EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello fellow capsulers.

I'm up to dive into pvp and ofc scratching my hands to start with. But i was told i have to be patient and learn some skills upfront at least be able bite before die

My question is what was your experience whennyou started? How many times did you die before your first kill

Thank you!

The best thing to do is dive right in there and fight. There is no reason to wait. Start learning now and your sp will catch up.

It is the most fun activity in the game.

Thx for comments!

Yay a lot of stuff to catch up really, and i'm up to fair fights not to gank some peacefull industrialists.

we did a lot of in corp t1 frig pvp when I was a rookie, so my first kill was probably pretty early, we didn't post any of those mails, and it was before the current kill system so I can't look it up. The first kill I remember out of corp was me in a drake vs a moa. There seem to be a decent number of ways to get a kill. Using ewar is usually a good way to do it. AB TD scram kite ships look like a good option for fighting most turret ships. Also neuts are very strong vs some targets.

I'd also recommend watching more experienced players to learn how they get their kills. This vid shows a 17 day character getting some good kills. He also has a video with a new amarr character, and I've also seen some other similar vids a while ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de1hwoFYA_k

This video is about the Atron, but I believe it is a good one to watch.

https://youtu.be/3vC-e89s32k

My first months solo PvP, I got 10 kills to 20 losses.
The second month was 20/20.
The third month: 45 kills to 25 losses.

I dont know if that is about par.

Stick to FW space, and novice FW plexes at first so you will only fight Frigs.

Stick to T1 Frigs while you get a feel for it.

Don't think flying bling ships like Worms and Garmurs mean you will win from the off. You wont.

That was a long time ago for myself. EVE was basically like 15k peeps max and servers were normally running like 4k duders at once (I started in beta and returned in 2004 with a different toon). In USTZ that is. Basically it was pretty rare to actually see someone else outside of high security space. About 90% of my time was sitting on a gate in low security space waiting for someone to warp to my gate and kill them (when warping to 0KM on a gate did no exist yet).

Back then it is was pretty hard to die, if you were prepared for a fight. Since there was never really a gang roaming about ready to kill you. It was almost always 1v1s. Also having a cloaked ECM alt that was always standing by pretty much guarantees you a win. In short, the game for myself is a bit different, since I started the game before all "this". Whatever the game is considered now.

A side note, thorax's cruisers did like 1k DPS, maintained a good tank and were dirt cheap. RIP thorax.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, either you or your opponent have screwed up.

The only "fair" fights are the ones that you win.

Peaceful industrialists still wage war via the market, so shooting them in the face because you have friends or alts making and selling the same stuff is good practice.

which gun you got is kindof a big deal though, you don't want to bring a sawnoff to a rifle party

all I'll say is I get a *big* smile on my face when I'm in jita selling the loot