EVE New Citizens Q&A

How strange! My trollmeter is showing excessive readings.

The basic belief in EVE is that Caldari is the worst race for solo PVP. A lot of people would argue that because a good solo PVPer can do very will with Caldari.

Still you are much better off starting your solo PVP with Minmatar or Gallente. If I were you, I'ld work toward gallente T2 ships like the Ishkur and Taranis. Both extremely good solo ships.

Good luck

Something I am rather surprised no one has mentioned....no, don't restart. your race/faction only affects some basic starting skills, and all races can train for all skills. It wouldn't make sense to restart your character purely to affect a couple basic starting skills. If you would like to fly Caldari ships, go to the market, buy the relevant skillbook and begin training it. For PvP, I would recommend Minmatar ships, as in my experience they seem more heavily favored. Despite that, all races have their own ships that are extremely good at what they do.

J'Poll, you seem to be quite decent overall, but you call Minmatar "Winmatar" ... just bugs the crap out of me when someone does that.

@OP: No reason to restart your character. The only thing you'll get out of it is a faction frigate and faction weaponskill to level II plus all of the basic skills that everyone starts out with. So you'd be restarting over a training time of about two hours. That's a lot less time than it would take to rebuild your character from scratch, I would think.

Minmatar and Gallente tend to be the best at solo PvP, although Caldari have some excellent PvE ships like the Drake and the Raven. Minmatar ships, unfortunately, require you to learn a whole bunch of skills to actually be good at flying them (missiles and projectiles, shield tank and armour tank).

Indeed, loads of people see the offer on their steam update and try it out.

Some of them are good, others have a wrong view of what EVE is. But we should help them all, more people in EVE is always good as it means more people to interact with.

I disagree. While fleet is fun, the real thrill comes from hunting your prey and finally locking them down. I get alot more out of the idea of accomplishing my kills solo than I do with a blob. I am still new to this game at about 6 months old, but plan on fully developing a solo career.

Picking your race based on personal opinion of what looks cool is exactly how you should pick the race.
It also effects the game the exact amount, it's purely austhetic