Had to ask

What is this game like for anew player - what about pvp as this is the area I looking to get into

It's fine. Try getting a good grip of the controls- take the tutorials and such. PvP is skill based, you don't need to farm to get a decent ship.

the very early levels get you the greatest war fighter of all time...The warthog with gats and rockets!

I call it the Philtopian Interceptor!!

....No i don't

The PvP has always been good. We've had a bit of a feature slowdown while the developers revamped all the underlying code, but this should be a year of long-needed improvements. This is a great time to join.

Our descriptions will definitly give you a better idea than if you, say, downloaded the trial and played it. We'll be sure to keep spending our time to try and explain the experience to you.

Good Lord! The readings on my sarcasm detector are off the charts!

(in reply to Lecter's post)

To be blunt, the pvp is the only thing keeping me around. All the rest can be an adventure at first, but in the end, it gets old, and then there is just pvp.

Actually, Roda, just admit it.
PvP with LeberMac is the only thing keeping you around.

Oh, and yeah - it's always worth joining since you can be up and fighting and having fun in 6 days instead of 6 MONTHS like EvE.

You can also pay one month, get to know the game, do all the stuff available right now, then let it rest again (or keep paying, the devs will wuv ya) and come back when there is new stuff to look at. It's what I do. YMMV.