EVE New Citizens Q&A

1) It is possible, but very difficult. I would advise getting to learn the UI and the general way things work for the first week or so, get to learn ship roles and basic mechanics as well. As for the death penalty, when you die you lose your ship and everything on it. Some or all modules may be lost, and what is left can be scavenged by your killers or any passers by.

2) There are several established corporations and alliances that specialize in training and equipping new pilots. Look into EVE University or the Red vs. Blue program. Your ability to help a fleet will be limited early in your career but with the right training and a willingness to take risks (you will die a lot at first) you can learn a lot and contribute more and more.

3) I can't really list all the roles there are, too many exist The role a newbie will have be most familiar with is the role of 'tackler.' A tackler flies a small and fast ship that arrives slightly ahead of a fleet and locks down targets and keeps them from fleeing.

Another piece of advice that a lot of new players need to know; don't fly a bigger class of ship as soon as you are trained for/can afford one. It's best to learn in the small and inexpensive stuff. Don't spend that 500mil in one place!

1.) Yes it's possible to PvP from day 1, but you will be very very limited in the fights you can win. To make a living out of it, I doubt. This is cause of the drop mechanics of modules, which is totally random, so even after 5 years you still can't garantuee you will make a monthly profit from just PvP.

How ever, after just looking at the UI you will know about 0.000001% of what you want to know to be succesful, I suggest to learn the basic mechanics, the UI and the type of ships first before diving into hardcore PvP, it will make you more the predator and less the prey if you know what you are doing.

2.) 1 word: Hero-tackle. And there are plenty of corporations that PvP that also teach new players in the way of the sword (or laser, or hybrids, or projectiles or missiles).

3.) Roles (and I might miss some):

* DPS grunt
* FC
* Target caller (combined with other role)
* Logistics
* Tackle
* E-war
* Scout

4.) Clones. There are 2 different ones, jump clones and medical clones.

Jump clones: google the EVE wiki, more adv to explain and won't waste a lot of space in this post on it.

Medical clones: Your "save point". So when your ship gets blown up (and it will) you will eject from it in a pod (kind of life boat). When that too is destroyed you will wake up in the location of your medical clone. Medical clones have a size, this means they can hold up to a certain amount of skillpoints (900.000 SP is the basic clone).

If you are killed when your actual SP < clone SP => No problem, update your clone again (everytime you get podded your clone will drop down to the basic one and needs updating).

If you are killed when your actual SP > clone SP => You will loose some SP in the highest tier skill you trained. And need to update your clone (properly this time).

5.) People (at least for 95% of the times) will gank others for profit. That last 5% will do it for the tears. Neither is real PvP, go into low-sec, null-sec, W-space, war-decs or FW and there you will find real PvP.

Yes, half of the fun is to build your own source of income progressively (and there are many way to do so, and even more with a bit of creativity). That way the ships taste even better

Have a look at this, I made this a short while back for another corp I was with on a different character. Many of them were fairly new to PVP and were just "clowning around", much to the FC's (and my) chagrin :P

It's certainly not complete, i keep adding to it, but it might be helpful to you.

+1 for the nice new PvP player friendly guide explaining a lot in a sense that even a chimp can understand it.

I would suggest you train your pve skills first, get to a wormhole and farm money for few months. After that buy your self a brand new character from character bazaar. If you don't want a new pilot, you can just join some corp and learn all the stuff and wait for 6 months to be pvp ready.

Lol, this advice comming from someone who wants a solo PvP SB and then complains someone is killing him over and over.

aka, don't listen. You don't need a character bought from the bazaar, you don't need to wait 6 months. It's more about attitude and willing to learn stuff as it is about in game SP. Low SP pilots with great attitude, player skill and willing to learn will always be better then a cocky guy who won't listen to others and bought a multimillion SP toon without the skills to use it.

Two quick things:

1. Welcome to eve.
2. Thank you for shooting people in the face.

Now if your a redditer or a member of something awful forums there pvp training programs for new players is second to none, if you can survive it.

For the rest of a us folks theres stuff like Red Vs Blue which I think you might want to consider taking a look at. There all about having good fights with low over head.

When you decided your ready to up your game and head to null sec you can always consider applying to agony unleashed or our school Noir. Academy

Agony is great for making you a well rounded pvper in any environment

We focus on making you into an efficient hired killer.

I think people like Tuskers and Veto have training corps too there good corps and are old as the hills.

Tuskers are very much still alive and kicking, we do not have a formal training corp but do run events to encourage new players into pvp. Keep your ears open for the next one which will probably be early next year.

My advice is to fly cheap t1 frigates so your 500M will last you a long time and fly in low as much as you can, win or loose (and you will loose a lot) youll learn more in an hour in low than you will in a week in high. The first kill you get will be great, trust me..

Fly fast.

J

Making isk with PVP is not easy.

Sometimes you get lucky, I rely on reputation to make my isk. this can range anywhere from 0 isk a week to 2 bil a week.

You will never be as rich as indy players but it is fun living from ship to ship.

There are a couple of training corp that show the basics but you either have or you don't. If you have any questions you are more than welcome to ask me ingame.