Not sure. You can create 3 characters though, so you might just create another, finish the tutorial and then swap back to the first one.

Well after docking, and backtracking through some of the lessons, it seems to be fixed. I am on the part where I am learning to mine. It says to fill my cargo hold with the mine stuff then approach the warp thingie and use the mined stuff. I did that and it said i needed 200 of the gas stuff. Does this mean I have to sit here and mine 200 of these things? They seriously have you mining for 2-3hrs just to get to the next step? Am I missing something or am I going to have to grind this out.

Well I can't edit my previous post, since these forums went down for a bit. I answered my own question, so forget what i asked above.

My toon started with mostly Mechanic and Engineering skills. What exactly is a newbie mechanic/engineer supposed to do? Doesn't sound like a fighter, doesn't sound like a miner....

Actually, mechanic and engineering skills are pretty integral to combat:


Engineering:

Engineering - increases powergrid (means you can fit more/better modules on your ship)
Energy ____ Skills - improves your ship's capacitor abilities (gives you more cap, quicker regen, fit cap modules, modules use less cap, etc, all important to keep modules running during battle)
Shield ____ Skills - improves your shield performance (important if you're shield tanking, less so if you're armor tanking)


Mechanic Skills:

EM/Explosive/Kinetic/Thermic Armor Compensation - increases the resistance those armor hardeners have to each kind of damage
Hull Upgrades - increases armor hitpoints, allows you to fit various hardeners, expanded cargoholds, inertial stabilizers (makes you turn faster, important)
Mechanic - increases structure hitpoints
Repair Systems - allows you to operate armor/hull repair modules (important), decreases the length of time those modules take to run through a cycle


Several mechanic skills are also important for production (although that's not something to really consider doing starting out, it requires capital and a corp -- public research/production slots are always backed up for about a month) as well as for fitting new rigs (like implants, but for ships -- don't have much experience with these, but being able to fit them on your ship certainly won't hurt).


Basically, those are a lot of "support" skills that you'd want in order to fly a ship well. None of them are helpful for mining, and depending on where some of your other skills are it might be a little bit before you're in a cruiser / battlecruiser as opposed to a frigate. But they're all skills that you really do need trained -- particularly Engineering, Mechanic, and Hull Upgrades, and probably Repair Systems too. I have all those to 4 on my character, anyway. And I plan to train several of the others to 3 shortly.

I'm currently at a bit of a cross roads as far as what I want to do in the game, maybe you other Eve-freaks can help me out.

I'm currently grinding out lvl 3 missions in my Drake. I've been playing around with lvl 4 missions and I can do them, though it takes much more care and planning. I've been working on saving up cash for a Caldari Navy Raven (currently sitting at about 450M ISK, and it takes about 900M to buy a CNR) OR I can just go for a regular Raven - the appropriate skills will be ready by the end of this week).

I have some friends who want me to join their 0.0 corp, but I like my freedom and no corp-responsibilities and politics to deal with. If I do join the corp I'll most likely never drive the CNR around due to the gank risk, so if I went that route it'd be kind of a big investment for something that just sits around my hangar.

So far I've pretty much just spent my 1.5 months of Eve running missions and messing around, so another avenue would involve me finding some smaller corp and joining them for some lesser involvement and stuff, but I'm wondering what the smaller, non-0.0 corps can offer that you can't do on yourself in the game.

Well, that's enough rambling for now. Maybe someone has some ideas, either in regards to my ship decisions or my corp selection.

Swede

Swede, I'm thinking about upgrading to a Drake next. Would you mind sharing your setup?

^^ Also i can't really tell you much about corps. I've been in two now. One for 7 days (they were worthless overall), and one for two days (madtowns). Madtowns corp is pretty cool. They have a decent little .01 area, seem to communicate well, and overall are adding value to my gameplay at the moment. I'm still pretty new to having a corp that actually does things so i unfortunately cannot tell you much about it . So far I am definitely glad i joined.

All my modules are of the tech one variety, as I don't have the skills to use T2 stuff yet nor the cash to afford the fancy rare stuff.

For high slots I use a mix of heavy launchers, basically the best T1 ones I have looted off of mobs. Currently I think four Arbalest and three Limos types. I use a salvager for the eight high power slot.

For the mediums I typically use two large named T1 shield extenders, two hardeners of various flavor depending on the mission, and one medium named shield booster. The last slot is for a named T1 afterburner.

For the low slots I normally go with one damage repair module (boosts all your resists for both shield, armor and hull when activated), two power diagnostics units (the ones that boost power grid, cap recharge and max capacity as well as shield HP) and one ballistic control unit (for increased damage and rate of fire).

The drake can also hold 25 m3 of drones, so right now I use 2 T1 hammerheads and 1 T1 hornet. I hear that T2 drones are a huge improvement so once I get my skills ready for a battleship I'll probably train pretty hard on drone skills.

I use three rigs right now, the one that increases capacitor recharge, the one that increases missile damage, and the one that increases shield recharge.

With this setup and pretty mediocre skills at this point I do fairly well against all lvl 3 missions. Some of the tougher lvl 3s (blockade, extravaganza) requires me to snipe at the bad guys but most of the others I'm fine just cruising around salvaging while killing off the mobs.

For [censored] and giggles I have tried a few of the lvl 4 missions with this setup and I wouldn't recommend doing this until you're pretty good in the skills department and can use the T2 modules on the ship. My shield can handle the damage output of the battleships of the lvl 4s, but my launchers can't do enough damage to take them down in a reasonable period of time. If you had a gang of two drakes or similar battlecruiser types you could definitely do the lvl 4 missions without too much work.

Shoot me a message next time you're on if you have any further questions. My character's name is bigswedeloverboy.

Swede

Swede: Join our twoplustwo chat channel!

I should join that one, too.

On a side note: How do I get rid of that frickin Noobie Help channel? I close it down every time I log on, but when I log on the next time it's back. Like a never-ending nightmare.

The newbie channel opens every time you log on until you've played for 30 days.

i'm totally in

The developers of EVE have chosen to make the game pretty instead of realistic. Which is fine by me, since you sometimes get some very nice sceneries. And I have a feeling that looking at how space would realistically look, would be a tad dull.

I'm sure some of you grab the occasional screenshot, so let's see them.

Vilon (sorry, I don't know your 2+2 name) had just done a level 3 mission in his cruiser and that went well, so I wanted to do one too. I got to do "The space telescope". The story is that the evil Guristas have set up a gigantic space telescope inside Caldari space and my mission was to destroy it.

The mission wasen't meant to be done in a measly cruiser and the telescope was pretty hard to destroy. I had to hit it with over 400 light missiles to destroy it. So what better way to pass the time than to grab a screenshot.

Fiske: If you're using a Caracal equip it with either heavy missile launchers or at least heavy assault launchers. The damage increase is noticable.

Swede