EVE New Citizens Q&A

T3 are multipurpose:

They are used for missions (mainly level 4 and 5)
They are used for exploration running
They are used in PvP


EDIT:

You don't need a shiny ship to run l4 missions in a tengu, it's just that most that do are the people who do nothing more then missions and like to pimp their ride. I own a T2 fitted Tengu on one of my characters and it can tank all the L4 missions thrown at me and DPS is good enough to quickly run the missions.

For exploration, T3's can fit an all-in-one role, so both bonused prober and the ability to run sites.

Thanks for the replies.

So the idea is I can train 1 hull + 4 subsystems and then swap those in/out of the hull to fit the role I need the hull to do at that moment.

Ace Menda - could you paste an example of your L4 fit please?

Thanks.

t1 - basic
t2 - specialized
t3 - generalized

a t3 ship will generaly perform above t1 at multipule roles while not reaching the performance of a t2 ship that is fited to max one of those roles

also as far as combat goes t3s are often chosen because they have the higher mobility and lower sig radius of a cruiser while bringing dps between that of a battlecruiser and a battleship and somtimes maintaining a tank that far higher then a battleship due to high base resistances. in other words they deal good damage while being extreamly survivable.

Strategic Cruisers are popular because you can put together a set of subsystems to achieve the ship you want, I.E. a solopwnmobile, a ship that can do everything solo. Want to warp around cloaked? Check. Want to have probe bonuses so you can find victims? Check. Want immunity to warp scrams? Check. You want DPS so you can gank victims? Check. Tank so you survive? Check.

The subsystems don't just give slots to the final ship, they also give special abilities.

All other ships in the game are limited, as designed by CCP. Attack ships don't have tank. Tank ships can't warp around cloaked. Probing/cloaked ships do crap DPS and die easily. If you really want to do one specific task, like missions, or transport, or POS shotting, or probing for exploration sites, they're nice, and sufficient.

But if you're flying around in your cloaky cov-ops scout looking for targets, and ****!!!, there's your war enemy flying a battleship, and he's afk at a gate full of plexes in the cargo hold, are you really going to have time to fly back to station, load up your own battleship, and come back to shoot him?

Whereas if you're flying around in your cloaky, DPS/tanked strategic cruiser looking for targets, you may be able to decloak on the spot, apply battlecruiser-levels of DPS with enough tank to survive if he shoots back, kill and loot all the plexes, and then cloak back up and disappear into the ether.

Could a cloaked Tengu (for example) get in and out of low-sec through gate camps ok?

Is it possible to make a fit to warp cloaked, probe things down and deliver decent DPS?

Thanks again.

In addition, many individual layouts can allow you to do a broader range of things with a single ship than any other cruiser without sacrificing bonuses.

They're essentially exploration ships, they're designed to allow you to operate for long periods without docking. This is probably not that valuable to you as a new player, but will get pretty important if you get into end-game exploration.

As a WH player, we like them because of their low mass.

As every wormhole has a limit on how much mass you can move through it, we get much more bang for our M3 in a T3 than anything else.

for the love of god there's no such word as boni, the plural of bonus is BONUSES.

@OP

Strategic cruisers are used for many things the biggest use I can think of is wormhole living. Since wormholes don't allow unlimited amount of mass through the fact that strategic cruisers are cruiser sized and can field a BS-grade tank plus battlecruiser-grade DPS means they are perfect for the restrictions in wormholes.

Apart from that some people use them for lazy missioning or exploration as they have subsystems that can boost scanning strength.

Boosting fits also are very popular since they are faster and smaller than command ships (and obviously titans) so are very hard to scan down and catch if you need offgrid boosting but have no access to a POS.