EVE New Citizens Q&A

First you are a 3 month old player you probably want to be cautious on which missions you accept. Second which gallante ship do you want to fly the Dominix is focused on drones the megaton and Hyperion are more gun focused mostly rails in pve, and usually an active tank with mission specific hardners.

If by minimum fit you mean a fit for minimum skillpoints, you basically want to fly an armor tanked Dominix with a Damage control, mission specific resists and two Large Armor Reppers and enough Cap modules to run them as long as possible, preferably indefinitely. If THAT doesn´t hold you are simply not yet ready for L4 missions.
Guns and a Drone Link Augmentor in the high and if you can spare the fitting room you might want an AB in the mid.

Ok, Thomas Builder and Nerath Naaris, yours were the sort of responses I was looking for. I liked you both. Could you please comment on the viability of a Hyperion Battleship as opposed to a Dominix? I realize a MJD would allow a skilled person to stay out of trouble in a lot of fights, but for a new player how useful is the repair bonus and extra gun fire power of the Hyperion? The Dominix seems to be a very narrowly focused ship.

What point is a repair bonus if you're not taking damage? The Dominix is not a narrowly focussed ship: it just happens to have some very good bonuses for a specific weapon system. It is often used for heavy logistics, or offensive EWAR in the form of neuts (due to having a robust capacitor supply). It is a decent armour tanking ship due to the generous number of low slots.

Note that the Dominix gets range bonuses, making it very well suited to the MJD play style. The Hyperion gets damage bonuses, meaning its long range damage is fairly weak but you can pick stuff off as it closes. The Hyperion's damage and repair bonuses are extremely useful for assault/brawling style of fighting, but you will need very good fitting, armour tanking and large hybrid skills to pull this off.

edit: I'll just add that the Sentry Dominix with MJD doesn't require much skill, though it will require lots of skill points. Once you can get into the Dominix with an MJD, your focus should be T2 armour tank, then T2 sentries (Sentry Drone Operation 5). If enemies get within 40km or so, pull drones and either warp out or MJD further away.

I always say that your tanking mods and capacitor mods need to be Tech 2, in addition to your racial BS and whatever weapon skill youre using being at least lvl 4.

With a strong T2 tank, and the cap to fuel it, you can survive all but the most severe of your inevitable screwups.

Use a cap booster instead of cap rechargers. A Dominix with a large cap booster stocked with 4 x Cap Booster 800 has more capacitor regeneration potential than the same ship decked out with rechargers and relays. Even more useful to you is that those freed up slots can be used for tank or gank (Drone Damage Amplifier, Omnidirectional Tracking Link).

My advice for people starting out with mission running: overtank until you're comfortable, then swap out tank modules to improve your firepower. You'll be less efficient to start with, but you'll learn how the rats act and what sort of surprises they like to pull on you. As you gain confidence, you'll find you can get away with a thinner tank in exchange for more firepower to finish missions more quickly; but when you're starting out, clearing missions more slowly is a lot more cost-efficient than getting an overganked, undertanked battleship shot out from under you because you misjudged aggro.

Skill-wise, you should have your battleship skill level to at least 3, and you should be able to fit T2 versions of any defensive module you consider. Until then, I'd say you're not quite ready. (My first mission battleship was a Dominix, which I made the mistake of trying to use at Gallente Battleship II, which led to a very disheartening experience in which I had to abandon a mission after warping out with hull damage.)

Tech 2 tank, Microjump drive, meta 4 weapons systems (long range), enough targetting/tracking modules to project damage to 110km.

That's all you need now.

The Dominix with sentry drones is really easy to be effective with, even with the quite bad tech 1 sentries (the faction ones perform much better; tech 2 ones are better again but take a month to train for).