Warfare & Tactics

your skills are not near perfect, but neither has hundreds of other newcomers and farmer alts in FW.

So i recommend to find those newcomers and farmers and killing them for starters. If you try to engage veterans like me you will get 'owned'.

ah the good ol' npc-corp effect.

join fw, but I would encourage you to join a player-fw corp asap.


The counter to high-sp veterans is friends, which are not hard to come by in fw.

Naturally you will get 'owned' if said veterans bring 3 friends to the fight.

You have too low SP right now to join my corp in Gallente. However, I would direct you to JUSTK's training corp, Caldari Colonial Defense Ministry. And like Stalking Mantis, perhaps one year from now, after millions of losses, you too will be accepted into a top notch pvp corp. And perhaps, they too, will make you better at PVP; teaching you how to fly HACs, inties, and recon like a pro. Until then, I look forward to shooting you in your missile boat ;)

List of recruiting corps from FW;
http://www.factionwarfare.com/recruiting-corps/

From your skills, the breacher is probably the best ship for you. However, you're still at the beginning of your eve career skill wise. Try different ships and see what you like the feel of, then skill in that direction.

It will take longer for you to learn how to pvp than for you to train the skills for your preferred ship, so it's never too early to start. You will explode over and over and over again. This is good. I don't consider myself competent at flying a specific ship unless I've lost at least ten of them, and then there's all the general knowledge and expertise you'll need to survive regardless of the ship you fly.

As for joining a particular faction, I don't know much about the Caldari/Gallente front but the Amarr/Minmatar warzone is very swingy. One side will win for a while, then it swings to the other. Watch the front for long enough and it's like clockwork. When you do join a side, try to get into a player FW corporation as soon as possible, they'll help you with fitting and strategy.

As a sometimes member of the Amarr militia, we're better than the Minnies. Just sayin'.

I roam the Amarr / Minmatar front a lot, have good success solo, and occasionally take promising newbies out for a spin -- so if you think that what you'd learn is worth the risk of trusting an evil pirate, feel free to contact me in game.

try and get cpu management and power grid management to 5 asap as fitting ships with less sucks.
weapons upgrade 4 for T2 damage mods. (advanced weapons upgrades to 4 is also important but you have more important tuff to train first)
get your cap skills both to 4.
train thermodynamics asap (overheating modules to make them work better for short bursts at the cost of damaging them)

then you need to pick guns or missiles.
For pvp on a frig hull missiles are fine
as you get into bigger ships missiles become les fine until you reach the lolphoenix.
whichever you pick get the support skills for that weapon platform to 4 asap.

As u have minmatar and gallente frig to 4 already your choices are
breacher nice tank plus missiles
slasher nice and fast with great tracking
incursus strong armour tank
tristan nice damage.

both races have very nice assault frigs, electronic attack frigs and interceptors.
minmatar tend to shield tank and use mainly projectile turrets which are a nice weapon system as they use no cap (makes neuts a slightly less problem) and have selectable damage types.
gallente use drones and/or hybrid turrets hybrids use cap and no selectable damage type but are otherwise excellant. blasters have amazing dps and rails have amazing range.
Drones are both a strength and a weakness. they tend to apply damage fairly well but can be shot down leaving you with no damage.
Minmatar and gallente are very very popular ships for pvp.

The MOST important thing is to find a decent FW corp that will help train you in eve pvp which is much harder than it seems.
FW can be very profitable and is a good place for finding solo fights, small gangs and medium gang fights.
Many corps will accept and train young players and are a good stepping stone to the "elite" corps or a place to stay and make friends.
It i just over a year now since i found myself a small pvp training corp and moved to nullsec as a young player. It was frustrating at first as everything you hear is "train this train that". However the naysayers were wrong and getting into pvp early transformed eve for me. I am glad i spent the time researching corps as i have discovered so many of them suck.
don't worry about which faction to fight for it is more important to find a good corp.

if you have 300 mil isk to spend on ships i would personally:

put 150 mil into cheap frigates (5-7mil isk fits total including hull)
put 70 mil into destroyers (10-15mil isk fits total including hull)

save 80 mil isk for later.

as for the frigate to fly:

choose what you like to fly.

each race has a little niche. just figure out what you're into.

Thank you everyone for your valuable input and advice. You have given me much to think of!