What should I do first......

After completing the player tutorial and wondering what is the best path to success in EvE you might consider the following.
Please note: These ideas and tips may not be your exact path but this should give you a general idea. This is a very Basic Guide.

One of the first things you should do is purchase and learn the "Learning skills" and train them up. These skills help lower your time to learn a new skill. These skills will lower your learning times by increasing your attributes. This is a good thing to do very early on. The faster you train a skill the better your skills will be sooner. Since there is no skill cap in EvE you want to be training a skill always. You should set a long skill when you log off to maximize your skill training time. You train 24/7. Get your learning skills and "learn to learn" as soon as you can afford it and can stand training them. It will all pay off in the long run, no matter what. Getting the learning skills and training them will also make you familiar with how training skills works in the process

Every new player seeks that ever elusive better ship. Early on in EvE, you will find that you can fly the largest standard frigate class ship with frigate level 3 skill. This level of frigate skill can be reached in less then one or two days of training. Level 4 frigate skill will be needed to advance to cruiser skills. When you have the skill to get a new frigate class ship and leave the newbie ship, do so as soon as possible. The new player ship is very weak and is given out freely upon death. Even a smaller frigate which only requires level 2 frigate skill is by far superior to the new player ship. You can actually create a character that starts with frigate skill level 4 if you choose the right skills for the right character. Get some frigate skill and get a better ship as soon as humanly possible.

To sum up the above two items, it is best early on, to get out of the new player ship and into a real frigate and get training those learning skills while you mine or run missions.

Allot of people ask how should they make money. There are a few ways early on that are your best path for ISK in EvE. One is to go mining and the other is to run missions or run trade goods. Missions and Mining are as about as rewarding in the beginning and also about as exciting by comparison. You will make money from mining or running missions as a new player to start out and both have their pros and cons. If you wish to make things in EvE later on, you will probably want to learn mining and get to know its finer points. If you are more about trading and wheeling and dealing, then you might find missions more to your liking or you can try hauling trade goods and buying low and selling high. Mining is the core of EvE. Without it, EvE's economy wouldn't work. Missions how ever will bring things like free Blueprints and at higher levels, implants, to enhance your attributes even more as the learning skills do. Missions by far will teach you much about eve and how it works as well as offer several advanced player options. As you do any of these, you will broaden your horizon on other ways to make ISK/Money in EvE.

Of the three above ways to make ISK this is order of structure for them so to speak

Mining - Probably your most average ISK maker early on and path of income, if you desire to make or craft items in EvE.
Hauling Trade Goods - The most lucrative way to make ISK in EvE early on by far. This is as much of and ART as Mining or Missions.
Missions - The most long term beneficial path for any player, yet early on, is not so lucrative.

One of the best things a new player can do is find a corporation that is active, with your type of people and of the larger type, and join it. A player corp can help you a lot more then any NPC corp ever could early on. Just be for warned to choose your first player corp carefully. You do not want to end up some corps mining mule and all around work horse and get used early on. Make sure you pick a corp that will help you and not just use you. EvE is all about corporations. Corporations offer protection, friends, mining operations, resource sharing and more. One last note on Joining Corps - Dont join a WEAK one and get pwned.

Some other things, that are good also, are to understand how the map works, and set up your overview settings so you can see how all the colors and things work on your overview. These two items learned early on can save you alot of time and hassles.

To see exactly what all the pretty colors and icons mean on things on your overview you should do the following:
Right click your mouse, while hovering over the little ARROW next to the word "overview", on the overview itself and select settings. This will open the "settings for the overview" and here you will see all the meanings of colors and icons on your overview and also change how they work for you if need be. If you do not know much about EvE and are a newer player, it is best you do not adjust these settings until you know what they do exactly.

On the last Note... Explore EvE.....there are 5000+ systems and literally thousands of people out there somewhere. We wish we could tell you exactly what to do early on in detail but that's what EvE is all about ...exploring, corporations, money, greed, friendships, and the list goes on and on..

...will you be the next Ruler of the galaxy?...or just another person hauling dog crap out of Kusomonmon?

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