Warfare & Tactics

Join FW.

Join a PVP corp.

Make PvP into a career.

I act as a 'line pilot' for a sov null alliance. We have a robust SRP, pre-fit doctrine ships on contract at a discount, subsidies for purchasing expensive ships, and ships just handed to me on short notice if needed. (since they will be reimbursed, alliance mates are also quick to loan out ships to help get you into fleet)
Since I'm part of a large alliance and larger coalition, there is ALWAYS something in the fleet finder. If not, I am certain to get people to join if I create a fleet and FC.

The only PvE I do is when I'm bored between PvP fleets. I did enough to purchase a few ships up front, and now fly on our SRP, often profiting from ship losses. Since my ships are replaced, I don't need a hangar full of them. I generally keep two of whatever I fly so I can reship immediately if needed, but usually get my reimbursement very quickly anyhow. I can fly something useful for any given doctrine we have, even if it's just a Dictor.

Many alliances will further reward logistics pilots, command ship pilots, and suicide tackle like dictors. Command pilots usually get handed appropriate implants as well.

I've had the same half a bil in my wallet for ages- having very little need for isk. This is because I fight 'for something' and not just to collect KM's no one cares about.
Simply put, PvP is my 'job' in Eve. It not only costs me nothing to do, but I often profit from it.

Another vote for FW to allow you to have a pvp lifestyle, if you will, and easily be able to fun your activities.

Alaric make a good point about becoming a 'career' combat pilot in a big alliance and is one that I have thought about on manyy occasions. But I don't play well with big groups of people and like doing my own thing so FW (and a little bit of piracy on the side) is my thing.

I would be careful of just going pirate though. A Lot of them claim to make isk from it but in reality most have alts that trade, run missions, manufacture etc to make their isk. The only pirate groups (and you have to be in a decent group for this) that I know mkae isk from piracy are the station humping/gate camping ones. Not saying this is bad or anything it's just a game play that I couldn't do for an extended period of time.

So in summary my advice is that if you are 'going it alone' or with a very small corp then join FW, by far the easiest way to fun your pvp. If you don't mind being part of a bigger team and taking orders then join a big group (Null or pirate) that can assist from an alliance/logistical point of view.

I fund all my pvp on like 4 plex a year.

I read the thread wrong.

Came here looking for info on a

PvP Hobbit.

Run lowsec DED sites in a PvP ship.

It's like getting paid to do pvp.

Yup get a link alt with probes and pvp fit HAM cerb, 100mn tengu, ishtar etc and make big bucks while dunking scrubs that probe you down looking for easy ganks. Of course you do have to know the locals and what they are capable of so that you know when to fight and when to give up the plex.

Doing this with a friend is more fun and opens up your viable ship choices. Just remember it should probably be a HAC or t3 with the proper base resist profile for the rats (gallente and caldari t2 vs serp and guristas etc) to ensure that you don't need to fit hardeners to your ship to tank the rats.

He said he has done marketing , if he's any good at it he should be making allmost passive isk with it.

SO , what i'd suggest is as others said join FW as it can be a hell of a lot of fun , and at times a hell of a lot of frustration as i had last night loosing about every fight i engaged .As a trader making your isk out there is also simple , you can easily spot the main hubs for your own and opposing factions and you can seed the markets there.Should only cost you a few hours a week but it'll pay for your most ships+plex for your subscription.

Yeah I know

I just hate it when the most common answer is to get a link alt for most activities.