EVE Corporation

EVE Online is an internet spaceships game. Unlike other games, you do not have to grind to “level up”. Rather, your skills train continuously whether you're logged in or not. Everyone is together on one server, one instance, one shard, with thousands of systems to explore. The economy is entirely player based (minus a few seed blueprints and skill books), with every ship and item having been built or salvaged by some player. EVE rewards strategy, planning, intelligence, and teamwork. There is no perfect win scenario; the metagame is always constantly changing.

You are in the far distant future, where mankind has colonized all the milky way, traveled to another galaxy through a wormhole, only to get stuck on the other side. The colonies that survived the apocalypse formed five major factions. Within each faction there are the super-elite, the richest of the richest, the 1% of the 1% of the … you know what I mean. You are one of these, a Capsuleer.

You are immortal, with your soul re-awakening in a clone if you were to die. While a regular ship requires thousands to operate, you can do it mostly by yourself (with some disposable crewmen to do the dirty work). The drinks you spill are worth the GDP of nations. The ships you can fly are the size of small cities. The weapons and modules you use are devastatingly powerful.

But you are not alone. There are a lot of capsuleers out there just like you. Some want to mine asteroids and build space sim cities. Others want to hunt you down and blow you up just for fun. Now the question is, what do you want to do?

Your options are only limited by the initiative you take.

Unlike other games where you won't be useful until you're high level, in EVE, you can play a vital role in fleets almost immediately. For the start of your PvP career you will be in the main Shield Battery warship, the Merlin. Your role is simple but important: keep big expensive enemy ships in place long enough for big allied ships to arrive and take over.

Here are the skills that you will need:
Caldari Frigate 3
Afterburner 3
High Speed Maneuvering 1
Propulsion Jamming 1
Hull Upgrades 1
Shield Upgrades 1

These skills take about 16 hours to complete, and once done you can be very useful in a PvP roaming fleet and we will make use of you. Even while you're waiting for these skills to train you can still be useful as a forward or rear scout letting us know when enemy reinforcements come. You'll learn quickly that intel is the mightiest weapon.

This isn't a useless role. If we don't have any Merlins in our fleets then one our older players will have to get out of their big expensive ship and hop into one. A fleet in EVE needs to be balanced and a Merlin combines fast movement, a quick locking speed and an awful lot of expendability into one hull. From the moment you can get into a Merlin you'll be running down ships worth thousands of times more than you which we could never catch otherwise and high fiving the rest of the fleet as we pile on to secure the target you caught us.

I'm going to treat PvE as just making isk because that's pretty much the goal of it. Virtually everything in the game can be bought with isk, including game time (“PLEX”). Though as a PvP corp, our involvement in anything PvE is largely just to pay for the ships we use and PLEX.

A PLEX is an item you buy with game money which gives you a month of game time, most TL EVE players have several EVE accounts and keep them subscribed using game money. However this requires some wealth creation.
You've got a number of options here because eve is a massive sandbox. This picture gives a decent description: http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/eve-wtd.jpg

Faction Warfare has become the most efficient method of making isk. Other methods include running regular missions, salvaging the missions of corpmates, exploration, trading, sleeper sites, and social pvp (scamming, stealing, etc.). The giant isk faucet that is Faction Warfare is a closely guarded secret that we will only disclose to you upon joining our TL EVE community.
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For a new guy making a lot of isk can seem very hard. However, isk creates isk, and if you are smart with your money it will grow exponentially. At first, ten million isk will seem like a lot. But before long you'll reach that, and a hundred million will seem like a lot. But then you'll reach that too, and so on, until you're calling multi-billionaires poor. Speak to your mentor or other corp members to learn more about how we make isk. There is no one correct method to get rich, however, there are many many horribly incorrect ones.

It is very possible to play for free from the first 21 day trial onwards. However, it requires analytical skills, game knowledge, and a passion to become the 1% … all of which we can teach you.

Original content by Belgo. Updated by Not Orious.

Before you read this, make sure you have 100% read and understood the bulletins in the Corp tab. If not, go read all of them right now. And make sure you can use all the variations of corp Merlin fittings, regardless of starting race! (this part requires you to have been accepted to corp already)

Planning your character

Hey there! So you’re going to subscribe and play some eve with us? Great! But before you can go off lollygagging around in space, you need to fly something worthwhile! But, what can you fly? What skills do you need? There are so many!

Well, don’t freak out, because this will help you plan out an entire year worth of training!
“A year you say? Why is that?” Because EVE allows you to rearrange your core attributes and optimize your training to get the most sp/hr (skill points per hour) so can fly the stuff you want quicker and better! You start off with 2 free “remaps”, but after that you have to wait a YEAR to get another -- this is to encourage players to specialize.

There are a few programs that are super handy to have for this:

EVEMon This is the “lite” version of character planning. It allows you to look up a lot of important in-game info and plan your character out without having to login EVE to do so. Of course since it's a 3rd-party program you can't make any actual changes to your character.

Pyfa The “lite” version of out of game shipbuilding. Very handy to make sure your fit works before you spend a lot of money buying the parts. It also allows you to check important statistics like dps, tank, and seeing the impact of effects and skills.

EFT The alternative to Pyfa, also very “lite”. Arguably more user-friendly (though some disagree), EFT is the most widely used virtual shipbuilder program. You can also import your EFT fittings into EVEMon and it will tell you what you need to train to fly it!

EVEHQ The heavy version of EVEMon and EFT combined. It also has modules that let you track your character's assets, market tools, POS builder, wormhole stuff, and more! The closest thing to playing EVE without playing EVE. EVEHQ development has been discontinued. Also note that it is quite resource intensive and can run very poorly on older computers.

Eve Wiki Pretty good wiki of everything EVE related (not as good as Liquipedia).

So, you have the tools now, but now you need to actually do stuff. But, there are a few questions you should keep in mind:

What PvP style do I like? What ships will I fly?
How are you going to make money?

Ships by Faction
Each faction has a common “theme” regarding the way their ships fly. Click Me For Ships. The types of fleets we fly require speed, the ability to dictate range, and the ability to project damage at various distances. Essentially this combination allows us to control the battlefield. The following is a short summary of the races and their respective ships.

Minmatar: Uses primarily Projectile Turrets and sometimes Missiles. Projectiles are divided into short range, rapid firing Autocannons, and long range, slow firing, extreme high volley damage Artillery. Minmatar ships are fast, and can be either shield or armor tanked. They are the most difficult ships to fly properly, but arguably have the best line up. Fantastic PvP ships, moderate PvE ships. Their electronic warfare specializes in Stasis Webifying (make you go slower) and Target Painting (make you easier to hit).

Caldari: Uses primarily Missiles and sometimes Railguns. Missiles are divided into short range, rapid firing missiles (Rockets, Heavy Assault and Torpedoes), and long range (Standard, Heavy, Cruise). Railguns are divided into medium and super long range. Caldari ships are slow and have strong shield tanks. They are the easiest ships to get into, but the most difficult to expand upon. As Missiles do not rely on tracking, they are easy to use for a new player. Before the Retribution heavy missile nerfs, some of the best PvP ships in the game were Caldari ships. However, the PvP Caldari line up is rather lacking at the time of this writing. Their ewar specializes in the dishonorable rage-inducing ECM (% chance to break the lock of an enemy ship and prevent it from relocking anyone) and instead of a second bonus (as all other races have) they instead just have extra good rage-inducing ECM bonuses.

Amarr: Pew Pew lasers. Lasers are divided into medium range, high damage Pulse lasers, and long range, slow firing Beam lasers. They are somewhat slow, and mostly armor tanked. They are quite difficult to fly properly, but have the best potential offensive capability if used correctly. Their electronic warfare specializes in Tracking Disruptors (make you miss) and Energy Neutralizers (turns off your active modules).

Gallente: Uses primarily Blasters and sometimes Drones. Blasters are the weapon of choice for 'in-your-face-melting-your-ship' dps. Fantastic for close-quarter combat they normally require you to be hugging your opponent, but there are a handful of specialized ships that let you project this enormous damage at medium ranges. Gallente ships are the fastest when shield tanked, although they are usually armor tanked which make them a lot slower. Their ewar specializes in Sensor Dampening (make you target slower or at a significantly reduced range) and long range Warp Disruption (prevent you from running away).

PvP
The above should have given you some sort of idea of pvp with us. Use the ships link above to peruse what is out there or ask in corp if you are not sure. You are free to fly whatever you want on your own, but for our fleets we run specific ship setups. Although a random assortment of agile ships can be pretty useful in our nano fleets, just remember what you can bring is 100% up to the FC running the fleet. Always ask!

PvE
There are many ways to make isk. The easiest and brainless way is to do missions, particularly Faction Warfare missions. Missions are kind of like randomized repeatable dungeon quests in other MMOs. You'll want to aim for Level 4 Missions as anything lower isn't worth it and level 5's have high requirements and are not available in FW. You'll need about 400 dps to do level 4 missions and have a tank of about the same. (Again use EFT to find out these numbers!) The more dps you have, the faster you can 'blitz' the mission and make more isk/hour. The less tank you have, the more you need to reduce incoming dps by going faster (velocity) or killing mission NPCs faster.

What ships should I start with? For regular missions I recommend:
Minmatar: Level 1-2 (Talwar/Rupture), Level 3 (Cyclone/Hurricane), Level 4 (Maelstrom).
Amarr: Level 1-2 (Dragoon/Maller), Level 3 (Harbinger), Level 4 (Armageddon/Abaddon)
Caldari: Level 1-2 (Corax/Caracal), Level 3 (Drake), Level 4 (Raven/Raven Navy Issue)
Gallente: Level 1-2 (Algos/Vexor), Level 3 (Myrmidon), Level 4 (Dominix)

For Faction Warfare missions, the ships and setups you’ll be using are similar but a bit more complicated, so it’s better to just ask us in game.

Remember that higher level missions may be more difficult when you have low skills. Just because you can fly the Armageddon doesn't mean you won't die horribly to Level 4 NPCs. For Gallente you'll be missioning using drones and railguns. You could use blasters but you'll be pulling your hair trying to fly towards each one of the dozens of NPC rats.

So, now that we have our race picked out and some idea what ships we want, now it is time to plan!
Now, you can just go in to Evemon and add your Hurricane to the skill plan (for example), maybe a Maelstrom too while you’re at it, but that only takes a few weeks at the most. I thought we are making an entire year’s worth of training?

Well, we are! A large majority of the training you’d do are in Support skills. These are not as super flashy as jumping into a new ship, but are equally, or even more, important than those.
(Important! After you add all these skills, make sure you order them intelligently! You don’t want to train up to something you won’t be using for months when you can get something else you will use quicker! But use your brain, if you are flying a turret ship, no need to get missile skills even though they are listed, etc.)

These skills are 100% “holy crap you will always use them get them now”

Drone Skills!
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Electronics!
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Engineering!
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Gunnery!
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Missile Launcher Operation
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Navigation
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Science
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Social
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Spaceship Command
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When you have an entire year planned out, click Optimize attributes and select the second option, then remap to what that says in game.

Again, these are just the necessary skills you’d mostly likely want/need if you’re going to pvp and pve for money. So if you are doing something else, ask someone else! : D

Be sure you play around with Evemon and EFT to see what skills and ships setups are out there!
Any questions, just ask in corp.

PvP in EVE is like no other game. It’s going to take a long time for you to learn and to perfect so don’t get discouraged when you can’t figure everything out all in one week -- or in one month for that matter. PvP in eve is based heavily around knowledge (ship fits, ship modules) multi-tasking, and some element of APM keyboard inputs. Because most of you are going to be coming from a RTS background, you at least have the APM element. However the others are going to be areas of improvement for you.
This guide is meant to give you an extremely basic idea of PvP. It is in no way all encompassing. This is simply a primer to get you started for the first 1-2 months in game when it comes to PvP. Many aspects of PvP will be left out of this guide for simplicities sake.

Lets start with the basics, ship modules. Every ship in the game has 3 different module slots, and rig slots. Module slots are grouped into three categories. They are high slots, middle slots, and low slots. Lastly ships have rig slots.

HIGH SLOTS
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MEDIUM SLOTS
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Midslots also have another important use -- shield tanking. See the TANKING section below for more on that.

LOWSLOTS
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Lowslots also have another important use -- armor tanking. See the TANKING section below for more on that.

RIGS
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TANKING
In EVE Online there are two types of tanking: Shield or Armor. Generally a ship will pick one type of tank and stick to it. It is generally a bad idea to try and dual tank a ship (ie. Use shield and armor tanking mods together.) Shield tanking takes up mid slots (as shield modules are always placed there) and armor tanking takes up low slots (as armor modules are always placed there). To some extent the type of ship you fly will help you to determine your tank. Now both types of taking systems have their pros and cons.

There are two main strategies to tank your ship: Active or Buffer.

Active Tanking
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Buffer Tanking
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Resistances
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PvP Concepts
Alright lets talk about ship fitting ideas, and PvP concepts.
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For this next part I am going to outline some ships (in all 4 races) that excel at nano style flying. I am not going to cover all ships, just easy to skill into hulls that a new player may find interesting. I highly suggest you spend some time reading about all of ships. Ask questions, and get some advice from other players than myself. Don’t take my opinion as gospel.

PvP Styles by Faction
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Alright that about covers it. Check corporation fittings to see some corp fittings for these ships, and don’t forget to ask some questions. As I have said before this is the most basic examples of ships and ship roles. I implore you to do some reading on your own and see what is out there.

Autopilot = Bad Unless you are in a NPC corp while carrying very little in your cargo hold high security systems aren't 100% safe. In a tactic known as “suicide ganking” you can still be killed, and your cargo/modules will 50% drop, meanwhile your assailant will lose his ship to CONCORD police . To mitigate this, never carry more than 100 million isk worth of stuff and manually warp by selecting the gate you wish to warp to and hitting Warp to 0.

Saving Your Pod Your pod is ejected after your ship explodes and usually you're going to want to save your pod before someone blows it up. So as your ship is dying select a celestial that you're not on (such as a random planet or moon) in the overview and spam click the warp button in the selected items. (See guide to overview) That way as your ship explodes your pod will escape. Doing it through the right click menu takes longer and if there is a tiny delay as your ship makes pretty graphics then you'll get killed. You want to spam click it, use the selected item window.

Aggression Anyone who has been involved in any aggressive activity is subject to Crimewatch. There will be a giant timer at the top left of your screen that will tell you how long your aggression is. This is very useful to know because you can plan around it. For example, if you are sitting on a gate at 0 and a hostile warps to you you know that if he tries to kill you he cannot jump but you can so long as you do not return fire. Therefore unless he gets some friends to cover the other side you are safe. However, if he does not aggress and you jump through and he follows, you will no longer be hugging the gate and he could kill you before you escape.

Session changes Open up the general settings window and click show session change timer. That'll show a session change timer in the top left which you can mouse over to see more details. Basically after taking a session change you must wait ten seconds before doing another action which requires a session change. Such actions are joining/leaving/moving fleets, docking, undocking, jumping gates, leaving corps, leaving ships, entering ships. What this means is that if you jump into a gatecamp and think "holy fucking shit RUN" and immediately burn back to the gate and spam jump you will not be able to jump right away. Instead wait for a few seconds so you can jump through the gate instead of dying on top of it.

You are generally invulnerable for a session change under certain conditions. Upon jumping a gate you are cloaked, either for 60 seconds or until you move. This allows you to allow your session change to complete before burning back to gate if necessary. On a fleet op you will hold cloak when entering a system; aka do not touch anything until told otherwise. When you undock from a station you are visible but cannot be interacted with in any way for 30 seconds. If you activate any module, launch drones, fight, move, try to warp out or anything else then the invulnerability will be broken. The ONLY thing you are allowed to do is stopping your ship by holding on Ctrl and pressing space [Ctrl+Space]. Thus doing this will prevent you from drifting away from the station and will let you re-dock immediately once your 30 second timer is up.

Local. It's basically maphack. The local window should be open at all times. It tells you who is in the same system as you. If it is clear (aka empty), you're relatively safe. Suddenly 10+ people enter the system in a second then there's a gang coming through. It gives you early warning on everyone moving in the area and if people start GCCing then they get flagged in the local window. If you watch local then you will never be taken by surprise. The only exception to this is when you are in a wormhole. So if you decide to join up with the wormhole group then local is not so important as it does not function in wormholes.

Safespots People can warp to celestials (things in space) such as moons, asteroid belts, planets, stations, stars. They cannot warp to pilots, except fleet members. That means that if you are sitting on a planet you can be found and attacked but if you are in the middle of nowhere then you cannot (not entirely true but will be explained later). If you drop a bookmark in warp between two places then that will be a safespot, a unique spot you can warp to and nobody else can. However, people with probes can find you using combat scanner probes and warp to you. If you are at a safespot you should keep your directional scanner running to ensure you see combat scanner probes before they have your location probed down.

Directional scanner This tells you what's in space around you. At max range it has approximately 14 AU range and can be set to a full 360 degree field around you. It will list everything in space within that sphere around you. You can filter it by overview settings to see what you're looking for, such as combat scanner probes, ships, mission wrecks, possible nearby celestials, POS towers and the like. You can narrow it by range and direction (taken as a degree arc of your camera, from the centre of your screen, wherever that is facing... NOT the direction your ship is facing). For example you can pick up a ship with some belt rats on a 360 and quickly narrow it down to just a single belt where you can probably find it. The dscanner will reveal if a potential target is worth probing down in space or is at a POS where it will be invulnerable. It can also be used to get a rough idea of the location of a target in space relative to known celestials so a prober can more rapidly place his probes around it. For more about this, see the Directional Scanner section.

Rename your ships. Ships are by default self named. The directional scanner shows ship name, type and direction. Local shows who is in local. By combining these they can identify who is in what ship, where they are and who they are with. You can name it whatever you want.

The Retribution expansion made some changes to the way aggression and session timers work. This short article gives a good summary of the changes.

Overview
Log-Off Timer -- When involved in combat, whether aggressor or defender, your ship will stay vulnerable in space if you log off for 15 minutes. This timer can be prolonged with further aggression.

Weapons Flag -- Also known as aggressing/aggro/red box. For the duration of the 60 second timer from the last offensive module use, you cannot dock a station, use a stargate, eject or board a ship.

Limited Engagement -- Those that also have a limited engagement status with you can attack you without penalty for 5 minutes since the last offensive action. There are unique timers for each pilot involved in the limited engagement.

Suspect -- Everyone in system may attack you without penalty for a 15 minute timer on you from the last offensive action. Gate guns will attack you, although if you leave the grid and come back they will not resume. Happens when you activate an offensive module on a player ship in low security systems. Also happens when you activate a remote support module on a Suspect or Criminal.

Criminal -- Previously known as “GCC”. Everyone everywhere may attack you without penalty. In high security you cannot use stargates or warp away and CONCORD will spawn to destroy you. Happens when you activate an offensive module on a ship/pod in high security or on a pod in low security systems. Attacking in nullsec or wormholes will not give Criminal. Attacking a Criminal will not give any penalty.

Kill Rights -- These are rights to kill you once, legally, everywhere, for the duration of the kill rights. Happens when you attack a ‘neutral’ ship/pod in high or low security systems the defender gets kill rights. As of Retribution, Kill Rights can be sold.

War -- If two corporations or alliances are at war then all their members have kill rights on each other everywhere without penalty.

Outlaw/Pirate -- If you are -5 security or worse then everyone has kill rights on you everywhere without penalty.

Strategies and Further Info

Prolonging Limited Engagement/Suspect
These flags are renewed each time an offensive action that is justified by them is committed. Griefers will keep them going for hours in an attempt for a highsec gank by attacking a wreck owned by you.

Security Status
If your security status is above -5 then you are a neutral. What this means is that random people cannot legally attack you. If they attack you anyway then they will be subject to penalties, based upon the security status of the system. These penalties are as follows:

In 1.0-0.5 systems there will be an immediate CONCORD response which will blow them up. In addition to this the security status of the aggressor will be reduced for his crimes. This isn't a perfect deterrent but makes high security pretty safe.

In 0.4-0.1 systems the aggressor will be flagged Criminal. The aggressor will lose security status based on the crime and the security class of the system. The Criminal flag lasts 15 minutes from the last criminal act. They can legally be attacked by anyone, regardless of their security status. For example, if neutral A attacks another neutral B illegally, then a third neutral C could attack neutral A legally. However if A were to run away and come back 15 minutes later then C could not attack him legally. A Criminal flagged pilot will also be attacked by station guns and gate guns which are very dangerous to anything smaller than a well tanked battlecruiser.

In 0.0 and wormhole systems there is no police response or security status reduction.

Outlaw/Pirate Status
If your security status is below -5 then you are a pirate. This means that everyone in eve has kill rights on you everywhere. This does not mean that you are GCCed. People can legally attack you, regardless of the system, and will not be subject to any of the penalties above. You cannot attack them without taking them. However, remember if someone attacks you first they give you kill rights on them through self defence.

NPC Faction Police Aggression
Faction police and Faction Warfare. If you are in an opposing faction warfare corporation or your standings for a certain faction is below a certain threshold, the police of that faction will attack you whenever you use their regional gates. This is separate from CONCORD and will happen even if you are simply passing through. For example if you are Tribal Liberation Force, the minmatar militia, you will be attacked by Amarr and Caldari NPC ships guarding their respective system stargates. These NPCs respond rather slow, so you should never get killed as long as you're in something fast and you pay attention. You can still dock in any highsec station regardless of faction.

If any NPC faction attacks you because of Suspect or Criminal, they then create a separate 15 minute aggression timer for them. For example if you are 10 minutes into a 15 minute GCC and get shot at by a brutor tribe station then that will give you a separate 15 minute timer on Brutor Tribe. 10 minutes later you could warp to a Republic Fleet station (5 minutes after your GCC expired) and not be shot at, but would still be shot at by the Brutor Tribe station. Gate guns count as the navy for whichever faction owns the space and CONCORD stations will renew your flag. There are some concord controlled systems as well, where getting shot by a gate will renew the flag.

Insta-undocks:
Consider two things. Whenever you warp to a location, you have to align to it then be at 75% of your max speed. Also, whenever you undock from a station, you exit from and always are facing in ALMOST the exact same position.

Imagine you are being station camped by a bunch of angry people, and you want to escape the station. How do you get out?

The answer: an insta-undock. These are bookmarks about 200km and 600km away from station that are in an exact straight line out from the station, allowing you to get out of station safely in a station-camp.

Creating these are simple. Get in a fast ship with an MWD fitted. Dock up at the station you want to create insta-undocks for. Undock, and do NOT change your direction. Simply leave your ship flying out into space. Keep your MWD turned on as much as possible. When you are 200km out, add a bookmark, saving it something like 'Station 1 Insta 200km'. Continue flying until you are 600km out, then add a second bookmark. Voila, you have just created an insta-undock for that station.

Next time you undock from that station, you will be already aligned to those two bookmarks, making it very quick for you to warp to the bookmark without getting pointed, and then you can warp to your next destination safely.

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Safe spots:
Say you are hiding in a system from a bunch of bad guys, and for some reason you are unable to jump into a neighbouring system (maybe you're GCC? Or there might be a gatecamp on the other side?) The best way to hide are safe spots. If you don't have safe spots, you might just keep warping between celestials and hope that you never run into the enemy, which is risky. Also, if you stay at a celestial for a longer period of time, they might be able to dscan you and warp to you.

A safe spot is simply a bookmark in the middle of space, not next to any celestials, making it a lot harder for people to warp to you. To make this, warp from random celestial x to random celestial y, and drop a bookmark midwarp. Tada, that bookmark is now a safe spot.

However, make sure you are constantly dscanning while you are at the Safe spot, as probes can still find you and will let them warp to you. Once you see a combat scanner probe of some form on dscan, it is advisable to warp to another safe spot.

Right click pictures -> view image to see the whole image.

The dscan (directional scanner) is your best friend in space, and plays a large part in many situations. If you look to the left of your Hud, you will see five buttons, one being the Scanner. Click on that, then select the Directional Scan tab. This is the Dscan.

Make sure the 'use active overview settings' is checked, then type in 99999999999999999 (a lot of 9's) into Range and press enter. You should see it change to 2,147,483,647. This is the maximum range of the dscan. You should also set the angle to 360 degrees for starters.



The Dscan has a very simple principle. It will scan everything within range in the angle you have selected, from YOUR CAMERA's view. NOT the direction your ship is facing, but your CAMERA'S view. Remember this.

So how do you use it? Well, a lot of the time, ships will be at a celestial or station or asteroid belt of some sort. You can use the dscan to narrow down WHICH celestial/whatever they're currently at. Imagine I spot a target harbinger on dscan.



I change my angle to 180 and scan again.



He's not there. So I turn my camera around a full 180 degrees, and scan again.



Got him again! I narrow it down to 90, and check the stations in front.



Nope, nothing. I check the stations at the back.



Found him. As there are NO other celestials aside from these within 90 degrees of my scan, I jump a few levels and narrow it down straight to 5.



I know now that he is almost certainly at either the planet Ammold VI, or the asteroid belt. I take an educated guess and figure he must be at the belt (there is no reason for someone to be at a planet, whereas someone might be ratting at a belt............also I had told him to find a belt for this exercise) and warp to the belt.



Tada!

If you manage to narrow them down but they are not at the celestial you expected them to be at, they are probably at a safespot between you and that celestial. If you narrow them down and they are not next to any celestials, they are at a safespot in the middle of nowhere. For both of these situations, you will need probes to find their exact location. If they are next to a moon in lowsec, the are MOST LIKELY in a POS (even more likely if you see random guns and towers on dscan where they are) and you should NOT go for them.

After you've got a ship seemingly in the middle of space, turn off your 'Use active overview settings'. This will show everything that the dscan can pick up in that direction. If wrecks suddenly appear on dscan with it, it is likely the ship is missioning. If a bunch of gun batteries and towers appear, it is pos'd up.

This whole process may scare you into thinking it's difficult. It's not, it all just comes with some practice. If you have nothing else to do, ask in corp chat if anyone can come into your system and play a few hide and seek games with you so you get some practice with the dscanner.

Original content by Firebolt145. Updated by Not Orious.

Overview Settings Basics
The default overview set up you are using right now is missing a lot of important information. You can create multiple overview settings (and have multiple open in tabs).

Columns
The important columns to take note are:
Icon, lets you know basic stuff, represented by various icons
Distance, very important as it lets you know how close your enemy (or friends) are to you
Velocity, very important, as it lets you know how fast everyone is going. For a given signature radius, a higher velocity reduces missile damage taken.
Name, important so you know who to and who not to shoot
Type, important as this tells you what you're up against

The lesser important, but still very useful columns are:
Angular, the tracking of guns is based upon distance and angular. The higher your angular velocity to a ship, the harder it is for that ship's turrets to hit you. Does not affect missiles.
Transversal, a combination of Angular and Radial, essentially gives you more information regarding turret tracking, but can be a bit more difficult to interpret.
Radial, this lets you know if something is coming towards or away from you. In a completely 3D environment it can be sometimes difficult to tell visually, this helps you with that.
Tag, useful in big fleets where target calling can get messy. We generally don't use this though.

Militia, not that useful to us
Corporation, not that useful to us
Alliance, not that useful to us
Faction, not that useful to us
Size, not that useful to us

Appearance
The order of these rows determine how they appear on your overview. Tags should be bad first, backgrounds should be good first.

i.e. colortags should go wars, outlaw, bad, corp/alliance, good, fleet, neutrals
background should go fleet, wars, corp/alliance, good, bad, outlaw, neutrals

Use a background color for neutrals and no standing so ships stand out in space, and use the colortag for neutrals so you can see who's in your address book by looking at space or local.

Outlaw and wars should be red, terrible should be orange, and bad should be yellow so you can immediately tell apart aggression from standings. Outlaw should be a flashing colortag with a solid background, and wars should be a solid colortag with a flashing background.

If you set it like this, you can immediately pick out the most important features of pilots in local, while still being able to distinguish reds with personal blue standings in space (that is, someone with both good and bad standings). You will also be able to tell all important features of a pilot's standings even if they are in fleet, in case you need to start killing fleet members.

Overview Settings Advanced

I suspect a lot of the newer guys have sub-standard overview settings.

(URL TO DOWNLOAD OVERVIEW SETTINGS TEMPLATE)

These are my overview settings. I'm not saying they are the best settings ever, but they are certainly ideal for what we do and I like them. Feel free to edit them as you see fit. Download file, put it in Documents\Eve\Overview (create this folder if you don't have it already). Import it as follows:



In that same menu, click on 'open overview settings'. Copy these pictures:

Uncheck the 'use small colortags' option




It may not be clear but for the background tab, I have set 'at war with corp/alliance/militia' to blinky red but set 'outlaw' to not blink. This helps me differentiate between people that will get GCC'd if they attack and people that are able to attack me at will without risking anything. Obviously, this doesn't affect you once you are a pirate, since at that point anything will be able to attack you.

Quick rundown of each of my overview settings:



Default+: default eve settings with suns and probes
Travelling: only stargates (don’t use this in lowsec/nullsec)
Drones: only drones and fighters
Pvproam: standard pvp settings, and does show fleet members. Use in small fleets (1-4 allies ish)
Pvpfleet: standard pvp settings, but does NOT show fleet members. Use in fleet fights with more than 3-4 allies (unless you're logi, herp derp)
Mission: similar to default, but without wrecks. Obviously for missioning.
Mission+: default + wrecks + large colloidable objects, needed for some missions

For fast switching between overviews, you can have multiple overview tabs open.

You should definitely have the Velocity column open, and the Transverse Angular velocity column if possible. When using the angular velocity column, you should compare it to the tracking of your guns (right click your mod -> show info -> attributes -> tracking speed). I'm not 100% sure how this relationship works but it's something like that. If you only fly missiles, then fuck you because angular velocity doesn't matter for you.

Few extra tidbits. When dscanning, I generally use my Pvp tabs to find ships. Once I find them and have narrowed them down somewhat, I switch to my Default tab. This will then show any wrecks (signifying that they have been missioning) or any POS modules (showing that they are pos'd).

Hope this helps.

Original content by Kwark. Updated by Not Orious
Ok, I'm bored of doing this lesson so I'll put it here so I don't have to ever do it again.

Items come in many classes and their goodness is measured in meta while their skill requirements are measured in tech.

Tech 1 meta 0
e.g. “Small Shield Extender I”
These can be manufactured by players as well as dropped as npc loot. They are the basic module with the lowest skill requirements and the standard fitting requirements.

Tech 1 meta 1-4
e.g. “Small F-S9 Regoliath Shield Induction”
These are also known as named. This is because they are named with names like that rather than the generic ones. Their skill requirements are the same as the original t1 version because they are still t1. However they have a higher meta, lower fitting requirements and usually do more in some way. They cannot be manufactured, only dropped. As such some of them are rare. Because of the temptation to pimp ships to the max the best named items are very much in demand because they make fitting easier for people who want to make their ships absurdly expensive.

Tech 2
e.g. “Small Shield Extender II”
These can be manufactured by players. They are as good or better than the highest meta t1. However they are harder to fit and require higher skills. Using these is pretty optimal for most players because they offer massive increases over the meta 0 versions without the rarity. While you can still fit more with high meta named items the excessive cost would make any PvP horribly inefficient. To give an example, the meta 4 ballistic control unit costs 30m while the t2 which has better bonuses costs 700k. Only if you were incredibly impatient to get a bonus and couldn't wait a few days for training time would you use that.
As a rule PvP ships will be fitted with t2 (if you can use) and then you use named items when you're just a little bit short of having the fitting requirements and need to save a bit somewhere.

Tech 1 Faction
e.g. “Republic Fleet Small Shield Extender”
Basically superhigh named. Cannot be manufactured. Same skill requirements as all other t1. Usually more decreases in fitting requirements and even better bonuses. Accessible only as drops from special rare faction npcs and from LP stores using LP points from missions.

Tech 1 Deadspace
e.g. “Gistii B-Type 1MN Microwarpdrive”
Faction times two. Take faction and add another zero to the price. Same skill requirements as all other t1. Usually more decreases in fitting requirements and even better bonuses. Accessible only as drops from special rare faction npcs in deadspace complexes.

Tech 1 Officer
e.g. “Estamel’s Modified Adaptive Invulnerability Field”
Faction squared. Take faction or deadspace and add many zeroes to the price. Out of the price range of even the most OCD carebears with a credit card full of PLEX. If you wear this people will suicide gank you in highsec to take it from you. Pretty much never justifiable in any PvP any of you will be in.

After a lot of demands of newer players about salvaging, heres a little post explaining what you need and how to do it.

Appart from the skills that are listed on the first page (mechanic 3 - survey 3 - salvaging 1), you will need to get the skill ''Targeting'' and level it at least to 2.

You will then need to get into a destroyer (requires ''Destroyers'' level 1). Eventually you'll want to get into the ORE salvaging ship called the Noctis, but that can happen later.

Amarr : Coercer
Caldari : Cormorant
Gallente : Catalyst
Minmatar : Thrasher

You will need to fit it with
- 4x Small Tractor Beam I (they are a bit expensive for newer players, ask your mentor to give
you the necessary isk)
- 4x Salvager I
- 1mn Afterburner

The rest of the slots you will with what ever you want, I would personnally suggest :
- Expanded Cargohold I
- Cap Recharger I
- Capacitor Power Relay I

Fit as many as you want/can in mid/low slots I personnally love having at least 2x expanded cargo. and the rest in Cap.

You can also fit rigs (salvage tackle I) once you start getting some money, if you salvage A LOT, i would recommend them, but if not its really not necessary

Once that is done, you will kindly ask if anyone is running level 4s, because level 3 and under are not worth to salvage.

If someone is indeed running level 4s and has room for a salvager, he will link you the system he is in. Once you are in the same system, invite said person to form a fleet (or ask him to fleet you). You will then use the ''warp to fleet member'' option'' and ''leave fleet'' during warp. Once you arrive at the destination, you will ''add bookmark'' under the Peoples and Places tab. That way if anything happens, you can warp back to the location and keep on salvaging.

Now, you will need to pay attention while you are salvaging, if you ever get attacked (or even locked) by a NPC, you will have to warp out immediately and then come back. The guy you are following might also inform you that there will be a respawn, or to warp out for a certain reason. If he does so, warp out, and warp back in when he tells you he has all the aggro.

Now on to the main topic itself : How does salvaging work ??

A lot of people do it in different ways, and after a couple of time you will find your own way of doing it.

A general guideline though is to use the Afterburner to close the distance between wrecks, you will then lock 4 targets and put a Tractor beam on everyone of them. You will then proceed to loot the wrecks when they are close to you (Open Cargo) and transfer the valuable items/items you feel like keeping. You are free to keep/sell the items, but donations to the corp hangars are always welcome since this is the one of the best way to refill it. Once the wrecks have been looted, you will use your ''Salvager I'' to salvage the wrecks.

Rinse and Repeat

Now for the salvage parts. You should always try to sell them at a major trade hub Jita, Amarr, Rens, Dodixie, Hek). If the price you are given for your salvage is low (under regional average), you will need to put up a sell order, which is made through clicking on ''advanced'' and putting the price that you want to sell them at. You can sometimes get a lot more money by simply being patient and selling for higher than the asking buy orders.

Try to keep the salvage parts that are not worth much money and contract them to ViceorVirtue since he is able to make expensive items with these pieces.

Have fun getting rich.

Tackling and tackle ships limit the mobility of enemy ships and are what gives your fleet control of the field. The tackler prevents the tackled target from running away and slows their movement significantly to the point they're sitting ducks for allied weapons. As velocity is factored in damage equations, significantly reducing the velocity of a target significantly increases the damage it takes.

Tackling relies on two modules: the Warp Scrambler and the Stasis Webifier. The former prevents the use of the warpdrive (for warping off) and the microwarpdrive (for going very fast) and the latter reduces the effectiveness of propulsion modules such as the afterburner. However, using these modules require you to be within lethal range (<10km) of your target so real piloting skill and some APM come into play here.

Standing Orders & Defensive Tackle
When not given any orders you are to orbit friendly ships at all times (or the FC). This is so that when enemy tackle approaches you can tackle the enemy tackle so that your dps can pull range and pop the guy you caught.

Spiraling
If you simply hit approach on a target with big guns you'll most likely get one shotted. In this situation a tackler can reduce oncoming dps by approaching at an angle and going at a high speed. This requires manual piloting in the form of double-clicking into empty space around the target. The wider the angle your ship approaches the less damage it takes but the longer it takes to tackle the opponent giving it a chance to escape. It takes practice to find the balance, so the first time you try this you'll most likely die in a fire.

Orbiting
It isn't recommended to use the Orbit function built in the game but for new players it means a lot less multi-tasking. In general you'll want to orbit the closest possible to your target ship, which would raise your angular velocity to its maximum. Thus hit "Orbit at 500m" once you're within point range of your ship.
WARNING: Doing this too early will make you approach the ship, reducing your angular and make you easy to hit.

There are some situations where you do NOT want to orbit at 500, such as when up against ships with special bonuses to tracking and webs. Your FC should tell you what to do in these scenarios, and if he doesn't and you die in a fire, it's his fault.

Overshooting
You'll be going quite fast when you reach your opponent and it is highly probable you'll overshoot. Doing so will give your target one last chance to warp away or to get one last good shot at you, which could be lethal if you are in low health. Thus as you approach your target, press Ctrl+Space (which tells your ship to stop) then settle into orbit when in a comfortable range and speed.

Slingshotting
A tactic that your target will use to avoid being tackled or to escape once tackled. The tackled ship will move away from its align destination at full speed, and as you begin to follow, it will quickly do a 180º and prepare to warp as you fly off in the wrong direction. Additionally, when a target sees you coming straight at it, it will also fly straight at you in hopes of warping off as you fly past and leave tackle range. The only way to prevent this is to prepare beforehand, pay attention and adjust accordingly via manual piloting.

Pulsing MWD
The MWD is a double-edged sword, allowing you to go ridiculously fast but also increasing your signature radius making you easier to hit by turrets, missiles and drones. By timing your MWD on and off you can outrun drones as they take a couple seconds to accelerate and decelerate. Drones will never truly catch up to you if done correctly with good skills.

Pulsing Tackle Modules
Target ships may have a defensive module called the Energy Neutralizer ("neuts"), which drains the energy from your ship required to activate tackle modules. If you are unable to activate your tackle module, just keep mashing the button until it activates. *shrugs*

Advanced Tackling
There may be times where we know ahead of time that point-blank tackling isn't ideal. A "long point" refers to the Warp Disruptor II module and its variants. These have a base point range of 24km unheated, 28.8km overheated, and up to a ridiculous 46+km when linked. This is used when you can vastly out maneuver brawling ships and can allow you to hold down a target that would otherwise destroy you at close ranges.

When you're up against neuts, you can use a Nosferatu energy vampire ("nos") and its variants and drain the energy of your target ship and use this energy to power your tackle modules.

Electronic warfare ("ewar") can also help you in your tackling endeavors. For example, Tracking Disruptors with the tracking disruption script make it extra hard for guns to hit you.

Things to Watch Out For
Ships that scram and/or web:
Rapier, Huginn, Loki, Arazu, Lachesis, Vigilant, etc.
Anti-frigate Ships:
Zealot, Vagabond, Cynabal, Stabber Fleet Issue (SFI), Sabre, Dramiel, Daredevil, etc.

Regardless of the above, if the FC tells you to tackle it, then tackle it. Otherwise if the FC doesn't give you orders, ask.

A scout is a vital role in any fleet. Primarily, your job as a scout is to make sure your fleet isn't running into an enemy fleet's trap, and vice versa, letting your FC know when there’s an enemy fleet you’ll be able to bait out and fight. It'll be your responsibility to quickly point or give chase to ships that you happen to run into, as well as finding ratters that don’t pay attention to their intel channel.

Any subcapital ship in the game can be a scout. However, it is generally accepted that small fast ships, such as interceptors, frigates, and fast cruisers, make good scouts because they all have the following traits:

► Working Microphone
► Overheated MWD speed of > 4km/s (Vital for gate crashing/burning off a gate/catching people burning away)
► Quick align time/quick warp speed (critical for giving chase)
► Decent tank to hold a point or fast enough to speed tank
► Quick lock time

That being the case, a regular BC or even a BS can be a scout, but due to their slow nature and slow lock time, they won’t be chasing down any target cruiser and smaller, nor will they be able to find a ratter as easily.

What your FC will expect you to be able to do:

• Know how to use a microphone and how to give status updates (e.g. "local spike, +8")
• Know where your end destination is and what your out gate is
• Know how to use your Directional Scanner (This is vital, see the separate guide for this)
• Know what ships you can/cannot tackle/engage, and how to approach them
• Know how to properly fit your scouting ship
• Know how to count the number of hostiles in system when you jump in quickly. This number will be the number in local minus 1 (you).
• If possible, to count how many in local are relevant. For example if you are in goonswarm space, and there is 100 in local, but 80 are goons and 20 is another alliance on their own roam, this will be useful information.

If you find yourself amidst a hostile fleet, here's a guide to counting:

1-6 There is X amount of hostiles here, consisting of 'these' ships
6+ There's a small gang, of X amount of hostiles, consisting of 'these' ships
10+ There is a gang of roughly X amount of hostiles, mostly 'this' ships with some 'that' ships
20+ There is a large gang of roughly X to Y hostiles, a fleet of 'these' ships with some 'that' ships
50+ There's a huge fleet of roughly X to Y hostiles, a fleet of 'these' ships with some 'that' ships
100+ 'xxx system is hot' - I cant be bothered to count cause I'm shitting my pants

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If you can do all of the above/know how to do all of the above than you are a good scout already. If you want to be a pro scout though read on!

Escape General Settings Show Session change timer (Check it)
When you jump into a system you are cloaked for 30 seconds, and you will be unable to activate any mods but you will be able to use your Directional scanner. If you are going to gate crash, please make sure when you get to the gate your session timer is up, otherwise you won’t be able to jump through.

It always helps to know what you can and cannot tackle. If you are in a frigate or interceptor, try not to bother/tackle to following ships unless your fleet is very close behind you, rapier, huginn, saber, curse, pilgrim, caracal, rook, falcon, daredevil/dramiel (unless you’re in one yourself), any mothership/titan, cruor. If these ships are properly flown and fitted, they will most likely get away and/or kill you.

Know that flying straight at a BS that’s 50km or farther away from you is a bad idea.

If you see a bomber uncloak 40km or closer to you, please overheat your MWD and burn towards him for the tackle if you are in a frig or inty.

T3 ships have all types of random fittings, but tackling a loki is probably not a good idea by yourself, but the other three you should be able to hold long enough for your fleet to get to you.

Know how to uncloak ships that cloaked up.

Know your rat wrecks. If you scan wrecks, be able to know immediately whether they are anomaly/plex rats, or the usual belt rats.

Have a scanning tab that works well for you. I personally have 2 scanning tabs. One that shows rat wrecks along with all my other goodies (no pos mods), and one that shows no rat wrecks, but with pos mods and everything else. Everything else being: All ships, moons, planets, stations, sun, TCU.

Read this: http://eve.grismar.net/wikka.php?wakka=ScanningGuide

Updated by Not Orious
This is about talking on ts (teamspeak)

The topics are:
1. What to say and when
2. What not to say and when
3. Never spam coms(in an op)
4. You use push to talk and which key to use
5. You should never 100% trust it

With that out the way the guide will follow, if you don’t want to read all of this then I recommend you read 2 and 3 possibly 1 (which is 80% of the post btw) because these are the most important part of this post.

1. What to say and when (warning: wall of text)
+ Show Spoiler +

2. What not to say
+ Show Spoiler +

3. Never EVER EVER spam coms (during an op)
+ Show Spoiler +

4. Use Push to Talk...
+ Show Spoiler +

OK thx for reading this is quite long, but I think that organisation is a very good way to improve fleets, and it comes at no extra isk cost! Improvement are most welcomed because there are probably lots that could be put in there. HF and Fly Safe everyone.

Point = Activate a module (equipment for your ship) which prevents the enemy from warping out
Tackle = Similar to point but also limits their mobility on the grid
Grid = The space directly around you
Warping out = Leaving the fight/grid
Nano = As a noun, a module that gives you increased speed and agility. As a verb, to manually micro your ship exploiting the increased speed and agility.
Station = A safe harbour where you can dock up
System = A solar system, you will always be in one of these but there are hundreds
Gate = An object in space which allows you to jump from one system to another
FC = Fleet Commander
Links = Passive fleet bonuses of various types
Fleet = A formal collection of pilots working together in the short term
Roam = A fleet on the move looking for fights
Corp = A group of pilots who are affiliated, have shared chat channels, stations, wars
Alliance = A group of corporations who have the above
Space = The final frontier

If you have any questions regarding jargon in order to follow the topic just ask and I'll add.

How to get started:

Go to: http://www.eveonline.com/ for the 14 day trial (upper right hand corner).

In-Game Channel:
HATCHERY PUB

This is the best place to go once you get in game. Not only is it a nice place to talk to people while you are doing the tutorials, but there are also plenty of people who can help you out as well!

Team Liquid [TLNET] Killboard:
http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=home

To KwarK uK, our great leader from July 2010 to November 2012

Actually, you ditched us in July 2012, but you came back again for a little bit.