Beginner guide

PART 3: Skills implants and clones.

Attributes, Implant and Clones
Hello and welcome to the Attributes and Implants section.
This section will cover in detail the few things there are to know about this topic.

1)Attributes – What are they good for?
When you started out in New-Eden, you were asked you input various information on your character’s bloodline, ancestry and occupation. It is in fact irrelevant to your progression in New-Eden is strictly for lore.

So, if your choices when you make the character don’t matter, what does?
It’s the attributes of your character that determines how fast, or how slow, you train a specific skill.
You can view your attributes by entering the character sheet(The face on the top left, also accessible through alt+a) and hitting the attributes tab.

You now see in detail the five attributes of your character.
Each skill you train in New-Eden has a primary and a secondary attribute they belong to.
For example, Gunnery has Perception as a primary attribute Willpower as a secondary.
Each extra point you place in Perception will decrease training time by a certain amount of time. Each point invested in willpower will reduce training time, But will be half as effective as the main attribute.
A decrease in the primary and secondary attributes would result in a slower training time.

Now the only question remains, Is how do I increase my attributes?
Glad you asked.

1) Neural Remap
This little option is quite useful, it allows you to re-allocate your pilots attributes in such a way that would make training specific skills much faster, while others much slower.
You can’t “create” new points of attributes to your character, you can only shift them from one attribute to the next, with a limit on how many you can actually have in a single attribute, or how low you can have an attribute.

What’s the drawback you ask? You can only do this witch-craft once every year. With new players being an exception as they get two free rolls right when they start their character.

What is it good for – If you got a very long, planned training queue that revolves around specific skills and you know it’ll take more than a year, you can re-map the attributes to make the training as fast as possible. – This can be done easier using Eve-Mon, If you haven’t already you can read on it(and get it) in the program section of these tutorials.
You can plan a training queue as long as you wish there and just optimize your attributes with a click of a button, Very useful indeed.
What it is NOT good for – This is a terrible thing to use to speed up training for a few weeks or months. Either you use the whole year or you don’t. Remember that skill plans change in eve repeatedly as few people are able to stick to what they planned for a whole year.

2) Neural Implants.
Other than a Neural Re-Map, you can also buy implants that fit into your head to increase your attributes. An implant comes in five flavors, one per each attribute, and they come in various sizes (and costs).
They require the skill Cybernetics, which can be found under Science, And they provide you with a +1, +2 , +3, +4 and +5, Depends on the size you wish.
You can fit all 5 types in your head, so you can increase all your attributes at the same time.
You can find them in the market under Implants and Boosters -> Implants. Note that there are many different kinds of implants, and you should only get ones that you can afford, and can afford to lose.
Why should you lose your implants?
Those implants you got and connected to your brain are inside the body, that’s inside the POD you’re flying, that’s inside the ship you’re flying.
if for some unfortunate reason you lose your POD, all implants will be destroyed and you’ll be awaken in a new body in a station without your precious implants.
If you buy something too expensive, you’ll end up sitting in station all day too afraid to undock, losing part of the fun that’s eve.

This brings us to our last part,

Medical clone

Why do you need a clone?
For some reason our human bodies were designed to only die once. That didn’t fit with the people who statistically die several times a year, and so cloning is a viable solution.
You are always flying in a clone as your real body is long gone. You have a back-up clone in the station of your choosing (enter the medical bay, change station button, and decide where you want it).
When you just start out your medical clone is strong enough to absorb all the skill points you have should you die, but as you learn more, and your skill points increase your medical stand-by clone cannot cope with the amount of information, and should you die some of that information is lost, causing you to lose skill points.
Our brilliant scientists found a way to overcome this little problem by finding a way to upgrade our clones to be mentally stronger.
You do that by entering into the medical bay and selecting the “upgrade clone” button.
Your clone needs to have enough skill points to accommodate your current skill points.
You can also view this information in your character sheet.
Skill points – XXXXX
Clone – Clone grade YYYYY(enough for This many points)
Home – SYSTEM_NAME.

So in general, you’ll want the clone to have more skill points than what you have. Should you die horribly and gallantly in battle and your POD destroyed, you will wake up in your “HOME” system. – Every time you die you need to update your medical clone, as the upgraded one died horribly.

Fly safe capsuleers – May you never need a medical clone

PART 5: Skill training complete.

Hello again friends.
As time passes more and more skills become complete also skills start taking a bit longer.
The following skills are needed to continue your progression in new eden
Drones IV
CPU Management IV
Power Grid Management IV
Gunnery IV
Industry IV
Mechanics III
Mechanics IV
Missile Launcher Operation IV
Navigation IV
Minmatar Frigate IV

Skill breakdown:
Many pilots argue on which skills should be trained first, one thing is agreed by all – The fitting skills are crucial to be trained early.
What are fitting skills you ask? Fitting skills are the skills that enable you to fit your ship better. These include all the skills that offer Power grid or CPU bonuses to your ship.
Power Grid Management and CPU Management offer +5% PG and CPU per level but these skills come in many different flavors.

PART 7: The overview.

Welcome!
Eve’s overview of a small but crucial part of the game.
It’s what allows you to sense and view your surroundings 360 degrees around your ship.
If used right it’s a very powerful tool – if used wrong it can cause many ship losses.

Instead of teaching you how to set it up, we came up with a simple and clean overview design for everyone to use at will.

What to do
1) Go to Documents and Settings/Eve/
2) Create a folder called “overview” – no spaces.
3) Download the XML file(FruMy Overview.XML) directly into the new “overview” folder you created. You can find a link for the download at the bottom of this post. You must be registered in order to download.
4) Log in the game, Go to your overview settings(when undocked, there should be 4 white at the top left of the overview window) – right click – Import overview settings
6) Select the "My Overview ones, and you’re good to go!
A small explanation:
The overview is separated into 5 different tabs. The name of the tabs are for your own use and can be renamed without changing what they actually show. To rename them right click on them and change lable.
If you right click on a tab it gives you the option to load overview profile.

Enjoy these settings and fly safe! Make sure you’re always on the correct tab and in the correct overview profile!

Fly safe capsuleers

Link for overview here: My Overview.xml (14.22 KB)

Note: As of the latest update to Eve online at the time of writing this post, you can now share overview settings in game by simply dragging and dropping. So feel free to ask an older corpmate to share his overview if you wish.

PART 9: Chat windows.

1. Chats
a. You can link any module, character, corporation and ship to the chat windows by writing their name, marking what you wrote and right clicking to open a menu. Select autolink and what you wish to link(module, Character etc.)

b. You can drag almost everything to the chats to create a link, modules, ships, characters from your people’s and places. Everything!
c. You can share your fits with other people! To do so, go into the fitting menu and drag the name of the ship to the chat! (Ship name will be on the top right of the fitting window)

d. dragging “name of ship” into the chat creates a link in the chat for people to see your fit.
e. You can change the member list to “compact”, allowing you to see more people with less space!
Right click on the tab of the chat and select “Show compact member list”.

PART 11: Ship specialization.

Hello cadets
Here I’ll describe some of the roles you can play in a major fleet battle.
Pilots in eve can skill up to fill a lot of different roles, here I’ll list just a few. I will not state specific ships, but rather ship types in this lesson.
1) Fast Tackle – This role revolves around a fast light frigate equipped with a web and a warp scramble designed to stop the enemy from moving anywhere, These ships are normally going faster than 3 km/s and have very fast locking times.
2) Logistics – Logi in short, these guys are what keeps the fleets in one piece. Having extensive remote repair bonuses and range, they’re the superb fleet support vessel
3) EWAR – Electronic warfare support, This role prevents the enemy from locking on anything, be it friendly or enemy forces. That means that their Logistic ships can’t lock on their fleet members, their heavy damage battleships can’t lock on our fleet members, and all is well.
4) DPS – This role can be used in different ships, it’s the majority of the fleet and will be at least 75% of the fleet in normal circumstances. – Get as much damage on a ship as possible safely and get out there!

These are ofcourse only basic, there are other dedicated roles when you get more skillpoints, but for the near future this will do!

PART 13: Running missions.

Hello Cadets!
Most lessons up to now were simple, easy. This isn’t one of those lessons.
Things are about to get a bit.. complicated;
By the time you get to this part, most of you have already fiddled around with some ships, some fits and maybe even joined a roam or two.
This piece of guide here is designed to teach you all the ins and outs on running missions!
“Missions are easy” you might say, which isn’t wrong, but they need to be approached correctly.
So first thing first, Let’s talk about our enemy!
Some facts on our beloved NPC’s
1) NPC’s belong to the different factions in the game. They use the ships and modules that faction Is using. Gallente NPC’s will be using railguns and blasters for example.
2) Each mission *normaly* only spawns one specific type of NPC’s. a mission will normaly be either Gallente, Minmatar, Caldari or Amarr pirates.
3) Each faction does their own unique damage so if you know what damage the enemy is doing, you know how to resist it best!
These facts help us understand how to properly fit a ship, and with some reasoning we come to an important understanding:
To run missions well, you must re-fit your ship for the incoming damage!
Okay, so how do you know which enemy is attacking you and what damage types they do?
Easy! Just google the mission name, The top results are normaly documented encounters for the missions! They will state what NPC are present there.
Now how do you know which damage types they do?
Just visit here!
www.ogrank.com/content/view/698/59/

As you can see most NPC’s only deal two types of damage!

Fittings and Ships:
The starting ship for level 1’s should be the catalyst in the corporation fittings, called “PvE Missions CADET” – Can be found by either searching for CADET or PvE in the corporation fittings.
Notice this fit uses Kinetic and Thermic hardeners, that means that the ship is useful for fighting against enemies that deal this type of damage. Fit should be updated and changed to combat other types of of enemies.

More advanced ships for level 2’s can be found within the corporation fittings using the PVE keyword for the search. Always remember to fit resistence, Shield or Armor, to combat your incoming enemy damage.
Moving forward, You’ve done a bunch of level 1’s, they’re easy and you’re bored. How do you unlock those awesome level 2’s?
To answer that question we need to understand a little bit how standing works in eve, and what it represents.

STANDINGS AND AGENTS

Standings! Always good to have them, no one knows what they do! Well now you’ll know.
Eve organizations are structured into Factions, Corporations and Individuals(for NPC’s).
The gallente federation is a faction, It has many corporations under it. Federation navy is a corporation that belongs to the gallente federation. So this Corporation belongs to a Faction.
There are many other corporations that belong to the gallente empire. Each corporation has many different agents stationed in various locations around eve.
So it goes Faction > Corporation > Agent.

If you have a 10.0 standing(the max you can get in eve) with The gallente Empire Faction, That means that you also have 10.0 with every single corporation within the gallente Empire Faction and with all of the agents inside of all those corporations.
Why is this important?
Different missions require different standings to run them!
Level 1’s don’t need any standings.
Level 2’s require a 1.0 standing with either the specific agent, his corporation or his faction.
Level 3’s require a 3.0 standing with either the specific agent, his corporation or his faction.
Level 4’s require a 5.0 standing with either the specific agent, his corporation or his faction.
Level 5’s require a 7.0 standing with either the specific agent, his corporation or his faction.

That also means that a specific agent only gives specific level missions. A level 1 agent will never give level 2 missions!

Gaining Standings

Completing missions for an agent increases your standings with him and his corporation. This is called “raw” standing, as you can boost it even more using skills!

Social – this skill increases the amount of standings you get per mission. Less grind for those level 2’s and 3’s!
Connections – This skill makes the NPC think higher of you for the same amount of standings.
A new value is calculated called “modified standing” which is higher than your “raw” standings.
This means you need less than 1.0 to run level 2’s, and less than 3.0 to run level 3’s.

Unlocking a level 2 agent
First – you must find the the name of the corporation you are already running level 1’s for.
Next – Go to the people’s and places (alt+E by default), Agents tab, Agent finder at the bottom.
Check all the filters as followed:
1)Faction – ANY
2)Corporation – The name of the corporation you’re already running level 1’s for
3)Agent type – Any(You can select specific mission types here)
4)region – any
5)solar system – any
6)Security status – high sec.
Keep the check box checked for show only available, and then move the slider to the number 2.
If you get no results, uncheck that checkbox and you’ll find the agents you can’t yet access sorted by how far they are.
you can play with the filters to find all the level 2 agents you can’t access yet, find their corporations and start running level 1’s for their corporation!
Checking your own standing
Go to your character sheet (alt+A by default) go to standings, and there you go.
Notice you have standings for corporations and for factions. When you run missions only the corporation standing increases.
Faction standing
Faction standing is the most important standing in the game in the long run. This means that if you have 1.0 standing with gallente empire, you can run level 2’s with every single gallente corporation. Which is awesome, because you don’t need to grind any level 1’s anymore for anyone.
You gain faction standing by running Storyline missions. Those missions are handed out every 16 regular missions.
Losing standing
What comes up, Must go down. You can lose faction standings with factions you have no direct interactions with !
Some storyline missions will send you against other factions at times. When you kill enemy faction ships you lose standings with them. Why is this a problem?
If you get less than -5.0 standings with a faction, Their navy will shoot you on sight in their space, making it impossible for you to enter highsec space of that faction.
So – careful how bad you’re getting with some of these people!
This concludes the very long and complex lesson on standings and missions!