Warfare & Tactics

More or less, but it's difficult (impossible) to make money PvPing when you are new without FW. Which means you get stuck doing PvE content....which eventually leads to level 4 missions....

...which means you quit eve out of sheer boredom, and we don't want you to quit Eve.

Yeah, dont do PVE.

You could always join FW and shoot purples too while farming LP.

Or...


Or...


5. Realises this is a game, and plays it as such.

I've only just dived into FW after getting bored with PvE and I'm having a blast. The GalMil seem a friendly bunch and I've already managed to get two kills though both were pirates but a kills a killl. Lost a few ships but the lessons I learned led to the two kills today.

Go for it. You've nothing to lose and personally I've learned quite a bit about PvP and fittings in a very short time from doing solo FW. I've been flying the below Tristan fit. It's all tech 1 stuff so cheap to fit but seems to work well. Killed a navy slicer with tech 2 and a tormentor with mix of t2 and faction.


High

Light Electron Blaster I x2
Nos I

Mid

MWB I
Scramber I
Small cap boost I

Low

Small Anc Repair
Damage control I
Drone Damage Amplfier I

Rigs: Anti-exp pump I, small aux nano pump I, small anc current router I

8x Hob I

Join FW? Yes! Do it! You won't regret it! Militia life best life, unless you join CalMil.

The corp you join will make a big difference in your game enjoyment.

When looking at a PvP corp, make sure their killboard looks good to you. See that they are getting kills when you play. Note how many kills per day, and how frequently they fight.

You do not need to be great in skills before you try to PvP, but you are going to die a lot due to being new and also low fitting skills. This doesn’t mean you can’t learn some things, but the going will be tough. But if you work on tackle skills many gangs will fund your ships if you tackle for them.

Once you can fly a good fit with good skills you are over one important hill. As you go on you will skill into additional good fits.

Along the way you may become good at creating your own good fittings. And then you will continue to get even better.

Another important hill is learning how to earn isk in volumes that support your shopping habits. Your tastes will get more expensive, but you will also learn how to get a lot of fun out of cheap setups as you get better.

There are a variety of ways to go about getting started. To be fair though I think right out the door you need to make some isk.

When I got started I created a 2nd account to make money with while not interrupting the PvP skilling on my main. Years later I still think that was a good idea.

If you have the spending money you can consider buying plex and then purchasing a skilled character. Just beware flying expensive ships while just learning PvP. You will burn through a lot of isk pretty quick that way.

Once you have this much behind you, there will be several options before you.

One way to look at it: if you're in the worst militia, then you got the best enemies, right? If we're so bad (which we are), then who in their right mind would actually want to fight us? Besides, T1 ain't so bad, the prices of navy stuff goes through the roof when no one has any actual LP; in T3 and T4 everyone is so ballin that they crash the market...

Just holla at us (Templis)... One of us... One of us... One of us!

If in fact you have an alt in Templis, get involved with us and get to know us. We aren't the big piles of feces that some would make us out to be.

One thing to understand is fw is setup for you to join as soon as you're done with the tutorial missions. You do not need a lot of skill points to be a helping hand in a fleet. I would highly recommend flying cheap t1 fit frigs. Very little skill to fit them. You will lose a lot but while doing so you're gaining experience and skill points for a better fitting. Always think of your ship as ammo. It's gonna pop and you're just gonna hop in a new one to do it all over again. Fw is a blast if you fly with the right people. Loot whatever you can when in a fleet to pay for new ships. Each frig should only cost a couple mil. As you get better and train your skills higher you can fly better ships.

Also get with a corp that's willing to help you get better. Advice on what to train and when to train it. How to fit ships. Most corps will have doctrines that take the guessing work out of it for you. Hope this helps.

Loving the awesome newbro support here.