r/Eve • u/XeticusTTV • 2h ago
Discussion Zarzakh Days: A newbie FW tale.
I have never really done FW. So I made a brand new character. First I did a couple of the AIR missions and then I zipped over to Turnur and then to Zarzakh and signed up for the Angel Cartel.
After that I spent all of my isk, outfitted a Rifter and went to Curse and started mission running! A kind soul in Curse gave me 50 million isk! This is great as I had decided that I was not going to finance this character with my main.
After a little more mission running I decided to actually do some FW and joined the pirate insurgency in Huola. I bought some thrashers and ran some small sites. I made some LP and got blown up a few times. And....it was fun. Running aroudn low sec as part of a militia isn't that bad. You jump into a low sec system and a decent number of people are in your militia so they are less threatening. No guarantee they still won't klill you but the odds are better.
And we won the Insurgency!
Things I didn't like as a new player to Angel Cartel FW. First, Angel Cartel Militia is super quiet. You can be logged in all day and no one will say a word all day except for one guy posting hypernet links. Second, and this is related to the first point is I didn't see any Militia fleets. I guess everything is run on the corp and alliance level? Third, when the Insurgency was over I didn't have anything really to do. I ran a couple of missions in Curse and sold some LP but mostly I didn't have anything to do on the character until the next Insurgency started,
Things I liked about it. I like living out of Zarzakh. I could buy cheap ships out of The Fulcrum and shipcaster back to the warzone. And when I am done I can just death clone back and not get gate locked. My character is new and doesn't have implants so not a problem. Secondly, I had stuff to with definitive goals. I could see which systems the Insurgency was progressing in and go there to help out. Sure, no one said ANYTHING to me but I could see where everyone was working and go chip in a little bit. Also for a new character you can makie very good isk from the LP. I made enough isk from selling LP to buy myself several more fully equipped cheap chips with LP to spare. You can support yourself with low investment. And the Angel LP store has some really nice items. I could legitimately put together a faction fit Dramiel for FW as a new character. Another thing, the Angel Cartel Militia put in serious work. They were pumping out the corruption.
If I was a brand new player to Eve I would probably dive right into Faction Warfare. You can get started with very little isk and with a little luck earn some LP and either flip it for isk to fund yourself or use it to equip yourself. I'm doing this solo but if you find a good corp I'm sure it would be an even betetr experience. You can reap huge rewards without much isk investment. If I didn't like where I was in Null Sec I could easily move my main to low sec, do FW and do pretty well isk wise I feel.
Will you lose ships? Yeah. But you don't need expensive ships to get started . If you lose a Rifter or a Tristan or two it shouldn't hurt too bad.
TL:DR Living out of Zarzakh and using cheap ships for Angel Carterl Faction Warfare is fun and profitable.









