EVE General Discussion

ive lost like 3 battleships during level 4 missions and a few battlecruisers earlier. im done with missions.

is there anything in this game that is profitable and doesnt involve losing ships except for mining and trading ??

Three Battleships? How did you manage that? I did a few lvl4 missions with a lolfit Dominix for laughs and didn't die.

Mixing up triggers or just low skills?

Just because you have Battleship lvlx does not mean you should fly one.

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Ive done level 4s in a T1 frigate just for lulz, how do you manage to lose 3 battleships?!

like many things in this game, you will find you will do drastically better if you study the nuance surrounding the area you choose to milk profit from.

For instance, Battleships run lvl 4's quite well, but you will want to make sure your DPS is over 400, that you are using mission specific hardeners (if in high sec), that you pay attention to the ships that trigger other ships to warp into your local space, that you pay attention to the Ewar and such that other ships are placing on you so you know when to gtfo, or stick around.

Also, make sure you are educating yourself on mission fits. You wouldnt want to slowly approach an enemy fleet to get within 15k to use blasters without an afterburner or a Microwarp drive. Also don't bother warp scramming NPC's as they won't warp out of missions. Make sure you are using your abilities correctly and that you aren't wasting time trying to hit frigates with large guns.

Once you start to see how the game is played, you will understand how you can react to situations a lot better without having trial and error losing BS's in lvl 4's. I would suggest going back to lvl 3's and using BC and doing more research into the missions until you understand all aspects, then moving into lvl 4's.

Sometimes, you can lose ships so fast that you might not really learn wtf you need to do to keep em. Damage can come sailing in if you aren't prepared.

google stuff like missions and fits if you are not sure. While google might be Caldari, they have services for all races.

All that's left for you is station trading.

There is no activity in eve that involves undocking and does not involve losing your ship and/or pod. The sooner you get used to that the better.

Don't rush straight to bigger ships thinking they'll help when you don't have the skills to fly them right. Make sure to read the mission report on Eve Survival to check what kind of tank you need, which rats are the tacklers so you can kill them first, and which rats trigger the next wave so you can kill them last.

Edit: Off topic part removed, CCP Phantom

Edit: Saying something you didn't like does not make a paragraph off-topic, SEPR Jensaro.

The EVE Community is brilliant and helpful (though some remarks got removed from this thread here) and so it is no wonder that we have exactly what this thread is asking for:

What to do in EVE

Take the above linked chart with a grain of humor and you are perfectly fine!

Just because you can fly a BS, doesn't mean NPCs and other people will magically die at the sight of your awesomeness. You actually still need to learn to play the game.