i tend to be the pariah on these threads but ill continue to throw my .02$ in anyways
1. define what goals you want to achieve in the game, i.e. have all ship mods installed, have the mimum amount of decks for the lowest damage cap etc...
2. define what it is about pvp that you enjoy... if anything.
3. do you have PvP / mission goals that you are working towards?
4. build your ship accordingly
I'll use me as an example
when I started the game:
1. I wanted to have all ship modules ever installed on my floating fortress of squishy doom
2. I like hacking more in PvP than anything else, for a couple of reasons.
3. PvP goals -> have all PvP gear by rank 100, mission goals-> have kalvium plating by rank 150
4. Someone said that being a jack of all trades doesnt work - I think it was darth flag, but i could be wrong it was a LONG time ago, so dont quote me on that
.I can tell you that my build at low levels consisted of all defense and low hull / attack. At low ranks people are looking for quick easy kills and high numbers on the damage output. simply taking the quick part out doesnt really do it, if you make it so that you take very little damage, they are more than likely to 1 or 2 hit and move on, now hardcore PvPer's will almost always stick it out.
Also I had high cloak, which kept me off of the radar of heavy PvPers, and a fair amount of scan, so i could find those who were just looking to do missions, for easy kills w/ little chance of retal.
Figure out what your play style is and everything will fall into place for ya, hope this helped.
