CCP plans on adding PVE sometime in the future, don't know when but it will. This will allow players to take on NPC contracts to gain ISK and SP. And I have been playing this since the beta and I will tell you what I tell everyone. Don't give up. Because I did at one point and then came back. If I didn't leave I would probably be so much better. It takes time to get used to but you'll get the hang of it. It's a good game and it will continue to change and change. Try squading up with players or join a corp. It's a lot better if a team if more coordinated. Plus, your corp buddies can help you on what to do if you still aren't sure on what you're doing.

SO MANY WALLS OF TEXT.

Please, try and paragraph these posts. Makes them a pain to read.

CCP is dedicating a good portion of their resources to improving New Player Experience from a better tutorial to meaningful and intuitive UI.

Hello,

The main weapon you, as a newbie of sorts, has against these prototype wielding foes is strategy. They are all usually confident because they are using the best gear shamelessly in a public match (proto stomping) but there is the element of surprise. I started playing in chromosome. When I was a new player I would usually stalk one of my teammates and when he was engaged in battle I would take the enemy by the side or back and they would notice very little because their attention is else where. A strategy I still use when I am using my alt testing out new weapons, since my alt was made two weeks ago. So I can tell you it's a dirty trick but very satisfying to know that you killed or helped kill a proto with a militia or basic item.

The second piece of advice I can give you is specialize on weaponry first. After you get some points into specialization of a after the first two or three weeks of gaming, the damage output of even they the cheapest weapons increases. A good example is the assault rifle an sub machine gun. These weapons, even at militia level, are deadly in a specialized character.

Remote explosives: Been having fun with these little buggers. Kills anything and are well placed in corners. Put one in a corner; run away and when proto stomp guy comes around... Blow him up.

As for other thing, b patient. Matchmaking is on its way. Soon we might not have to worry about proto stompers because they will be harassing each other

Skill comes in more when you are a newbie than not. These are the trials by fire. This is where you leave your mark, it gets easier from here, so buckle up and enjoy the ride, there will come a time in a few months where you will be the hated one.