Aardvark
15th December 2006, 12:54
Right, start the community fad engine! :)
Do you want to fly around and pew pew the ungodly heathens that dare to encroach upon your areas of space?
Do you want epic, 100+ vs 100+ fleet battles on a daily basis?
Do you want a game where losses can really HURT the enemy, instead of tedious 'res, get back in there'?
Do you want a game where some mug funds your early endeavours? :rolleyes:
Then you want to be playing Eve Online. More specifically, you want to be joining the MPUK corporation and being part of a fleet of ravening PvP deathgerbils!
After a long time spent thinking about how I could get a bunch of people off these here forums to play the frankly AMAZING game that is Eve, I figured that cutting out the boring, finding your feet section of the game would be a good starting point (also, no mining). To this end, I've created a corp to hand out FREE, fully fitted tech1 frigates, essentially everything you need to be part of an effective PvP frigate swarm. I'm also writing this short guide on how to create an effective starting character and explaining why things don't suck as much as they did for newbies back when you last tried the Eve trial.
First up, starting characters now get skills equivalent to 2 months or so training under the old character creation system. No more sitting training skills for days before you're even remotely effective, you're poised to rain firey death from the word go!
Firey death rain sounding good? Sign up for a free 2 week trial (https://secure.eve-online.com/ft/?aid=103835&nogreet=1) and download the client. Once you're patched, there are a few key things to do when creating your character to ensure you don't suck major donkey cock.
1) This is sort of optional, but it'd help me out if you chose Minmatar as your race. It also means you don't have to spend 40 mins travelling to the MPUK home system.
2) When choosing race and allocating attributes, bear in mind that attributes affect skill training time and NOTHING else. This means its generally best to put points into the important training areas you intend to focus on. For combatish types, this generally means, in order: (i) Perception, (ii) Intelligence and Willpower, (iii) Memory, (iv) Charisma. Generally, the gap between Perception and Memory should be no greater than about 4 points, and Charisma should be shunned like that kid at school that talked funny and dribbled on himself.
3) Choose the Military -> Soldier skill path. This gives Gunnery and Small Projectile Turret level 5, which is tres good as a newbie for the shoosting! Bear in mind for future training that Projectiles are the Minmatar weapon of choice, although you can cross train onto other racial ships and weapons as you progress if you feel the need.
4) Please to be trying not to make an ugly character (harder than you think) ;)
5) Name your creation and enter the game!
Now thats all sorted, the first thing you'll find ingame is the tutorial. Now, the number 1 tip appears right here. RUN THROUGH THE TUTORIAL! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! YOU WILL THANK ME LATER SOLDIER! Eve is a daunting game to start out with, the tutorial will help no end. However if you've played Allegiance you'll probably find it as simplistic as Pong :)
After you've run through the tutorial, fly on over to the Kronsur system. You can use the search tool in the map to find it easily. When you're there, the MPUK corp (Pat Sharp's Potato Rodeo, how original!) office is situated at Illinfrik VIII - Moon 1 - Trust Partners Trading Post. Click on the Offices tab on the bottom half of the station services panel and scroll down til you find PSPR. That's us! Select Join Corp and identify yourself on the application, I'll process it ASAP.
As far as initial skills to train, Propulsion Jamming I/Weapon Upgrades I/Repair Systems I are the books you'll initially need to buy (corp provided, don't worry), and the best thing to train of your current skillset would be Minmatar Frigate to level 4, then Engineering to 4. I'll be posting more in-depth skill guides as we go on.
Summary:
Get trial account (https://secure.eve-online.com/ft/?aid=103835&nogreet=1).
Create char, charisma is a **** attribute, BE A SOLDIER.
***DO THE TUTORIAL!***
Get to Illinfrik VIII - Moon 1 - Trust Partners Trading Post and join PSPR.
My char name is Vando, send a mail ingame or find me in IRC if you've got problems. Consider #mpukeve to now be live ;)
This is a fun game, I'm telling you. Mining sim this ain't :)
(any current Eve players, please shout if I've missed anything important in this thread)
Do you want to fly around and pew pew the ungodly heathens that dare to encroach upon your areas of space?
Do you want epic, 100+ vs 100+ fleet battles on a daily basis?
Do you want a game where losses can really HURT the enemy, instead of tedious 'res, get back in there'?
Do you want a game where some mug funds your early endeavours? :rolleyes:
Then you want to be playing Eve Online. More specifically, you want to be joining the MPUK corporation and being part of a fleet of ravening PvP deathgerbils!
After a long time spent thinking about how I could get a bunch of people off these here forums to play the frankly AMAZING game that is Eve, I figured that cutting out the boring, finding your feet section of the game would be a good starting point (also, no mining). To this end, I've created a corp to hand out FREE, fully fitted tech1 frigates, essentially everything you need to be part of an effective PvP frigate swarm. I'm also writing this short guide on how to create an effective starting character and explaining why things don't suck as much as they did for newbies back when you last tried the Eve trial.
First up, starting characters now get skills equivalent to 2 months or so training under the old character creation system. No more sitting training skills for days before you're even remotely effective, you're poised to rain firey death from the word go!
Firey death rain sounding good? Sign up for a free 2 week trial (https://secure.eve-online.com/ft/?aid=103835&nogreet=1) and download the client. Once you're patched, there are a few key things to do when creating your character to ensure you don't suck major donkey cock.
1) This is sort of optional, but it'd help me out if you chose Minmatar as your race. It also means you don't have to spend 40 mins travelling to the MPUK home system.
2) When choosing race and allocating attributes, bear in mind that attributes affect skill training time and NOTHING else. This means its generally best to put points into the important training areas you intend to focus on. For combatish types, this generally means, in order: (i) Perception, (ii) Intelligence and Willpower, (iii) Memory, (iv) Charisma. Generally, the gap between Perception and Memory should be no greater than about 4 points, and Charisma should be shunned like that kid at school that talked funny and dribbled on himself.
3) Choose the Military -> Soldier skill path. This gives Gunnery and Small Projectile Turret level 5, which is tres good as a newbie for the shoosting! Bear in mind for future training that Projectiles are the Minmatar weapon of choice, although you can cross train onto other racial ships and weapons as you progress if you feel the need.
4) Please to be trying not to make an ugly character (harder than you think) ;)
5) Name your creation and enter the game!
Now thats all sorted, the first thing you'll find ingame is the tutorial. Now, the number 1 tip appears right here. RUN THROUGH THE TUTORIAL! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! YOU WILL THANK ME LATER SOLDIER! Eve is a daunting game to start out with, the tutorial will help no end. However if you've played Allegiance you'll probably find it as simplistic as Pong :)
After you've run through the tutorial, fly on over to the Kronsur system. You can use the search tool in the map to find it easily. When you're there, the MPUK corp (Pat Sharp's Potato Rodeo, how original!) office is situated at Illinfrik VIII - Moon 1 - Trust Partners Trading Post. Click on the Offices tab on the bottom half of the station services panel and scroll down til you find PSPR. That's us! Select Join Corp and identify yourself on the application, I'll process it ASAP.
As far as initial skills to train, Propulsion Jamming I/Weapon Upgrades I/Repair Systems I are the books you'll initially need to buy (corp provided, don't worry), and the best thing to train of your current skillset would be Minmatar Frigate to level 4, then Engineering to 4. I'll be posting more in-depth skill guides as we go on.
Summary:
Get trial account (https://secure.eve-online.com/ft/?aid=103835&nogreet=1).
Create char, charisma is a **** attribute, BE A SOLDIER.
***DO THE TUTORIAL!***
Get to Illinfrik VIII - Moon 1 - Trust Partners Trading Post and join PSPR.
My char name is Vando, send a mail ingame or find me in IRC if you've got problems. Consider #mpukeve to now be live ;)
This is a fun game, I'm telling you. Mining sim this ain't :)
(any current Eve players, please shout if I've missed anything important in this thread)