New EVE Online Expansion Detailed

Eurogamer reports on the EVE Online Fanfest, at which developer CCP revealed details on the game's next expansion, due out in March. It will be the biggest expansion yet for EVE, and it will "introduce 'Tech 3' modular ship designs, branching epic mission arcs, further improvements to the new player experience, and exploration of uncharted space through unstable wormholes. ... The focus of the expansion will be 'true exploration,' with players using new skills and modules to travel through wormholes into all-new, unconnected space." CCP also hinted that further graphical upgrades would be coming, and a standalone first-person shooter based on EVE may be in development for a console release.

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Re:I must say this:

[Anonymous Coward]

You clearly misunderstood the mission system since what you are describing is only storyline missions and not regular agent missions.

You need a couple of tools to survive in eve.

1) eveinfo.com/missions Google for more support sites.

2) A friend that has played. Message me in game if you don't know anyone else My player name is Locke DieDrake or Chloe DieDrake.

3) a general introduction to missions. Read the FAQ and the Forums sticky guides. They will tell you exactly how it works.

Missions require that you have standing with agents, but even on your first day, you have standing with your faction agents and can grind missions for weeks no problem.

The problem new players have is that they aren't at all prepared for EVE to be as complex and deep as it is. WOW is a shallow stream next to the ocean of EVE.

Start a new character (or whatever) and open your bio. Go to the standings tab and select the highest ranked corp, then hit the agents tab. Pick a security, or internal security or whatever agent (those two are combat type) and select an agent, his/her location will be listed, right click, set destination, and go fly there. When you get there, dock and ask the agent for a new mission. Do the mission, and then come back to the same agent. Rarely you'll be expected to drop something off at a different location, this will be clearly marked in the mission journal and a hyperlink bookmark to the location will be provided.

It's simple, really. ;)

Re:It's going down the toilet

[Drakin020]

Declining? I'm showing 21 thousand on right now, and that seems about right for this time of day.

I haven't seen any major change in population status in some time, so I think obvious troll is obvious.