EVE General Discussion

Morning all,

After several years of playing Eve on and off doing PVE carebear mining and mission running I kept finding I would get bored/real life intruded so I would cancel the subscription and not play for several months. After a while though, I would renew for a month or two but still find I was getting bored. Did think about PVP to spice things up but was put off with the lack of time I had to play (real life sucked at the time) and steep learning curve - more like a wall!
Now real life is better, I though I would finally bite the 'bullet' and get into PVP and all the fun that comes with it.
My question for all the good and not so good folk out there is this. Do I start with a fresh character with the Skirmisher pack and leave the cuddly but boring old main as a ISK generator (eg Hi Sec mining while watching TV with wifey), or is it worth keeping the old main who has most of the skills on mining and try to go PVP with him?

Mostly it's about getting friends. This is much more important than any particular skill on your toon. Find a PvP corp, show up for roams, fleets, etc. If you can't fly a DPS ship you can always fly tackle. It takes next to no skill to train up a frigate and put a warp scrambler/disruptor on it. Gangs ALWAYS welcome tackle - you can never have too much.

You will die often, as you learn what not to do, when not to engage, etc. So don't fly really expensive ships until you know what you're doing. Talk to your friends and figure out what kind of ship they'd need you to skill up for. Maybe if your gunnery skills are bad you'd be better off in a support role like neuts, webs or ecm or even logi.

PvP is fun. It's not fun to be blobbed, but it's fun to be the blobber. But then again combat was never about "fair". And once in a while you'll get solo kills that have your heart pounding because they'll be that close.

PS: This is my industrial support toon not my PvP toon - I have 6 others. I _do_ know what I'm talking about despite Ptraci's underwhelming killboard :)

Welcome back, again.

Id recommend starting a new character for PvP and keep your main for supporting him.

With your new toon, Im not sure NS, though profitable for your mining, will offer you much in PvP.

Id recommend looking into Faction Warfare for starters.

You can only learn PvP if you tell yourself highsec doesn't exist and move out permanently off that place.
But ofc you're not gonna do this because cuck.

Yeah because hitting F1 repeatedly is leet in null. Low sec has a nice edge to it

Exactly because of attitudes like this, when people get offended with the truth.. it's a dead end, I just do it for the fun of it.

Never try to teach pigs how to fly.

I must admit that to me there are two versions of Eve. High sec which feels like a MMMO and the Low/null - a dark scary portal to a unique place.

- double post

Some people like blobs, others like to solo, third people like to blow up structures and call that pvp...

Either way PVP is the most fun thing you can do in EVE. I recommend starting in two ways:

1. Join FW
PROS:

You will learn how to solo pvp

Even if you have 10-20 mins of play you can get yourself some PVP action immediately

Personally, my heart is pumping beating faster in the beginning of a solo encounter than in a big fleet encounter.

You can actually make some decent money in FW while you are PVPing

CONS:

You might not learn tactics of fleet vs. fleet pvp.

Some FW fleets are kinda lame and Fleet Commanders can be subpar

2. Join a big nullsec alliance
PROS:

You will feel like you are a part of something big

You may get some kills of big ships

You may make some good friends

You will learn big fleet tactics / strategy

CONS:

Most likely you won't learn how to solo pvp

Fleet ops may take many hours. Most of the time you will be waiting

I think the two ways I described above are the most noob friendly. Read some guides and watch some Youtube videos ("eveiseasy" is really good). Once you get more experience you can expand onto other PVP.