EVE New Citizens Q&A

All the necessary skills to sit in a battleship or to fly one? With a month-old character, I expect it's the first, not the second.

Stick with Battlecruisers and L3 missions and get your core and support skills up. Battleships perform poorly with average skills.

Probably best to try out the Drake and missiles before you commit to a BS. And of course a BS without support skills is like a giant frig.

It's very easy to go size-crazy and try to get into a larger hull as soon as possible.

But this is often a very slow and expensive way.

A battleship is actually not very good for PvE until L4 or similar, it's too slow, too large and optimised for using weapons that are too large for the targets.

So keep that in mind and stick to medium hulls (Cruiser/BC) while you get your support skills up for the modules and weapons you intend to use on your next ship.

Always skill for modules/launchers/turrets and other support before you skill for the actual hull.

And this goes even more for PvP ...

I am just chiming in to warn of the dangers of going too big too fast. Battleships are for L4 missions. Yes, you can use them in L3 missions, but you'll find, in terms of time, that they are generally not worth it if your skills are low. Get a good battlecruiser and then work on your 'support' skills so you can use the T2 versions of things like shield or armor hardeners, T2 drones are a good thing (they can save your afterburner, if you know what I mean.)

I've gone too fast myself and screwed up royally. I can honestly say I've easily lost 2 billion isk due to going too fast. Just because you 'can' fly it doesn't mean you 'should'.

Get good at L3s and then go to L4s, READ THE MISSION REPORTS, then do the L4s. If you fly blindly in to L4s like most do on L1-L3 missions you will find yourself broke quick.

It's been mentionned already, but after a month, you're certainly not skilled enough to properly fly a battleship. Heck I don't even fly any with 33mil SP because I don't know how to fit them well, there's just too many modules slots for me and I don't have any BS sized weapon skilled to T2 yet.

However, I've run L4s in a T2 tanked drake and although slow, it does work for most missions I got, but some have just too much damage to tank solo with it.

That said, if you keep your training focused, unlike me, you could very well be ready for it within a few months but you'll really want to train your core and fitting skills up, as well as the tanking and weapons for a well-rounded battleship, provided you don't stray much from the skillplan.

I haven't done any incursions, but I've read quite a bit on it and there, I think you might get a chance of joining your corp on them a bit sooner if you manage to get a fit with at least 70% resist across the board and enough buffer for your logi-bro to keep you alive, but you will probably have troubles hitting stuff because of tracking or range given your limited skills for now.

Another option though, might be to train for logi and learn about it. It won't help you right away for L4s, but you can join the corp in incursions while you're skilling for battleships and at the same time get a fairly generous income to help you get started once you can effectively fly a battleship.

Guys n gals of newbee Q&A, please.

Size only counts for something when you know how to operate it ;)

Skip the BS when you've barely stepped out of your station and stick to the smaller stuff.

Hull upgrades IV
Mechanic IV
Powergrid and CPU Management V
Capacitor Management IV or V
Shield Management IV or V
Secondary Gunnery or Missile skills at IV
Drones V
Scout Drone operation V
Secondary drone skills to III or IV

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Train that, THEN look at upsizing to a BS.
I'd still recommend a couple more skills at IV but consider that a bare minimum.

Pliz.

I would like to add to this by suggesting Weapon Upgrades V and Advanced Weapon Upgrades IV (Are they still called that?)

Otherwise trying to fit the thing will be a nightmare, plus it allows T2 Damage mods in the lows.

Well thanks for the tips guys!

Looks like I will stick to a battle cruiser for now as I am well aware that larger guns cant hit anything frigate sized!

My main complaint with Amarr ships is that once the frigates are under your guns, you cant hit em and also the non switchable damage types.

Stopping firing when out of cap is also bad news too as you loose your active tank AND guns

So sticking to missiles....

Drake fitting anyone? (Im betraying Amarr... for now)

Drones.

Seriously, the Harb can carry a full flight of light drones and some replacements. It;s not a drone boat by any means, but there's enough drone bay for enough drones to take care of any of those pesky frigates.

I understand how massively appetizing the Raven can look, with its spiked "I Will Ram This Hull Into Your Soft Body Parts" look. I can understand that the Drake looks like a floating armor plate in comparison. But do not lvl3 in a Raven, or any BS for that matter. Use your Drake, grind that standing and supports skills up and only then commit to a BS for lvl4s.