Russell said:
(I'm just not a social person, even online with people I'll never meet.)
Sameish, I'm not a very social online gamer,
. But, improving there.
Russell said:
If I start again whats the best race/ship for mission running?
It depends,
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Last night there were frigates with drones. Drones are excellent for security missions, they shoot down smaller ships easily and do considerable damage to bigger ships, and that's just the T1 drones with relatively few skills. Getting a frigate with drones early should be easy enough and will definitely help you get through the early security missions.
If you still have your old character, make an alt and do the tutorials (or at least a couple of them); use the old character to make money via mining, if you've got the patience for that. It's a decent way to make money, and iirc getting up to mining barges / strip miners doesn't take very long. They have a cheap but effective mining frigate since the latest expansion (the Venture), which you get for free during the second Mining tutorial level; you can haul in a million ISK worth of ore that way. Another pro money-making tip: Don't bother with refining, just sell the ore unless you spend a couple of months in skilling and whoring reputation. Unskilled refining will actually make you lose money, and the margins for refining are slim at best. I can make some extra (I think about 10 - 15%) money refining ore instead of just selling it. Actually, if you're in the Minmatar region, hit me up if you need something refined, I have 98.5% refinery efficiency (ish) and 1 or 1.5% tax(ish), the latter of which should drop gradually as I run moar missions. I should be able to get perfect refine (100% efficiency, 0% tax) once I get to training the refining skills to V, which... will probably take weeks since combat skills are ahead in my training plan atm,
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Skill training, yeah, it can take forever. Getting stuff up to level 3 takes about 8 hours (level 1 & 2 just half an hour to an hour and a half, depending). I'd recommend looking into what you want to do and set up Evemon and a skill training thing. You can train faster in certain areas if you do a remap of your skills; should save you a couple of hours, if not days in the long run.
I made the mistake in training by going for ship skills, I got up to cruisers / battlecruisers in two months (or so) back when, whilst neglecting basic skills like Targeting, Gunnery, etcetera, so while I did fly a neat ship, I didn't do as much damage and whatnot as I should've been able to,
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tl;dr: I haven't been into a game this much in ages,
There's another event tonight, we're taking the corp and flying to Eve Gate (and possibly the Black Obelisk). Last time I played (2009), I announced that it felt too much like work and I was quitting, some guy said "You can't leave without having seen the Obelisk, lulz", so,
edit after poast: Yeah, they've been working for years on the station roaming and character customization; the system they have in place is very good right now, probably the best character customization (and graphics) out there right now. But to be honest it feels kinda pointless since all other people will see is a still profile picture and their own dude walking around in the station,
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I would've preferred if they added ship customizations, seeing that that's what most people will see the most.
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