This game is pretty great stuff!

Created a char and went through some of the tutorials and I have to say that I am really blown away with this game.

Small problem though, as I continued to play, the performance steadily decreased to a point where even the sound track was skipping. Might be just hd stuff (as it was nearing 20% fragmented when I checked right after shutting down) but we'll see what happens tomorrow.

If Deimos, Luis, or anyone else familiar with the game has any newb tips, drop em up here!

Wow.. I got to play eve online when it was in beta.. I thought it was pretty cool then too.

Well the game sucks up alot of resources so if your HDD is almost 20% fragmented, that definately wont help. Do a defrag and a chkdsk and you should be ok.

My advice. Dont worry too much about anything right now. Just get the hang of the game. Make sure you go through ALL of the tutorial. In its entirety. Itll help you learn the parts of the game that are crucial. Alot of the not so useful stuff isnt too long anyway.

Train up a few different weapon types (energy, projectile, missles/rockets, etc) and see what you like... what feels comfortable for you.

Once you get that figured out, post on here and let me know. Ill help you start a new character that will give you a nice head start on whatever skills you want to focus on. Ill also toss ya a few mil ISK to get you started (trust me... I know people dont like taking money from others but 1. ISK is very easy to come by and 2. if you buy something you regret later [which youll do as a new player], you wanna have the money to back it up).

I did alot of courier missions right after the tutorial, made a few hundred ISK and just been playing around trying to make it run nice and smooth

Gonna try to find some kill missions to try to get a better feel of the fighting aspect, but Im gettin the basics down ok.

Matter of fact, right now I think Ill go try to do some mining!

If you want kill missions, you should do either Surveillance agents or Security agents.

Im a Caldari and I use:

Upi Inimita

Level: 2
Quality: -18
Base: Kakakela VII - Moon 16 - Caldari Navy Assembly Plant

I get ALOT of kill missions from him, netting ALOT of ISK usually.

Cool, Ill look out for the proper agents. Im a Gallente, sos itll be different name

You know what was crazy? I headed back to my starting dock and talked to an agent there whosent me on a 18 jump courier mission that took me through 0.2 sec space! They trying to show new people how to die?

Now correct me if Im wrong, but it doesnt seem that your chars can help each other as in UO. If one char has a ship and cant outfit it with some piece of hardware, anther char cant do it for you? Kinda stinks...

*goes to log back on*

1. Each agent has a level (I, II, III, IV, V). The level determines what kinda missions you get. Also the agents quality (affected by alot of factors... check the "show info" screen on an agent to see its factors) determines the quality of the missions (risk vs reward and whatnot).

2. Well... if you couldnt use a bardiche on UO, could someone else put it in your hand for you?

The mods you put on your ship and operate during flight are based on YOUR knowledge of the mods you are trying to put on. If you dont know how to use medium energy lasers, whats the point of someone else putting them on?

hehehe, nope, but you could have a smith that could make your fighter one

I was thinking more in the vein of the low slots more than anything...cargo upgrades, cpu upgrades, etc. that could be installed to be used passively.

All in all, I can definitely see the eveness of the skill system.