I just started in Gallente because i am a fan of drone boats and i like the ship designs(look wise), but it seemed all the activities and fun are around caldari faction space. After i am done with all the tutorial agents mission, I am already -0.4 with caldari. I read that at -2.0 you basically are lock out of Caldri space. Since i am still new, is it wise just to restart as Caldari, or is it easy to gain caldari faction back up to positive? since Gallente and Caldari are at opposite end what would i loose out if kept both of them neutral or is that even possible? I read some online article and posts here that it doesn't really matter on race but then there's so many new things with eve it seemed that articles and posts could be way out of date?

I am planning doing 60-70% mission running and 30% pvp. not really a sitting there mining astroid kind of a guy.