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Daqko
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Posted - 2007.07.19 22:56:00 -
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I'd like to become a mercenary, so I have a few questions I'd like to ask the community. Will you guide me on my journey ahead of me?
My idea of a mercenary is a person who is in a corporation of many other mercenaries, similar to a PMC in the real world. One who is hired by a different corporation, probably an industry type corporation, to do work for them, such as defending ships from pirates and such.
In EVE Online, is the job of a mercenary same as a bounty hunter? When one asks for a bounty hunter, are they asking for a mercenary at the same time? Are bounty hunters and mercenary considered the same thing? Is mercenary another word for bounty hunter and vice versa? You get my drift...
There are many skills in EVE Online, however many of the skills have very little use or is useless to a mercenary. My idea of a mercenary is a straight forward fighter. So which skills should I spend my points into? Should I ignore some Gunnery skills or are all skills in Gunnery valuable to a mercenary? Which skill categories should be my primary (Gunnery, Engineering, Missile Operations, etc.)? What should my primary stats be? Should attributes should I never put points into? I do not wish to waste any skill points or stat points on things that will be useless to me, I do not wish to make mistakes. Get my drift?
Are there any expert mercenaries out there than can tutor and aid me to become a true mercenary? I hear Darth Solo(?) is someone like an expert, is he still around?
What kind of items regardless of cost should I get? What types of ships? Caldari is the best race, right? Which bloodline is the best? Military section after that, right? Then should I be a soldier or part of the special ops?
Is there any guide out there for newbies to read so they can become an ultimate mercenary?
Please post any valuable information a mercenary should know. Anything is fine.
Thank you EVE community.
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Rei Sara
Kopenhagen's Bloody Buccaneers
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Posted - 2007.07.19 23:19:00 -
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The guides listed here may provide some help.
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Dei
Amarr
Khanid Aerospace Group
Khanid Provincial Authority
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Posted - 2007.07.19 23:35:00 -
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 Originally by: Daqko
Caldari is the best race, right?
Where the hell are people getting this info from?
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Daqko
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Posted - 2007.07.19 23:40:00 -
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Best race for a straight forward fighter, a mercenary, etc. Get my drift?
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Dei
Amarr
Khanid Aerospace Group
Khanid Provincial Authority
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Posted - 2007.07.19 23:44:00 -
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Ok if you're going by the backstory about military might an all. However, I'm pretty sure most people might shout out Gallente or Minmatar to give you a quicker edge (although Caldari also use Hybrids so it's not too much hassle switching to use the different ships).
Best idea is what most of us did - don't do too much research, just dive on in and find out for yourself. It'll all become much more clearer than any of us can put into words. 
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Flinx Evenstar
Minmatar
Spartan Industries
Cruel Intentions
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Posted - 2007.07.20 00:25:00 -
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The biggest difference between bounty hunters and mercs, is that mercenaries are paid by a third party.
Bounty hunting is a bit fubard in this game tbh, if you want to make money from killing targets when you feel like it, then piracy is the way.
To be a merc, you need to be in a highly organised pvp corp/alliance. Employers expect to see good value for money.
Depending on your ship of course, but gunnery is essential, so are cap skills. and shields, and armour and energy upgrade, and drones, and well...just skill up a truck load of stuff 
If you were going to hire mercs, you'd want them to be skilled to the max, and so does everyone else.
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Are there any expert mercenaries out there than can tutor and aid me to become a true mercenary?
Not really mate, there are plenty of corps that will school you in pvp ( points to Eve Uni ) but merc corps expect you to know it already.
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Caldari is the best race, right?
Not really for pvp...jamming yes, but missiles suck because you will be dead before your missiles hit the target in large gang. Alpha damage is key and speed to live. See Gallente and Minmatar, not forgetting of course Amar recons.
There is no one path to train, no one bloodline, any skilled pilot is useful. Work out to kill things, what is weak , what is strong. How to take down a large gang, or fit to defeat a gang that outnumbers you.
I am a young merc still learning the trade, but since our current campaign is at 93.2% efficiency, we not doing too bad at it 
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Jake Devlin
Mercenary Forces
Exquisite Malevolence
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Posted - 2007.07.20 00:26:00 -
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Bounty hunter and mercenary are different things in eve. mercenary does whatever he is payed too do. a bounty hunter goes after pirates with bounties on their head. mercs can make ok money. bounty hunters almost don't exist afaik.
doesn't really matter what race you play (right now I think either gallente or minmatar would be best but depends how you want to fight) caldari are not the "best" race for anything... no race is best.
intelligence and perception are your most important attribute for a fighter but a good all round spread is useful (ignore charisma unless you want to fly a command ship with warfare mods, but don't ignore it too much)
Tutoring tends to come from personal experience and corp mates... you'll just have to try and find the best you can (please don't join goonswarm).
Don't rush into a battleship and don't listen to too much you read on the forums as a lot of it is crap. tech 1 cruisers are under rated you can do a lot in them. oh and assultships suck don't bother with them unless you plan to fly heavy assultships (which are pretty expensive)
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Flinx Evenstar
Minmatar
Spartan Industries
Cruel Intentions
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Posted - 2007.07.20 00:37:00 -
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Originally by: Jake Devlin
tech 1 cruisers are under rated you can do a lot in them.
QFT...I still love the rupture, although I haven't flown one in months, but I had a **** load of solo kills in a Ruppy with 220 T2 Vulcans
Loved it when the BC's would shoot me at range before I even got a scram on in belts.
Think they underestimated it Oh...and a ship you should learn to fly, is the interceptor 
Tiny little thing, but omg deadly.
I, erm, like kill things and stuff |
Jake Devlin
Mercenary Forces
Exquisite Malevolence
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Posted - 2007.07.20 00:45:00 -
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Oh and before I forget merc work is about isk lost. if you make the target lose more isk than it cost you the your doing you job. eve is an economic game. don't be afraid to lose ships in order to get the job done. however also don't throw ships away.
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Hannobaal
Gallente
Dragonfire Intergalactic Crusaders of Krom
Dark Matter Coalition
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Posted - 2007.07.20 01:22:00 -
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Originally by: Flinx Evenstar
Not really mate, there are plenty of corps that will school you in pvp ( points to Eve Uni )
*points to Agony Unleashed*
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cal nereus
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.07.20 01:49:00 -
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If you're interested, I replied to your other topic in the skills forum. I think what I said was helpful.
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BluOrange
Gallente
Agony Unleashed
Agony Empire
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Posted - 2007.07.20 04:14:00 -
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Edited by: BluOrange on 20/07/2007 04:14:04
Thanks for the point, Hannobaal :) The banner in my signature links to the Agony website, for those who are interested.
There have been a number of PVP-related threads in the 'New Player Help' forum recently, I reccommend checking them out.
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Alpha Sentori
kleptomaniacs
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Posted - 2007.07.20 06:44:00 -
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I think someone said earlier not to do so much research. I wish I had done more tbh but I see what they mean. Lot's of good advice.
Select 'show all skills' on your character sheet and look at the main skill for each category (Engineering, mechanic, spaceship command, navigation etc. etc.) these skills are must have level 5 skills as well as anything that influences capacitor. Then enroll in the PVP university course for some practical experience and learn to use the scanner.
Until you know what exactly it is you want to do (a low skill covert ops scout is as essential as a high skill Cap pilot) just get those skills trained up.
You won't really be a viable option for a good merc corp for some time but I'm sure if you speak to them they would give you advice and direction. Cruel Intentions spring to mind, I have been on the end of their contracts in a former life and they are good.
Alpha
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