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You have to show your high school algebra credentials when you sign up for the course but..

Turret tracking

Should show you the why's and hows of your turrets and the damage they do.. Tracking mods are useful as is getting up close.. Try to trade shots with a missile boat and you'll lose for sure

 

It's not unusual to not know what is going on. It's a pretty complex game and the starting setup really does suck - and they have acknowledged it (Not that it helps you now )

We probably have 3-4 CDL active in the game.

In the beginning it's good to find a nice starting agent to start pulling in some ISK. If you can find Survielance or Security agents you will have more fun, those are killing missions. You can find agents by going on to your map (F10) and filtering for "My Agents" (Its somewhere in the menu) you want to find Security/Survielance agents who's reputation is high. Someone who has a rating of 5 is not as good as someone with a rating of 18.

Mining can be a viable source of money as well to mine you need to head to an asteroid belt and make sure you have mining lasers equipped in the turret slots of your ship. Pirates can also be found around random asteroid belts in most systems, just killing them and looting their cargo can be a fairly good source of income as well. I'd assume you have started training? You may need to train mining in order to get started. Training books can be found on the market for skills that are not on your list from the start.

My advice - pop onto TS with myself, ASP or Shads and fire off some questions. The game is hard to explain and cumbersome via Text

 

You mine in any asteroid belts you can see Swifty.. If you're staying primarily in one solar system right now you can hop between asteroid belts looking for mining opportunities or AI pirates.

There are a lot of ways to make money, and get into combat, the game is very fluid that way.

You can head out and mine in the asteroid belts, refine your ore into minerals and sell it to make money. In certain circumstances mining can be fun (when its useful to you or your corporation) but is generally dull..

Once you get some money together you can make money playing the market if that's your thing. It can be slow and tedious, but rewarding when you find those profitable trade routes. Takes some thinking and research to master, as the market if very much influenced by players and goes up and down all the time.

You can hunt pirates in the asteroid belts. They're not in every belt or there all the time, but they do spawn now and then. Killing them gets you money, as does looting the cargo containers they drop, and selling or reprocessing what you find in them. A good way to hop belt to belt looking for pirates or ore is in the top left corner of your screen. There's an information list about the system you're in, and in the top left corner of that is a triangle. Left click on that and it brings a drop down menu of the stations, asteroid belts, planets, etc. in your system. From there you can hop from belt to belt easily.

Alternatively on your screen triangles in the distance are asteroid belts, squares are stations, "circles with the line in it" are stargates, and regular cirlces are planets. Right click on any of these and you can warp to the location. If the shape looks like a jumbled mess it just means there's multiples of each in that location; hover your cursor over it and you'll see each item pop up that's there, then you can warp to what you want.

Missions are by far the most profitable way to make money if you can get them. Almost every station has an agent. The better the rating to you, the more you'll get from them. You should be doing level 1 agents at this point, and work your way up when you get a better ship. you'll get money for completing the mission, usually extra (in isk or in goods) if you complete it quickly, and if its a kill mission, you get bounty and cargo from the AI pirates you kill.

It IS difficult and somewhat confusing in the beginning but it gets better as you move forward. My friend has only been in the game over a week, and he's ready to move into the higher level missions; money and lacking a few skills is the only thing stopping him at this point.

By all means if you need any help hop on TS, and we can help you out. Make sure you train your frigate skill up too, so you can get into bigger and better ships

 

I should log onto TS more often, but I usually only do when I see others in the game or shads scolds me for not using it.. I'll jump on when I'm in from now on.

Your frigate has 4 "high slots", which means 4 high powered units can be installed on the ship. High powered units are typically weapons, but can be single use smartbombs, or other special devices. The confusion comes from the fact that your frigate has 4 high slots, but only 2 "turret hardpoints". So you can put 2 turrets on it, and fill the other 2 high slots with missile launchers for example.

Since you're Gallente I'll use your ships as an example to help clear it up.

A "Celestis" cruiser has 4 hi slots. It also has 3 turret hardpoints, and 2 launcher hard points. You could then put 2 turrets and 2 launchers, or three turrets and 1 launcher if you were maxing out the hi slots on the ship. Hi slots are how many high powered devices of any kind you can fit on your ship, hardpoints are the number of slots for a particular type of weapon you can fit.

 

Whats your ingame name swift?

 

I can get a ferox now, just need 30m

 

Cool - I may be in tonight will look you up

I didnt start training frig 5 until just 2 days ago Worked up my wep skills first

 

I'll be popping in tonight too, we can hunt some pirates if you want Hamma, we can take Lorbec around into more dangerous space Just run this time if we see low sec players again