Warfare & Tactics

Ship goes boom, ship goes boom, no refunds.



You can and will be podded, GTFO ASAP

If your ship explodes in space, you never get it back. Insuring gives you some ISK back depending on which insurance you chose. Platinum is most expensive but gives you back the most ISK. It is not much though. If you duel and die, you lose everything.

Oh, and people will gladly kill your pod too

To do dueling do you need to be in a certain sercurity section like .6 or below?

Thanks for the help, Baron.

Yeah i saw that in the video where you send out an invite for the duel and it needs to be accepted by the other player. Got it.

Have no clue what "Pod warping" is. need to look that up then.

Basically you should never ever stay on grid when you die.

Its just not a good idea.


Also what you will learn about actual pvp from dueling is very limited. Eve pvp is much more about what happens before the fight than during.

Even if you think your pod is safe (it isn't), evacuating it from grid as soon as possible is a good habit to get into. Getting ypur pod safe should become an instinctive action, especially if you routinely fly with implants. Losing a set of +3s is painful enough, without even considering how much replacing a Slave set and a head full of 5% implants can become. Personally, I have an overview tab set up containing only Celestials which I switch to just before my ship pops. You'll still lose the occasional pod due to pure bad luck, but it should be a rare occurence.

Thanks fellas for all the help.

Firstly it is admirable that you are looking to get into pvp straight away and is absolutely a great idea. The difficulty and barrier of entry is there is no escaping the fact that you are going to lose quite a few ships. A couple of months from now you will no doubt have a good source of income, whether it be from mining/missions/piracy/trading which you can then use to buy ships to blow up. There is however some suggestions I could make:

You could look for a pvp oriented corp who are willing to subsidized your ship replacements. Before applying, state what you intend to do and ask if they have a newbro scheme for ship replacements. Always worth a shot.

If you do want to proceed as soon as possible, study popular fits for your T1 frigates and then rather than buying meta 4's/T2 mods buy the absolute cheapest meta available. You should be looking at T1 ships fully fitted at just over 1mil each. You will probably be out gunned in most fights, but you will learn about the basic mechanics which is priceless.

Also, when you do decide to go for it, buy and fit about 20 frigates in one go.. deciding resolutely that you will blow up each and every one of them. This will de-sensitize you for losing ships and also teaches that ships are just a tool.. they are not something to value or get attached too.

Anyway best of luck!

Edited to add..

I will look you up in game, and give you some duels in cheap t1's to try and make it even as possible, I will even give you the ships to do it in. Only caveat is I will try to convince you to consider joining Galmil factional warfare... as willing volunteers with a fighting spirit are always welcome!

You have just failed to troll successfully, better luck next time.

Welcome to EVE.

Here are a few simple rules:

Don't fly what you can't afford to lose.

People lie, get used to it, and get over it.

When dueling almost nobody will initiate a duel that they don't reasonably expect to win.

Frig duels are a sometimes exception to this.

Expect your opponent to be boosted. Plan accordingly and try to out fit them. (Be creative)

There is no such thing as honor in dueling.

People can and will pod you.

People will lie that they won't pod you, hoping that you'll undock with an expensive pod....so they can pod you.

Start spamming warp when your ship is in structure. After you pop is too late.

If it sounds too good to be true it always is.