Character creation... oh the joys of too much customisation.
I always have an idea of what I want my character to look like in any game with this level of customisation but it always turns out completely different as I get sidetracked by amusing moustaches....
After a little while of playing around Spaktula Gargantuan was birthed from a vat of goo, a suitably intense portrait was captured (as seen on the right side of this post) and I was ready to begin my journey to riches!
Last year I went with Caldari because after all the reading you do about the game, the name Jita IV gets bandied about a lot so I thought at the time it would be best to play as the race that starts in that area. However I ended up spending most of my time in Amarr as it's frankly a MUCH more accessible station in which to station trade. I use the word accessible in the sense that you don't get undercut every 30 seconds when placing buy and sell orders so you don't have to spend time babysitting your investments too much. Also I find the profit margins are higher in Amarr although granted the volume of sales is lower but it all evens out in the end I think.
For this character I went with Amarr, not that it really matters as in EVE you can choose any race and still go to any of the other race's territories as long as your standing (reputation) is high enough for them not to take pot shots at you as you fly past.
The tutorial and then career missions took me most of the evening. I started at around 9pm local time so 7pm EVE time. If you're just starting out or thinking of starting the game I'd really recommend doing all of the career missions as it gives you valuable experience in several areas of the game which can help you choose what to do and it also gives you a bunch of free skill books and quite a bit of ISK with which you can buy and fit out a decent ship.
After the career missions I flew off in my new shiny Coercer destroyer which was honestly terribly fitted but with half a day worth of skills I couldn't do much better. I was basically running 5 guns and 3 salvager I's. I did a few level 1 security missions which I breezed through and then started the Sisters of Eve Epic arc.
Why aren't you exploring? I thought this was all about exploring? I hear you cry. Well I needed to train the relevant skills as I couldn't use some of the ship equipment I needed and shooting stuff was more fun than mining in the interim.
Top of the list of things to learn was Archaeology and Hacking. I'd say these are the most important skills as you can't crack open the any containers you may find in scanned down sites if you can't fit either a Relic Analyzer I or Data Analyzer I which require Archaeology and Hacking respectively. I trained Science and Survey up to 3 so I could learn Archaeology but I then had to wait for Electronics Upgrades to be trained before I could use my Hacking skill book.
After finishing Archaeology level 1 but before I'd learned Hacking I went on my forst foray into the big wide world of exploration. I scanned down a couple of high sec sites just to test the water so to say. I met with some success but came across more Data sites, that I obviously wouldn't enter, than Relic sites. There were also a couple of Relic sites I just couldn't scan down and no amount of tweaking the probes would get me above 80% scan strength. The joys of having low skills :)
Never mind. Tomorrow is a new day and there's plenty of scanning to be done and ISK to be made!
Day 1 Total:
6 million ISK
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