OK . As a new Eve player who is on his 3 rd attempt to get into Eve and who has joined Horde , let me explain it from my perspective . On my first attempt I took out a trial some years ago and I did mainly solo stuff . Mining , doing missions , killing pirates and the like . But it got boring really fast . I joined some random high sec corp that said they ' did everything ' but really didn ' t do anything and corp chat was mainly dead . I couldn ' t see the appeal of Eve at all , the combat seemed like it was just target enemy . Shoot . Target next enemy . Shoot , and somehow they still managed to make that annoyingly complicated to do with the awkward UI . Then , some years later , I see a steam sale where I can get a months subscription and some gear for $ 5 . So I figure , sure OK . I ' d heard people talk about the wonders of eve , read articles about some of the emergent gameplay and the politics , and I figure its time to give the game another chance . This time I decide I ' m going to join a corp to get away from the horribly stale solo stuff . So I looked to do so straight after doing the tutorial stuff . I then see that most of the good fleets don ' t really take fresh characters and have expectations of skills and the like , but they love Eve Uni graduates . So I look into Eve Uni . and immediately became intimidated a bit by the commitment . Like , you ' d have these course plans and would have to book in for classes and attend lectures and even have to go through an interview process to get in . So I instead opted for Brave Newbies . I ' d heard that BNI was a lot more casual and it got right into the action and was generally a lot of fun . But so many people were at war with them that high sec became a lot more dangerous . I was told to come to the station in nullsec , but I soon discovered that was worse . The system would routinely have marauding bands of rival corps who would slaughter all braves they came across , and seeing as I was a noob with some badly fitted t 1 frigates and destroyers I couldn ' t rat in system at all and had no income so couldn ' t really progress . I went on a couple of fleet roams with inexperienced pilots and FCs and it was . not entirely fun . We ' d fly around in a group , be completely unsuccessful at getting the jump on anyone in system , before either giving up or being caught in someone elses gate camp and being annihilated . It just seemed like a money sink of lost ships with no real reward and I saw no way to properly progress in the game . So I quit Eve . But now I ' ve come back to give it yet another try now that we ' ve got alpha clones . This time around I opted to join Horde and its been so much more enjoyable its not funny . We ' ve got our own section of space that feels mostly secure because of the large standing fleets that are always there . Rewards for ratting in null sec is both more enjoyable and rewards far better ISK than mission running in high sec , and there are always other alphas on who I can rat with to take them on . Other corps including brave newbies do routinely make incursions in so its not entirely safe , but the large standing fleets makes a huge difference here . Because of the ability to quickly put together a response fleet to incursions , it means I can actually help fight back rather than being forced to dock up or die . The ability of the corp to hand out fresh ships whenever they are lost makes taking part in fleet actions or pvp a lot more enjoyable , since you don ' t have to worry nearly as much about losing all your money to it . On top of it all there ' s also so many people helping out new players that I do feel that I ' m continually learning a lot about the game . If this wasn ' t a newbie corp , I feel like my frequent asking of questions would be a lot more annoying for vets . So , in short , at least for me having a large and organised newbie corp to join was exactly what I needed to get in Eve .