All About EVE Online

Character generation is a lot easier now in EVE Online. Before you had to pick one of four races, Amarr, Caldari, Gallete and Minmatar. Then choose your ancestry, bloodline and gender. Then one of 3 professions, Business, Military or Industrial. And those has 2 subdivisions, Standard and Elite. Along the way you had 5 “Attribute” points to place in Intelligence, Will power, Charisma, Memory, and Perception. Each of these changes had different skill sets and different bonuses, so you had to play around and try and find the right set of things to give you what you wanted. That of course was if you knew what you wanted. As a new player to EVE Online you did not know what to do. Which race should I pick? What skills do I need to do what? What did that skill do? These where the common questions every new play would ask. Of course you got to play with your appearance a bit and change the background and enter you characters name.

Now the new character generation is simpler. You still have to pick a race, ancestry, bloodline, and gender. You still get to play with your features and background. But the professions and extra attribute points are no more, at least not in the generation process. Now you get the chance to try each profession at the same solar system. You have 2 free attribute re-mappings to move points around. You also learn skills at an accelerated rate, up to a certain point. All these give you the chance to experiment and see where you want to go and what does everything do. You get the chance to play the game before really determining who you are.

As for any advice i can give you about the first few chooses (Race, Ancestry, Bloodline and gender), no one is better than another. Each race has their own version of each ship. They use their own type of weapons. They have their own history. And gender does not effect how well your ship performs or how much damage your weapons do (as you can see your attributes do not have things like dexterity or strength). So which every you choose will work. Granted once you get in you will run into other players who have their own biases and opinions, but there is no one better race.

As for profession, well you will get a chance to dabble into each one. I would say do each of the career based tutorial missions. You will get ships, weapons, ammo, equipment and skill books along the way. There will be a chance to do a Mission Arc at the end which will give you a good test of what you have learned and a chance to travel around. Maybe along the way you will find friends or a place you want to call home. Granted this last mission arc is a tough one and you will most likely need to ask for help, don’t be afraid to. EVE is loaded with both good and bad guys. You need to be alert but don’t be paranoid either. More often than not you will find good people who just want to help and have fun.

Ask others for help, either in doing a mission or about a piece of equipment or even how to do something. There are alot of people out there and I am sure you will find someone who will give you a hand. Remember we where all newbies at one point. And again this is why I am writing these articles too. I Have been playing EVE for almost 2 years now, and I am still learning stuff, but I also enjoy helping others. If you have any questions go ahead and make a comment, I will do my best to get an answer to you (and others) ASAP.

Until next time, Fly Safe

Reggi Mental

EVE Online is a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMORPG) set in the far flung future. Mankind has advanced and fall and reinvented itself in another galaxy. In this new world/universe you are a pilot of a starship. Your goal: what ever you want it to be.

One of the unique things about EVE is there is no set path for you to follow. You have free will. You decide your own path and what you will do. You do not have to go in any one direction. Other games you have to follow the path laid down by the game designers (and sometimes you need to figure out what they want you to do as well). There are agents along the way if you want to use them for missions, or not. There are other players to work with or even fight against. In fact EVE has on average (from what i have seen) about 40, 000 players on at any one time. There are also over 300,000 players around the world.

EVE online is a social media. This allows you to chat and interact with all these people. You can find old friends or even make new ones. I know some that have connected with old high school friends and some have gone and visited other countries and spent time with their new friends.

There are a few area that you can try and work at, Miner, Mission runner, Player vs Player (PvP), or try your hand at Business, buying and selling on the market. The choice is yours. As you advance you can command bigger and better starships with more power.

Training new skills is also different in EVE. Other games require you to gain experience points by completing missions and doing a certain number of kills. In EVE time and money are all you need. Use the money you make in the game to buy skill books, then train them. Training is done even if you are not online so after awhile you will learn the new skill and be ready for the next level or even a new one.

EVE Online has produced a series of videos through out its run. And the “Butterfly Effect” is i think one of their best at explaining EVE.

EVE Online has also done 10 free updates over the years and is getting ready to do an 11th. EVE is always improving and changing. The add new ships, skills and equipment, they make changes to things as well from requests from players. Soon they will be releasing a version of EVE that will play on game consoles and have also been working on the ability to not only dock at a station but to get out and walk around in it.

This may all sound complicated and confusing but you do not have to learn everything and definitely not everything at once. You set your own pace and your own path. Also there are a ton and a half of people out there to help you along the way, as well as me and these articles. Together we can all achieve the goals we set for ourselves.

So EVE is attempting to, and in many way succeeding, become one of the best games of our times.

Until next time, Fly Safe

Reggi Mental