EVE New Citizens Q&A

Not matter what she says bigger is not always better.

A destroyer can easily do level three security missions. There is no need to jump up to a larger ship right away. I would recommend getting your core skills up which will translate to any ship that you desire.

You can look at the certificates and see what it takes to get to roughly standard level on gunnery, core and defense. These alone will make you much more effective at PvE and PvP.

Guns : Incusus - Catalyst - Thorax - Brutix/Talos - Hyperion/Megathron

Drones: Tristan - Algos - Vexor - Myrmidon - Dominix

Thanks everyone, taking it all on board.

Regarding these 2 specifically - what are general advantages of lasers vs. railguns, for instance? I don't really have a style beyond liking shooting things. I'm sort of drawn to Amarr, though I'm not really sure why - I just the idea of lasers and armor tanking. Is there a reasonable Amarr ship that'll get me through level 2/3 missions, that I can buy and fit out to see if it works for me? I have the long weekend to train skills if I need to crosstrain much. I'm just trying to scope out options really and figure out where things end up - otherwise I can see myself in 2 months time with a bit of everything and good at nothing having made little progress.

And on destroyers doing level 3 missions - how? Maybe this'll give me an idea of where I can improve - when I was doing level 2s in my Catalyst I was able to clear all the frigates, but was usually left with a group of cruisers which just took way too long to kill relative to the amount of damage they were doing to me. My DPS was just feeble.

Lasers don't use ammo (they use focusing crystals). Hybrids and Projectiles do use ammo, so you are limited by the size of your cargo hold (for spare ammo), and you shoot shoot shoot shoot reload.... shoot shoot shoot shoot reload.... which reduces your DPS some. Laser ships are prefered in protracted big fleet battles because you can shoot for hours with no need for logistics to bring you more ammo.

Lasers, on the other hand, use a lot of capacitor energy to function, so they're best on the Amarr ships (which have bigger capacitors than other races). But you're still vulnerable to neutralizers and must have good cap recharge skills. Hybrids use ammo and a bit less capacitor, and Projectiles use ammo and no capacitor at all (in some PVP that's a big advantage).

Finally, all weapons have 2 varieties: short and long range. For lasers, the ranges are short/medium, and medium/long, so you have a bit of a leeway in your range-keeping. Hybrids are either point blank or super long range, and projectiles are short or long range, both of them kind of have a blind spot, so to speak, for medium ranges. People adjust by maneuvering their ship close or far, though.

For level 2 level 3 missions, you're typically looking at a cruiser. Both the Omen and the Maller are quite "reasonable" combat ships.

Several possible ways for a destroyer to do level 3 missions:

1. It's a short delivery mission or it's a combat mission where you already have a spare item to hand in (basically, complete the mission without fighting).

2. Use a speed tanking setup (a small and fast ship can actually get damage reduction by being small and fast - the enemy just can't hit you). The higher level missions have some heavy ships attacking you, mixed in with smaller frigates, if you are in a super-fast destroyer, it's designed to kill frigates so you take out the frigates and you're left with just the enemy cruisers and battlecruisers on the field. Those are bulky slow ships that have big turrets that can one shot you if you stand still, but since you're orbitting at 1000 m/s at 500m radius around them, they just simply cannot track your ship.

3. He possibly used electronic warfare to disrupt the targetting of the enemy ships. This is somewhat hard to do as the NPCs are so many in a site, but with small fleet player PVP engagements it's very effective.

Unfortunately if you want to fly a battleship drones are going to be a must. Personally I hate pets/miromanagement to the point words can't even begin to describe my hatred for it.

Drone skills are important when flying a BS to kill those pesky frigates that get too close and web you!

Cross training Minmatar will give you access to 3 new ship lines

Standard Minmatar ships
Angel Ships (Dramiel, Cynabal, Machariel)
Guardian Ships (Daredevil, Vigilant, Vindicator)

Hybrid & Projectile Gunnery skills will be required, along with shield & armour tanking skills.

It's the most SP efficient x-training strategy, as the combo is Gallente/Minmatar & Minmatar/Gallente
no other 2 faction combination results in 4 shiplines

the 3 other Pirate Faction combinations are
Gallente/Caldari
Amarr/Caldari
Amarr/Minmatar





not that the Devs have ever had a hardon for all things Minmatar ..........

Amarr are diversifying a bit with recent changes to include missiles and drones.