Warfare & Tactics

I want to start to PVP. The great PVP is what initially attracted me to this game. despite the age of my toon i have not been "playing" for very long at all, simply training. I know next to nothing about how to start fighting, like what ships and modules to buy, where to go and who to join for starting out. I eventually want to fly solo or in small gangs, and i'm not really interested in the politics or huge baby-eating alliances in nullsec. i simply want to blow up spaceships with spaceships. can i hear some advice on how to start out in PVP, then how to work my way up?

Shooting Vordak is a good place to start. :)

if you're not committed to your current corp, try Red Vs Blue

1. Fit a ton of frigates (merlin are win) or cheap Cruisers (Rupture is win)
2. RvB or FW
3. Agony Unleashed (PvP school, assuming they still are).


In a nutshell..................

You can read all you like....and I did.... but it all goes out the window in the first few engagements as you forget to turn the web and/or scram on, only turn on gun on, realise that your transversal is low, don't notice that they have capped you out......... and various other things that happen shortly before you die............. however, its all fun :)

Regards

1. Buy 20 Rifters, t1-fit.
2. Give zero fucks
3. Lose all of them
4. Move on to a more expensive(ly fit) ship once you feel like you know what you're doing. Be sure that you can afford to lose it several times, still.

Master each ship individually. Fly nothing but that ship for a while; learn it inside and out. You will learn the general principles of PvP over time by doing this.


4. SniggWaffe :>

1 word: undock.

Personally, my first experience with pvp in eve was literally undock, shoot someone, die to concord. I don't think I realized until 2 weeks later what actually happened.

THIS, I wouldn't trust myself to tell you Anything about PVP from all my vast experience I have never won even once.

Another great way to learn the ropes (which I haven't read so far) is to be a tackler/interceptor/scout. It basically means fitting up a fast ship with a warp disruptor or scrambler and a stasis webifier, to hold targets down for small to medium sized gangs (the bigger the fleet, the more comms discipline needed, the more it's about numbers and the less you'll be needed as a solo tackler, so the less you will learn)

Many many great FC's and 1337 pvp'ers have started out as tacklers. It's the most basic, noobfriendly role you can have and they are always welcome in any fleet.

A look at my killboard will tell you everything you need to know about the level of expertise and martial prowess I have at my command. Please give my advice all the respect that my reputation demands.

If you want to PVP like me, here are the critical steps to follow.

1) Be terrified of losing. If you lose your first PVP fight everyone will remember your failure for all time. You have to win the first time or you might as well just quit.

2) Don't join a corp that knows what it's doing. A true PVP warrior (who has honor, like the ancient Samurai of China) is a lone wolf cursed with the fact that his only skill is the waging of war. He learned his trade at his father's knee. This trade is the slaying of men. Or internet space ships at least.

3) Don't ever ask for help. To reveal ignorance is to reveal weakness. I guess it's OK to ask your father for help, though, because of honor and family or whatever it was I was saying up there in 2.

4) Money = Fun. The more money you have, the more fun you are having. That is why EVE is mostly a game of peaceful traders, jolly merchants, and cheerfully humming miners. PVP tends to lose money in the form of lost ships and CCP's hefty PVP tariffs. It is impossible to play PVP without also having enormous resources to draw from and at least 3 alts doing mining, trading, or mission running. PVP isn't fun and is only reserved for the hardcore warriors and soft, bored merchant dilettantes.

5) Make a difference. Your amazing PVP skills can save lives. If you declare your intent to eradicate piracy and griefers, the impoverished masses will rise up to join you. You will be a hero and learn what it means to finally be someone who matters. I would advise cleaning up your house or room because there will be many attractive women (or perhaps men) that will want to "get to know you" if you know what I mean. And if you don't, I mean...like...maybe hugging? I have no idea.

I think that covers the basics. As you advance through the ranks, you'll learn the importance of meditation, how to focus you ship's Chi, and other important battle skills you will need to fight the devilishly hard waves of NPCs and the occasional other human being. Fight well, brave warrior, for YOU are our future.

Or, you know, you could follow some good advice.

Rifters.

Or, I suppose the Merlin is the new rifter.