EVE New Citizens Q&A

I've been doing Level 1 Missions in a Frigate for a while now. I ran out of mission in the zone I started in, and picked up a level 1 mission a couple jumps away. I get to the dead space, and about 10 ships converge on me at once. I barely kill them all, and with barely any health left get taken out by the last ship.

I had 2 Hybrid Turrets, 2 Launchers. Afterburner, Cap Recharger, Armor Hardener, Overdrive, Damage Control, and Shield Extender. I was switching and locking targets as quickly as I could, and taking them down as fast as I could. I also had my Drone out assisting me.

So what did I do wrong here? There's an astounding differences between the missions where I started and the other areas. This does not feel very new player friendly, I was not prepared at all for this type of punishment.

From the module types you listed, it appears you were using a buffer tank fit (fit designed to take a limited amount of damage)

I highly recommend using an active tank fit for missions (fit designed to regenerate armor or shield hitpoints by the use of a shield booster or armor repair module)

Armor and shield tanking? Just NO. Pick one of them and stick with it.

As for OP:

Did you do the AURA tutorials
Did you do all 5 career agents?
Optional. Did you do the Sisters of EVE epic arc?

The first two will give you great teaching in what to expect / do. The third will give you some exp with missions (soe epic starts easy and gets harder in the end).

Lvl 1 missions should me manageable even for new player. It will help if you post your exact fit (ship + modules) here so we can see where the problem might me.

As above, you really should have just warped out once you realised you were going to start entering structure.

I ran ever tutorial that was available to me, I can't say how many or which ones I did... but I can tell you didn't decline anything in my journal that was Offered. At that point I started using Agent Finder to do Level 1 Missions, and the mission I'm speaking of is the first one I ran called Freedom and Commerce.

because the game assumes you're gonna be running it all the time. Pulse it as necessary to mitigate the incoming damage while conserving capacitor.

Also, train cap skills (energy management and energy systems operation, iirc) and the repair skills will generally reduce cap need of the modules. Also, Named or T2 will take less cap...

So I should completely disregard when my Capacitor Regain goes into the Red during Fitting? I will definitely try what you're saying, but the mechanic of the Fitting makes you feel like you should do something to not have your Regain in the Negative.

from the way you are describing your fit the seems to be the problem firstly to get the damage out of your weapons you should use damage mods such as heatsinks for lasers, ballistic control for missles, magnetic stabilizers for hybrids (rails and blasters) and gyro stabilizers for projectile turrets, this multiplies you damage for all turrets you want to fit tracking mods as well, , either shield tank or armor tank depending on you ships strengths however since you seem to be going down the missioning path try caldari ships its easier for newer players to get a foot hold into missioning because turrets require lots of supporting skills, secondly you will lose ships from time to time, don't worry, you'll get used to that, lastly go to www.evesurvival.com and read about the rats you'll be facing and p.s. use the right ammo against the rats weakness.

I followed a lot of the suggestions and used Armor Repair and Armor Plates to Armor Tank. I'm very disappointed in Small Hybrid Turrets, by the time I've gotten close enough to a target for them to be effective... the enemy has already been shooting me up quit a bit. Considering Hybrid Turrets are the suggested Weapon type for all Gallente ships, that's pretty disheartening. The Missiles work long range, but the DPS isn't great against tougher targets.

I will say the Armor Repair module worked surprisingly well in combination with the Armor Plates, but I still had to go Repair at the station before killing the Boss. That does not feel very heroic, it actually feels very cheap and almost borderline cheating.

I appreciate people's suggestions, I am trying everything you guys are saying. My Hybrid Turrets and Missiles were totally ineffective against the Boss and took forever to kill him. All the while, he's tearing through my Shields in about 3 seconds and is still doing quite a bit of damage to my Armor. As I said, I had to actually go repair and come back to beat the damn guy.

Should I just forget about Hybrid Turret Blasters? They really don't seem to be very effective, even when you're right on top of your target the DPS feels dismal.

Stable cap is wasted cap, period.
As said above, try to pulse your modules, once you start popping the rats, the incoming DPS naturally lessens and you won´t need to perma-run your armor repairer. That said, all those skills concerning your capacitor should still be quite high on your training list.