EVE New Citizens Q&A

As the title states I am a very very new player. My goal has always been to get into pvp (Specifically solo or small gangs/groups, but not piracy, I dont know if I could do that to people), and yesterday and today I did exactly that. I joined Faction Warfare and went to look for some solo pvp. I was lucky enough to find it fairly easy in the novice complexes. I exploded spectacularly. Many times. It was quite embarrassing, and fun! I enjoyed it though and I am more certain than ever that this is what I want to do in this game: FW. I also enjoyed piloting the frigate. In games I always prefer speed over brute force so frigate fits me well. From looking at ISIS I am considering specializing in frigates because with frigates I can do in your face speed pvp, stealth bombing, covert ops and some exploring for ISK.

But... There is always a but! I am realistic enough to know that I will not be able to compete right now because:

1. I dont have the capital required to fund my learning experience
2. I dont have the skills trained to be competitive

I have therefore resigned frocome up with a plan that will address both those things.

I will start working towards being able to do Level 4 missions. This will help me get ISK to fund my future learning experience and also I expect that many of the skills I will train to pilot a ship in L4 missions would help me pilot a solo frigate in FW successfully. I would like to buy, and outfit at least 10 frigates before I start to pvp again.

I dont really know enough about the game to say whether my plan will work or not. I just want to focus my training, up to now I have been messing around to much. I have reached a stage where I am able to do many things, but suck at them all. I want to focus on activities that will help me reach my goal, and that is to be good at FW.

If anyone can give me some pointers I would be extremely grateful. Currently I am using a Tristan frigate. I like the look of Gallente ships (Megathron is spaceporn to me) so I would like to stick to them. But as I said, I am going to PvE for a bit, so should I make my ISK goal enough to outfit 10 tristans or should I rather do it properly and rather buy and outfit 10 navy frigates, interceptors or even the Ishkur? I dont mind working a bit harder at pve to afford those ships.

In terms of training I intend to work on getting the masteries for the specific ship I choose to specialize in. I understand by reading by some of the other posts that I would need other skills for PVP that isnt inluded in the masteries. Can anyone please list the other skills I would need to train for pvp?

Thanks for reading this wall of text. In summary I list my questions incase I didnt make it clear:

1. What ship (Gallente Frigate) should I specialize in for now? I do not mind working harder and pve if I will do better with the more expensive frigates. I am looking for something that is good at fast, solo pvp as well as small gangs.
2. What skills that is not included in the Ship Mastery certificates do I need to train to make my pvp learning experience easier?

Ignore the troll :)

You have the right mindset to get into pvp : first, get a stable ISK income, then learn to pvp and lose ships you can afford to lose. I can't go into details because I don't have ingame / eft / evemon access right now, but I wouldn't aim for L4 if I was you. If your goal is to pvp in T1 frigates (which is a good idea), you won't need a huge ISK income, and running L2's or L3's could be enough for that. That's something you could do in a cruiser or a T2 frigate I guess, which would save you the trouble of having to train for battleship stuff. Becoming efficient in frigate sized ships can be achieved rather quickly skillwise, so maybe focus on that first. Run lower level missions to start earning some ISK, you'll have plenty of time to upgrade to cruisers later.

And remember, bigger doesn't necessarily mean better in pvp, it's fine to spend time in frigates and investing skillpoints into frig sized stuff :)

My mail to the OP + you posting here shortly after made me laughing.

Why? Because we're saying exactly the same things? It's just EVE common sense after all...

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Factional_Warfare

FW can help fund you as well provide PvP. Read, read, read.

Many people mailed me, and every single person gave me valuable advice. People offered help, and someone is even offered to help me with 1 on 1 training.

The response has been amazing and I thank everyone who mailed me and everyone who replied to this thread.

An EVE classic:

3 Frigates Vs Raven

Good call :)

OP, listen...

* takes OP apart for a few seconds *

...piracy is really not immoral or anything. Basicly what you give is a lesson. Stab your ship, pre-align out, warp out the pod ASAP... all important lessons all Eve players must learn.

While you are out in your frigate looking for a fight, I wouldn't pass up the chance to kill an Industrial. Just make sure you have your own sitting ready nearby (or even better, a friend or alt flying one) to scoop high-volume loot.

OP... check your contracts. I've sent you a little care package to get you're back in the fray sooner rather than later.