EVE New Citizens Q&A

Right - I joint the game a few days ago, after two odd years of learning from the wiki. My dream of getting Sacrilidges, Damnations, and Vengences was immeadatly shattered.... due to long traning times for tech 2 ships - and that I don't have the support skills trained yet.

So - I like close range missles, armour, and cruisers and larger...


I'm now looking at getting the Maller and Prophercy in the short term:
Maller: Meh.... No Armour tanked cruisers in the game so using lasers as my next favirote (I don't consider Minimatar hulls to be spaceships, so will not 'fly' them)

Propercy: I do like the way that the drones bumble around the skys like a bunch of enthuisastic puppies, like all the Amarr, it is armour tanked, and is the only tech 1 (Fast traning) armour boat with missle hardpoints (even if no missle bonuses).

Ultimatly I'd after these two set up with some support skills, tanking and drones/missle skills to lvl 4, and then get the Sacrilidge - but then I'm not sure where to go from there..

I'd like to move to a Topredo ship, but I'm not keen on traning shields (I'll probably have to in the end, as I am not flying the Typhoon, unless I get really desperate... I'd probably move to a Navy Raven.... but not certain..


So can anyone offer any advice or councilling for my vauge outline, please?

Thanks for that.... I agree now with baby steps.... I had a good plan to get in a sacrilidge in 4 months... I didn't consider what I'd do in the meanwhile... I'd be using them for combat cosmic annomilies ultimatly, but doing missions for Khanid Navy in the meanwhile with the tech I's.

As to give you an example of how goals change:

When I initially joined the New Eden universe. My goals were like any other game I played, become a major industrialist. So I set out and started as a miner/producer.

The with time I got more and more interested in combat and when I joined nullsec, my new goal was to get into capitals. Once there I realized they werent as much fun as I expected.

So 3 years from my start, I'm here. Doing mainly small ship PvP (the biggest ships I like to fly are cruisers with a very occasional BC in the mix) on 2 alts. My main (this character) usually stays docked to help new players (my main occupation in EVE now a days).

So in a matter of 3 years, I've changed my goals 3 or 4 times...

I picked up a Dragoon just now. Between the launcher hardpoints and drones it should keep me happy for a while.

My advice if you are amarr, train for a nice Punisher, than train for a cool amarr Battlecruiser. Most important are the gunnery and cap skills. T2 lasers are the first priority if I were you.

Hmm, you want a Cruiser or bigger with missiles, but no Minmatar and no Shield tank ... that really doesn't leave much.

You might want to look into a Gnosis - I usually wouldn't recommend it, but with such a restrictive selection it might suite you.
Otherwise there are some Amarr T2 ships (Sacrilege and Damnation) and finally a HAM Legion.

And that's pretty much it, unless you want to armor tank a Raven (which isn't totally impossible, but suboptimal).

If you're going to do that, at least add some armor plates to your raven in place of 1 or 2 Adaptive plates. It'll increase your tank, but it's still not a recommended setup due to caldari ships favoring shield tanking (and lack of armor points to begin with) and that most lows on caldari ships are meant for a ballistic control unit and a damage control unit, along with other mods.

There is one issue I would like to point out. Don't just choose one ship or even one style of ship. They are merely tools. There is nothing wrong with shield taking, drones, certainly not projectiles. Be prepared to use whatever it takes to get the job done.

Also, the wiki is out of date every six months.