EVE New Citizens Q&A

I've recently been trying out PvP, and i am absolutely rubbish at it.
I have 1 kill and 6 deaths- a joke on the billboards, making me think about starting a whole new character to get rid of the embarrassment.
I've read all the tips, guides and help forums the internet has to offer but i'm either gate camped with no time to run, scanned down in my safe spot, and when after many hours of roaming i find someone i might actually be able to kill, they pop me in less than a minute.

I suck and want to start again for new kill board stats, what do you reccomend?

Don't give up. 1:6 isn't actually that bad, finding good fights that you can win in PvP is not easy at all. Just keep with it and give it your best shot, no one can ask anything more of you.

What kind of PvP are you trying to do?
How well skilled are you (RL skills and SP)?
And are you making sure to fly ships you can lose without it really effecting your cash flow too badly?

The biggest rule of PvP is that you can't be afraid to blow up. Every one dies from time to time, but that's still a learning experience, the only way to lose at PvP in Eve is if it upsets you or makes you give up.

If you feel this way your corp is letting you down. There are tons of specifics you need to get into when it comes to getting questions answered. A lot of time for explanations from your mates and even more time ironing out the execution (more difficult than it sounds).

If this is getting to you sincerely ask for help from your corp, if they can't help it is probably time to find someone who will.

Don't worry too much mate. I'm pretty awful at PvP too, but I've managed to make my way in the game reasonably well.

Forget about killboards and have fun.

I really do not understand people focused on killboards. why does it matter?

it is your game, why do you want to fulfill other people's goals? just try to make Eve like you want it to be not other way around.

and if your corp starts to ***** about your killmails ****'em and join new one or be yourself in npc corp.

during last two weeks I lost 8 or sth like that fight and I really do not give a **** about it, I had fun and I met nice people. statistics are good for corp rats and I do not intend to feed them in Eve, it is enough I have to live with then in real life.

I think my record is 4 assists and 42 lost ships/pods.

It's depressing, but I think I can recover.

Consider Tavion Aksmis. Last time I looked she had more than 100 losses, but also more than 6000 kills. She told me in local once that "It's just a job."

If everyone would think like that I wouldn't be against it.

The sad truth though is that a lot of people, corps, alliances judge potential new members on their kill/loss ratio and even kick you when you lose too many ships if you want to do some roams.

As it is now, EVE could do better without KBs.

I died 40 times before I managed to get my first PVP kill

Yet today my killboard is quite respectable. So don't worry.

Best way to get better is to team up and fly in a gang.

^^ this, very much. The same thing goes IMHO if killboard stats are more important to your corp than enjoying the game.

Couple of suggestions (from someone who's *okay* at pvp at best):

As many people have already said, you will lose ships. You will lose many, Many, MANY ships. You will lose so many ships that you will believe you are horrible at pvp and may even think about giving up the game.

The key, however, is to determine whether you are losing ships the same way each time or not. Whether you could have done something to avoid it, and whether you can put that knowledge to work for you in the future. Message the pilots that blew you up, and see if they have any pointers. Sometimes, there's just nothing you could have done. Other times, you'll find out that, had you done something different, the loss would have been a kill, instead.

Next, killboards don't mean anything to most people. I can have the absolute best looking killboard in the world, and I might not know anything about pvp (buy/sell characters, hey?). My own killboard looks "good" because I only fly frigates, and generally in fleets of larger ships (cruisers, battlecruisers, battleships) so when I lose a 1.5M isk frigate, it's not a big deal. After all, I lost 1.5M isk, but the KMs I'm on show I "killed" a couple hundred million isk. There are plenty of ways to fake out kill boards.

Finally, if you're really into PVP, but your corporation isn't willing to help you learn the ropes, you might consider choosing another corporation until such time as you can be the member they need. There are plenty of PVP corps out there, and you can take your pick. I happen to like Red Vs Blue (it's pretty newb friendly, but it'll only teach you so much), but it's up to you.

Did I mention you'll lose a lot of ships? If I didn't, you will. A lot. More than you expect, in fact. It's a fact of life in this game. Best you can do is shrug it off and move on.