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Top10 Websites and Tools outside of Eve Online Every Newb Should Know

Published on 02. Jul, 2008 ... written by Sam Guss.

1. Eve Fitting Tool: a.k.a. “EFT”
This tool is used for choosing load outs on your ships. Download and install for now, but worry about using it later. Like anything with Eve, there’s a learning curve.

2. Eve Mon
This tool helps you plan out your learning skills for your character. Download and install for now, but worry about using it after you’ve trained a few learning skills. By, then you might have a better idea of where you want to take your character.

3. Eve Help
This website is a great resource for guides and articles of use to every Eve player. Bookmark this site and start reading!

4. Eve Forums: Ship Index
This thread focuses on various ship builds and is a great place to start when figuring out how to outfit your ship. The advice here ranges though, so be sure to read the threads entirely – sometimes more than one build is justified and here is the place where you can discover for yourself form experienced players, how they work out.

5. Eve Forums: Guide Index
This thread is one of my favorite links. It has links to the best guides relating to Eve around. If you were limited to only ONE Eve bookmark, then this would be it IMO.

6. Spaceships of Eve Wiki
This wonderful Wiki, outlines all of the ships in Eve and gives you a closer look as to which ships do what. An outstanding resource and I use it side by side with the Ship Index in the Eve Forums.

7. Battle Clinic
This Eve community site has a variety of things of interest to the serious Eve player. Ship loadouts, tutorials, Kill Boards, route planner and more. Some of the tutorials are with Flash and provide a great learning experience.

8. Eve Online Player’s Guide
At the home site of Eve Online is a great Player’s Guide that any rookie should read through first!

9. Advanced Character Creation Guide
A great guide on character creation and getting started in Eve.

10. Eve Places
There are a lot of great resources out there for Eve, and in this article I tried to cover a few of them. However, there were many not included and this site has them all. This place has the links your looking for so definitely bookmark it.

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The Top10 Reasons For Being an EVE Pirate

Published on 02. Jul, 2008 ... written by Noras Ellan.

Reason #10 – You like eggs. Oh yeah, Poached, Boiled, or Sunny Side Up, a SCRAMBLED POD is one TASTY eggs.

Reason #9 – You like saying ‘YARRrrr–!!!’, where the number of ‘R’s you use shows how bad-ass you are.

Reason #8 – You like ransoming people. Congrats, you are one honorable dude for not blowing up your helpless and innocent victim.

Reason #7 – You don’t like ransoming people. Boo… You give those pirates above-mentioned a baaad name.

Reason #6 – Apparently, you are being called an “asswhole, a jakass, and an underprivileged asswype who wasn’t best-fed by your mom” in LOCAL.

Reason #5 – LOCAL carebear tears after a kill, and the subsequent failmail. See above.

Reason #4 - You LOVE Mining!!! With a 425mm ‘Scout’ I Accelerator Cannon, of course.

Reason #3 – You like simple equations: Suicide ganks + Clones = Win.

Reason #2 – Bounty on your head? Have your ‘alt’ suicide you = Double Win.

And finally, the No. 1 reason why EVE Online Pirates choose to be EVE Online Pirates: …baddabump *psssshh*

Because They Can.

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The Top10 Things a Newb Should Know

Published on 29. Jun, 2008 ... written by Sam Guss.

1. The Learning curve for Eve, is not truly a curve. More like a cliff, with an overhang. Do not let this stop you however. After the initial stage of being lost on what and how to do stuff, it actually becomes fairly routine, so stick with it a couple of weeks before deciding it isn’t worth the trouble. While even after the initial learning cliff, there will still be a ton of stuff for you to learn, after the overhang it is a gentle slope upwards with only a few more steep cliffs – though never as high and as tough as the original one when you start the game.
2. Set your autopilot to “Safest Route”. This in no shape or form means you should run in auto-pilot mode unless you are in high security space and don’t mind losing what you are flying and carrying at the moment. What it does do though, is that when you “Set Destination” that requires one or more jumps, you will stay in high security space. It does come at a cost though. Where a system you want to go may only be a couple of jumps away as the “Fastest Route”, you could end up taking a real long way around. You will be safer though. To do this, click on F10 to bring your map up, select the “Autopilot” tab on the “World Map Control Panel” and click on the “Prefer Safer” option.
3. About Alts… Understand that running an Alt on the same account is not worth your time. Either purchase an Alt with your hard earned ISK down the line or run a second account. An Alt being trained on the same account as your main is simply very bad.
4. Train your Learning Skills first! This will cut down the time it takes you to train other skills considerably. Take them to at least level four, and get them to level five as soon as possible before undertaking other skills past the basics of what you need “right now”.
5. Only travel in .4 and below security systems in a ship you can afford to lose. Because, someone, somewhere will cause you to lose it – and sometimes even your character – that means bye-bye implants.
6. Insurance. Get it. Period. Not just for your ship, but for yourself as well. Upgrade your clone as soon as financially possible and before you hit the 900K skill point limit you start with on your first clone.
7. Set your Auto-Target off! To do this hit the “ESC” key on your keyboard. Go to the “General Settings” tab. In the middle column, near the bottom will be a drop down menu selector for “Auto Target Back”. Select “0 Targets”. Hit the “Close Window” button. This will do two things: prevent you from attacking someone trying to bait you in high security space and when you are in fleet from targeting your own wing-mates or drones when they have you targeted to assist them.
8. Do NOT open or take from cargo cans or wrecks that are painted yellow… unless you can afford to lose the ship you are flying and anything you are carrying. Or, you’re a pirate in training.
9. DO the tutorials when you first start the game. They are slow to a degree, but the minute you get ahead of them is the minute you will also become lost. Take the time to do them as they do cover enough of the basics to give you a better edge in climbing that cliff and making it over the overhang.
10. Join a Corp or a Pirate Gang as soon as you can. Preferably with one in which you know at least one of the members in real life.

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