EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello,

Well, i made a caldari char coz i like use missiles, joined a corp last night and the guys told me that Caldari has no use for nothing since that the dev´s will nerf shield and missile. they told me to restart and pick another class. Well, i like my char and would like to know if all that is true.

Thank you

Ignore that guy for the rest of time because he must be a moron. If he's the CEO, director or anyone "high up" (lol) in that corp then just leave it as it means the whole corp is full of similar retards.

They have their uses. Granted, they don't get a lot of use in combat fleets, but they have their uses.

Also, you can train any ships, not just Caldari, and it's likely that you'll end up with multiple races anyway, because some ships are popular. So don't re-roll your character, just train different things.

Caldari ships use shields, missiles, and hybrids. They're easy to use for PVE, and the issue with missiles in PVP is that they take some time to get to the target, which means you're lower on the DPS meters, and we all know how people care about that.

Gallente ships use armor, drones, and hybrids. They're average for PVE (drones are being attacked now) and some of the ships are decent for PVP, depending on what you're doing.

Minmatar ships can use either shields or armor, and use projectile weapons, missiles, and drones. Jacks of all trades; their ships are usually fast and versatile, which makes them really popular for PVP (also because projectiles don't use capacitor, but that's a detail). You have to train more skills for Minmatar ships to be flown properly (more systems to deal with).

Amarr ships use armor, lasers, and missiles or drones. They're good in PVE against the Amarr area rats, and their battleships are desired in PVP in large fleet DPS roles.

Each race has some ships that are really nice for certain specific roles - interception, long range jamming, logistics support, etc. All races have been rebalanced so the vanilla T1 ship lineup - frigate, destroyer, cruiser etc. are equally good and functional.

My current favorite ship is a Caldari blaster Harpy.

I can pilot any frigate in EVE. It really doesn't take that long to train for all of them.

I asked the exact same question when I first joined and the answer is no. Sure people will continuously tell you they do suck but this is simply not true. They have their roles in fleet and there are several Caldari fleet doctrines. To me a race sucks when there is no fleet doctrine based around them cough* cough* Gallente.

If you fly Caldari i recommend training hybrid skills as well because the Naga and Rokh with railguns are used a lot in fleets and small gang and are just sexy. The HAM Caracal and blaster Moa are also good cruisers for small gang. Blackbirds and Falcons are good for small gang and Scorpions see fleet use in my main alliance. I also hear the Hawk and Harpy are good assault frigates.

Basically to get the most out of Caldari you have to train both Hybrids and Missiles. Furthermore the gunnery support skills will help later when you decide to cross train.

Thanks everybody for the aswers guys, im really enjoying EVE and i like play as Caldari. My new corp is good and the guys told me to get core certs. Now make more sense and i have a path for train my first skills.
Thank you again and fly safe.

I believe that too.

It is probably true that Caldari is the worst race for PVP, but they are very good for other things, and I know of no plans of CCP to nerf shield tanking, nor to nerf missiles further than they've already done (a modest change to Heavy Missiles, a month or two ago).

Furthermore, there's almost never a good reason to "start over" with a new character, because you can always cross-train into the ships and weapon systems of another race, at no penalty whatsoever.

In other words, the OP has found a bunch of retards. My advice to him is to get away from them as fast as possible, and find a corp with people in it that don't constantly spew out misiformation and bad advice.

Back in the day, there used to be a very restricted range of Caldari ships that were any good for the PvP doctrines of the time.

That day is long over. IMO Caldari has one of the best ship lineups at the moment. Trying to second-guess CCP future ship balancing efforts will not make you happy, trust me on this. Train the ships you think you'll enjoy flying, because they're the ones you'll get the best results in, not the flavour-of-the-month ship that you don't really like that much.

HOWEVER

I would strongly advise against restricting yourself to missiles only. There are almost as many caldari gunships as there are missileboats, and most of the Caldari turret platforms are really good right now. You'll be missing out a lot if you ignore gunnery.


Even if you do decide to train non caldari ships, you don't need to abandon your character. Just buy the skillbooks and go to it. Personally I'm a fan of cross-training.

fly caldary , then when you are able to use a drake take a few corp mates wardeck and kill the former CEO:))