Hello, complete newb here. Im trying to get a mental image of different pvp situations.

Im aware of gate camps, mining ganks, jita, mission, plex ganks. And feel comfortable whats happening here.

1) I have a vague idea that fw exists where missions are done and pvp happens but u take faction standing hits. Where do i signup for fw? After that a warp into a system and find what? Hundreds of frigates blowing each other up in a thunderdome setting? Please paint a picture for me. Im still working on my core competancy skills and building up a bank role to fund frigate losses. Reading and learning in the meantime.

- you can join the militia if your standings are good enough. or you can join a corp that is already involved in FW. Most folks recommend joining a FW corp. There are probably more fleet opportunities and more learning about PVP from a corp that is involved in it than joining the militia.

2) ive heard about rvb. Where do i sign up and how does it differ from faction warfare? Whos running rvb? 2 corps that want to have fun...player generated content? Hows this pvp look....just 2 corps perpetually in wardec fighting across all of eve? Or thunderdome set for certain days?

- put in app in to Red Federation or Blue Republic. They try to keep even numbers so they may tell you to join the other one. Its basically just two corps perpetually at war. They do have a few rules.

3) i know some players go on solo/small gang roams looking for targets. They do this in low or null? Why arent they instantly curb stomped by the corp holding that space? How are they finding pvp ships to kill that dont instantly dock? Im not interested in killing afk miners(maybe that will change with time but doesnt seem to scratch the itch)

- Null sec and low sec are both ripe for roams but low sec involves sec hits so some folks prefer not to do this. Null sec alliances do protect their space at times but often roaming gangs can get in to their space and kill folks and get out before they can effectively form up a defense gang to chase them off.

4) i know some players go on solo/gang roams in wh. Is this where almost all pvp happens on account of no local? So u get higher chance that target wont insta dock? Arent wh residents the most paranoid group. Watching the entrances for warp flashes. Bubbling the entrance. Spamming dscan with corpmates doing the same?

- If you scan out a worm hole from high sec it is possible to take a small gang in and kill someone mining or plexing in the wormhole. Members of my corp used to do this regularly when we lived in high sec. Now when we scan out wormholes we often use them to raid other parts of eve in small roaming gangs where you can get into enemy space undetected and unreported in their intel channels and kill a few people and then return home via the wormhole.