EVE New Citizens Q&A

No idea, but if you ever want a buddy to go looking for fights in low sec, drop me a mail, 2 is better than 1

Still new and still learning though.

As you created a Minmatar character and might be looking for PvP and are looking for a pirate faction agent, there is one lowend one here:

http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/Auner

Say hello from me and tell him I didn't complete the last mission he gave me as I am otherwise occupied.
It was the area I started out in back in the day. First pvp kill happened in the system next door.

As said above, pirate missions has nothing to do with PvP though.

First of all, running any type of mission (either faction or pirate NPC corps) has nothing to do with PvP. It's all PvE (or PvRC - Player vs Red Crosses).

If you are wanting do to some PvP in general, RvB alliances are a nice start, they are newb friendly and can give you some tips and tricks in PvP.

If you want Pirate PvP, I do suggest to stop thinking Pirate NPC means being a pirate. Being a pirate means you hang around low-sec (or sometimes even high-sec) and shoot other players. Best way to get involved into that, fly to low-sec and find some other pirates (usually you will get killed by them in this progress). After you found them, contact one of them to see if they are wanting to help you and maybe let you join them.

JP

The best way would be to join a PvP corp that does the kind of pvp you are interested in, be it low sec piracy, 0.0 fleet battles, wormholes, wardecs or whatever.

As an absolute beginner start maybe you should join Red vs Blue or go out by yourself in a cheap rifter.

Protip: this is a horrible way to learn how to pvp. If you want to learn how to gank defenseless mission runners, have at.

Make it a bit easier on yourself:

1. Get your rifter skills perfect without being expensive before you leave high sec.

2. Choose your pirate faction.

3. Try to find/join a corp that works in the area you need.

4. Join them for many roams and learn from them.

5. See who else is using that group to mission with and get some buddies to keep you relatively safe while you add standings or even better tag along with them and get the standings faster.

That is not PvP, that is PvAFK-pilot. There is absolutely no honour, or even anything that could be considered PvP in something like high-sec suicide ganking (and usually same counts for high-sec wars).

All of the people who are doing it, suck at actual PvP and can only attack undefended people who aren't ready for it.

Maybe cause I use a seperate toon to PvP with and this is just my industry toon

I am going to give some different advice.

If you want to learn how to pvp focus on training for a battlecruiser of your choice (Hurricane, drake or harbinger are good choices). And try to join a pvp corporation with some decent killboard activity in your timezone. I don't think it reallly matters if its piracy, wardecs or 0.0 pvp.

You can always do the rifter thing or killing mission runners whenever you want, but focus on finding a decent corp as a top priority.

Well, the only ones falling for that will be newbies and the chance of a newbie flying something expensive is fairly low, so it's probably not a good way to make isk with combat, meaning it's not piracy at all. Shooting/baiting/tricking someone and killing him someone for the sake of the killmail or tears is not piracy.

Can flipping some hulk and ransoming (or killing for the loot) when he attacks you is piracy
Ninja salvaging with a ship on backup, intentionally trying to get aggressed and then picking up the other ship, for the loot or for the nice ransom on that CNR, is piracy
Wardeccing a corp and after a while contacting the CEO and stating that if he pays you x00 mil isk you'll then "go away" is piracy

Shooting someone in a gate camp in low sec, just for the sake of it, is not piracy.
killing a newbie who's flying a f/rail ferox in low sec isn't piracy

There's ofcourse nothing wrong with either of those things but it's not piracy, it's PVP. WHERE you are doesn't decide whether or not you are a pirate, it's about your actions and intentions. There's a ton more piracy going on in high sec than there ever will be in low sec, partially because there's (sadly) more people in high sec but mostly because... that's where the expensive targets fly. The fox goes where the sheep are.


Baiting a mission runner into shooting you, switching ship and then killing/ransoming him takes more effort and knowledge of game mechanics than sitting at a gate in low sec in your BC hoping to catch a hauler. People have this weird idea that because someone does his stuff in high sec that this means he doesn't know what he's doing, the simple truth is that he has to deal with a lot more game mechanics and, because systems tend to have tons of people in them, you don't necessarily know what's going to happen. Compared to that, gate camping with an alt on the other side is pretty much easy as F.

Ofcourse, not saying that all low sec is like that and that no one in low sec is a true pirate but just want it to be known that being a pirate has nothing to do with where you are or what your sec status is.