EVE New Citizens Q&A

well no they arent the best, but yes they earn some good ISK :)
there are few steps to make good ISK if you want to be a pirete....
1st. Subscibe to full account otherwise nobody will look at you becouse youre just a trial who will disappear soon =]
2nd. finish all the game starting trials and go do some missions/explorations etc... at least untill you have hardened skills and fully understand what the **** youre doing :)
3rd. go chat with people in bigger stations or systems like Jita or other places, find recruters, negotiate for the terms of joining theyre corp and wuala youre in a corp, with some little expiereince some skills and they take you somewhere to hunt... some small trials that dont stay at hi sec, or some good fat miners :)

thats all there is to it :) eve has hundreds of ways to become rich :)

yaaaar but you make ye booty real good

One of my favorite EVE Online video tutorials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyjBwWcFGe0

This should answer a few of your questions.

If your asking which race is best to start playing as before you join a Player run pirate corporation(which is where real pirating happens) the answer is either minmitar or Amarian. Both races have a variety of ships that can be fit for either big tank or fast speed and dps. Fast speed and dps will be your best friend as a pirate.

How did you know?!

Thanks for the info.

Sure beats what I got out of "Rookie Help" channel:

Fawk Inqueerna > is pirates the best race in eve?
ISD Dualgate > Fawk: Pirates have access to some specialty higher power ships
ISD Dualgate > also pirate space is where the most valuable stuff there is, but it is truely law of the gun

responding to a troll... mostly to keep actual new players from getting confused...

Pirates are not a race, they are a faction (actually, they are five factions: Blood Raiders, Sansha's Nation, Angel Cartel, Serpentis, and Guristas)

Their ships are expensive and better than their tech 1 counterparts. You do not choose them as a race, you simply train the skills necessary. They do require the skills of two races though (i.e. Vindicator requires both mimnitar and gallente battleship skills).

By Race, he obviously meant Gallente/Minmitar/Amarr/Caldari(/Jove?). While the five of those are races, they are also factions. The next big factions (ignoring Khandid/Ammatar) are the pirate factions (and hence someone may have been confusing them with race).

By "specialty higher power ships" that pirates have access to (and, say, no one else), the only interpretation that makes sense is that it is referencing NPC Faction Pirates and Pirate Frigates/Cruisers/Battleships.

He was obviously not referring to a type of ingame behavior when he asked "Fawk Inqueerna > is pirates the best race in eve".

His misunderstanding of what constitutes a race and the general reference to a certain style of gameplay as piracy (which he may or may not have known) caused the confusion, not my response that addresses his original question.

Also, as people have referenced pirate space, they refer to any one of the five regions in which the pirate NPC factions make their homes, not low-sec (which, in reference to ISD Dualgate's comment, does not give or allow access to "some specialty higher power ships").

Piracy in and of itself is also poorly defined. For the most part, piracy (which has nothing to do with a race and thus the question asked by the OP) is considered unlawfully attacking other players against the will of Concord (just ruled out w-space and 0.0) with a desire to make a profit from it. Suicide ganking in highsec is often not considered piracy, as most pirates intend to get away with their ships. Taking a trip into lowsec for some pew fun is not piracy. Running missions in lowsec and using the profits to fund a PvP habit is not piracy. If your largest income source is not ransoms/drops, you are probably not a pirate.

-Demon Azrakel (not a pirate)

OP was trolling to make the point that the ISD's in help chat are often completely useless.

My personal experience is that some are great, and others are ill-informed, to put it kindly.

Frankly, I don't see why players older than 30days cannot go into the help channel. It's bombarded with questions going unanswered. If you ever read corp chat in the NPC corps, it's often a "Help chat lite" because the players can't get answers in the actual help channel.