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Here's a list of things that would have helped my first days in Eve go a bit smoother:
1) Make sure your Virtual RAM is set high enough (around 2 Gigs). I thought that super-choppy, 1 click/5 seconds was due to servre problems. Seems it was just my computer having an aneuryism. In XP, right click My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Performance -> Virtual, and set it to twice your ram amount.
2) When "rolling" your character, pick options so that you have at least 3 in Frigate. I'd say to go 4, but I think 3 is all you need for the ship you'll want next. For skills, all of them are important, though charisma is only needed if you're going to go for trading between worlds. If you want mining/science, go for more Int/Mem. If you want more fighting, go for Wil/Per. It seems Caldari has the most players (also most lag), Amarr has the least.
2) Do at least 2/3 of the tutorial.. enough that you learn to clone, fly, fight, and get insurance. If you leave the tutorials, you can F12 to restart/ recontinue them. Once you've started, it's pretty easy to cancel and go through them again.
3) As soon as you get 45k, look in the market under Skills-> Learning and get the Instant Recall (and then the Analytical Mind and then Learning) skill books. Study these in that order. Try to get to level 2 before learning anything else. Whenever you have time to level 5.
4) Do the second phases of the tutorials. There are 8 of them with the second agent you talk to. At the end, you'll earn about 700k in credits. Don't buy a new ship until then.
5) xamine the ships to figure out what you want. If in doubt, get the most expensive frigate. When shopping for this ship, search region wide and make a few jumps to get it. You might be able to save a few 100k.
6) Get some missile launchers and missiles for your boat. You probably need to train in Missile Launcher Operations (to level 2) and then Standard Missiles before you can use them.
7) There's not a heck of a lot of difference in damage between the 10k weapons and the 100k weapons. So, just buy cheap for now. Don't spend too much time jumping everywhere to get the best prices. This game seems to be all about using your time wisely, and your time is valuable.
8) Everytime you stop at a station, look for agents and take missions. There's some really fun ones. The Drone swarm ones are my favorite, and paid about 100k (with another 80k of loot) for an hour of work. It took me a while to realize you have to right-click and activate the acceleration gates to get to where you should.
9) If you keep ammunition in your cargo bay, you can auto-reload your weapons when flying. Open your cargo bay, and drop the ammo onto the eapons. I took on 16 drones with two gattling guns and two missile launchers... and wound up beating them all with 1 missile left. Until I realized that you could drag and reload.
10) It seems that you can reprocess most loot and sell it for more than just the loot itself. I'm still looking at the numbers, so not sure yet. Once I put some skills into refining, I'm sure I'll make some good ISK that way.
11) When mining, the minerals (in order of value) are:
Veldspar, Scordite, Pyroxeres, Plagioclase, Omber, Mercoxit, Kernite, Jaspert, Hemorphite, Hedbergite, Gneiss, Ocher, Spodumain, Crokite, Bistot, Arknor
- With a little looking, I've always been able to find at least Plegioclase (and usuall Rich Plag). Once you find some, you can right-click and put it on your select map to find the best vein of it that's closest.
12) When running missions, you can usually right click in space, then pcik the bottom option to warp/go to your destination quickly. If in doubt, open your journal and get more info on the mission to have pointers (that you can right click) to go to the destination
13) If you raid a cargo canister that belongs to someone else, you get an "aggression timer" that usually lasts 15 minutes in which they can attack you.
14) When fighting, you can usually target 2 or more opponents. The F1-F4 keys toggle weapons. Learn your weapon optimal distances, and right click the "orbit" butoon to set the orbit distance to the best. When you see a baddie, first click Lock, then Orbit, start firing, and then lock onto the next one.
15) Have pity on the devs - 20k concurrent players is impressive.
16) To join the Avian Corporation, go to the map and search for Duripant. Set Destination there (might be a 2 hour trip if you're not Gallente). Once you get there, dock at Duripant VII - Moon 6. Go to Offices, scroll halfway down to Avian Technology and Trade, and hit Join Corp (keep this window open). You'll get an automated evemail from Obbo that says "Please review the offer and let us know what you think."... which means you need to click the "Join corp" button again, and accept. You're in!
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--The Hermit
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