EVE New Citizens Q&A

Eve university is always a good place to start: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Factional_Warfare.

There are a number of player corporations who specialize in faction warfare - check the Alliance & Corporation recruitment center section of the forums.

Edit: Minmatar basically won the warzone in June - haven't heard much since. https://www.factionwarfare.com/minmataramarr-micro-update-we-are-home-again/

Edit: edited to fix the period not sure how it ended up double posted!

It's quite easy,
Click on your neocom; then find "Faction Warfare" under business, I think.
Then choose to join.
I'm uncertain if you have to be in Gallente space to join Gallente and Amarr to join Amarr.
You should be able to do do it remotely.

You have to be in a NPC corp to join unless you join a Corp that do FW :)
GL

It depends on what you mean.

Caldari/Gallente is more active because, for historical reasons, more people rolled Caldari toons than any other race, with Gallente as a close second. The religious empire/slave theme of the Amarr/Minmatar is a turn off for some people, and Amarr ships were historically quite underpowered for solo work.

It also helps that Caldari/Gallente faction warfare is closer to Jita, the games biggest market hub.

If you are looking at Amarr v Minmatar, though, you need to recognize that these things go in cycles. At the beginning of 2016, the Amarr were dominating the Minmatar so thoroughly that by the summer several of their biggest corps got bored and left FW. This created a power vacuum that the Minmatar exploited over the holidays to roll back the whole war zone.

Now, though, the Amarr are pushing back, slowly retaking their systems. It's going to be a tough fight, because geographically active defenders have a huge advantage in Amarr FW space (it's all a series of pipes that are easily camped), but the Amarr militia has good morale, and some very active up-and-coming FC's. In the last 14 days, for example, the Amarr have taken 4 systems, while the Minmatar have only taken 1.

My advice would be to fight for whichever faction appeals to you most.

Some of my recent blog posts (sig) deal with getting into faction warfare, and you may find some of those useful.

The Amarr/Minmatar warzone is generally quieter than the Caldari/Gallente warzone for a variety of reasons.

One being that it is further away from Jita and a high percentage of new players start off Caldari, stay in Caldari space and then join the nearest warzone when they consider FW.

Another is that the Amarr/Minmatar warzone is much smaller than the Caldari/Gallente warzone, something like 70 vs 101 systems. Worse the inconnections are more limited in the Amarr/Minmatar warzone with the result that a lot of those systems are just dead for PvP purposes.

A third reason is, like the first, more pirate entities, plus day trippers to low sec, hunt the Caldari/Gallente warzone because of the proximity to Jita. Which all adds to the general PvP activity.

The net result is that the Amarr/Minmatar warzone is dominated by PvE farmers and the warzone is constantly swinging from one side to the other every 8-10 weeks. With just a couple of fortress systems on each side being maintained by the PvPers. Meanwhile the Caldari/Gallente warzone is dominated by PvPers and while systems do get flipped it tends to be specific unoccupied systems somewhat randomly and overall the warzone is a lot more stable.

But that's not to say that farming doesn't happen in the Caldari/Gallente warzone or PvP in the Amarr/Minmatar warzone.

You'll need to do what I did, hook up with some experienced players. (You don't need a corp since the whole militia is like an angry dysfunctional family with some core patriarchs and matriarchs in the mix)

Get om comms with someone let them know you are new and need help. I hear Caldari-Gallente war is much more active so you may wish to start there.

If you like RP Faction Warfare is a great place to start as almost everyone in FW likes a bit of RP whether lite-mixed OOC-IC or parody or serious it has everything, also it is the best kind of pvp lots of 1v1 against very good players you will learn everything.

I've never seen them do name changes in the past. I also realized a while ago I typoed it too lmao.
I goofed across the board on this one.