Below are a list of a lot of mistakes we see players regularly make and should avoid when they are getting their start into EVE. Please read them and don't be like other players and fall into these traps!
EVE is NOT a virtual-money-making simulator. It's a game about survival and community. STOP GRINDING FOR ISK just so you can fly expensive ships that you may almost immediately lose. Cheap ships are cheap. Don't grind.
Instead, use your in-game time to learn about the gameplay mechanics, and how to fight and survive in EVE. That's your key to survival and also to making more money later down the line.
There is NO REASON to gate any non-PVP ship through lowsec unless you are specifically hauling something (AND IMPORTANTLY, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING). Stop “chancing” things and just feeding enemies your money.
Keep your money and learn how to survive by avoiding lowsec altogether until you know what you are doing.
The only exception to this rule are Shuttles. If you are flying in a shuttle, you will avoid the vast majority of gatecamps. But be quick about your movements and jump through the next stargate the moment you appear in a new system!
If you are hauling, use a scout, DOTLAN, zKillboard, the MWD/Cloak trick, D-Scanning, and Instaundock. If you don’t know what those words mean, then PM William Karant in Discord or attend classes on these topics. No matter what, fly with the best tank you can. Fly with all of low/middle/high/rig slots filled out.
If you keep dying, STOP DOING IT and hire a courier to do it for you. It’s silly to keep dying when you can cheaply have someone do it for you. You can use our Courier Program if you want to move goods to and from our campuses and Jita. If it is not to/from a location listed on our service locations, use Red Frog, a great organization that hauls consistently for the greater EVE community. Use them.
THERE IS NO REASON TO EVER DIE IN A NON-PVP SHIP IN LOWSEC.
Don’t EVER use Autopilot. Ignore that function altogether. If you are undocked, you should be at your keyboard. Not only does autopilot make the trip exponentially longer, it also makes you extremely susceptible to “gankers" (players who will blow up you and your ship in hisec).
When you use autopilot, you are telegraphing to the world that you don't know what you are doing and can die very easily at the whim of anybody passing you by.
There is NO instance where you should undock a ship without having ALL of the Low, Medium, and Rig slots filled out with something that is designed to help you survive and/or make that ship tailor made for the specific purpose it is designed to be used for.
There are rare instances when you may have one or two empty High slots, but in the vast majority of instances, you should have ALL your High slots filled with something useful as well.
It is highly recommended that if you do not know what you are doing, that you use our in-game “Corporation Fittings” to fit ships and that you attend some classes on how to fit ships and what ships are good for what activities.
Each ship has a tailored purpose. Each fitting for each ship has an even more specifically tailored purpose. Look at the “Traits” tab for the ship you want to fly and start figuring out what that ship is good for. If you have any questions about what any particular ship is good at, ask up in our Discord in the #fittings channel!
EVE is a PVP game. Learn how to PVP and how to avoid PVP. The ONLY way you’re going to be able to fly expensive ships and live is if you learn how to fly cheap ships effectively. Stop flying expensive ships if you aren’t knowledgeable about how to survive in cheap ones.
If you end up dying in a ship, don't let the enemy also kill your pod! Instead, as soon as you are about to die, click on a random object in your overview and spam the “Warp To” button until you are in warp away. Your pod can almost instantly align and warp out – there's no reason to give them the satisfaction of that second kill! Deny them it and warp out and find a way out of the system, dock up at an NPC station, or self-destruct your pod.