Minmatar. You can use just about any damage type, use guns or missiles, run with armor or shield gangs, and be exceptionally good at both pve and pvp.

Gallente or Caldari... Caldari probably. Its a tough call though. :|

-Liang

Don't pick one, you will only be disappointed. All races have there ups and downs. You should be flying what you need not what you think you should stick to.

If you have to pick one, pick a pirate race and pretend its not cross training but a longer and harder split skill to learn

If I were to start over today with a clean slate, I'd go gurista. I suspect amarr or caldari would be better suited to you however. My reasons for choosing gurista are my interests have gone back to solo pvp and low sec exploration. The Gila is the undisputed master of exploration.

I have to agree spreading your self out to two or more races is a good idea. Having some options really helps out your options and allows you to be more flexible in fleets.

One thing I would suggest is to get into a good corp and see what they fly. Many good 0.0 corps have standard fits and ship types they use. So if you join up with a good corp it will be very apparent what you should start skilling for. But if your looking to be a solo pilot doing PvE in empire just train up a Raven and make your isk :P.

First Pick: Caldari.
Reason: Tengu.

King Rthgar you apologise to the duck with a purse, that is mean. Poor moa crying in to it's purse.


Jazelle Hazaad your a forum alt so ............

Flying with a group and seeing what and how they fly is one of the best ways to get a feel for some thing with little investment. After you see some ships in the sky try a few out.

I must assume from this you know of the torpsnake rat-melter. Please do not spread word of it, lest people start driving the price of my beloved rattler up. TIA.

Winmatard by far , it is good/best in everything not like other races ... :(
sniping --> winmatar
roaming-->winmatar
solo --> winmatar is 1st or 2nd
high end pve --> winmatar
what else do you want?

winmatar winmatar win win

No idea wtf you're talking about.

Sniping - Minmatar is only any good if you need alpha. If you need DPS, it's Amarr, and range is Caldari
Roaming - Minmatar does have an edge due to faster ships (particualrly Vagabond), but not best by any means
Solo - All races have very good solo ships
PvE - Are you smoking? This is Caldari all the way.

I do hope you were trolling.

smoking is for dumbies like you
sniping - today sniping is all about alpha no range or dps ---> go winmatar
solo --> altogeather minmatar is way more favoured than caldari or amarr
pve-- caldari rly?? only noobs think missiles is the way to go , only good for low sp/experience beginner players like you ,
turrets are way better especially if it is mounted on vargur or machi

Amarr does everything well, except for speed.

How about ship class instead of race restriction ? I started a new account (this one) and told myself that I won't set pod into anything larger than a frigate (ok I was flying a vexor for a bit :-))).

Plenty of options in frigates alone for everything.

problem about Amarr is they shine only after you have their t2 ships or BS, so it' s a long long run for a newbie

I did this when I started out with my flashy lowsec Yarrr pirate character. Years later, I still fly almost exclusively frigates.

My training went a lot like this:
Started Caldari: Trained up missiles, hybrids, shields, drones.
Cross trained to Gallente; Already had drones, just needed armor skills.
Cross trained to Amarr: Already had drones and armor skills, just needed to train lasers.
Cross trained to Minmatar: Already had everything except Autocannons.

Once you flesh out your skills with one race, you can very quickly become competent with the others. Plus, with frigates being a low-rank skill, and guns / missiles limited to frigate sizes, the training goes by so quickly!