Crime & Punishment

Don't wait til you have skilled up, get out there now and get killed. As many times as you possibly can.

Its a good idea to get used to the losses while they are still effectively meaningless.

Edit: and make sure you join a good corp ASAP, solo PVP is very rare in this game, and you should plan on flying in a group. Join Papercut Pub channel, if you are not gonna be a good fit with us, we can probably help you find a good home.

There's plenty of solo PvP to be had in lowsec (low security space) if you have patience and know the systems well. I am not saying you will always find a fair fight (you'll almost never find a fair fight), but if you're fighting fair, you're doing it wrong anyway.

I am learning the ropes myself as I moved to lowsec about a week ago with the same intent. So far, it's been a lot of fun (most fun I've had in years playing a videogame), and my reaction time and knowledge of the game have increased exponentially. You must know when/how to engage, choose your targets, your approach et cetera.

I wish you the best of luck.

When you say pirate, most people in eve will take that to mean that you want to live in lowsec, killing the occational lost carebear but mostly engaging in consensual combat with other lowsec residents. Is that what you mean, or do you actually want to rob, extort and visit violence upon the unsuspecting?

Then, in my humble opinion, highsec is where you need to be. Wardecs, infiltrations, suicide ganks and mission invasion are all excellent. For something you can do while fairly new and with minimal support check this link.

Hi!
Welcome to the right side of the gun. As young ascending acolyte you may want to internalise this Guide.
I wish you a lot of fun learning the ways of piracy!

Sadly, I'm not sure if there are any real pirates left who actually make a living that way. I was one once upon a time, but jump drives pretty much killed my income. Nobody uses gates anymore except the occasional random newbie and other PvPers. The former never has anything expensive and the latter isn't a profitable target.

Edit: If I ran for CSM my platform would be removal of jump drives, jump bridges and anything else containing the word 'jump'. I'd also try to get CCP to implement an eye patch that can only be purchased by using corpses as currency.

Way too expensive for something that doesn't actually do anything. I'll think about it if they reduce the cost to ~$5.

a long LONG time ago, i died to a pirate. I got angry (being a few months old and loosing my first assault frigate - a Jaguar)

So instead of whining i went into losec and blew things up with fraps turned on. Someone, somewhere recently uploaded it to YouTube (and although i was embarrassingly newbie at the time, it's nice to know some people saw the vid). I done pretty much exactly what you want to do. If you are a newbie you will generally find other newbies or people baiting you. This is the best way to learn as you will be able to ransom people and also learn to spot something that's too good to be true.

Here's the link: Birth of a Pirate

Things i had to do:
-Learn to use my direction scanner.
-Learn to stay moving to avoid damage
-Learn to hate heavy missiles. (pre-nerf :) )

Any questions feel free to message me in game, as i have done mostly all kinds of PVP in eve - and it started with that video.

One rule: Always Honor a ransom. Next time you meet that person they will pay again, if you didn't honor the ransom they will tell you to go to hell and you just wasted ammo.

Maybe not in lowsec, but I make enough to allow me to lose expensive ships every once in a while up here in highsec.

Wardecs, mission invasion, suicide ganks, safaris, scams. You know, just being a belligerent undesirable.