EVE Echoes - guide and tips for beginners

The complete beginner's guide to the mobile game Eve Echoes, in which you can engage in interstellar combat, explore endless space, fight pirates, gather resources, trade and much more.

Character Creation

At the beginning, you are offered a choice of four factions. I will add that races do not affect anything.

• Amarr: a very religious faction that encourages slavery. But at the same time, they have some of the most beautiful and coolest ships in the game.
• Gallente: a socialist state that promotes emigration. They have some of the most prominent leaders, scholars, and businessmen in modern history.
• Caldari: powerful corporate dictatorship. They are ruthless and effective both behind closed doors and on the battlefield.
• Minmatar: they have some of the most powerful PvP ships.

In EVE Echoes, you will not be able to fully create your character. There is an upgrade button where you can change the look, but that's about it.

Once you have selected your character's face, you need to enter a name on the next page. Below it will be the details of the pedigree you have selected. It's like choosing the race within a faction and your ID, which the developers use to identify you as a player.

Interface

When you click on the right button, you will see a popup on the left side.

1. Near: Shows everything around you.

2. Celestial Body: Shows you all the planets and the Sun of the system you are in.

3. Station shows all stations in the system you are in.

4. Stargate: This shows all the stargate in your system. You use them to navigate to a system whose name is right above the distance.

5. Signal: These are the points in the system that you are in that you can examine. These can be signals from NPC ships or asteroid belts, where you will primarily get resources.

A small number under the name of the signal indicates its level from 1 to 10. 1 - light NPC ships and the most barren asteroid fields. 10 - powerful NPC ships and abundant asteroid fields with the rarest resources.

How to travel?

1... Click on one of the stations you would like to travel to. A new window will open where you can select "Dock", after which your ship will automatically jump into warp and dock at the specified station.

2. The second way is to open the map, which is marked with a constellation icon to the right of your avatar. Here you can either manually find the system you want to go to, or use the search button in the lower left corner.

Ship types

There are 6 types of ships in the game, and each of them has its own specialization, which will focus mainly on one thing, but will have different characteristics.

• Frigate: usually small ships that focus on damage and have many other functions, but are not designed for frontline combat. They are fragile and also have a small cargo hold.
• Destroyer: larger ships than the Frigate; are quite fast and do a lot of damage. They have decent stamina against Frigates, but will be quite weak against Cruisers and Battleships.
• Cruiser: good damage and the ability to add more modules.
• Battle cruiser: is somewhere between a Cruiser and a Battleship; in fact, it is a balanced battle ship. They do more damage and have better defense than the Cruiser, but the Battlecruisers are not as mobile.
• Industrial ship: designed for the carriage of goods. They are quite large, slow and cannot participate in battles, since their main purpose is to accommodate as much goods as possible.
• Battleship: slower than the rest of the ships, but the battleships are very durable. They also have good firepower.

In my opinion, you should buy a Battle Cruiser, Battleship or Cruiser - depending on the amount available and your needs.

See also:
The best ships for resource extraction and PvP

How to use drones

1. To get started, you need a ship with a drone hangar - for example, frigates like Tristan or mining ships like Ventura.
2. Then buy a drone, which will cost you 10-15 ISK (ISK, in-game currency). You can put 2 drones in Tristan, and Ventura can hold 4, but you can only use them one at a time.
3. Each drone has special damage, and, most importantly, they do not consume the energy of your ship's capacitor, that is, in fact, it is a free weapon. While in space, click on the drone icon to deploy them, but keep in mind that the range is 20 km, so using a rocket launcher may negate their benefits.

Resource extraction menu

This option will allow you to permanently extract resources from different planets: it can be found in Menu -> Planetary Manufacturing. There you can send ships for mining.

To mine resources, you can install special mining lasers on any ship, but I suggest using the Ventura frigate (Shop -> Ship -> Industrial ship -> scroll down until you find Ventura frigate in the Expeditionary frigate section), because it has enough spacious hold.

What skills to pump first

At the beginning of the game, you will be flying a frigate, so it is recommended that you immediately learn the "Control of a frigate" skill. Below you will find a list of skills that are recommended to learn if you have chosen rocket ships:

1. Cruiser Technology> Spaceship Command> Frigate Command
2. Maintenance technology> Panel operation> Panel operation
3. Maintenance Technology> Defense Enhancements> Frigate Defense Enhancements
4. Electronics> Engineering> Frigate Engineering
5. Weapons technology> Missiles> Small missiles / torpedoes

How to get skill points

Skill points accumulate over time. They can also be obtained during events, and another 500 skill points can be obtained by joining a corporation. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the game there are many who want to join a corporation, but there are few corporations themselves.

System Security

There are three main system security statuses in Eve Echoes:

1. Strict regime
2. Low security
3. Zero security

Strict regime

The high security level ranges from 1,0 to 0,5. These are the systems that the Concorde organization patrols, and piracy is generally prohibited on these systems. If you attack anyone at the station or at the gate, you will be destroyed. If you attack anyone in the mines, the Concorde will most likely attack you.

Concorde's response times range from instantaneous in 1,0 to about 16 or 17 seconds in 0,5. The system is secure, but it doesn't have a lot of good resources.

Low security

Low protection systems range from 0,4 to 0,1. These systems have security guards at the gates, but other places are not guarded in any way. This means that if you stay in a 0,1 to 0,4 system in the asteroid belt, you may be attacked by pirates or other players, and in general it is only safe at the gate.

The system is quite risky, but it already has an average level of valuable resources.

Zero security

Zero safety has a value between 0,0 and -1,0. These systems are essentially lawless, and anything can happen there.

Zero systems or "zeros" are the best place for pirates, and you will never be able to endure, so it is better to fly here either with good equipment and gaining experience, or together with your clan / raid.

There are a lot of risks in this system, but at the same time a high level of valuable resources.