I don’t mind joining your community, my only fear of fighting is of my bad internet cutting out in the middle of an important fleet battle.
I definitely wouldn’t mind joining the community and hang out with others, helping out other members of the community and building stuff. I rather not go around ganking innocent players, kinda against my morals. However fleet fights and stuff like that I have no alms about joining in, just have to repeat my worry about bad internet.
Also, I’m not sure if it’s just my internet, but when I was doing the tutorial, my guns wouldn’t active for some time even when I closed in the range and hit the button multiple times, I’m also worried if something like that happened in a larger fleet battle.
Though I will repeat, if I was to join this community, I would like to focus on the mining/industrial side of things, maybe dabble as a drone operator for fleet combat.
Oh, and not sure if I need to mention this, but I selected the Gallente race with the Jin-Mei bloodline.
We use Jabber for most text chat. It’s where fleets get announced, and most eve-related chat happens (as well as some of the social groups hang out). The Imperium (the coalition we are in) also has its own Discord server.
Bad internet isn’t great… but if you’re just one of hundreds of people in a fleet, you’re not going to lose the battle for us by disconnecting. Worst that’ll happen is you’ll lose your ship (and you’ll get most of the money back to replace it from he Ship Replacement Programmes we have!).
For guns not firing even after pushing buttons. Try brining up the diagnostics screen (CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-M) and there’s an ‘outstanding calls’ (or something) section there. This will list the things you’ve told your ship to do that haven’t made it to the server yet. Should help you work out what your internet is up to.
As for race of your EVE pilot, it makes no difference to anything these days.
