Anyone here play EVE online?

[jumpy]

Had a trial account last year - did some of the first level epic ark missions and some skill level-ups until the two week trial ended.

Was never totally sold on the idea of a subscription to play a game, but I thought I'd give it another go.

Been online with it for about 10 days now. Mooching about in n00b space mostly; mining for the most part so I can buy some better stuff.

Impressions: there's a lot to this one and as such I've barely scratched the surface.
I like the eve radio station and the fact that I can do other stuff whilst mining. Seems to be a wide and varied community to get involved with.

Any other n00bs out there?

[Raptor1]

It just so happens that I reactivated my 17 mill SP character (Which, despite being about 5 years old, always manages to be completely bankrupt and at the worse end of most single PVP fights) on one of them returning trials. Currently somewhere in Caldari space in an NPC corp, so not doing too much besides missions and some mining.

Just might completely reactivate my account after the trial is over, as I have time to play again now...

[jumpy]

heh I've not ventured out of 0.5 space yet. mostly 0.9.

I recon the learning curve is too steep for me to risk travelling anywhere where another player is likely to fill me in, and will most likely be so for some time yet to come.

[Raptor1]

I used to go into lowsec regularly when I started out until some gatecamping bastard popped my poor little shuttle and podded me without mercy (I nearly got revenge a while later, though).

As it is, it's much more profitable to mine in high sec than it seems, since for some reason the need for tritanium has completely raised the prices and Veldspar has since become one of the most profitable ores you can mine. So there's no real need to go into lowsec unless you want to kill some cruiser rats or unfortunate miners or innocent bystanders or whatever.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

I used to go into lowsec regularly when I started out until some gatecamping bastard popped my poor little shuttle and podded me without mercy (I nearly got revenge a while later, though).

As it is, it's much more profitable to mine in high sec than it seems, since for some reason the need for tritanium has completely raised the prices and Veldspar has since become one of the most profitable ores you can mine. So there's no real need to go into lowsec unless you want to kill some cruiser rats or unfortunate miners or innocent bystanders or whatever.

I create acc. for long time ago,but what can you gain? to play,forever?

Note: I don't play anymore!

[Kapitanleutnant]

I play. Currently a member of AEGIS Militia, fighting against those dirty Matari terrorists in Providence.

Originally Posted by Raptor1

it's much more profitable to mine in high sec than it seems

It's still mining - the most ball-achingly boring job in EVE.

[jumpy]

Yer, mining (at least at my skill level) is a real pain in the arse. Takes for ever with my sigil and a miner II plus mining upgrade module and expanded cargo II.

Still L1 mission running. Currently have a destroyer (over kill for L1) since my first post
[Coercer, destroyer1]
Power Diagnostic System I
Damage Control II
Small Armor Repairer II
400mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I

Cap Recharger II

Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S

Small Capacitor Control Circuit I
Small Capacitor Control Circuit I
Small Capacitor Control Circuit I

Cap is stable at around 46% depending on what type of turret frequency crystal is used (multifrequency/standard/infrared/radio). I've got a few other high slot bits of kit I can swap out (salvager etc) should the need arise.
Deals with npc pirates quite effectively - kite away from them and kill them out of range, then collect their stuff.

I know it's a bit of a n00b setup - there's no ecm type stuff (mostly I have not trained those skills to any decent level) but it's a good slugger with a reasonable armour tank for what I use it for - anything faster than me gets zapped by the lazorz of plenty.
Though I nearly lost it the first mission I used it for: having loads of weapons is no substitute for sound tactics and evaluation of your enemy threat - kill those guys with stasis webifyers quickly!

Roll on cruiser abilities.

[Zachstar]

I play eve and more importantly I have been actually getting involved with the RP aspect with the game. CCP is really helping to push the RP element and it does make things interesting.

[Kapitanleutnant]

Originally Posted by jumpy

Yer, mining (at least at my skill level) is a real pain in the arse. Takes for ever with my sigil and a miner II plus mining upgrade module and expanded cargo II.

If you're mining (and you shouldn't) - but if you are (and I must emphasise that you shouldn't under any circumstances) and you can't fly any of the ORE ships, then for the love of god don't do it in a Sigil - don't do it in any kind of industrial ship.
Get a Bantam.
You know how to jetcan mine, right? You don't need any cargo space in your mining boat - just dump all of the ore straight into a jetcan, then come and collect it later in your Sigil or your Bestower or whatever. A Bantam has the same number of High slots as a Sigil, but it has some really nice bonuses to mining yield and Mining Laser cap usage, so you're going to be much more efficient in the long term.

Perhaps you already know all this, but from the content of your post I'm assuming you're still relatively new to EVE?

I play eve and more importantly I have been actually getting involved with the RP aspect with the game. CCP is really helping to push the RP element and it does make things interesting.

Yeah there is a nice little RP community in EVE. The Sansha stuff has been really interesting. I just hope that CCP have a good plan for that gigantic Sansha fleet that was spotted through the Jovian Wormhole.

[Raptor1]

Bantam is nice, but Osprey with high cruiser skills can outmine even the smaller barge.

[jumpy]

Originally Posted by Kapitanleutnant

If you're mining (and you shouldn't) - but if you are (and I must emphasise that you shouldn't under any circumstances) and you can't fly any of the ORE ships, then for the love of god don't do it in a Sigil - don't do it in any kind of industrial ship.
Get a Bantam.
You know how to jetcan mine, right? You don't need any cargo space in your mining boat - just dump all of the ore straight into a jetcan, then come and collect it later in your Sigil or your Bestower or whatever. A Bantam has the same number of High slots as a Sigil, but it has some really nice bonuses to mining yield and Mining Laser cap usage, so you're going to be much more efficient in the long term.

Perhaps you already know all this, but from the content of your post I'm assuming you're still relatively new to EVE?

New to EVE... yeh sort of hehe. Been using the time of late to re-learn some of the basics of using the overlay and navigation and other odds and sods I'd forgotten since my 14 day trial expired last year. Once some of the basics are sorted then I can think about efficiency in terms of what you were saying about mining and related stuff.

Basically the mining thing was for a bit of extra cash. A means to an end as it were; a relatively short term one at that. I found a station buyer that was paying a good whack over the regional rate for scordite, tens of millions of units of it and seeing as my reprocessing skills are still a bit naff at this point, it was easier to sell the ore for a decent profit rather than make a loss refining.
Still, all that time hanging about the asteroids in 0.9 space (hedion university school) gave me lots of time to read up on skills/tactics/ship fittings and the like. Plus there's the great EVE radio and chatroom to get involved with. Besides I was waiting for some new skills to train and didn't want to get a pasting before they were finished.

So far I have most of the basic and standard certificates in core/defence/gunnery (at least for frigate turrets etc). I figured these were best invested in early... also the learning skills - after I hit 1.6m skill points the 100% training time modifier is out, so I'm planning on using the freebie 100,000 sp that was given in the last server update delay to use on those learning skills - I think most of the basic ones are at L3-4 already anyway.

Been using EFT and EVE MON to figure out what is the best ship fitting for my skills and what I should be looking at getting/training next.

On the whole I accept that my current skill level makes me rubbish at just about everything lol so at the moment I'm like one of those tenant hill farmers, scratching a miserly standard of living out of next to nothing, always expecting the bank to foreclose on the smallholding whilst wistfully looking down into the valley at all those lush pastures and fat beef and dairy herds, knowing that if I go anywhere near most of it I'll be greeted by the farmer and his gun telling me to 'get orf moy laaand!'

[Submarine]

Yea I play, got a retriever and some odd 5mil ISK.

[Kapitanleutnant]

Submarine, jump; what are your in-game names?

[Submarine]

wadehampton, I'll be on in 2-3 hours just doing some daily navy field grinding should have that CV one of these days.

[Kapitanleutnant]

Originally Posted by Submarine

wadehampton, I'll be on in 2-3 hours just doing some daily navy field grinding should have that CV one of these days.

Sent you a little something to get you started.