EVE New Citizens Q&A

Im new to the EVE community, and Im looking towards PVE missions and some SOLO PVP.....

I have 2 races that get my attention so far, Amarr for the look of their ships, and Gallente for their drone potential, my question is...

for someone with little experience on this game, what would be the best race, ships etc for rolling SOLO?

I know race doesn't matter or faction or bloodline but I want to make sure im making the right choices and have fun while playing.

Thank you and I really appreciate your opinion.

eve is a team sport.

best advice for learning solo would be to learn smallgang because

1) thats what you will be fighting and

2) you will learn several orders of magnitude faster with a group of vets with years of experience to draw from.

Amarr. We look good and use drones :P


That said, all races have their issues. Just assume whatever you play, by the time you get highly skilled, that race/ship/whatever will be nerfed. The meta is always changing. I chose to play amarr when amarr were considered the red headed stepchildren of CCP. Also, the art of ships is being changed periodically, some really butt ugly ships are totally awesome looking now, so don't get too hyperfocused on looks.

Solo pvp though is not so great for a newbie. Mainly because of the player skill of knowing your opponent. When you see any given ship sitting alone, can you name at least 2 or 3 different fits it might have, and recognize the role of every ship just from the name? How to fly to get under the other ships guns, whether that ship even uses guns. in Eve Player skill trumps character skill every time. The equivalent of a level 1 character can take out the equivalent of a level 80 character with the right player skills.

Not likely at first. It comes later, so if you're interested in pvp, best to join a pvp corp and learn the ropes there, after a bit you'll know a lot more player skills and then will be able to evaluate pvp situations better.

Or you can just fly super cheap and attack everything. That works too. You learn a lot dying a lot. Rookie ships have been known to take on BCs and win. It's a player skill thing again.

As said, I suggest you get social and make some friends. Maybe through a corp or just in a chat channel as a community.

That way, you dont have to invent the wheel again.
You can ask questions, get opinions etc
And maybe even fight amongst them at first before you branch out into the solo part.

EVE is basically rock, paper, scissors, lasers, drones, missiles, kiting, brawling, ewar...etc etc.

Every ship (and race) has it's own niche with strengths and weaknesses. There is no "best' in EVE - just "best" for the situation at hand. This is what makes solo pvp very hard for new (and old) players. You have to understand what you are capable of, and what your enemy is capable of. The good news is you can pick whatever race appeals to you to begin with. You just need to learn the strengths and weaknesses of your ship so you can best exploit them. And once you are comfortable with that (or decide you don't like that particular ship/race) you can cross-train into something else with a different purpose.

As Ralph said, the best way to learn solo pvp is to find a group that does small gang pvp and learn by flying with them. Very rarely will you find absolutely solo fights, but if you have a good understanding of the way small gang fights work you can manufacture 1v1 situations anyway by stretching out a fleet to catch stragglers or taking advantage of weapon timers/polarizatyion to split them over a gate or wormhole. Just talking with other players about their fits and tactics will improve your own fitting and flying exponentially in the beginning.

This will also give you a forum for feedback when you take your first steps into solo PVP (which should be early! there's no reason to wait). There will be a lot of losses to start with and it's important to learn something from each one. Having experienced players around to help you pick apart what happened is invaluable. And really just makes the game more enjoyable.

Solo PVP is the hardest part of EVE, but it's also the most rewarding. My most treasured moments in EVE are all unexpected feats that I pulled off solo or with a very small gang. Just always remember - just because you are solo doesn't mean your enemy is.

Have fun and don't get discouraged. You're starting EVE hard-mode and half the battle is game knowledge. It will get easier (but only slightly - solo pvp is always an uphill battle )

Bollox , antimatter always wins.

Check out the Astero and the Stratios. Both are fantastic ships (kind of expensive) but they have the Amarr/Gallente command skills you would be going for.

Both can be setup to be like solo hunter-killer kinds of fits too.

And if you're new, the barrier for things like covert ops cloaking is significantly less SP wise, just gotta buy those expensive hulls. Great probing bonuses too.

Make sure you are comfortable with the mechanics and the basics before rolling out in ships like that. You are specifically hunting for easier and softer targets (at least that's what I do)

Solo is very rewarding, good luck and welcome to New Eden

i think you should make many friends and share information.

having friends will enable u to solo better if that is your long term goal.