Recommendations from another noob (me)
:
1) Read through the Eve online thread
here.
It's a lot of random info, but there's loads of useful links in there!
2)Follow Vac's advice:
Things about eve.
1. Learning curve vertical (See oft posted diagram)
2. DO play the tutorial and do the tutorial missions. No, really, I mean it. Do it. No, don't think I mean not you, but those other guys. I mean you. Yes. you.
3. Ping me in game on Ornan or XorX and I'll drop you 10M if you're a newbie. The game is incredibly painful in the early weeks without skills.
4. DO NOT gimp yourself by rolling a random character when you subscribe, use the goonfleet character planner - also play with http://www.eve-guides.com/chargen/chargen.php. For your first space pilot class (rather than cyno alt, trade alt, miner, etc) you probably want the race/subtype to be Caldari/Achura.
5. DO spend a few hours learning the 'Learning' skills. Doing it now will make your life much easier.
6. Consider the following URLs BEFORE creating your character.
* http://wiki.goonfleet.com/index.php?title=Basic_Character_Creation
* http://wiki.goonfleet.com/index.php?title=How_do_skills_work_in_EVE%3F
* http://wiki.goonfleet.com/index.php?title=Recommended_Skill_Training_Guide
Especially the 3 links are very nice! Not too much info, and it'll get you started well on your character. From there it'll be a lot of trial and error - or a lot of reading guides if you prefer that way. It's not quite as bad/hard as they make it out though
I was flying within a few minutes, and could find my way round the stars after a few hours/a day or so. Cluelessly flying/finding my way around, but flying!
Oh, and one more thing, that took me a while to wrap my head around myself: your character's attributes will
only influence how fast you train related skills.
So someone with perception 20 and gunnery 4 will shoot exactly as well as someone with perception 3 and gunnery 4. However, the person with the perception 20 would have learned his 4 points in Gunnery a LOT faster.
