New beginning...

[calyco27]

As far as new starters, when you make a new char now, you get very little starter skills, but you have double SP learning untill 1.6 million SP, so the initial learning is rather quick to a set profession. They have removed learning skills from the game now as well, so any guide you read that says to learn them ASAP is outdated.

There are a few starter professions you can look into at the start, depending on your play style, mentality and whatnot.

Firstly there is the basic building blocks of all of EVE, and thats mining. This means fitting mining lasers to your ship, finding asteroids and mining, very simple start but can be seen as the biggest grind of all professions.

This leads to manufacturing, turning refined ore into minerals and building modules and items. This can be very good income if you are not that active, although to really cut it there is a fair bit of work needed, and some starting capital is usually needed.

Then there is missions, and with the increased initial learning speed getting into a mission ready ship can be done very easily. Caldari have whats considered the best mission ships as a general rule of thumb. Going from kestrel to caracal to drake to raven ect ect ect, there is good progression up the ladder without too much cross training.

There is also ratting, or killing belt rats for their bountys, but at lower levels the bountys are really rather small and you will make better isk doing missions.

PVP as an income isnt really viable unless you know what your doing, and have the SP to back it up. Not recommended as a starting profession.

You can also be a salvager, either professional or ninja. Both can net some very good income very quickly, and are considered pick up and play professions in terms of skillpoints needed to be invested. Do note that ninja salvaging while the better income of the 2 is considered griefing by many players ( although not by CCP) and you wont make many friends doing so.

There is trading also, although the gains you make as a start up pilot with minimal investment potential are small.

There are ofc many other professions in eve, and these are only very brief overviews of some. If you need any other info there are many players here who are able to help, or you can PM me directly and I can answer as best I can.