Crime & Punishment

So today i got bitten by the bug, The PVP bug.

I have been playing for a week now and loving it mostly doing my tutorial and the sisters of eve line and then i was dumped down in space and left to my own devices

In this case the device was a Tristan i got from the tutorial and some random fittings i had lying around and i had heard of the fun of floating around low sec looking for fun so off i went with no clue.

So i pick a random low sec near-ish where i had been and when i got to the final "safe" gate and then jumped i expected to be blown away instantly by a camp... It was quiet and i was in low, Now to find someone... this is where i hit a snag of sorts

You see the tutorials teach you some exploration but nothing about hunting down players and i had no idea how to use the Directional scan (i still don't)

So i flew around and just hopped from system to system and eventually i decided to go past a random station and here things took a turn for the fun.

Outside the station a random battlecruiser was floating and as i warped in it passively locked me but no shots ripped into me so deciding not to chance things further i booted my MWD and closed till i was orbiting him at 500m making me a bit of a harder target.

I decided to do some chatting in local and struck up a convo with my new "buddy" and he was just being cautious and i explained that whilst i was a bloodthirsty pirate (he did chuckle) i was not entirely insane.

His buddy in local however thought to have some fun at my expense and undocked his frigate and offered me a dual and being a former wow player i did not realise it started instantly so my shield was almost gone before i had locked him

Yet again i kicked my MWD into action i launched my 4 drones and webbed him and managed to somehow take him down with 23structure to spare (i did not know duals actually popped the ship) and that as that i was bitten sure it was some mostly friendly fun but now i know i what i want to do in eve


Anyway why i am here is well my corp aren't really all that involed in pvp and i still have no idea how to find people or use the damned scanner so i am looking to find some nice pirates (haha) out there who might teach me and mould me into a killing machine, i fully expect to die a lot and i am fine with spending as much time as a fireball as making others the same

Thanks

Mail sent.

Confirming Bebop is elite pvper and a great guy.

He'll get you pointed in the directions you need to go, but you've already taken the most vital step - fit a ship, get out there, see what happens. My advice is to do this with a stack of about 250 tech 1 frigs, once you run through the stack you should have a pretty decent idea of some of the basics and chances are a few kills on your board and a few "lol I did something stupid..." stories to tell :P

Red Versus Blue

Like spy vs spy with rifters.

I am? I'm utterly terribad. I just figured I could show a guy how to use d-scan and get up both blown up a few times. (I am finding that I'm not bad at getting warp-ins though, maybe I should start scouting more often.)

Also, it looks like timezones won't work out for me. if there's any EU guys that want to help the OP out, go for it.

Congrats to OP. Your first foray into PVP went better than most peoples! D-Scan makes no sense until you figure it out, then it's super awesome and super easy to use. Until then it's nonsense. With your attitude, you'll have no problem fining people willing to show you the ropes. Feel free to contact me in game anytime if you have any questions or need advice from a terri-bad pvp'r.

I thought they are the frig alts of the CFC and N3/PL Supercap and Titan pilots...

Also make sure to try out Brave Newbies. They'll hook you up with MAD PvP. And Whisky songs from their Fleet Commanders.

Yeah the annoying part with DScan is remembering that it scans the direction your camera is facing not the direction your ship is pointing. So aligning to a celestial doesn't help with scanning, tracking camera makes life way easier though.