EVE New Citizens Q&A

A lot of the ship skills cross over. The choice becomes not in what skill you have but what module you choose to use. When you read about PvP vs PvE fits the items will still need and benefit from the same skills.

Just remember that things will take time. Remember that leaving a fight is an option if you are taking to much damage.

Pretty much. You can also get most skills, ships, and modules all in one place if you visit a trade hub.

If PvE missions are going to be your bread and butter, train up shield skills and missile skills so you can take advantage of Caldari ships. Since there is no need for ECM, your tank and DPS can be superior to many armor PvE boats.

Do not buy skils on trade hub. They are usually overpriced there. Buy them at school stations.Just open the market window and you will see , where the price is better.

Ships and gear - yes, Dodixie is the right place.

Forget about caldari, shields and missiles at the moment. You are Gallente, you way is armor, hybrid turrets and drones. Also interesting option is to learn amarr way - armor, lasers and drones. Lasers do not require you to reload your ammo over and over again. If enemy getting closer - you can switch crystals instantly and get better damage fro shorter range weapons stright away. No additional costs for ammo = in the long term that will be handy for mission runner. You will be restricted for only EM and thermal damage type, so cross training gallente (who are resticted to kinetic and thermal damage) is needed to be able to runn missions quick enough.

Unlike Dominix battrleship, Armageddon battleship will allow you to use not only turrets, but also missiles, if you want them. Just as battlecruiser Prophecy one step before. Amarr is versatile ;)

Oy vey! But I must collect the sheckels!

Kidding aside, I appreciate that encouragement. I do want to experiment with pvp too. I just know that one must make money to buy the spaceships that invariably blow up. ;) Besides finding a sugar daddy, I don't know of many other income streams to get my head around at the moment, although I did read a very interesting trading blog last night (I am not much of a spreadsheet guy though).

Yeah, you're not stuck with any particular empire ships, you can train whatever you want. All my characters are cross-tained, I just fly the sips I want. They all have something that you can armor or shield (don't do both at the same time), and your missile or gunnery skills will be handy for any empire ship.

I'd suggest browsing the missions and complexes forum here, a lot of good info and what to use and where, because it can be different depending on the what and wheres. Also the ships and modules forum will help you out a lot. Then good ship info can be found here where you can see what current common fittings are used for the different ships. Pick a ship, take notes of the fittings (there are pvp and pve builds there), load the market in-game, find the modules, open the info windows on those modules and there you will find what you will need to train for your fittings.

L3's in a low-skill battlecruiser will be one decent means of income that has a very low bar for entry. I'd also suggest training a little bit of Planetary Interaction, as a source of passive-ish income. You can further supplement your income with a little bit of trading. Nothing serious, just set up a buy order for some meta4 modules, for instance, at a cheaper rate than Jita so that you can turn a profit from it. There's also exploration, which also has low SP requirements, and scales pretty well, if you head out to lowsec or null. And there's always mining - just do it with a group, to make it more fun.
This will be competitive means of income.

But the mission treadmill.... I don't think it's a good way to go, if you value your fun time.

All the NPC orders will have an expiry of 364 days, making them easily distinguishable from the player orders (where the max is 3 months IIRC).