EVE New Citizens Q&A

Just go.

Find a T1 fit on battleclinic with a high rating, save ISK until you can fit a twenty of them, join Faction War, and proceed to lose them.

You've got low skill points, and you can't fly anything expensive enough to really spook you when you lose it. You're lucky. Please get the basic RL pvp skills down while it's still very ISK cheap. Take it from someone who didn't.

The piloting skill will teach you what skillpoints you should earn.

When in doubt, just get another rank of Advanced Weapon Upgrades.

I am writing this from my perspective of nullsec alliance warfare and roaming. Ill try to add some tips on lowsec more skirmish warfare, but I am sure others can give better advice. When you select which skill to train next, always try to train the skill which applies to most situations/ships. For example, give higher priority to train more generic skills, like the gunnery support skills over more specific skills like T2 guns. Furthermore, you really should read this as general guideline. In the end it is about having fun and flying the ships that you like flying best not about strictly following some skill plan.

In my opinion minmatar and amarr are the main PVP races, and my skillplan includes just those races. T2 guns are rather skill intensive and T2 lasers are more important then T2 projectiles (basically, because you really want to be able to use T2 Scorch crystals)
My rough highlevel skillplan:

1) train rifter
2) train for T1 hurricane (including t1 guns and t2 shield tank)
3a) train interceptor (including t2 tackle mods, decent nav skills)
3b) if null sec, train dictor
3c) optionally train stealthbomber and covops, can be done later at any point

4a) train BC IV
4b) either cross train amarr
=> goto 5)
4c) or train minmatar cruiser V (if lowsec, prefer this option because it enables more fast skirmish ships)
=> goto 8)

5) train amarr battleship with t1 lasers (including t2 armor tank)
6) train t2 lasers
7a) either train amarr cruiser V
7b) or train minmatar cruiser V
=> continue 8

8) train hac and/or recon (including good nav skills)
9) train minmatar BS T1 projectiles
10) train logistics V
11a) T2 projectiles // you could first start training amarr
11b) either cross train amarr, // depending on previous choices.
=> goto 5
11c) or train minmatar cruiser V

12) T3 / Caps / Commandships & leadership
13) ??
14) Profit

Right, this should keep you occupied for a few years.

To get to a more detailed skill plan you best find yourself a good fit of the ship you want to train for look at the skill requirements for modules and ship and start training ! :) Sometimes you can skim on T2 mods and sometimes you cannot - for tank you really cannot. There are a wide range of sources for fits. 1) alliance required fits 2) battleclinic 3) ask advice in chat / corp / forum 4) killboards, study fit of your enemies or well known PVP alliances

Finally, feel free to ask for clarification if something isnt quite clear.




disclaimer, I am sure there are 350k people with a different opinion on this subject.

Good info which Ill do studying on. I am in Gallente, so I can apply some of this to their ships one way or another. You reminded me of one thing I was curious about and that was cross training other races ships. I had chosen Gallente as a newbie not knowing which race had the better pvp ships. But yes, this will keep me quite busy

At the moment Im nowhere near the asset level to invest money in an implant. I have one that was earned from mission, but when I check the market, they are far out of my range at the moment. Also, when I realized my situation when I chose Gallente, I figured I can make the most out of a less than ideal situation by becoming proficient in Gallante specific weaponry and drones. So should I stop training their vessels and start with Amarr? I reaallly really like their ship designs.

Ok then, first thing when I get in tonight is to train Amarr Frigates. In your personal opinion, what is your preference? Amarr or Minmatar. Either way I will likely go Amarr, but if I can glean any advantage with specific Minmitar ships, I would like to take advantage seeing as my career path likely will see me in a lot of PVP.

ok. While I feel that anyone who is decent at paying attention and knows what they are doing can be effective with nearly anything, Ive always been a player of the mindset "sheer overwhelming force" so it sounds like Amarr is for me. I can certainly value speed and being able to stay out of harms way, but Id rather obliterate a ship before it really has the chance to become a pest.

So EM/Thermal damage gives me an idea oh where I want to start training wise to make the most out of Amarr ships. Thanks for the input as always!

[colorful term here implying nerve, courage and audacity]

Seeing as how everyone ignored you, here's battleclinic. It provides fits (more or less hit or miss) for the lazy

http://eve.battleclinic.com/item/c6-Ship-details.html

I've been drinking a bit, can't read through responses so I'm going with the assumption no one answered

Most important PVP skills - Covops cloak and high agility

Brave, Brave Sir Robin