EVE New Citizens Q&A

Like any proper EVE player, I have occupied my time burning, terrorizing, and ganking. Mostly I do Thrasher Roulette, but recently the occasional mining barge has also been on the menu. I want to expand my potential victim pool and within the next two weeks I will run out of must haves for busting pods and mining barges.

Given that I am looking to keep my training to frigates and destroyers (throw away ships), is it better to put all my training into Gallente and Minmatar so that I can go for 5's in all the combat relevant stuff, or is it better to settle for a some 4's and also train into Caldari and Ammar?

From what I can tell, some good new sources of victims could be those new Wolf Rayet shattered worm whole systems and faction warfare players. This should guide my training philosophy. If anyone has any other good ideas, let me know.

This is more or less what I am doing with another character. This character is to be focused into frigates and destroyers. I don't want a carbon copy of the other character.

To start off with i would recommend a flat training curve. Don't bother with lvl 5 skills unless it unlock something really useful. The bonus itself is almost never worth when your just starting out, since that training time can be better spend else where.

However there are a bunch of support skills (cap, power grid etc) that getting up to lvl 4 and even 5 are worth it. But they are fairly short trains.

Switching around your skill queue to give something a go is fine as well. Getting started doesn't take long. Specializing does and you don't need to a a lvl 5 everything to be competitive.

OP looks like she would enjoy the succubus

Let me ask another question, how good are missiles at pvp in the frigate to destroyer range? Given that I already have the support skills, it won't be much of a time investment to train up laser skills, but missile skills will be an investment.

Small missiles (rockets and light missiles) are great. The Breacher and the Hawk are some of my favorite combat ships. The Breacher is my go-to for FW fights...so many ways to fit it. Larger missile systems suffer with poor application to small targets, but the small missiles do not have this issue.

However, they aren't particularly useful for ganking, where "ganking" means blapping defenseless miners/haulers/indies/noobs. I'm not sure you define it this way based on your post. You can expect people in wormhole space and faction warfare to shoot back unless they are fit for PVE. We don't really call that ganking anymore, that's just fighting. If you were to clarify what interests you more (ganking defenseless indy/PVE guys or fighting other combat ships) we can better help you with what skills to train.

Well, even with just frigates and destroyers, if you are talking actual PvP against other PvP fitted ships, the range for a solo player won't be very wide.