Warfare & Tactics

1) It doesn't matter. Pick one you like and take it out to Large Specialization.

2) Yes.

Go for autocannons, the bullets sound is way more badass.

Flexibility is more important than individual firepower. It helps to be able to ship into anything your commander wants you to bring. And it helps to be able to plug into roles that your fleet is missing.

Know your ships, know your different roles, train for everything! When you can do all the basics, then go into t2 ships and specialized weapons.

Id say that u will really feel the gap between named weapons and T2 weapons. Very important for pvp. Thats why I think u should specialize. I say specialize in one race, then Ewar and propulsion. this will give u more flexibility than going for halfassed skills in all races. If u already trained for AC and Atrys u should crosstrain into Missiles. Sadly it seems that the best ships sub BC are missileboats.

But what u really need to do first is to get T2 drones, if PvEing is your thing u should go for T2 Sentries aswell.

As other said, specialize in one racial frigate, you'll be effective sooner. Then when you have all support skills trained for a racial frigate going for the others three is easy.

if you already trained for minmatar frigate specialize small autocannons.

Remember also that specific ship hulls have bonuses for certain types of weapon. Railguns are long range (so more like Artillery than an Autocannon) but more importantly, they are hybrid, not projectile - and will not work very well on a Minmatar hull that has inherent bonuses to Projectile weapons.
I agree, go on a shopping spree for every electronic, engineering, mechanics, navigation, gunnery/missile skill you can get your hands on and train them all up to low levels before anything else. also, train Drones V and Drone Interfacing at some point. Those skills will help you no matter what you fly.

Don't be under some illusion that being able to fly all frigates means you can attack all frigates. The current ship you are flying will not be able to take on every other frig. You will always have to go back to your ship storing system to change ships if a current engagement did not favour your vessel. By the time you get back the situation may have changed.. target or opertunity gone. Ontop of that, you will likely lose to a player flying the same ship as you if they are specialised. They will simply do more dmg at a better range and likely have better support skills to go with it due to having a smaller training scope. Further more, ships that your current vessel should somewhat counter will not have such a advantedge if you can't fly that ship at top level.. yet they are flying theirs specialised. You may go from a counter, to a even battle.. or even worse.

If specialising into 1 race you will ofc have similar limitations.. but at-least you can go toe to toe with anybody flying the same ship as you. If you are in your own racail space you ofc run big chance of bumping into people flying similar ships to you.

Think of it like this. Every skill you injcect, train to 5 then move onto the next skill. Remap and do smilar skills at the same time spend a year doing that then mve on to the next group of skills. You will find it much more rewarding in the long run.

If your commander is worth a damn, he will know what you specialized in and use you in that capacity to greater effect then having a mediocre player sitting in a sub par ship.

The good pilots are trained into the thing/things THEY want to do in the game. If you train things because your commander told you to, then your not going to enjoy the game as much.

Remember, the only person paying for your subscription is the only one that can decide what to train. It does not matter what you train into, there is a home in New Eden for you, just need to take the time to find it.

Edit: English Failure

This is very important to keep in mind. This is a game. This is YOUR game. YOUR money pays for the GAME you PLAY. Play it the way you enjoy.