EVE New Citizens Q&A

1) Yes, it is fun. It is also difficult. It's generally easier to do in highsec than elsewhere (hunting war targets, or members of your own corporation assuming you joined just for this purpose).
Remember that anyone involved in a 1v1 will escalate it to a 4v1 if they can, and you will lose a 1v1 if your opponent escalates before you pop them. As such you need to kill fairly fast if you have no backup.

2) Bounties are a very small income source, even if you are excellent at PVP. Most people that have BIG bounties are good EVE players. Most good EVE players don't undock in super expensive ships often. As such you won't see many big kills of players with big bounties.

3) You can't go wrong training for a tech 2 tank and a tech 1 cruiser hull with tech 2 weapons that make sense for that hull. Example: If you like the Vexor, you'd want all the prerequisites for tech 2 medium blasters, tech 2 heavy drones, and a tech 2 armor tank, plus Drone Interfacing to 4. You can win PVP engagements that remain 1v1 with less than this, but you won't win a 1v1 that escalates into a 2v1 often without high skills.

4) Don't fly what you can't afford to lose. You will learn a LOT more in PVP if your ship losses hurt - you will then analyse every lost fight and every lesson you can learn from them.

5) There are huge blob fights on occasion with as many as 1k vs 1k or even more. The smaller fleet fights mostly happen in wormhole space (where escalation beyond a certain point is extremely difficult) - there you will see 12v16 and similar. Google "Rooks and Kings: Clarion Call" for a video example.

If you like thief / assasin / rogue / sniper type gameplay then you would most likely end up in stealth bombers. There's plenty of stories of lone SB's lurking around in wormholes picking off unsuspecting pilots and flying away with more isk then most players make in a month .. or several months, or more.


As everyone else has already said though you're going to need a fairly good chunk of skillpoints for that venture. Skills and more importantly general game mechanic experience. If you really want to speed up the process you can buy a PLEX and sell it for enough isk to send you straight into PvP, avoiding the early isk grind.


As far as bounty hunting yep same deal except not through the bounty hunter game mechanic but through real players. Everyone want's revenge on someone else in this crazy game. Don't forget EvE is a sandbox wich means it's nearly completely a player driven game. All real world skills (good and bad) apply here.







Since you like to read http://evestealthbomber.blogspot.com/



One of these days I'm going to get into SB's .. that guy makes it look so fun.