Wednesday, October 31, 2012
What do I train !?!?!?!
A question asked by all people in New Eden. What to train, what to train, what to train. This the the follow up to my post Skill not Skills and I hope will give people some insight on what skill to train to improve themselves in the game.
Everyone in EVE Online needs a skill plan. If you don't have one then you are going to find that your time playing is filled with wasted dreams, heartbreak, and time. When I started I had two friends to play with that helped me with my first skill plan each one had been playing the game for longer so it seemed wise to follow their advice. For many though there is not real life friend to hold you hand as you go along so the first couple months can turn from bliss to a nightmare.
Step one in setting up a skill plan is getting a skill planner app. There are several really good ones to get, for you PC users EVEMON is a great tool. You will have to get your user API, but that part is easy. Once you get it setup, you can use EVEMON to look your skills and all skills in the game. It has a place for adding a skill plan. If you have an Android Phone then you should pick up AURA. It is similar to EVEMON, and works nicely on Android. Every phone and tablet that I have had has had AURA on in. It now has a great functioning skill planner on it. And for those iPhone users you can get NeoCom. A little bit different interface, but is a solid program for those that want use it.....take a few to download one of the programs above.
Now that you have EVEMON, Aura or NeoCom, you are on you way to getting a decent skill plan. First thing that you need to decide it what you want to do in EVE. There are many different professions that you can do and try but it will help you if you decide on one when you first start. So say that you want to be a Pirate. Easy enough to plan, but get ready for some pain along the way.
First thing first is you want to look at what ships you want fly as a pirate. I would suggest Assault Frigates now what skills do you need to fly this ship to its basic potential. This is why I like EVEMON if you go into the Ship Browser just find the ship you want to fly click on it. If you look to the right it shows the required skill for fly the ship and then the recommended certification for flying it. That is a good indicator on what skills you need to fly the ship. Click add to to skill plan and there is the start to you skill plan.
Other certifications that you should look at getting is in the Core tab in Certifications tab. I would start with Fitting , Integrity, and then Capacitor. At first I would train them to improved before looking at other skills. The main reason is that having those skills to improved will give you access to descents Cruiser and Battle Cruiser skills once you get all the taking skills to improved as well. A good skill plan for a first time player should be roughly 190-240 days.
The most important thing about a skill plan is to follow it. Do not do make the same mistake that many young capsuleers do and train up you spaceship command skills higher than what you can fit. I see many young toons that have more spaceship command skills than they do other skills. While they feel that they can fly anything, they can not fit those ships properly and most ot the time lose them.
I hope that my suggestions help my fellow capsuleers.
Everyone in EVE Online needs a skill plan. If you don't have one then you are going to find that your time playing is filled with wasted dreams, heartbreak, and time. When I started I had two friends to play with that helped me with my first skill plan each one had been playing the game for longer so it seemed wise to follow their advice. For many though there is not real life friend to hold you hand as you go along so the first couple months can turn from bliss to a nightmare.
Step one in setting up a skill plan is getting a skill planner app. There are several really good ones to get, for you PC users EVEMON is a great tool. You will have to get your user API, but that part is easy. Once you get it setup, you can use EVEMON to look your skills and all skills in the game. It has a place for adding a skill plan. If you have an Android Phone then you should pick up AURA. It is similar to EVEMON, and works nicely on Android. Every phone and tablet that I have had has had AURA on in. It now has a great functioning skill planner on it. And for those iPhone users you can get NeoCom. A little bit different interface, but is a solid program for those that want use it.....take a few to download one of the programs above.
Now that you have EVEMON, Aura or NeoCom, you are on you way to getting a decent skill plan. First thing that you need to decide it what you want to do in EVE. There are many different professions that you can do and try but it will help you if you decide on one when you first start. So say that you want to be a Pirate. Easy enough to plan, but get ready for some pain along the way.
First thing first is you want to look at what ships you want fly as a pirate. I would suggest Assault Frigates now what skills do you need to fly this ship to its basic potential. This is why I like EVEMON if you go into the Ship Browser just find the ship you want to fly click on it. If you look to the right it shows the required skill for fly the ship and then the recommended certification for flying it. That is a good indicator on what skills you need to fly the ship. Click add to to skill plan and there is the start to you skill plan.
Other certifications that you should look at getting is in the Core tab in Certifications tab. I would start with Fitting , Integrity, and then Capacitor. At first I would train them to improved before looking at other skills. The main reason is that having those skills to improved will give you access to descents Cruiser and Battle Cruiser skills once you get all the taking skills to improved as well. A good skill plan for a first time player should be roughly 190-240 days.
The most important thing about a skill plan is to follow it. Do not do make the same mistake that many young capsuleers do and train up you spaceship command skills higher than what you can fit. I see many young toons that have more spaceship command skills than they do other skills. While they feel that they can fly anything, they can not fit those ships properly and most ot the time lose them.
I hope that my suggestions help my fellow capsuleers.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Skill or Skills?
As a Capsuleer there is something you have to know and that is the difference between skill and skills. When many people who start playing EVE Online and see that it takes time to train a skill to get into a ship or use mod, that think that once the 5 hrs of training time over thats it. They can use that mod like pro. I would count myself in that group.
I remember as a young pilot training the Small Hybrid Weapons to 5 and thinking that after a 5 day train i was the King of Blasters. I fitted up frigate and took it out....engaged a target and about 30 secs I was back in my pod and back to the drawing board. I decided that the skill I needed wasn't Small Hybrid Weapons 5 but the Small Blaster Spec to 5 and then Gallente Frigates to 5. Each time I finished one I found that I was still lacking just one more to be great....boy was I wrong.
In EVE you can have 5mil SP or 60mil SP but unless you have trained yourself in the ship and how to you use the mods you die. That is what it means to have skills. Pilots have to know their ships and how to fly them. As in the real world in New Eden it helps if you train with you ships. The more your train in with you ship and fly it the better you will be in it.
There are several ways to train yourself on EVE Online. The first is buy up a lot of ships and mods and go out and pew pew. This method is effective and I how I learned to PVP in EVE. But it will feel you with a lot of heartbreak as you lose ships. More than once I wanted to give up on EVE because I was losing more ships than I was killing. I encourage all that try to keep at it.
The second method is to download the test server. First its a bit tricky to get on to. Second is you have to realize that your skill points in EVE and on the skill points won't match up. Depending on the last time two servers were mirrored you may be short a couple million SP. That is okay though, cause once you download the test server you can train you toon on there just like on the main, and if you follow Delvblogs to when there are Test event going on, on there you can get upto 1.5mil SP for free. I know several pilots whose toons on the test server have more SP than the ones on the main. The test server offers a cheap way to test your skills and your ships, I would recommend it for anyone wanted to test out fits for Battle Cruiser class ships and above. For cruiser and lower the hulls are cheap enough the main server that you can use them there.
In terms of getting skilled in how to fly the ship you just have to keep flying, fighting and dying. and that goes for either the test server or the main. Do not write of new fits the first time you take them out and die. Maybe you didn't test it for the right situation. Talk to other people who have been flying similar fits and how they used time. Ask if there minimum SP requirement to fly the fit.
The last real thing that I can offer is find a training corp or a good group of guys to fly with. Have experienced pilots show you the ropes and help you out with fittings. I wish that this was something that I did when I first started PvPing in EVE. It would have saved me a lot of loses and wasted time training skills that I really didn't need at the time.
I will do another post on skills in the near future to help guide some younger players.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
RETRIBUTION: Heating Up
The above video is owned by CCP
Retribution is kicking off with a back come Christmas and all you a capsulers better make sure your pod goo is warm and ready. Three topics I want to talk about, new ships, Logi Frigates, and Rebalancing.
First I want to say that I like the way all the new Destroyers look. They flow into their races designs and look great. That said I am interested to see how they perform, mainly the Caldari and Minmatar. To me what make the the destroyer class okay right now is that it is a solid quick alpha strike with no lag to the missile flight time. Destroyers have no tank and they are all about the gank. I feel while the new one will play a role I really wonder if it is a vital one. That said from watching the video and reading DelvBlogs I am going to say that the Amarr Destroyer sounds like a beast. To me the idea of a mini-Arbitrator that can out track turrets will be deadly to Battle Cruiser and Battleship gangs.
The next is the Logi Frigate, while this looks like a good idea, I have a hard time believe that it will be. The current Logistic Ships are Cruiser hulls that require Large Shield and Large Armor Reps to be useful in fleets. And then unless you have Logistic to V and your Logistic Chief Certification to Standard it becomes very hard to fit them properly. While I understand that CCP wants to give pilots a lot of opinions and choice to me this does not seem like a good on. I am sure that these ships will have some use to them in the game, but as of right now I don't see it.
Last is the Ship Rebalance. I want to say very loudly ABOUT TIME. All summer I have been looking forward to the rebalance and what it brings to EVE. That said I am very worried. With CCP launching 4 new ships plus Rebalancing 40 current ships I am fearful of the outcome. In the two years I have been playing EVE it seems that every time CCP tries to do something major like this it backfires or it was do sloppy. I still have nightmares of Incara. I remember the a DelvBlog and I will have to do back and search them, that said the Rebalance was going to be be a slow process and take some time upto next summer. While the Pirate and PvPer in me says "UUUHHHGGGG to long" the Pilot and CEO says "Okay, take your time make it right". Launching what is basically going to be 44 new ships does not sound like "taking your time and making it right". I am both eagerly waiting and dreading Retribution.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Fly Safe #1
Fly safe post are simple post that explain some the rules that I, Phox Jorkarzul, believe all members of New Eden should fly by. Today's easy.
#1 Keep an eye on local at all times.
#1 Keep an eye on local at all times.
Virtal Economy Becomes Real
In my search to improve myself in EVE online, I find myself spending most of my time reading blogs and watching videos about the game. This is one video that I found to be very interesting to the State of EVE.
What makes EVE so differnet than any other MMO out there is the Econmomy of EVE is real and player driven. What I mean by real is that in EVE only the players can control the economy. If no one did any manufacturing then the economy would stop. Though there are few mods that are dropped, there is not enough to feed the market. Prices for mods would unattendable and CCP would have to seed the market with new mods every few days. Many games rely on these types of market, Guild Wars, WoW, Everquest and what happens that as time goes up the cost raises as well making it hard for peoples starting in the game to compete in it.
If we look at this graph of the Orca, the first real "cap ship" that many people get into, we see that when the ship was introduced in 2008 the price was just over 1bil ISK as time went on instead of the price raising like it would in a pure seeded market the price dropped and slowly makes climbs up but has even out at about 800mil ISK. This is because EVE is a true marketplace. As more people learn the skills that it takes to build and create ships and mod the prices drop to meet that demand that is being asked for.
I find that this an accurate example of how a computer game can imploy real life economics. In the lastest expansion of EVE CCP pushed the idea that EVE IS REAL...To me this bridge into real life economy makes EVE Online one of the most interesting games there is.
For more reading on the Eve Economy read these blogs.
http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=607
http://eve-musings.blogspot.com/2009/07/economic-banter-1-plex-prices.html
http://jestertrek.blogspot.com/2011/11/pic-of-week-tanstaafl.html
First Post, It is what it is.
Never feed the Troll?
I know that you are looking at the title of the blog and wondering what it is all about. Well I will tell you. I am Phox Jorkarzul a Capsuler in the universe of New Eden in EVE Online. Here we are able to be whatever we want to be. Fly small frigates that race across the stars or become the conquerors of Star systems in Capital Ships. I myself have had many different jobs in New Eden. I tried mining, missions running, sought to explore the stars, then found my niche in PvP(player vs Player combat) and became a pirate. I also am a Director in my Alliance and my Corporations Deep Void Industrial Group CEO. I wear all of these titles proudly most days, but the one I wear most is troll.
That is a Troll? I would type it all out but wikipedia has done it for me. Link below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
To me this is what makes EVE fun. Nowhere in the world does so many trolls find their homes and continue to play. I remember watching a youtube video where a developer of the game said that the community was "too mean to new players." This made me laugh and think, Nah we just believe in education by fire.
Never Pheed The Troll is a blog about EVE Online and Phox Jorkarzul's life in it. I want this blog to give an accurate look at the players in EVE, the politics of New Eden, and its economy. I will also post helpful tips for new players that want to start playing the game. How I got over some the humps that many players go through, entry level advice in Skill training and PVP. I will never claim to be a pro or elite at EVE, but I do feel that two years of active playing has given me some insight into the game. I will also post some trollable moments.
Thank you for reading this first post
Phox Jorkarzul
I know that you are looking at the title of the blog and wondering what it is all about. Well I will tell you. I am Phox Jorkarzul a Capsuler in the universe of New Eden in EVE Online. Here we are able to be whatever we want to be. Fly small frigates that race across the stars or become the conquerors of Star systems in Capital Ships. I myself have had many different jobs in New Eden. I tried mining, missions running, sought to explore the stars, then found my niche in PvP(player vs Player combat) and became a pirate. I also am a Director in my Alliance and my Corporations Deep Void Industrial Group CEO. I wear all of these titles proudly most days, but the one I wear most is troll.
That is a Troll? I would type it all out but wikipedia has done it for me. Link below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
To me this is what makes EVE fun. Nowhere in the world does so many trolls find their homes and continue to play. I remember watching a youtube video where a developer of the game said that the community was "too mean to new players." This made me laugh and think, Nah we just believe in education by fire.
Never Pheed The Troll is a blog about EVE Online and Phox Jorkarzul's life in it. I want this blog to give an accurate look at the players in EVE, the politics of New Eden, and its economy. I will also post helpful tips for new players that want to start playing the game. How I got over some the humps that many players go through, entry level advice in Skill training and PVP. I will never claim to be a pro or elite at EVE, but I do feel that two years of active playing has given me some insight into the game. I will also post some trollable moments.
Thank you for reading this first post
Phox Jorkarzul
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