What's up with EVE nowadays? Got back in after a 5 year hiatus...

What's up with EVE nowadays? Got back in after a 5 year hiatus, having decent fun training a new character on the F2P model. Channels seems dead or Russian, but at least there's plenty of new meat to slaughter.

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I’m sorry OP but people here don’t play this. They rather meme about garbage then have good meaningful conversation.

How far Yea Forums has fallen.

>tfw no /eog/ on /vg/ since early May

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It's stagnant.

For EVE, that's not a bad thing.

I kinda miss playing Eve, but I’m not going to get back on the game til I find alliance to fly with.

Just started playing a day ago here on f2p, playerbase seems really stable at 10-15k+. Only actually met about 10 others players though in my starter system
Why'd /eog/ die, I desperately need a corp of autists

You might want to start playing first in order to find an alliance.

No idea, they were hardcore autists though.

I've met plenty of other players, Jita has a good 1.5-2k at all times. Also got a bunch of corp invites just from flying well on my alpha starter.

I must be flying shit, or not doing the right stuff.
I just aimlessly mine and do missions for isk in highsec. Can you risk the starter ship for free in pvp?

Yeah, the Ibis is a free one that you can claim at every station. It's garbage, though. You should do the tutorials and career agents that you find in The Agency for ISK and ships. Got a good 5mil, on top of 2xVenture, 2xBadger, 1xMerlin, and some other shits from doing those yesterday. Also mined a couple mil worth of ore, but saving that for when my indy skills are the highest I can get on alpha so I can start making ammo, it's good passive income.

Also, do every other career before the military ones; you'll get mining and salvage gear that you can use at the mission sites for that extra dough. Mining a 90k Dense Veldspar asteroid in a mission field with a Venture takes about 40 minutes and nets 1.5mil in unprocessed ore.

EVE Button > Social > Channels > Help > Rookie Help > Join

It's a channel with like 1k people in it all the time, not only can they help with any questions you might have, they can also offer advice on what to do instead of just mindless grind.

I feel like a retard, how do I find small fights outside of FW?
The only ships I find in space in null are either bots or capitals or both, and all I can find in wormholes are explorers

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Fight the explorers, that or find a time machine

Thanks mates. I'll do those career agents now.
And finally try some pvp in Amarr lowsec. This game is incredibly fun and comfy. Not at all like a spreadsheet simulator its known for being
Hope /eog/ pops back up soon, fucking star citizen has a general.

>sc has a general
what the fuck

Probe scans. Flag down pirate sites. Or just do 'roid belt ratting in sub 0.7 space.

>resub
>do some career missions
>join promising lowsec corp
>less than a week after joining, corp declares its moving to 0.0
>herewegoagain
>corp spends a week moving to 0.0
>half the corp doesnt bother moving despite being ordered to
>all planned venture fail, active player count isnt enough to hold in 0.0
>nothing happens for weeks
>get bored and unsub
This has happened to me no less than five time now. I have a decade old account with tons of skills I've literally never used because any corp I join immediately dies. I have absolutely no experience doing anything in this game except roaming with groups who never find anything.

Throw me a mail, ingame name Kasai Mata. I'm working this weekend, but always up for helping out when I'm on.

Unironically, the F2P model has made me calm down enough to focus on an industry character, which turns out to be really fun.

I should try industry. I'm sick of having to wait for other people to be online and willing to be able to set foot outside the station.

It's fun, and if you do missions anyway, you often get instances with loads of ore all for yourself. Pretty nice to make your own ammo as well, and to actually use the scrap modules for something else than vendor scrap (you can recycle them for rare minerals at times).

Will do, I'm Tsu Icide
I'm sporadically on and off for hours at a time

Bump

o/

>eve threads on Yea Forums post 2014
>good meaningful conversation
That's a funny ass joke.

>threads on Yea Forums post 2012
>good meaningful conversation
ISHYGDT

what are some good space tv shows to watch while grinding isk?
thread is on its last breath

The Expanse
Mars (Miniseries)
Firefly

R8 my shitty alpha Merlin passive shield tank fit.

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Mars (miniseries) sounds really neat, dont know how this slipped by me. Thanks user

>/fit/: The Corp

desu that damage is completely anemic. did you just start playing the game today?

It's iron charges, nigga. Antimatter cranks it up to 47.

Also, yesterday.

bad/10
frigates really don't have the shield buffer to support any kind of passive tank. always better to use active tank of some kind.

I hate pulsing shield boosters, though.

Better?

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Small fights got killed off hard by stagnation and capital balance. Its funny because back in 2009-2012 when I played a lot the old guys would tell me small scale pvp was dead then compared to when the game launched because they couldn't zoom around in solo nano-battleships pwning everyone.

that's horse shit.

small scale is fine but its an MMO you will not find very many e-bushido types. Small fleet or gang warfare is alive and well. Its even considered preferable for many groups since blob warfare requires too much prep and the objectives aren't worth the effort.

I fly regularly in fleets of about 8 people and its fine, we provoke response fleets by tackling orcas and battleships because people care about those things. If you want to solo pvp in a frig be prepared to have 85% of the targets you could be hitting be outside your threat profile.