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Hi,

Eve is really hard to play alone, it's mesmerizing and it's a great experience to try.

But once you get addicted to some feeling it creates, I urge to join a corporation with well experienced and active people which will be able to let you earn more in a shorter and more social way.

My Eve reality is that I mostly tchat on Discord with my friends while killing some stuff to buy ships / licence / whatever and watch to fight for other people.

There are plenty of activity to do and it's a very unique and awesome piece of experience I never was able to really leave for good.

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> I urge to join a corporation with well experienced and active people

Absolutely this ^^^

After a couple of months learning the basics I joined a mostly UK based corp who's members had been around since the inception of Eve back in the early 2000's. This was around the time Eve introduced the faction war update (Empyrean Age - 2008) and these guys wanted to encourage new players to do PVP but in safer non-null sec space, which the faction warfare update was sort of intended to do.

Being in my early 40's at the time I wasn't a hugely "social gamer", however it turns out many committed Eve players are in that older demographic (30's or older I'd reckon) and many of us had the same interests and senses of humour.

To cut a long story short, I had an absolute whale of a time with these folks (Dark Rising - who're still around operating back out in null-sec again) for a year or so. I don't think I've laughed so hard such as at the times we had spies...on TeamSpeak...in opposing faction corps and they had no clue we'd infiltrated them. The game really took over my life for a while and was amazing fun, and the way to have that kinda fun is to join a corp.

I definitely agree with this, but with a small note: joining corporations in null sec can be challenging for new players, and can sometimes bring more stress than benefits. You can be attacked by campers anywhere (including high sec space) and you have to constantly keep an eye for ganks.

Most of the newbie friendly corporations recruit players from day 1, but in doing so they kill off casual gameplay for these players.

The best approach is to first learn the basics by playing solo or with some close friends, and only after join a null sec corporation.

Even some things are super easy to do alone. One of the things I really enjoyed doing was drifting through wormhole space in a stratios salvaging abandoned POS and drones while watching Netflix/listening to music. Super relaxing

I think I still have around 3B in faction drones and random loot from a couple of weeks of jumping around exploring. Super fun game, you just need to find your niche.

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