There’s Andrew Groen and his Empires of EVE books! He mostly covers the Nullsec Empires.
There’s an outlook that settles in after you’ve played for a while. Your ship stops being a vehicle or a gun in your head, and starts becoming something more akin to ammunition. Especially in wormholes, it’s assumed that the moment you undock something and put it at risk, it’s forfeit. If you managed to bring it home… Read more
I’m sorry you had a bad introduction, there are basically two types of EVE players. Players that prey and feast on newbies, and players that try to grow and uplift them. Both groups do it for the same reason, to eventually shoot them and pick the goodies off of their corpse, but the latter understands that if you let ‘… Read more
For anyone interested, there are ways to speed the skill learning process up now. They’re not necessary, but they exist. You can buy Skill Injectors from other players, earn skill accelerators in monthly events, and if you follow a recruit-a-friend link to start up, you get a small bonus. Check out my twitter feed for… Read more
I started playing three years ago. There’s almost nothing I can’t do in the game now. And the free things that are restricted by my skill point total are just things I haven’t decided to go for yet. Yes things take time to train, but you are never at a point where you can do nothing. Read more
Finding a newbie friendly corporation is the easiest way to get into EVE. If you’re not careful, you can find yourself lost in the crowd though. KarmaFleet, Pandemic Horde, Brave Newbie, or whatever flavor you want. They all do great work getting people engaged in the game, and showing them how to be useful early on. Read more
The high tiers of Abyssal space are difficult, and I’m sure BoRn2 has max skills to compete on the highest level against other players. But some of these sites are very accessible, someone even made a bit of a guide for running them on a budget: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/9vkzrl/30mil_isk_caracal_fit_that_c… Read more
Players have taken to looking at the map from the ‘top’ to determine the relative cardinal directions. This site has a few examples: https://sov.space Read more
Really, it doesn’t take a lot to get to the point where you can participate in this type of fight. You could show up, and assist in under a day. In under 3 months, there are ships you could be in that could make a big difference. You wont be in one of the Titans, but you could be the guy that causes that Titan to die. Read more
Someone is actually! An author by the name of Andrew Groen. https://kotaku.com/new-book-chronicles-the-continuing-history-of-eve-onlin-1825874361 Read more