Okay, suited up my little rifter in all t1 stuff for my first swing at some pvp. headed to .4sec and started running around the asteroid fields. I see someone in a Caldari Cruiser killing rats. I figure, awesome, i'll engage him while he's fighting for fun and see what I can do. Well, I killed him, "YaY!!" I think. Awesome first time. I warp back to a stargate and get destroyed by some Minmatar sentry's.

Of course I'm a noob at this, and I should've read more I guess, but I thought in sub .5sec space, you couldn't engage other people without any penalties. Well, lesson learned right, i don't do that again and I'll read into some pvp'ing a bit more. So, I lost about 50,000isk worth of stuff with is chump change to me now, thankfully. I warp back into .5sec space heading home in my pod and Concord destroys my pod. My agression timer still had 9mins left. Should I have waited till my agression timer was at zero before heading back into .5sec+ space? I didn't think they would pod me.

Oh well, again lesson learned. Can't learn much pvp by sitting in highsec. Anyways, wanted to relay my first pvp of any kind. Was pretty exciting. I can fully fit a rifter in T2 stuff, just don't want to yet until I really get the hang of flying it for pvp stuff.

Any suggestions would be great.

Ah yeah, makes sense, another player probably saw me. It was really really fast though. I wasn't auto-piloting back, I was about to hit the warp button, then I popped. Good to know though.

So would I have been good in .3sec to engage someone, then come back into highsec or not have to worry about sentry guns? or be flagged as a criminal?