Don't use autopilot, unless you are carrying nothing of value in hisec.

I would go so far as to say never autopilot unless you are in a ship you don't care about. I've seen ganks of ships just because, even with empty cargo holds.

First thing you need to do once you have created your character is to do all of the tutorials. Yes they can be boring but for a new player you get several ships and some nice isk to help you start off with. Don't trust other players with anything, if it sounds to good to be true, then they are most likely trying to scam you.

When trying to buy stuff off of the market, don't just click buy from the first screen in the module selection, always click market details then you can select where you want to buy it from and can see where you might get a better deal.

Edit: Never buy anything from anybody advertising in local chat. If there 'deal' was really so great, they would not need to advertise it.

EVE University is a pretty decent bunch to check out when you're first getting started. There's a list of things I wish I'd known when I first started playing EVE, but it's so freaking long I don't know where to start.

Sadly I can't really offer as much advice as I'd like. I haven't played EVE for quite a few years, but I can probably still do general QnA. Feel free to message me (or Qahnaarin Haederox) in dust if you've got questions.

Hello people, so I've been following Dust 514 since E3 2011 which was nearly 2 years ago. And been participating in the beta since April of last year, so 1 year so far.

Now I'm really interested in trying out EvE Online itself, I know its the world's most complex MMO and the one with the worst learning curve. Thats why I would like to ask for people's help on what I should do to start in EvE. As I type this, I'm downloading the EvE Online Client after signing up for a Trial account.

I would really appreciate good tutorials, articles, etc. for beginners.

Anyways Eve University is a great place to start. Agony Empire if you can afford it and is joined in another corp, get friends at least willing to teach you. If its too good to be true it is.

Speaking of Eve, and the Dust-Eve connection, anyone care to link to decent 'Orbital strike' load outs? Bein a complete noobtastic newbro to Eve I am not real great at creating fits in-game, and am really curious what everyone thinks the 'perfect' ship and fit would be for orbital strikes.

When an orbital is called for, is it limited to one turret being used to complete the strike? Or if it is from a Destroyer with 6 highs dedicated to the strike would there be greater damage?

It looks like it has to be small turrets, right?

Send "Drake Doe" a message or two, I'll be as much help as I can

Basically, you'd fit the destroyer like normal but substitute the "Tactical" ammo for OBs instead of normal ammo. Tactical ammo requires Morphite, so it's a bit pricey, though not insane.

So smart ISK is in the Morphite market during the intial rush of PC then I would imagine. That and pumping out Destroyers of various types?

That's heavy speculation but it's possible, though due to the limited size of our initial playground for PC I doubt we'll have much effect if any on the market. Though I suppose you could probably make a buck if you happened to have a whole lot of ammo for sale in the system. whether it's Molden Heath or ends up being somewhere else is still a possibility.