EVE New Citizens Q&A

Well just looked at your loss and you had nothing but a small armor repair, hull repair, and assorted guns on a brutix. So my advice is fly small stuff till you know how to pvp, look up good fits, and find a corp that'll teach you how to pvp.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=18357109

The hell?

like 30% of your slots are empty...

How did you expect this to work at all?

I'd like to see the guide that recommended this...

The brutix one was my fault. Got my new ship and hit .4 not paying attention. I'm fine with that one. That's the podded one.

The very short one I'm struggling with was in an incurus (sp?).

Brutix one was my fault. I know that. Stupid mistake to take unfitted ship into lowsec on accident. Not paying attention ftl.

Can you post the more recent loss to the killboard then?

Join Red v. Blue. Problem solved.

Free ships. Free advice. And as close as you will get anywhere in EvE to what you're used to in PvP (i.e., people of roughly equal SP and gear duking it out in more or less "arena" style). You will still die over and over and over, but if you listen and pay attention, at least you will learn something.

Spend half an hour reading their frigate fittings threads (rvbeve.com), and you should be able to at least undock in a non-failfit. Or let someone else do all the work for you and just grab a couple T1M0 frigs off the corp contracts they put up at cost, and you're ready to fight in 10 seconds or less.

No you're not. Eve is a sandbox. Very few restrictions.

Jumping in somebody else's sandbox is terrible.

Build your own sandbox.




After getting that out of your system - you might be ready to start playing.

Firstl.

Fit out a ship properly

Small armor repper on a Brutix...big NO.
Dual tanking...big NO.
Mixing guns...big NO.

Thinking you will win with no experience just cause you fly a BC...big NO.

Start with frigates and learn from the bottom up.

This.

RvB although not being a training corporation is a great place to learn PvP.

In the beginning... Eve solo PVP is like wrestling on a 50cm broad beam 20m above a spiked pit, while dodging meteor fragments, with your shoelaces on fire! As a newbie you probably fly frigates and dessies which unfortunately are easiest to outright destroy, with a couple of hits from anything larger. As long as this is happening you are attacking the wrong kind of targets at the wrong range. Remember the first time you did not die when you expected to die. This is often a moment of enlightenment!

Example: I never realized how small the sig radius of a Vigil was untill I dropped down a wormhole and held down a Tengu for a couple of minutes while sustaining only marginal damage from his long-range missiles. Unfortunately our small T1 Fleet didn't have the DPS to eat through his tank, but nobody died either - and we learned a thing or two.

OK, several things:

1. You appear to be flying Gallente ships. Either warp in very far away just for a peek at the grid without intending to engage, or warp right the hell in on top of your target in a blaster-boat, intending to kill them or die trying. If you come out of warp and bump them, all the better. Coming in at mid-range outside short point is instant death in many cases, as you've discovered. Even a medium boat can likely peg you at 20 km.

2. There are ships and strategies that involve Gallente boats with long-range guns. Don't use these until you're more experienced. Blasters and brawl at close range (you'll be surprised how many people you kill just by being bloody crazy) or drones at mid-range with heavy tank for you as a newer player.

3. Don't worry about blowing up. You'll blow up all the time. Even when you're good at it in solo you're talking 50/50 even in "fair" engagements (which you should avoid, always cheat). It happens to the best of us, just avoid flying expensive ships when looking for a fight.

4. If you want "bigger is better" in low-sec PvP, the ship you want is the destroyer. Fly a destroyer, don't engage any cruisers, win by sheer number-crunch power. Warning: no one likes being outmatched, so the frigs you outweigh will usually avoid you. A BC or even a cruiser puts you at risk of not being able to hit things, typically if you want to fly medium+, stick with at least a small gang with some frigate support on your side. Eve is Navy, not Airforce, it's about logistics and support, not dogfights.

EDIT: Warcraft, like many fantasy MMOs, is a twitch + tactical game. That is, some of it's working off of the basic layout of the current battle, and some of it's just pressing the right buttons in the right order faster and with better timing than the other guy. Eve PvP is a tactical + strategic game... the "dealing with the current layout of the battle" element is still there, but there's a large strategic portion in equipping your ship with better tools (keeping in mind the old rock/paper/scissors bit) and not engaging without an advantage in the first place, with your reaction time being essentially irrelevant to the outcome of any given battle. Can you activate your **** within 5 seconds or so? Plenty fast, the server only synchs once a second anyhow.