EVE New Citizens Q&A

I was just wondering, as a new player, should I join up with the militia? It seems like it would be a lot of fun since I want to get into some PVP but i just don't know exactly what I will be in for when I do join. Just looking for some people with experience with the militia to maybe give me some insight or if I should even join at the level I'm at, seeing that I'm pretty much doing tutorial agents still. Thanks for the help!

Joining in faction warfare (the militia) has advantages and disadvantages.

You will be able to shoot people from the opposed militia in space (so easy PvP) and you gain access to FW missions which pay out good.

The "downside" of this all is that you will ruin your faction standings to the opposite faction (Some see that as downside, others don't) to the extend that you won't be able to enter their space even after you leave faction warfare.

There are 2 blocks in FW:

Caldari & Amarr vs Gallente & Minmatar.

Caldari fight Gallente and Amarr fight Minmatar.

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If you want easy entrance PvP however I would suggest joining Red vs Blue.

Red vs Blue are 2 alliances that are at constant war with each other within certain rules and regulation. This means you can fight them in certain areas (Believe The Forge region with the exception of Jita system) while you still can do missions in peace somewhere else.

The advantage of them is that they offer easy entry PvP without the faction standing drops that come with Faction Warfare.

I'd say yes.

Finish ALL your tutorials first. Make sure to finish the basic and Advanced combat missions.

Then, if you want to, join Faction War. Faction war is like a never ending corporate war between the races.

With about three days of skill training, you can be an effective tackler. Tacklers are useful in fleet fights.

Faction war is both PVE and PVP. You 'win' systems by flying into a deadspace complex, killing all the NPC 'rats' of the enemy militia, and circling a timer for a certain period of time. During this time, the enemy militia (or pirates) can jump into your deadspace complex and engage you.

Only frigates can enter small plexes, cruisers can enter medium, and battleships can enter large plexes. So generally you get a more 'fair fight'.

As a result of fighting for your faction, your standings with that faction get really high, while your standings with the enemy get really low. This means that eventually, you will be able to get a handy jump clone at a faction owned station. This allows you to travel across great distances of space instantly, like teleportation. However, it also allows you to keep expensive learning implants in your clone without risking them.

If you enter enemy high sec while in the Militia, the enemy's NPC Navy will attack you with webs and scrams. Generally you can outrun them in a fast enough ship.

The only regret I have about joining faction war right after doing my newbie tutorials is that I didn't get to do the Sisters of Eve epic arc.

Note, you don't lose standings for PvP, only from running FW missions.

If you're in FW you should already be in a corp. You can leave FW and go into your previous enemy space as long as you didnt tank your standings which you can easily avoid.

Faction warfare is really fun and cool, but I would counter-recommend joining the main militia rabble. When I was a newbie, I joined them after I finished my tutorials, and I really hated it. Their fleets are of really bad quality, there is little sense of camaraderie or cooperation, and it's full of spies. Find a newbie-friendly FW corp (like mine) and join it. You'll learn much more and have more fun doing that.

Not really. With a fast frigate you can still travel through it just fine. Also, it's only half of hisec, not half of all Eve space, and Amarr/Jita were lame anyway.

If you're big on a PvP lifestyle, the price is definitely worth having a ton of things to shoot. If you've got a PvE lifestyle, you still have 2 empires and all of lowsec/nullsec to do your stuff in. You can also maintain access to the places you have low standings with via an alt or a friend or something.

Who hunts down people in hisec? (legit question, not trolling)

RvB is similar to the militia, but more diluted. Big fights are pre-organized, and there aren't concerns about pirates or actual objectives to fight over. It also doesn't have a built-in huge ISK income source like FW does.

NPC null is a very different atmosphere from both FW and RvB, as again there aren't predefined objectives, and it's more of an Everyone Vs Everyone situation. There are also bubbles, bombs, and in general a lot more people wanting to kill you. For a new player, it can be much more difficult.

Both of those options preserve standings and are valid options. I'm just saying that FW is also a valid option, and that the tradeoff of standings to the opposing empires is well worth what FW provides.

What tanks your standings is running the faction missions, which is kinda the entire reason to be in FW. If you just want the eternal wardec aspect and don't care about the LP rewards, why not join red v blu instead?

Underlined what makes EVE, EVE. If everybody would like the same thing, EVE would be boring, nobody to fight as everybody is in same corp. No goonswarm to mess up others as everbody is together. etc.