Originally by: Rells

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Myth: The best way to start PvP is to get in a fast frigate, put on a Microwarp drive and a disruptor and go tackle for a bigger ship.
This will probably teach you how to die and use your pod but that is about all. A tech 1 frigate with a MWD has the signal radius of a battlecruiser. For those new to Eve, that means that is it EXTREMELY easy to hit you with big guns. Without the MWD, its like a deck gun of a real life destroyer trying to target a Speed Boat. Anyone who tells you to go "tackle" to get into PvP is SERIOUSLY misinformed. On top of that, without exceptionally good skills you wont be able to hold MWD and disruptor on a target for long without running out of capacitor energy; so on top of being suicidal, it is ineffective.

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1. You will learn the basics of signature radius, transversal velocity, locking times, orbiting ranges and what not in a tackling frigate


2. You will not risk your whole wealth. PvP is fun only if you can afford loosing what you're flying. It also teaches from day 1 to do the risk assesment right...


3. You don't keep MWD on ALL the time. Usually one cycle is enough to get close enough the target and start orbiting, after which the MWD is turned off... This will teach the right usage of MWD and also teach the basics of how MWD affects sig radius


4. If a frigate starts taking damage, it warps to the closes celestial object or safespot, repairs itself during the warp and returns into the field to tackle the hostile. If a fleet has enough tacklers, they can do this constantly without loosing a single tackler. This will teach the new players how to save your ship in a tight situation, still without risk of loosing all your wealth. This information WILL prove valuable later on. And is effective.


5. And if the tackler delays even 1 second before locking the primary/secondary, he will avoid the default "auto target back 1 targets" effect and will not be locked. Although, if a gang is properly set up, everyone should have this feature set to 0.