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Reaver Babe
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Posted - 2009.12.30 16:33:00 -
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I have numerous friends who are all looking to try EVE but, knowing them, they probably wont stick around if they can't get a chance to experience real PVP (without feeling like cannon fodder) while on trial period. What's the best way to go about showing them some PVP on a trial account?
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Zeredek
Gallente
Red Federation
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Posted - 2009.12.30 16:47:00 -
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Red vs Blue 
Zeredek
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cbkilla
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Posted - 2009.12.30 16:51:00 -
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 Originally by: Zeredek
Red vs Blue
What he said. Cheap, easy and fun.
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Dragonmede
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Posted - 2009.12.30 22:03:00 -
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Yea....Red vs Blue
Fun Times and a great way to get started...
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Sokniw
Caldari
Super Friends Club
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Posted - 2009.12.30 22:28:00 -
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here is a good way, get them started with a military career, run them through the tutorials so they can get the free training books and such, then run a few missions with them cause they will need isk, help them with a skill plan with getting essential learning skill and train them up to cruisers. Caldari is the quickest race to train into a ship and get some pew pew in cause missle skills are easy mode. than join a faction warfare corp and get them into the fleet battles with faction warfare, alot of noobs are into faction warfare and such so its leveling the playing field in a sort. caldari may be the quickest but i feel are the weakest in pvp.
this is all my opinion on how to get in on the action quick so take it or leave. just my 2 cents.
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Trick Novalight
Caldari
Instapop Industries
Amici Noctis
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Posted - 2009.12.30 23:59:00 -
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Originally by: Sokniw
caldari may be the quickest but i feel are the weakest in pvp.
I've seen this said quite a bit...and i'm just curious as to whats the logic behind the statement? What makes them weaker comparatively to other races in pvp?
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dtyk
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Posted - 2009.12.31 00:04:00 -
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Originally by: Trick Novalight
Originally by: Sokniw
caldari may be the quickest but i feel are the weakest in pvp.
I've seen this said quite a bit...and i'm just curious as to whats the logic behind the statement? What makes them weaker comparatively to other races in pvp?
More pilots=more bad pilots.
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Zulric
The Praxis Initiative
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Posted - 2009.12.31 00:30:00 -
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Originally by: Trick Novalight
Originally by: Sokniw
caldari may be the quickest but i feel are the weakest in pvp.
I've seen this said quite a bit...and i'm just curious as to whats the logic behind the statement? What makes them weaker comparatively to other races in pvp?
I'm no pvp expert, but afaik shield tanks and missiles are generally seen as weak in pvp. Shield tanks take up mid slots, which can be used for so many more interesting things. On missiles I'm not qualified enough to say..
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Hoodat Bee
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Posted - 2009.12.31 00:59:00 -
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Drakes and Blackbirds are pretty amazing for solo and small gang work respectively, but in larger fleet ops most people prefer armor tanked ships, since armor rr is way less of a pain to fit than shield rr, and more efficient.
Plus, missiles have flight time, which sucks major nuts if you're hoping to engage beyond 20km.
Minmatar Rifters are great learner ships, and the Amarr have Arbitrator which is also capable of some pretty amazing stuff. At the battleship level, the Amarr are the current fotm.
But, really, it's not a big deal what race they choose. Cross training -- especially cross training for frigates -- is quick and painless, and the race you start as only gets you about an hour of free racial training. So, in all honesty, just tell them to pick whatever race they think has the coolest RP and then cross train to whatever ships they think will have the biggest domage.
And from there, FW, lowsec piracy or RvB are all viable learner options for PVP.
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Sillas Cov
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Posted - 2009.12.31 02:01:00 -
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Red Vs Blue
Get into it and fly it.
Get blown up... repeat.
R-V-B channel
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Sokniw
Caldari
Super Friends Club
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Posted - 2009.12.31 02:20:00 -
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guns in pvp are usually better because like stated above, missiles have flight time, but guns on the other hand are insta-hit, at short range missiles are about as effective as guns, but at a range it goes back to guns are instant hit and missiles have flight time.
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
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Artemis Rose
Sileo In Pacis
THE SPACE P0LICE
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Posted - 2009.12.31 06:34:00 -
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Throw sand in their eyes, and punch them in the jaw
If they liked it, they can PvP in this game.
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1010101O1010
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Posted - 2009.12.31 12:44:00 -
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Have all your friends make suicide ganking destroyers. It'll only take a few days of training. Sit on a high sec pipe and gank a few afk haulers. They'll learn the basics on range, dps, fitting, targeting, and fleets. Get them to download Eve Fitting Tool and EveMon then turn them loose on finding the best fit and skills to train to maximize DPS while minimizing skill training time and isk per ship.
It's not true pvp, but it is a good introduction to the mechanics and can be fun and profitable. It can also be accomplished with trial accounts.
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Kessiaan
Minmatar
Final Agony
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Posted - 2010.01.01 17:04:00 -
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Originally by: dtyk
More pilots=more bad pilots.
In all the years I've played MMOs, I've found that in any kind of dev-organized PvP the law of Conservation of Ninjutsu generally applies to the factions as a whole.
As for the OP, I'd suggest faction warfare, or maybe Red vs Blue. If you do go FW, I'd suggest the Minmatar, they seem to put up the best fights every time I run into an FW fleet.
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King Rothgar
Imperial Slave Hunter Society
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Posted - 2010.01.01 23:40:00 -
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FW is fun. I'm a veteran pvp but joined it for a change of pace on the amarr side. There are plenty of rookies there along with the veterans like me willing to play with you. And by play I mean both kill you, teach you, and on rare occasion, teach you without killing you.
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Biggusfatso
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Posted - 2010.01.02 10:29:00 -
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RvB - the place to be
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