(destroying NPC ships for their bounties) mission-running, or of course what EvE was built

for: Player versus Player (PvP). If you have friends to help you, you might start with other

kinds of work such as manufacturing, researching, archeology, or invention, but this usually

requires a reasonable understanding of the game plus raw materials, and seed money.

Through mining. trading, or fighting, you can make enough money to improve your ship and

build your skill set. You can do this alone or with other players, but we recommend you

focus on one profession in the beginning.

Mining and Trading aren’t the most glamorous jobs, but everybody seems to do some. It

takes time to learn the best routes and the best place to mine ore, and you’ll want to ask

friends to help or visit one of the support sites to find good systems. If you are brave

enough, you can go into low-security space and mine the rare ores, which you can make a

LOT of money and is rarely dull. The risk is a lot higher, however, and “noobs” are advised

to take it slow at first, until the game is learnt. Miners should focus on getting a ship with

the largest cargo hold possible, and preferably 2 or more turret slots available on their ship

that can use Mining lasers (more on that below). Traders also need a large cargo hold but

can skip the turrets and focus on things that increase their speed or their cargo. For traders,

time is money. EvE offers a very comprehensive system to set up player-to-player auctions,

courier contracts (whereby you pick up and drop off supplies for a fee) and item exchanges.

You can deal with other players this way, or you can purchase trade goods from the NPC

(non-player-character) stations and sell them for profit elsewhere in the universe. Pretty

straightforward, huh?

SUGGESTED MINER SKILLS: Industry skills, Astrogeology skill, Electronics skill, Drone skills,

Mining Barge skill, Refinery skills.

SUGGESTED TRADING SKILLS: Trade skills, Navigation skills, Engineering skills, Racial

Industrial skill. Other skills can be bought that will improve your speed, defense, agility, and

so forth.

“Ratting” (PVE—Player vs. Environment) involves loading up your ship with weapons and

defenses, leaving your comfy station, and flying to an asteroid belt (or complex, explained

later). If you get to the roid belt and there is nothing there, wait a few minutes and a

“spawn” of enemy ships (rats) should appear. Note: Rats do not spawn in .09 and 1.0

systems. Fly toward them, target them, kill their ships, pick up their loot, salvage their

wrecks if you have the skills and a salvager module aboard your boat, then fly to another

belt and do it again. A good balance between offense and defense are key to the success of

a fighting career. For this kind of work you'll want to focus on getting a ship with a good slot

layout and good combat bonuses so you can carry mount several weapons, add shields or

armor, and several other modules your ship needs to operate. You will find that you are

constantly balancing your loadouts based on your skills, and as your skills increase, so do

your options—often for the same ship!

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