No, but it prepares you for a special guest appearance on EVENews24 or TheMittani when you get ganked in our pimped missioning ship.

PVP prepares you for PVP.

Lol no.
Exploding until you stop exploding prepares you from PvP.

But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"

But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"

But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"

But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"

More like saying drowning isn't so bad when you're immortal.

LOL!!!

Great replies guys. Keep'em coming.

I see I have alot to learn about PvP.

Missions are starting to get old.

Join RvB or BNI. Just do it. Don't wait until you are "ready." You won't ever be ready. Take this from someone who wasted almost a year doing PvE and nearly cancelled my sub until some kind gankers rescued me.

Lol no.

But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"

and if not, what does?

Next time I get into a fight with swarms of extremely poorly skilled players who fit 2-3 modules, don't have logistics support and don't warp out when they're in trouble, I'll be ready.

and if not, what does?

and if not, what does?

But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"

and if not, what does?

No, but it prepares you for a special guest appearance on EVENews24 or TheMittani when you get ganked in your pimped missioning ship.

PVP prepares you for PVP.

Yeah... missions prepare you for PvP just like CoD prepares you for the military.

I'm a relatively experienced PVE-er and rookie PVP-er.

PVE teaches you to fit specific resists on your ship.
To favor range over damage.
To reduce your sig radius when flying cruiser and larger hulls.
To be cap stable.
That tank overrules damage.
To orbit your targets or keep at range

Meanwhile, in PVP
Omnitank and buffer tanking (armor plates or shield extenders) go a longer way than specific damage resists, because you can't really predict what you'll be hit with
Damage over range in most cases
You usually already have a huge sig radius already because of the tanking, so a MWD is more useful on a cruiser to get within optimal
You won't be using passive cap rechargers because a fight is usually over quickly, so cap stability is not required, you'll be probably using cap injectors for short bursts
You'll want to kill your enemy faster, rather than chip at him slowly while tanking his shots (because the danger of reinforcements is ever-looming)
Always manual pilot. And learn to exploit those using Orbit and Keep at Range.

And of course, I may be 100% wrong on all of these accounts which only serves to prove that PVE does nothing to prepare you for PVP

EDIT: Also Iterons can solo Megathrons

So I guess hauling prepares you for PVP

But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"

Yeah... missions prepare you for PvP just like CoD prepares you for the military.

But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"

I'm a relatively experienced PVE-er and rookie PVP-er.

PVE teaches you to fit specific resists on your ship.
To favor range over damage.
To reduce your sig radius when flying cruiser and larger hulls.
To be cap stable.
That tank overrules damage.
To orbit your targets or keep at range

Meanwhile, in PVP
Omnitank and buffer tanking (armor plates or shield extenders) go a longer way than specific damage resists, because you can't really predict what you'll be hit with
Damage over range in most cases
You usually already have a huge sig radius already because of the tanking, so a MWD is more useful on a cruiser to get within optimal
You won't be using passive cap rechargers because a fight is usually over quickly, so cap stability is not required, you'll be probably using cap injectors for short bursts
You'll want to kill your enemy faster, rather than chip at him slowly while tanking his shots (because the danger of reinforcements is ever-looming)
Always manual pilot. And learn to exploit those using Orbit and Keep at Range.

And of course, I may be 100% wrong on all of these accounts which only serves to prove that PVE does nothing to prepare you for PVP

EDIT: Also Iterons can solo Megathrons

So I guess hauling prepares you for PVP

No, it's like saying, "throwing you in the pool and helping you not drown is how we teach you to swim."

Do grinding missions prepare you for PVP?

Oh please to one and all. It's seriously like there's some sort of contagious disease around anything carebear or high-sec related that you all are afraid of catching. Like even the merest inference that you think there's something even slightly, mildly worthwhile in high-sec or the mission runner/miner/trader mentality means that you are going to have breakouts in the parts where the bad men touch you.

As a relatively new player that started purely missioning and still earns the ISK to fund his PvP side projects, I can tell you that the stuff I learned about fitting a ship all came from missions and it's been a great base. Understanding optimal versus falloff, the problem of dealing with smaller ships as a bigger ship, velocity and why it matters, wtf sig radius even is, what core skills are and how to prioritize training them, resistances and ammo types, rate of fire/tracking speed/explosion radius/etc.

Granted, some of that stuff I've had to unlearn, but not all of it. I think it's fair to say that missioning does not prepare you for PvP combat, but stop talking like it provides zero value at all. Could I have learned all that stuff by going straight out in my frigate with frickin lazors beams and a shield hardener fitted to my armor tank with purger rigs? Sure, but it's not the only way to go.

The answer is no. Doing the tutorial missions plus a week or two of combat PVE certainly teaches you the very basics. But GRINDING missions (which commonly means: doing a whole big bunch of them over and over again for weeks if not months) is useless for combat PVP.

and if not, what does?

PVPing

WOULD be neat is there were PVP style missions that WOULD teach ppl how to PVP lol