Warfare & Tactics

How much sec status can you afford to lose? IIRC you can still go anywhere with -2 sec status without being attacked by anything. As long as you stay above that, you should be fine.

For the distance issue, jump clones. Setup a jump clone in your mission hub with what you view as necessary mission implants. Leave also the necessary mission ships. This may include, but is not limited to your main mission ship, salvager, hauler, and a crap mission or travel ship if necessary.

Your pvp clone should have bare minimal implants. I tend to use +3 attribute ones and that is it. Your pvp clone would be the one going to be stationed in nul, low, or your pvp staging area.

As for getting combat... Faction warfare should only impact standing if you run missions. Otherwise it would be similar to war deccing a lot of corps at once. An alternative is the Red vs Blur corps. They are two corps perpetually at war with each other. They have some rules you must play by, but the rules are not harsh or overly restrictive. They also rend to favor t1 frigates and cruisers, making pvp less costly. If not, nul would be a good option with jump clones.

Actually, you won't lose faction standings in FW from pvp. The only ways to lose faction standings are to kill that faction's npc's, fail a mission or gain faction standings with an enemy faction (ie storyline missions). In short, faction standing can only be lost or gained through pve. You will lose corp standings if you kill someone in an npc corp but if your personal standings with an agent are still good and your faction standings are fine, you can still use all your current agents.

The only standing joining FW will hurt is your corp standings with the opposing militia's npc corp. You will lose standing with them every time you kill an enemy ship (or maybe just pods, I don't remember tbh), even if they are in a player FW corp. However, since all FW missions are anti-faction, I suspect you have little interest in them and it would look doubly bad if you switched sides all the time. That said, it's super easy to recover those standings should you ever decide to do so.

Your real problem with joining FW is that you become a war target in high sec as well. In addition, you will be unable to mission effectively in the opposing side's space as long as you are in the militia. You can come and go as you please as a corp or an individual but the changes don't take effect till dt each day. My alt corp hops in and out as needed while this toon is in full time. As long as you stick with one side, no one will think anything of it.

The other issue you'll have is with no combat record you will be marked as a spy. People don't like to fly with people they know nothing about. So you will likely have to prove yourself before you get invited to any sort of fleet. The easiest way to make a name for yourself is to run around capping minor plex's. These are restricted to t1 frigates and destroyers. Give it an hour and someone will undoubtedly come in and take a shot at you. You will want a faction frig though. Nothing terribly shiny, a simple t2 fitted navy frig will do. Straight t1 frigs and cruisers are basically unused. They just aren't competitive. Dessies aren't bad these days though.

The dude speaketh true. Even if you aren't in a particular militia, hanging around the militia warzones is a good idea for decent PvP.

Declare war on people. You don't lose any sec status at all. Also wormholes.

^ what he said - I actually set up an alt purely for PvP - doesn't take long to train decent frig skills and as the character has only one aim you can get into decent fights and cruisers up pretty damn fast.

I would agree taking your main into PvP is very iffy - losing your 1bn + mission ship or hauler full of production to someone with Kill Rights on you is gonna be REALLY annoying - so if you can separate the functions - or keep a carefull eye on the kill rights and those in system when you are not PvP ready. Yeah - you can be ganked anytime - but people do use locators to track down KR's and finding you in a shiny mission ship would make their year!!!

Indeed, you want a clone for your slave set, your talisman set, your crystal set and your +5 set for when you're out of town. Seriously though, most people pvp on their mains I think. Alts are for hauling and other random tasks you just can't be bothered to train your main to do. People only get kill rights on you GCC on them. Shoot an outlaw or anyone who shoots you first and you don't have to worry about such things. Ditto for war targets.

RvB lets everyone in, especially spies. Try it out. It might work for you.

Del

Well mate, if it's standings concerns and all the rest then there's only one option- Get a jump clone down to the Curse region. Specifically Doril-Jorund-Hemin-RMOC-K-QWHE area. Do what you like- shoot what you like and no standings issues.

Curse is probably the most dangerous area of EVE, Full of nasties all looking to smack someone- someone to pod, It's merciless, it truly is the wild west, one hint of hesitation or weakness and your on the wrong side of a kill mail.
Survive in Curse and you'll be able to survive and fight anywhere.

Having Alts is more fun - and preferably on separate accounts.

I'm trying to get one of my characters down to -10 as we speak. I want to see if I can use a proper pirate (permanently RED, not pansy YELLOW) fulltime in hisec.

If I did this on an Industrial, my income would be screwed.