Station Entities
Besides station services, you also have access to entities that "live" or reside in that particular station. This includes players that are currently docked in station, agents, corporation offices and headquarters. You access these entities by pressing any of the tabs that appear under the station services buttons on the right side.
The Station Entities are listed below and we will cover them in detail. Click the appropriate link to learn more about them.
Guests
Here you can see what players are currently docked in the same station as you. By right clicking on the guest, you can select to Show Info, Communicate, Set Standing, Trade, Add Bounty, Capture Portrait, and access the Gang Options.
As Trading is the most common feature used, it will explained in further detail below. The other features should be self explanatory.
Trading
Trading with another player is very common, especially between two corporation members. To trade:
- Right click on the player you want to trade with and select trade. This will open up the trading window.
- If you are holding the item(s) you are trading, drag and drop the item(s) to the upper box.
- When you have entered all the items you wish to trade, wait for your trade partner to offer you the agreed amount of ISK. Entering ISK into a trade is accomplished via the Offer button and specifying the amount.
- When you press OK, a check mark will appear; this will also be seen by the other player. The check mark indicated that you have finished adding items and are ready to trade.
- To accept the trade the other player presses Accept on his or her trade window; at this point, the items will be transferred.
Agents
EVE offers a new player some activities is via the Agent system. The first few missions given to you by an agent served as a tutorial for the Agent system in game.
To find an agent, travel to your closest space station. There you will have access to the Agent Menu.
Once you've docked with the station and the interface has appeared, go to the right hand station menu (the Neocom menu is on the left) and click on the Agents tab located below the station services icons. To contact your agent, right click on their bar in the Agents menu and select the Talk To option.
When you first arrive in EVE, you are greeted by your starting Agent at the station located in your current star system. Once the Agent is selected, he or she will proceed to assign you a series of tutorial missions at low risk. As opposed to missions accepted later down the line, the tutorial missions for the most part do not have any time limits on them, so you don't have to worry about being rushed. Though the missions vary a bit in detail, they tend to follow the same path. To start with, you are given a mission that teaches you to use the Stargates and Navigation menus. Following this, you will be assigned something along the lines of a mission that teaches you how to mine, one that shows you how to use the basic market, and another one that shows you basic combat comprehension and cargo container pickup.
Upon completion of the tutorial missions, you will receive an email from another agent in another system that offers to give you even more missions.
Offices & Headquarters
Offices
If you want to join a specific corporation, then you must first find a station were corporation maintains an office to represent it; there you can press the Join button to start the application process. Remember, you can only belong to one corporation at any given time.
Once you have pressed the button, the application pops up and you are given several options to choose from. This should be considered the first contact negotiations phase, as you are telling your potential employer what positions you are interested in filling. Be sure to send a message with the application so the corporation knows what you are interested in doing; remember, at this time you are applying for a job, so you are in effect selling yourself to the corporation.
When you have sent in the application, it waits in a queue where the personnel manager of the corporation will eventually view it.
Soon, you will receive an EVE-mail stating that the corporation has either rejected your offer or that stating that it is offering you a contract to sign. If the corporation rejects you, the process has ended; however, if it is interested in your skills, the second step of the application starts.
To view the contract offered by the Corporation, you follow the same steps as above. Once you have viewed the contract, you can either make a counter offer, or you can simply accept the contract with immediate effect; if you make a counter offer, the application will be looped until you either accept or the application process is ended by your or the corporation.
Headquarters
The headquarters tab is very similar to that of Offices and has the same purpose; what is different about this feature is that, in addition to Offices, it also lists all Corporations whose headquarters are in the station.