EVE General Discussion

The large corporations fight all the time.
The community is friendly to new players that are willing to learn from their mistakes and listen.
The easiest way to get into a null sec corp is probably just to do loads of PvP. Just attack ships you stand no chance of winning against until someone invites you into a corp. It might be an idea to join a training corp first to learn some PvP basics first though.

Individual corporations have vastly different standards on recruiting. The only corp that draws from a paid for forums is Goonwaffe, and we're a corp for the small minority of forum members that happen to play EVE; it is not a forum for people that want to fly with us.

TheMittani.com and Kugutsumen.com have good articles and threads on the high level Null Sec warfare going on. Before you make the jump into Null, unless you already have friends and connections there, I would familiarize yourself with the basics of PVP and get involved in something like FW, RvB or EVE Uni to figure out if you even like that level of organized fleet combat.

Sound more like "please join goons we need more meat shields".

I'm sorry, you're not getting in right now. Maybe next month when we have some open positions I'll sponsor you in for a reasonable security deposit.

To add to this I'll make this simple statement. How much fun you have in nullsec depends entirely on how well you mesh with the cultures of the pilots you are joining. There are several entities in the last several years that controlled vast tracts of lands that were literally rolled up and tossed into the junk bin because they had no "Identity" and rather than looking outward to fight people they didn't like, spent entire years infighting and bickering.

Then when someone did come to blow their sandcastles down, instead of teaming up and killing the invader they spent all of their time screaming at each-other in back channels.

Does that sound fun?

No?

I'd suggest finding a group that isn't like that.

Also I'd be wary of pushing people to Kugutsumen. Maybe a couple of years ago, but now it's just a bunch of smug assholes trying to out "one liner" the next guy. It's basically what somethingawful would be if the mods didn't ban people to keep that dumb bullshit under control.

never was the same after clomsaver left

You are right about that, it's sad how few public resources there are out there. I was mainly just trying to find something other than TheMittani.com since I like to give alternatives.

I'm really glad I always have SomethingAwful.com to read, and I'm glad they had an EVE group when I thought about playing this game. It really does take a good social group to make this game fun.

Yes, fighting is happening on a daily basis. It's just that most people don't see the need to post on the forums about battle #1248 where our fleet wiped the enemy fleet or vice versa. In general the forums (these forums in particular) offer a very crooked view of 0.0 life. If you want to know about actual battles, check out news sites such as evenews24 or themittani.com.


Not all alliances require you to do so. The first step is to do some research on the people you want to join: which side of the conflict do you want to be on, is the area of space where they live important to you, which ships they fly compared to which ships you can fly, etc. Then look at the corporations' recruitment policies and apply to one you like. Be honest about your skills and experience - I would accept someone new to the game who genuinely admits that he needs training over someone boasting his "leet pvp skillz" and bilions of cash.


Yes, you definitely can. I've seen people three days into the game in fleet fights. I've seen a week old character in a Rifter tackle an enemy Tengu and score a 1.5 billion ISK kill. Different alliances have a different tolerance to new people though; remember that EVE is a game of patience and a game played for the long term. But on the whole from my experience at least the CFC alliances are very tolerant to newbies.


I'm confused about this statement though. In 0.0, you won't find much of either. Manufacturing is primarily done in highsec, while piracy is the domain of soloers or small corps in lowsec. In 0.0 expect alliance territorial warfare and large-scale fleet fights.

join a pvp alliance. ask questions about what they require and look for. eventually earn those reqs and join them. if you just want to hop in a sweet alliance with no pvp experience, it wont ever happen. you can't be super good if you got tons of pilots with little to no experience.