EVE New Citizens Q&A

You are all so helpful thanks!

Does anyone have any advice for some frigate fits that will be helpful to learn with? I am training this Gallente now but I am thinking of just buying a character that can fly basic stuff. That brings up another point.

Any tips for buying a character?

IIRC: the RvB forums have some extensive basic fits.

but here's one of my favourites:

Atron

Mids: MWD, Point or Scram, Web.
Lows: Damage Control, Small Ancillary Armour Repper, Magnetic Field Stabiliser (replace with a resistance module if you want some more tank).
Rigs: 3x Small Transverse Bulkhead I

Highs: your choice, blasters or rails. I've been having fun with 75mm railguns lately on this hull. Carry some Caldari Navy Antimatter S and Caldari Navy Uranium S ammo.



I'd suggest: Wait.

Patience is a virtue in this game. Give it another six months or so to get a feel for what you're doing, then consider it. If you buy a whiz bang, all skills at V 1337 peeveepee character now, you'll be tempted to start bling fitting expensive hulls and biting off far more than you can chew, which will then lead to expensive and embarrassing lossmails and huge dents in your wallet.

Hold your horses there, Cochise. Buying a character your first month will only result in flaming wreckage. Even as a vet coming back from a short vacation, one simply does not walk into mordor without taking some time to re-orientate with the game. For someone that has yet to really get their hands dirty at all, results are disastrous.

At least get your frig experience, or maybe destroyers (T1's T3D's etc). Frigs train fast (though bombers can take time), and you can have a lot of fun and good game exp training a couple T2 frigs. AF frigs are one of my favorites in the game, they are pretty much mini-cruisers with a whole lot of speed-tank. Or put some time into T1 cruisers, a lot of experience there too. I'd give it 4-6 months, then you'll have a better understanding of the game to start looking at the character bazaar... which can take months of waiting to find what you want, and a whole lot of money to get it. Best not blow it.

Personally I'd recommend against buying a character, simply on the grounds of I like creating and building my own characters in games, and I think that's a huge part of the experience in EVE. Azda has her own story attached to her, lot's of fun watching her come up from humble beginnings, and continue on up, not only SP wise I might add. It really does feel good to 'grow into your own' so to speak. Azda has a way to go SP wise, but my fun isn't dependent on being there ASAP.

I'm biased, but them's my 2c.

This is very true. Cara began as fresh alt to try a bit of PVP. I figured I'd just train her for a month or two and do some frig PVP in RVB while doing other stuff with my "main".

By the end of the first month I was so attached that I moved her to her own account and kept on training. Now she has a long history and her own identity - many more people know her than any of my other characters and I still use her the most.

The Atron fit a few posts up is very solid and would be a good place to start. If you're headed to Faction Warfare space I would switch out the MWD for an afterburner for better range control (most of the fighting there happens in scram range because of the way FW complexes dump you right on top of the beacon). It's a very flexible ship, so experiment with the fitting and see what works for you in different situations.

If you learn to fly frigates well you can always find a way to entertain yourself in EVE. Although I can fly almost all the subcap ships I still fly Atrons quite regularly because the cheaper you fly the more likely you are to get fun challenging fights. Frigate fights are usually short and brutal, but learning to handle the split-second decision making required for them will make you a better pilot and the larger/longer fights in bigger hulls will seem easy in comparison by the time you are ready for them.