About EVE Online Guides

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EVE Online is a massively multiplayer game unlike any other on the market. With 220,000 subscribers connecting to a clustered supercomputer of over 60 servers running in the same persistent universe of 5,000 star systems, it is staggering in its depth, and there's a lot of demand for EVE Online ISK guides out there.

First, because of the nature of EVE's architecture, a lot of the conventional "MMORPG" guides don't work terribly well. EVE runs one server for English speakers, one server for Chinese customers, and all players run on the same server.

This does mean that any fast EVE Online ISK guides are applicable to a wider chunk of the user base, as there are fewer variations in code bases and social customs by servers. It also means that there's a significant demand for these guides; there's a lot to learn about a game as large and as open ended as EVE is.

The first thing a good EVE ISK guide will cover is skill selection and training. While there are third party applications like EVE Monitor, to help you select skills, the fact that your character's skill selection and training has more to do with the length of time spent playing than what quests, missions, etc that you've done is important. There are a lot of people who've spent a great deal of time in the game since it was in beta, making their characters, and letting their skills rise over time. Not all of them are worth listening to, but many of them are and they're the primary authorship base for fast EVE ISK guides.

The next thing a good game guide will do is walk you through the core concepts of the game, and one of the best EVE Online ISK guides is the one that appears on the EVE home page, covering what makes EVE different from other MMORPGs.

However, there's more to EVE Online guides than characters - there's also equipment (what weapons to put on what ships from what factions), economic guides (what resources to go after in what sectors, and what to look for in terms of opportunities), play style (how to form corporations, and how to build trust with your corporation mates to make sure that someone is watching the store) and how to market your technology and blueprints to maximize your in game cash flow in EVE ISK to buy EVE ships.

About EVE Online Guides