Encounters within Eve Echoes consist of completing missions across New Eden for various NPCs for ISK. For players beginning their journey within New Eden, these missions serve as an excellent way to begin earning ISK allowing you to purchase better ships and modules.
Encounters Menu[]
Upon tapping Encounters from the main menu, the player is presented with the screen shown on the right. From here is where basic missions can be selected, progress on main story lines can be viewed, and the basic tutorial can be completed.
News[]
News encounters include varying missions spread out across the galaxy.
They first can be sorted by the difficulty of the mission you want to accept. The higher difficulty missions require a higher tech level to accept and will also require higher tech level and large ships to complete them. As difficulty goes up so does the ISK payout for completing the mission and some higher difficulty missions also reward item boxes.
They then can be filtered by the Mission Type, what security level systems you want to receive missions in, and how to sort them. The different types of missions will, in general, require different ships to complete them. Investigation missions though can be completed in any ship.
Once your filters and difficulty are set hit the Refresh button to get a fresh list of encounters. Refreshes can only be done every 30 minutes so it is possible to run out of missions if you are running only one type, especially on easier difficulties.
You can accept up to 10 missions at a time and once accepted they have a time limit in which they must be completed before the mission expires. This can be viewed within the Journal located on the right side of the screen.
Story[]
Each Empire faction has four main story lines that dive deeper into the game's lore. As you complete missions there is a chance you will be offered a story line mission. These can be identified by the faction's symbol located between the mission name and the reward payout. Within each story line there is a penultimate mission that acts as the conclusion of that story line and offers great rewards and hefty sums of ISK once completed. More information on these can be found on the Encounter page.
Tutorials[]
The game's initial tutorial resides here. If for some reason you close out of the dialogs without knowing what to do next, this will get you back on track. It is recommended that this basic tutorial be completed as it will teach you the basics of navigating the game and performing some of the functions available.