EVE New Citizens Q&A

Been playing for a while now, but still very much noob.
I made a thread asking about SBs but I figure it'd be more appropriate for a noob like me to ask around to really know what's out there.
I am of Caldari race, mainly trained in missile skills (I don't have much skills lol).

I've done some level 2 security quests and some high-sec ratting but it's really getting repetitive and Ian losing interest.
I would like to experience some hardcore PvP in Eve Online and I've been wondering what sort of PvP-gameplay the game has to offer.
I've read various guides on WH, incursions, FW and solo ganking but I just don't know with certainty what exactly I should be doing.

I like to blow s@&$% up (preferably players) and I like to make money lol.
What are my options and what should I flying???

RvB might be a good place to start to get some PVP experience, but no matter what i would suggest that you look into joining a player corp that can help you learn.

Start out in t1 frigs and as you get more comfortable and get a higher ISK income you can move onto using bigger ships.

Edit; If you are interested in flying stealth bombers and similar you might want to look into Bombers Bar, heard a lot of great things about them.

Flying with others is the key to making Eve fun. Playing alone, Eve is little better than any MMO with their dull and repetitive PvE. But Eve really comes alive when you bring in friends.

I say it all the time on the forums (usually from my main)---- FLY AN INTERDICTOR and there are very few null sec alliances that won't happily have you. That one ship, easily trained by new players, is the single most essential ship to null sec warfare in the game. All the shiny battleships in the world won't undock until someone re-ships to a lowly Dictor.

If you flew nothing else in PvP, no one would complain. Virtually any null alliance worth it's salt will simply give you Dictors to fly.
They are perfect to learn PvP. You generally act as a +1 scout- taking point for your fleet, working the D-Scan, calling out intel and working independently from the main body and FC commands, manually piloting around-- all experience that will serve you throughout your time in Eve.

The Dictor is the easiest first step to making PvP your 'career' in Eve. You don't have to worry much about training up for a specific 'doctrine' as the Dbl Bbl Sabre is used almost universally. Shield, armor, small gang, big fleet-- you WILL find a Sabre or two at least, and offering to bring another will never be turned down.

It is also an excellent ship for learning fleet roles and combat mechanics while being not only important, but critical to any fleet. Certainly no throw away tackle job for the 'new guy' but absolutely essential to mission success. When people say a newb can be every bit as important as some 100mil SP toon, this is what they mean.

Train for the Dictor, apply to a null sec corp and start by flying those. Very quickly you'll learn the ropes and have a good idea what direction to go in next. Tackle is a deeply rewarding role- eventually you will hold point on capital ships single-handedly with a HIC, anchor drag bubbles and set up ambushes. Or find another role you enjoy. But I can't suggest enough training up to fly a Dictor if you want to make PvP into your job within Eve.

Ignore this, Paul has adamantly refused to actually join FW, so he wouldn't know.

He is right that you will have lower damage with missiles, but you make up for it by having a light fast ship that can speed tank well. This takes a lot of practice. It's actually much harder than fighting in larger ships because one mistake will ruin you. Expect to lose a lot of ships when you first start out, no matter which group you decide to join.

You can always join a small friendly pirate corp, not need to have many skill points, buy a stack of frigs fly with corpmates and do explosions, simple and you'll have lot of fun. Eve its just a game and you should have good fun with it, and not worry about lots of things around.

Just because that's all YOU ever do while in a frigate, dosen't mean that applies to everyone.

Frigates, regardless of race, are probably the most universally effective hulls in the game.

I'm convinced. Paul Otichoda is most definitely a troll on these forums. Hard to believe that one single player could be stuck in the same mindset after so long and so many advice and tips thrown at him.

Reported for trolling newbie section.

Thanks for all the replies! helps me alot!
and thanks for pointing out whos trolling around with false info haha

sounds like i need to just blow up alot of frigates and nose around in FW areas for the time being...
I've found a decent FW corp and I've based my self at on a 0.4 starbase where my corp operates around.

-but that would lead to my next, equivalently serious problem at hand. Which would be ISK!
at the moment, I almost have no means of ISK income aside from L2 security missions or lower, high-sec rat bounties, and high-sec venture mining (venture = little to no skills in mining)

whats a noob to do for some stable ISK?
not even asking for much, just enough to finance my future frigates that'll just explode lol




PS: should this (isk making) be on a diff thread?

paul didnt you get your corp wardecced for saying things like this?