EVE New Citizens Q&A

Red versus Blue does sound like a blast and I have heard they also have a no BS policy about entering or leaving.

But, Faction War has one or two advantages:

One is Loyalty Points. This can provide an income for you while you get blown up a lot learning. Second is, Faction War you see everything. It is fun as heck with cool people.

Either way is fun.

this. you can pretty much control the engagement in novice plexes and people will tend to fight you if they've been sitting on that button for 9 minutes. it's a great way to get a lot of solo same class gf's in cheap ships.

the people in the npc corp militias don't tend to be very co-operative though it's true.

yes nomaas the FFA system and no fleets are not allowed to fight in there so its all 1v1

all our fleet fights take place in either poinen or josemato sometimes obanan

While I'm sure that's true, 1v1 isn't actually any fun whatsoever (or, rather, 'dueling' misses the point of an MMO in a fairly dire way, if I wanted that I'd be playing Soul Calibur... and I do, SC is ******* awesome, but I don't know why I'd log into a 50k+-player game to do it) and I'm rather a fan of the structure that objectives lend to engagements. Having some sort of real, measurable goal to fight over always makes my life more fun.

Basically, FW tends to be the better system for fast and loose PvP. You're in the same general ship category, so you've always got a legit shot at victory, but catching people unawares, making better tactical calls on the fly, and building flexible or for small group are still major parts of the game so it's not "fair" as such. Enforced 'fairness', in excess, usually leads to homogeneity.

Not that I'm talking RvB (or its PvE counterpart Eve University) down, they're chill dudes playing the way they want to play and that's what the sandbox is for. I'm just pointing out that most Eve pvp is significantly... wilder and more free-form even in restricted context. And also more spite-based, I guess. Spite's an important part of every balanced breakfast.

As others have said, you'll get much better results in Faction Warfare if you join a player-owned corporation. They tend to have a focus of some sort that makes things more interesting.

One of my other characters was in Minmatar FW, and they had a pretty good track record of making sure there was at least one fleet up on Fleet Finder every time I was logged in. I still did a lot of solo plexing around my HQ system, but very often there was a fleet option if I wanted it.

I highly recommend FW, as long as you join a player corp. The NPC corps suck.

And it seems RvB has captured the thread. Not that I can complain since you guys bring the best PvP in EVE I've seen ;)

haha, thanks for all the advice everyone. Now I'm torn between spending the weekend trying to find a FW corp or joining RvB. On one hand I like that in FW I can still earn some isk and it feels more goal oriented, I have been missioning for a while to save up 1 bil isk, that was my goal, now I intend to spend it all on ships for pvp until I don't suck. (i've already spent almost half of it) so the income from FW would help me last there longer. But on the other hand it feels like RvB people are less likely to care if they don't have the complete upper hand and be able to chat up the enemy after a battle for tips since the stakes aren't as great.