Souring through all the galaxies!

[taB]

Ramble:

Having played a lot of single player RPGs and limiting my internet gaming to trying to shoot other people, I decided to try an online RPG. For some reason my thoughts last week wandered onto the old Ulysses cartoon (http://www.sfxb.co.uk/animated/ulysses31.html) and thus inspired I had a read though the Eve manual and signed up on Sunday.

Haven't really interacted with anyone yet, just doing my own thing. Mainly courier missions and stuff. I'm pretty certain I want to go down the Covert Ops route (2 months away of skill training at a complete guess), but as I'm three days into it I may have changed my mind by the weekend.

Anyways, if any of you lot are still playing, I'll see you out there (maybe).

taB

(in Eve name: Eszencia)

[LordjOX]

First mmo? Cool!
afaik Covert Ops is pretty skill intensive, but noone will ruin your dream. However its nice to have the big goal, then smaller goals to build up. There are some other thread directed to newer players etc here. And lots on the official EVE boards

myself, I play once in a while, but nowdays just to switch skills, since this computer is to crap to play, and am quite bored of it atm.
also one tip, don't go down the mining road or waste skills at that unless u rly want to be a miner

I'll send some starter cash later on my char, Uncarian

[Esoteric]

its best to go for cruisers and battleships then covert ops simply being you'll need a money making ship in order to feed your hungry covert ops desire!

but hey ho play how you feel its what makes mmos interesting!

[taB]

Hi LordjOX, cheers for the swift reply

Yeh, been nosing the official boards when work has been quiet (not today unfortunately )

I can also see that it is very much a phases game, by which you are v keen one week/month and go off it the next one.

On the mining front: it doesn't really interest me, I can see the earning potential but am happy zipping around at 800+ units/unit (can't remember how it's measured) at the moment.

Thank you for the starter cash offer, I think I am doing alright though mate (I may be wrong)! I've got a speedy little Executioner with good (again completely speculative) guns & about 500k cash atm. I reckon for my Sneaky covert ship It'll need about 100mil all in with skills and gear, but hey I won't be able to fly it for ages so I'm not worried .

Ben (taB) ((Eszencia)).

P.S The thread should read SOARING not SOURING - makes it seem like a flame thread!

[LordjOX]

Well I sent a mill isk before I saw the reply but no worries

[taB]

EDIT: Thanks LordjOX, very kind!

Esoteric:
its best to go for cruisers and battleships then covert ops simply being you'll need a money making ship in order to feed your hungry covert ops desire!

I'm sure you're right mate, I definately gonna go with this bit though:

but hey ho play how you feel its what makes mmos interesting!

As I mentioned in my first post, now 3 days in, things will evolve

Cheers,

Ben.

(Took so long to type my last post had to have a new reply, least dinners done though)

[Tallen]

I'd tend to disagree slightly with Jox about mining.

I'm very much a pvp player nowadays but i have a mining barge and good mining skills which i use often on corp op's and sometimes to mine when im not in the mood for anything that takes any amount of brain power.

Like a lot of players find, it's one of those games you can put down and pick up whenever you want, i often wont log on for 4-5 days when im training a long skill and have better RL things to do, then maybe log on for 2-3 hours for a corp op, maybe a little pvp then log off again.

As for covert op's, you'll nead a lot of skills to be able to make the most of it and some very expensive hardware, the basics can be trained quite easily though enough to have some fun with it.

I use my covert op's ship to run rare tech 2 equipment down pirate-filled pipes to 0.0 sec stations, it's a risk but a lot of fun and the rewards are well worth the risk. Also run Tech 2 BPO's and BPC (Blueprints, originals and copies) and a few other sought after items.

If you want to try this route a few tips, get permission from the alliances/corps whose space you are passing through, get docking rights for the 0.0 sec stations (some will charge you for access, some wont, some will simply say no) and always be aware that if you are running items that a prominent alliance member already trades in, they may well decide to take-out the opposition...literally!

Lots more you can do with covert op's (fun in fleet battles)

[LordjOX]

Well I trained for the retriever med barge for exactly the reasons you mentioned, however kind of regret it since I'm more of the combat type. So that's about 600k ish skillpoints "wasted" for my part, equivalent of 3 weeks of training. However I wouldn't be close to my first billion ISK if it wasn't for my retriever that made me afford my first battlecruiser so I again could make money for a battleship in lvl 3 missions.

[Gef]

I mine tonnes, I use a Brutix in a 0.1 system (my corps home system) I actually have all the pre-requisite skills for a Retreiver appart from Mining Barge III itself. But I find the Brutix is a bit more solid for low sec mining, and has the room for a tractor beam, which i'd be hard pushed to live without while jetcan mining.

Anyway, I can fill a jetcan with Hemorphite in around an hour, there is always plenty of it about, and sell it for about 5-6 million depending on who's buying at the time. I can do the same with Omber in high sec but it sells for half the price and its often not available anyway due to massive overmining.

This could be a lot more if i moved into lower sec space, but the risks are a lot greater and our corp isnt big enough yet really. I'd say those 3 weeks learning the skills are well spent, its just another option, something else to do when your bored of grinding missions.

Plus really, when you can spend a good 3-4 hours mining and earn enough to buy a spare Battlecruiser, who can complain?

[eveplayer]

well I run a Hulk now days works fine in 00 space.

I not the common pvp player but to reach my goals I hade too train those "pesky guns skills"

Now I run a both eu and us based corp with POS in 00 space.

The mining gives more cash then mission or npc ratting does