Zero Kelvin

We’re the young ones!

by Nathan on Mar.15, 2010, under EVE

Welcome to the sixteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!
The third Blog Banter of 2010 comes to us from ChainTrap of the Into the unknown with gun and camera EVE Blog. He asks us: “Eve University turns six years old on March 15th; six years spent helping the new pilots of New Eden gain experience and understanding in a supportive environment. Eve is clearly a complicated game, with a ton to learn, so much that you never stop learning. So, the question is; What do you wish that someone had taken the time to tell you when you were first starting out? Or what have you learned in the interim that you’d like to share with the wider Eve community?”

What do I wish someone would have told me when I first started out? Well first off, that VE is so big! It’s such a big game, and if you don’t like one niche there is always another niche, another ship or another challenge waiting for you. So you run LVL4 missions in a bs after 1 month? Great, are they boring yet?

Try wormholes or scan for complexes, or start trading, or … You get my drift, there are tons of stuff to try, to skill for to strive for.

I was sort of lucky, me and a friend started playing about the same time, he started a few months before me so I had good help from him.

BUT, back to the question at hand. I think you should join a corp at once, when you start playing EVE. After joining the corp, dont be afraid to ask 100 questions and try all the different things people do in the corp. Please dont join a niche corp that only mines or only runs missions because then you probably end up with old geezers that already tried alot of the game and are comfortable with mining a couple of hours per week.

Make sure the corp you join also is diverse in its members, dont join an all oldtimer corp and dont join a corp that has mostly new members. In an all oldtimer corp, you run the risk of people not having patience to teach you the basics of the game to get you going, and in an all noob corp you might miss out on learning the good stuff until later in the game.

Also, make sure its an active corp and they are active in your tz, you don’t want to be the one that sits with and empty corp in you timezone, or be the one that logs off in the middle of every op since it’s way past bedtime.

List of Participants
  1. CrazyKinux: The Three Pillars of Wisdom
  2. The Elitist: Helping the new guy/gal
  3. Hands Off, My Loots: Nothing Needed
  4. Rantuket: Blog Banter 16
  5. EVE Opportunist: Nooby Cluey
  6. Into the Unknown With Gun and Camera: EVE University
  7. Zero Kelvin: We’re the young ones!
  8. I am Keith Neilson: Set Your Destination
  9. Prano’s Journey: Just Like the Very First Time
  10. A Merry Life and a Short One: No Seriously
  11. Yarrbear Tales: Nublet 101
  12. A Mule In EVE: If I only knew
  13. The Planet Risk Show: Dared to be Bold
  14. Diary of a Space Jockey: WTH did I get myself into?!
  15. EVOGANDA: Why?
  16. A Memoir From Space: 16th Blog Banter
  17. Death’s Sweetest Kiss: Who What When Where Why How??
  18. Freebooted: Beyond the Shortcuts
  19. Learning to Fly: Noobing
  20. Caldari Outcast: My First Blog Banter Post!
  21. Roc’s Ramblings: Financial Survival
  22. Diary of a Pod Pilot: Free Knowledge Inside
  23. Nullsec Carebear: I could’ve been less of an idiot
  24. Facepalm’s Ramblings: Something Smells Fishy
  25. Kirith Darkblade: Do you wish to know more?
  26. Autopilot Disabled: I’m still starting…
  27. Finders & Keepers: Relax
  28. Confounded Capsuleer: What have you got to loose?
  29. Clan Oriana: Sixteen
  30. Flashfresh: EVE Blog Banter #16
  31. More to come soon…
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11 comments for this entry:
  1. Blog Banter 16 – Set Your Destination | I am Keith Neilson
    March 15th, 2010 on 16:16

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  2. Blog Banter XVI: Eve University « Into the unknown with gun and camera
    March 16th, 2010 on 18:18

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  3. Blog Banter 16: Nothing Needed - Hands Off, My Loots!
    March 16th, 2010 on 19:19

    [...] Zero Kelvin: We’re the young ones! [...]

  4. EVE Blog Banter #16: Something Smells Fishy « Facepalm's Ramblings
    March 17th, 2010 on 6:06

    [...] Zero Kelvin: We’re the young ones! [...]

  5. » Eve Blog Banter #16: Relax Finders & Keepers
    March 17th, 2010 on 21:21

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  6. Blog Banter #16: Free knowledge inside « Diary of a Pod Pilot
    March 18th, 2010 on 13:13

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  7. Blog Banter 16: Helping the new guy/gal | TheElitist
    March 18th, 2010 on 21:21

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  8. Trust No One! - Zen and the Art of Internet Spaceship Maintenance
    March 19th, 2010 on 19:19

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  9. EVE Blog Banter #16: Hindsight is 20/20 « The Lathspell of Mithrandir
    March 21st, 2010 on 19:19

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  10. Blog Banter 16: Nublet 101 | Yarrbear Tales
    March 22nd, 2010 on 6:06

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  11. EVE Blog Banter #16: Dare to be Bold! « The Planet Risk Show
    March 22nd, 2010 on 11:11

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