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| ==Things to Do ==
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| I was about two days into my experience with E-UNI when I just had to stop and laugh. Here was this great place, full of smart people, and they had given me about twenty things that absolutely had to be done first, immediately, right now, ASAP!
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| The problem is that many of these actually should be done more or less at the same time, because this is a complicated game, and there is a lot of stuff you have to do to get started. People have different opinions on how to go about this, but here are the three things that l think are most useful, along with a second list of things to try out later on.
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| ===Do These First===
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| ====Read up on War ====
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| Because EVE University Corporation attracts a lot of first time players, it is often at war with Corporations whose members are trying to improve their "kill" counts. The basic rules are:
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| * WATCH AND LISTEN – the key phrase is "war target" (WT). WT's are experienced EVE players with good ships who are trying to kill you. If WTs are in the area, you don't want to be. Until you get some solid combat experience, it's as simple as that.
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| * Keep an eye on [[Chat_Channels|E-UNI chat]], and on the chat channel for your [[Campuses|local campus]].
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| * Join the Standing Fleet of your local campus (ask in chat and someone will show you how to do this).
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| * Join the E-UNI [[Mumble|Mumble channel]] ...( ''this is highly recommended, but, honestly, while listening to people talk can be really interesting, it often isn't ... so depending on my mood, I sometimes only join Mumble if I have a sudden need for information'').
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| * Set up your Overview Window using the E-UNI format. The [[Overview_Setup|E-UNI instructions]] for setting up your "in space" overview display are detailed and complete. The process takes about half an hour. When you are done, the "PVP TRAVEL" tab will show you any dangerous ships within range. And, the other tabs will do useful things that you haven't thought about yet. More than anything else you can do, this will make traveling around in space easier and safer.
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| WTs show up in your "PVP Travel" display as blinking red lights. If you see a blinking red light, hide. If you can't hide, run and then hide. Blinking yellow lights are criminals ... they are not at war with E-UNI, but they make a living out of looting ships, so depending on where you are and what kind of ship you are flying, they may attack you. It's best to give them a wide berth. Solid reds and yellows are bad people. Ignore them or not depending on your level of paranoia at the time.
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| ====Put your medical clone in a good place.====
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| You only have one "medical" clone, and it is where you will rez if you should die. It starts in the station where you began the game, but you can move it any time to any station that has a "Clone Bay". Once moved, you will rez at that station.
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| Do this now. If you are in Aldrat, put the clone in a station in that system. If you have moved to one of the E-UNI campuses, put your clone nearby. Just find the "[[Medical_clone|Clone Bay]]" on the station menu and click it. Don't put this off ... sooner or later, you WILL die ... and you will want to rez in a convenient place.
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| ====If you haven't done the tutorial missions, do them now====
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| These are kind of simple, and a bit slow, but they actually help a lot. For one thing they give you a couple of free ships, some free skill books, and some basic gear, and you make some money.
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| For another, they take you through the basic careers: combat, mining, exploring, industry. The things they have you do are basic techniques, and trying them out will help you choose a career or two to focus on.
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| ===Then Later Maybe Try These ===
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| ====Check Out the Skill Tree====
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| To see all the game's available skills, open your character window the one with a big photo at the top left. Click on "skills". In the skills options menu (it's the little "gear" icon) select "show all". Now you will see a much larger list of skills. Red means your character is not qualified to learn the skill. Green means you can learn it, but have not yet read the book. Select "show only skills I can learn" to put the list back the way it was.
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| ====Use the Browser====
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| Click on the "Neocom" ... the three white bars at the top of the icon bar. Pull down to "Accessories" and then go out to "Browser."
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| This is a real, true browser like Safari, Explorer or Chrome. You can use it to go anywhere on the Internet. By default it opens to the [[Using_the_EVE_University_Calendar|EVE University Calendar]]. But go to the "Bookmarks" tab at the top, and you will find a wealth of E-UNI information links. And of course, you can bookmark links of your own.
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| ====Buy Some ISK – Or Not====
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| If you want, you can go to your game account page and buy a PLEX. This is a certificate that can be redeemed inside the game for a month's worth of game time. It can also be sold in the market ... the going rate is usually in the 750-850 million ISK range. If you are chronically low on ISK and are willing to spend some real currency, this is the fast way to get richer. (Note that players also do the opposite ... make millions of ISK in the game and then use them to buy game time.)
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| ====Check out the Compare Tool====
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| This service makes it easy to compare items of gear. It is very useful when you are buying or fitting out a ship.
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| * Open the Compare Tool – its icon is a cube with two arrows beneath it.
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| * Open the Market window.
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| * Pick a category ... like Ship Equipment > Propulsion > Afterburners.
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| * Drag two or three items from the category into the Compare Tool.
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| Now when you check the little boxes on the far left, information about the items will appear on the right. You can sort the rows by clicking on a column header. EVE players spend a lot of time making decisions about ships and equipment. This makes it easy to compare items based on the characteristics that matter to you.
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| ====Set Up a Safety Spot====
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| This is how you make places that you can jump to quickly in emergencies. It is also how you record the locations of interesting or valuable things that you have found in space.
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| * Undock and be in space.
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| * Open the Map Browser (key F11 – note: not the Map; you want the smaller Map Browser).
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| * Find a planet or moon in the browser, right-click on it and choose "warp to within 50 km".
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| * You will now be warping ... when you arrive, double-click in space somewhere to get your ship moving – you do not want your spot to be exactly where you arrive, as someone else might arrive there later.
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| * While you are moving, open the "People and Places" window (key alt-E).
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| * Click the "Add a Location" button at the bottom left of the window.
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| You'll see the system name ... edit the text to say "safe spot" after the system name.
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| * Save the location (hit the "submit" button).
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| From now on, any time you are in this system, you can right-click on this entry in the People and Places window and warp directly to this spot.
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| ====Know Your Attributes====
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| Open your Character screen. Click on "Attributes" – you will see five of these: Perception, Memory, Willpower, Intelligence, Charisma. Leaving that screen open, open your skill training queue and click on the "Get Info" circle for any of the skills you are training. Click on "Description" – on that page you will see a "Primary" and a "Secondary" Attribute.
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| The only thing that [[Attributes#Attributes|Attributes]] affect is the speed at which you learn skills. If you have more points in an Attribute (you can reconfigure this on the Attribute panel of your Character screen), then you will learn skills that require those Attributes faster. Whether you want to do this or not is up to you, and [[Attributes#General_Training_Strategies|how you optimize it]] is open to discussion.
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| ==Three General Suggestions== | | ==Three General Suggestions== |
