Eve Online General - /eog/

     READ THIS SHIT NEWBROS: (some stuff might be outdated)
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>    Buddy Invite Mechanics

First off, get a buddy invite from a friend that already plays or make an alt account and refer yourself (you will need an alt some day anyways) or click on the link in the OP and remember the name of the recruited (read more below (3)), depending on who he is, they might give you some free isk once you upgrade to Omega.


(1) If you use a buddy invite and then later subscribe with real money, your
inviter is rewarded with a PLEX, which he *might* sell and split with you
(significant cash for a newbro).  (2) If you subscribe by getting enough ISK
to buy and activate a PLEX, your inviter is rewarded with 30 nontransferrable
days of game time.

In /eog/, a 50/50 reward split is common courtesy, though some offer better.


(3)
The ONLY way you can be sure of the name of your recruiter is if they enable
"Friend Connect" on their end.  Click the link in your invite mail to check if
a player's name is on the invite webpage: http://i.imgur.com/YJ2s9zG.jpg  If
you are hoping to get a reward split, don't use any invites without names!

The ONLY way your recruiter can be sure of who you are is if you do NOT tick
the box on the account creation page labelled "Do NOT connect me with my
inviter".  If you are hoping to get a reward split, don't tick this box!

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>    Where do I find you guys?

There are 2 in-game public chat channels that many players from this thread
use:

 "/v/ bros" - has been around the longest, is larger and has diverse
membership.  Tends towards nullsec discussion and perspective.  Owned by
Broski North, a small but high-SP null group with a long history on 4chan and
Reddit.

"/eog/ BROS" - Owned by Oruze Cruise, a small WH group that thinks too hard.

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>	 Can I play the full game without paying for it?

Yes, Eve is F2P with some restrictions and you can earn enough money ingame to get a subscription.
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>    I just started, what should I do?

Complete all the Tutorial, it gives you valuable free Skill points, then mess with the Opportunities, then press F12 > "Show Career Agents" and run ALL
of their missions (yes, run the mining missions even if you're planning to
PVP, the industry missions even if you're planning to explore, etc); they give
you ISK, ships, skillbooks and teach you the basics.
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>    Is it too late to get into EVE?

No.
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>    You have to have high SP to play EVE, so it's too late.

This is incorrect on many levels.

1) Anyone can be useful with even under 1M SP, and there is nothing stopping
you from doing some cheap T1 frig solo pvp, which some argue is some of the
most fun to be had in the game. A tackler and scout is a necessary addition to
any small, medium or large sized gang, and you can scout in a rookie ship.
Specializing 1M SP in the right place can beat 100M SP in the wrong place. Not
to mention that new players can get into very useful (and arguably
overpowered) ewar and logistics frigates/cruisers very fast.

2) SP does NOT equate skill. Skill comes through experience, not having
overpowered ships, characters and implants. Someone with 100M+ SP, a high
grade slave set and a full officer fit can be killed by a new player under the
right circumstances. And easily by a group of new players. 3) If you are so
concerned about SP, you can simply buy a high SP character on the bazaar. P2W?
Just make enough isk to afford it.
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>    What is a PLEX?

PLEX is short for 30 Day Concord Pilot License Extension. It's an in-game item
that can be used to pay for your subscription without using more traditional
payment methods.

EVE players can pay for their account with in-game money, ISK, by buying
PLEXes off the market. When you sign up for a trial via an invite link, the
person who invited you can get transferred a PLEX if you upgrade to a paying
subscription, and he can then sell it and transfer funds to you, which can be
a great asset for a new player.
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>    A primer as to why /eog/ does not need tripcodes, -fags and -friends

In EVE online, the meta of who you are, your corp, what alliance you belong
to, your history, and what you personally have done is important. Therefore,
each post will never be judged on its weight alone, but on who posted it. Each
post will have needless amounts of meta which will throw off actual game
discussion. Say a hisec carebear has an opinion? Yell at him for mining.
Someone in nullsec? Make fun of him for being a nullbabby. Someone in X shitty
alliance? Make fun of them and disregard their post.

In addition to the fact that in earlier threads (like last year) 90% of the
posts would be only 3-4 people, it would magnify the shitposting to a grand
degree. People would simply post to rile people up (hello mr. unclaimed) and
to ignite shitposting (we already have enough of this with race).

So it goes beyond the whole '4chan hates trips' thing. It doesn't matter
whether in this particular thread *you* make some 'quality' posts. We've
consistently yelled at trips until they stop, because without this we descend
to become the tripfag circlejerk that plagues /vg/ (though apparently
moderation is kicking up, I don't know since this is the only /vg/ thread I
visit on a regular basis)

So, in short, that's why. If you want to post with your name, there is kugu,
FHC, hell the fucking news sites and god forbid evegate.
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>    Starter PvP guide:

There's close-range play (for frigates, some 1km-14km); and there's keeping
range (with the option for disengage and for mitigating damage through
proximity and powerful modules).

It's probably best starting out with videos of one of the most interesting
playstyles, manual piloting. Here's a video discussing real flight techniques
and their relevance in-game.

Note: quite a few of this videos are outdated, even from before the implementation of F2P,
	  but the playstyle is still essentially the same, and the mechanics are mostly unchanged.
	  Note that as an alpha you will be locked to flying ships of your race and some modules
	  are also locked behind Omega.


[YouTube] S.N.S Super Nerdy Slicer (ING)
https://youtu.be/4UieJcWI-YM

>    Extras:

[YouTube] Kiting Frigate Solo PVP (feat. Comet & Slicer)
https://youtu.be/WGYxkSz7HFI

(After the basics from the first video, it's helpful watching the mouse on the
range-rulers for an idea of the angle that its producing. Spoiler: it's
double-clicking in space, like a 3D ARPG.)

[YouTube] The Encore (Scorchlight)
https://youtu.be/FCwtzJvza5U

[YouTube] Scorchlight
https://youtu.be/A9dbcWoCjL8

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This is a video on one of those "powerful modules" which can even out the
learning experience, just like figuring how to approach (increasing
transversal, how "click-approach" ships act, where to click the orbit button),
and knowing which ships it effects most.

[YouTube] Tracking Disruption 101 (Slasher and Condor solo PvP)
https://youtu.be/5O9kcinTEbE

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Here are some trial-account PvP videos. They are mostly nullsec play, where
many of the frigates are Interceptors - less tanky / gimmicky / blingy fit
than frigates from faction-warfare space.

[YouTube] Eve is Easy - 17 Day old Rifter Trial Account PvP
https://youtu.be/de1hwoFYA_k?t=27m21s

[YouTube] Eve is Easy - 20 Day Old Amarr Character Executioner PvP
https://youtu.be/BvOB4KXYk-o?t=23m23s

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Lastly, this video shows the flow of manual flight and discusses how the
light-tackle role is one of the most over-suggested playstyles.

[YouTube] Small Gang Archetype: Light-Tackle (embed)
https://youtu.be/4yBTaqiMrX4

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>    What do I train / fly?

Here's a fit & skillqueue to complete through faction warfare small complexes:

Fitting: 5MN Stab/Scram Blaster Catalyst ~ 2mil
(The red is for no rig training, which is allowed.)
https://i.imgur.com/sktc2Qk.jpg

Skillqueue:
http://i.imgur.com/d6RWd3J.png
(This is a bit obsolete since Fall '15 because of increased starter SP.)

This slideshow is pretty good breakdown of turret mechanics by Eve University:
http://imgur.com/a/OIYsh#0

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>    Where do I find fights?

If you are looking for PvP, you will find people most places in lowsec, but
faction warfare space (use dotlan / the faction warfare windows in-client)
will have more people and more places for you to hide.

If you are wanting to make money, a defensive plex (in your own faction's
space) is at best (99.9% contest) 3/4 the value of the equivalently sized
offensive plex and at worst (0% contest) has no payout at all.  Offensive
plexes have a flat payout based on size; contest level doesn't matter.

More information and FW news can be found here: http://www.factionwarfare.com/
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>    USEFUL PROGRAMS:

EVEMON – Lightweight skill planner:
https://evemondevteam.github.io/evemon/

EFT – Create fits, import/export to and from the game:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=24359

PYFA - Newer and shinier fitting tool than EFT
http://www.pyfa.net/

Evernus - Uses CREST to track market activity and help with order updating
http://evernus.com/

Eve Refinery - Refining ore? Melting down meta 0-2's? See if it's worth it:
http://www.homo-programmatis.com/EveRefinery/

EVE Assets – Lightweight asset viewer (check your total worth in isk, ships,
modules, ore, etc.):
http://eve.nikr.net/jeveasset
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>    USEFUL LINKS:

A big picture of the all the careers and activites that are available to you
in EVE (created May 2016)
http://wiki.whitestagexitbag.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/public/guides/eve-online-careers.jpg

Eve University class library (learn stuff) (the best Eve wiki):
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Eve_University_Class_Library

Look up missions before you run them:
http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=HomePage

Pricecheck and Market stuff:
http://eve-central.com/
http://eve-marketdata.com/ (changed hands May 2016, updates maybe?)

Compare ore/mineral prices:
http://eve.grismar.net/ore/

Old guide to everything about Eve (download links at bottom):
http://www.isktheguide.com/

DotLan (make routes, find gudfites etc):
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/

Tripwire (wormhole information and mapping):
https://tripwire.eve-apps.com/

Aggregation site that pulls from all the top EVE news, updates, blogs,
discussion, articles, forums, etc:
https://totaleve.com/

Faction warfare info and news
http://www.factionwarfare.com/

EVE sov maps (nullbabby stuff):
http://sov.space/

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>    PASTEBIN HISTORY:
2017-04-13: https://pastebin.com/JGKUEsZy
2016-06-16: http://pastebin.com/ser9Acpg

I swear to God one day I'm going to make this pastebin in a github gist for
proper version control.