Getting interested. What's your history full of?

[RobinGBrown]

There's a lot of choice in EVE which is what makes it difficult to decide what to do. I've settled for industrial activity because I can make semi-afk while I work from home. It's quite satisfying seeing the ore pile up in your hangars and working out that you can sell it to get some free subscription time.

I started playing EVE a few years ago and played it on and off, alternating with WoW and other games. It's only recently where things have come together that I've played EVE for more than a few months at a time.

Best way to start is to try for yourself - ask one of us to send youa buddy invite and get a 21 day trial - then if you subscribe we get 30 days free.

You then use that trick to set yourself up with however many accounts you want - I topped out at around sixteen before I decided I was being silly. Chaining buddy invites can save you a lot of expense in the first few months.

EVE can be a very expensive game as you either have to make ISK in order to progress or spend real money to buy PLEX and sell them for ISK. But it's pretty satisfying to go from paying for gametime to playing for gametime.

Oh and don't browse the EVE forums, EVE has the most malignant, troll infested forums ever, really it's impossible to believe how badly behaved they are.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Oh and don't browse the EVE forums, EVE has the most malignant, troll infested forums ever, really it's impossible to believe how badly behaved they are.

lol...very true. The entire game is like one big Saturday night Barrens chat. The exception is when searching for guides. You can usually find a guide for some aspect of the game without too much pain. This implies a targeted search, and even those will sometimes force you to wade through a few pages of "NOOB!QQ!" before you find the good link(s). I was a bit hesitant to ask here without looking but after having done some research, I think I'd rather ask here first as I'm sure one of us has probably found the good links already or can help you tailor your search to find things with less pain.

[d0z3rr]

or spend real money to buy plex and sell them for isk.

*gasp*

[RobinGBrown]

*gasp*

Hey there's a lot of players out there who must spend a ****load of real money on playing EVE. After all where do PLEX come from in the first place? That's right, someone has to spend real money to get them into game.

[jinkobi]

My Eve experience.

Downloaded the trial which seem to take quite a while. Finally got everything setup and started playing... Well... In about 20 minutes I realized this wasn't the game for me. Uninstalled.

Not really anything worth bragging about though, lol.

[RobinGBrown]

My Eve experience.

Downloaded the trial which seem to take quite a while. Finally got everything setup and started playing... Well... In about 20 minutes I realized this wasn't the game for me. Uninstalled.

Not really anything worth bragging about though, lol.

Yep that was my first EVE experience back in 2004. Tried it again 3 years later when they'd actually created some tutorial content as opposed to just throwing you straight in to deep space.