EVE New Citizens Q&A

What are your resources, ISK-wise?

I would give you very different suggestions if you have 220 billion ISK squirrelled away to what I'd give someone with 100 million. (I'm guessing from the lack of Trade skills you are closer to the latter)


Also, train Advanced Weapons Upgrades to 2 or 3, you have the prerequisites.

My current resources are around 100M and a bunch of random items/ships (one fitted battlecruiser and an assault frigate, rest are various cruisers/frigates and the odd destroyer, also have a ton of T2 fittings for PvP frigates)

I am however considering dumping some cash into two PLEX and selling them off, so if it's not too much of a hassle some advice for the 100M bracket and some advice for around 1bil+ would both be very helpful. I am currently training Advanced Weapons Upgrades to 3 now thanks :)





Ahh I forgot to mention that I will be flying around in low sec, I currently have no plans to move into null in the foreseeable future.

I guess I will focus into Frigates and Destroyers for now instead of working on the Assault Frigates. I will begin training some shield skills to broaden my options as well as putting a few more points into drones. It's a bit of a headache just looking at the ridiculous amount of skills there are and having no idea what to train

I prefer to look at it more from a target rich perspective. As a solo frig pilot you want the best hunter:hunted ratio possible imo. There's noting worse than flying around unable to find targets to kill. This is one of the largest downsides to the AF, not because they are bad but rather because most people will run from them and those that don't likely have the experience or confidence that their fit counters your own.

You will find that kiting ships and fits naturally have more prey than their brawling counter parts and will afford you more kills per lose on average. I'd look at just getting back into the swing with cheap T1 frigs with T2 fits with the aim at moving into Faction/Pirate frigs once you are more confident with your abillity. Not really saying anything new to those above and they have already mentioned the ship by name so I needn't repeat them.

A couple of things worth mentioning for a better overview I guess would be...

- Brawling tends to be more skill point dependant. When it's a dps race that only one surrvives those level 5 skills that give more hull/armour/shiled/damage/speed ect, will win fights.
- Range dictation wins fights. Whoever wins the range war will either apply their damage better, mitigate your damage more or both. Speed kills.
- Kiting has a higher player skill potential than brawling.

My only advice is to emphasis the importance of your navigation skills. They are just as much if not more important than weapon and tank related skills. Doesn't matter what your dps is if a blaster ship can always get you into their optimal range and melt you. Not to mention all the kills you miss out on because the opponent disengages by burning out of your point. It will also double up and allow you to disengage should the need arise.

P.S. A dual prop Hawk is the daddy of solo AF's.

I would in this case recommend tech 1 frigates with a kiting fit, as others have suggested.

It's not really enough to buy PLEX if you want to PVP in larger ships - you need an income that can absorb losing ships repeatedly. I make a couple billion a month trading and producing, so I can PVP in pretty much anything I want, but if you have an income of a couple tens of millions a month, you want to keep your losses cheap, even if you had two billion banked.