Warfare & Tactics

FW is fine and all. But it is by no means the only way for new or low SP toons to PvP.

To be honest, what matters is who you fly with. Just joining FW will land you in a mostly empty militia chat with tons of people doing nothing but waiting for SOMEONE ELSE to FC a fleet. If you're willing to lead, others will follow. But if you are looking for leaders, they are found in dedicated player owned corps, not militia.

Like anything in Eve, if you want to do something, you are best off committing to it and finding others that are as well. This means joining a corp that does whatever content you are interested in. Doesn't really matter if that is FW, null sec, Incursions, etc....honestly, targeting someone and blowing them up is pretty similar regardless of where you do it.

Anything that will get you blown up with regularity will end up becoming a very expensive habit. This makes many of the large null sec alliances quite attractive. Most have piles of isk to outfit new players with fast tackle ships for free, offer skill books for free, run dedicated training fleets, and of course...offer an SRP.

Most null alliances are also very 'top heavy' with high SP players that want to fly their shiny T3's rather than a Sabre. New players are not looked down upon, but rather, free up high SP toons to fly the big/shiny ships. It works both ways- we'd rather new players stick with small hulls they are more highly skilled in than just whatever is the biggest thing they can barely undock. Likewise- if I have to leave my battleship to fly a Dictor, that's a bunch of firepower lost to fly a ship a player with a month or so in Eve can fly.

Lastly, null sec has a slight edge over low sec for small hull ships.
1) The lack of gate/station guns is an immediate boon to people in small hulls. I was a pirate in low sec for awhile, and always felt like "real" PvP took place in bigger ships than I was flying, since I was so limited in where I could force a fight.

2) Null sec allows the use of both Bombs, and Bubbles. The ships that launch these weapons are small hulls, easily trained by new players. Additionally, Ceptors are suddenly extremely survivable in null sec- meaning that cheap frigate PvP is incredibly common in null sec right now.
Literally, the best ships for low SP toons looking to get into PvP to fly- are exactly the ones with Null Sec-specific mechanics.

I have said for years here- train to fly a Dictor. It takes no amount of time and virtually no fleet in null sec will undock without them. If you are a care bear and don't want to dedicate to PvP, but want to live in null and reap the rewards-- fly a Dictor and no one will ever care if you fly anything else in a PvP fleet. If you even have to buy replacement Dictors, your corp/alliance is doing it wrong.

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