| The "pvp skills or pve skills" debate is one everyone has early on. If it's really a tear for you I can't not recommend Gallente, but here's how it goes:
Minmatar: More shields on small ships, more armor on large ships. Mostly guns but moderate use for missiles. Great PVP race but requires alot of navigation and gunnery skills to make hot, as well as good piloting.
Caldari: Overwhelmingly shield tanked, overwhelmingly favoring missiles but some hybrid ships, all of whom are known for their range not damage. Worst PVP race unless you want to fly 'ceptors in which case the Crow is an excellent ship, or you can fly ECM cruiser or BS, also valuable, other than that largely not desired in PVP. Best PVE race.
Gallente: Overwhelmingly armor tanked, overwelmingly favoring hybrid turrets, small missile crossover. Best all-around PVP race with several best-of-class ships. Second best PVE race.
Amarr: Overwhelmingly armor tanked, overwhelmingly favoring Amarrian heat-beam weapons (which I like to call "lasers"), tiny missile crossover. Good-to-excellent PVP ships for their niches, be it POS assault, solo-pwnmobiles (Curse), and some other roles, but suffering from issues...soon to be buffed. Pure shit PVE race before you hit the 10m SP mark.
So you can see:
IF you were to train Caldari for your farming, you would want to be Minmatar main as the shield and missile skills will not all go to waste, however missile skills are definitely limited to use on a few ships, and the smaller ships aren't among them for the most part...but they do like shield tanking.
IF you were to train Gallente for your farming, you will be developing skills (gunnery, drones, armor tanking) that will help you with both Amarr and Minmatar significantly.
There are ways to make money that don't involve missions, but GL ratting profitably as a new player. Ratting definitely doesn't have the endurance issues that make Amarr shit for missions, but even in ratting having flexible damage types helps. I don't have any particularly good advice for "how to make money outside of missions," I wish I did, because this particular conundrum sucks ass. All I can reccomend is: go gallente for farming if you farm to PVP. Either that or start a Caldari alt. |