State of the EVE union address..

Depends on a lot of circumstances. My friend Jason started playing with us a couple months ago.. Started out doing missions and learning the game, basic stuff. It helped him being supported financially by me, as he trained up his skills. We've now moved out into extremely low security space with others, and he's making money hand over fist; waiting the necessary time for his skills to train up. Currently he's doing some grind-like work to get materials to make his first battleship; which will allow him to go after larger "mobs" (WoW terms there) and make him more self sufficient. If you want pvp, low sec space is the place to be.

So technically in 2 months he's gone from the basic stuff to the more advanced content, with pvp anytime he wants it.

Its vastly different from WoW. In some ways richer, more tactical, and rewarding. In other ways it can be more frustrating and slower paced. (i.e. if you get destroyed you lose your ship, and have to start over again, unlike Wow where you lose nothing for pvping)

Support of others is paramount in EVE, especially when you get closer to the more complex elements of the game (corporations, large ships, making lots of $$$)

Questing and farming is replaced by mining and hunting AI pirates in system belts. Raiding over and over again is replaced by large corporate wars and pvp'ing.. While the basics are similar (grinding sort of) the "end game" stuff in EVE is vastly different than WoW. More satisfying IMO

 

Not really.. Chances are if you can afford a battleship you can make your money back for it quite quickly. That or the minerals you'd need to mine and refine are already out there. Its like the difference in trying to earn money as a miner in WoW and in EvE. If you have high mining skill but never leave Goldshire, you'll see nothing but copper. You'll make very little money and get nowhere. In EVE if you're mining/hunting in low security the danger is higher, but so is the payout. A battleship would cost you around 100 million credits in the game. Being out in low security space, properly equipped and supported (providing you avoid direct pvp) you can make that money easily in a week. Insurance also helps to cover costs if you get hit.

WoW is somewhat unrealistic though in the sense that you lose nothing for fighting. They seem to like that system, which is fine. Though having consequence for fighting makes people chooose their fights a bit more carefully..

 

I just looked in the local market Aeternus and there's a covertor for 40 mil out here.. I'm not sure if anyone in PE can make one, but I can ask.. Not sure if 40 mil is too much for a covertor, but there you go. KOS is supposed to have a policy about gouging within the alliance prices.

Its rough getting out here, but I have a set of instas for all around Wicked Creek, Insmother, and the route in from Uanzin (system). You do have to worry about pirates who usually camp the gates in that area, but they usually send patrols out to take care of that if there's trouble.

Also best bet to move anything you actually want to take out to Uanzin first, before joining the corp. The safest path out to Wicked Creek is through Amarr space, which is Red Alliance home turf. Best to flag yourself potentially for war once you're actually out here

 

Money's not really that big an object once you're out here Hamma, we can get you setup Though once you're out here, you'll find you need a battleship in short order

 

skill training is the most important part.. once you get the necessary skills to survive 0.0, money starts to roll in and its more fun over all.. get cheap ships (frigates) and you can even do some low risk pvp.. make sure you take the skill for jump clones eventually too, so you can leave a clone in empire and one out in 0.0 at least.. If you do come out though, make sure you transfer your "insured clone" out to 0.0, otherwise you'll die and end up back out in empire and have to make the trip in again