EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi ,

Im planning to get myself into FW. I got myself an prototype cerebral accelerator and some +3 implants last night.

My plan is to get cybernetics up to V asap so i get the most benefit out of having improved implants.

However when i start FW i dont want to risk flying around with a half a billion isk pod. So i need acess to jump clones. But becuase i am planning on staying in frigates for the forseeable future i doubt i will be able to grind up the 8.0? standing myself doing pve (and i dont want to either)

So are there any gallente FW corps with JC access (standings) out there that i can join?

Also Does anyone know if the cerbral acceleerator is lost upon death?

and finally is my plan of using the prototype cerebral accelerator with +3 implants (and then +4's once i have cybernetics IV) to get cybernetics V first the fastest way of doing things in the longrun?

Once my two weeks of cerebral acceleration is up i will probably get the standard cerebral accelerator. for an additional +3 to all stats along with my +5 implants.

Remap putting charisma as low as it will go (charisma implant aswell) and adding those points to all other skills.

is this the fastest plan?

I agree.

It's better to play every day and just have +3's (for instance) in your clone. Then to be forced to stay in a clone that has +5's for 19 - 24h (depending on skill level trained) and not do anything major.

Then again, having a +5 clone can be helpful if you go away from the game because of real life (for instance: You go on a 2 week holiday and can't log in. Time to jump to the +5 clone and add a skill that takes at least 2 weeks to train and go and have your holiday without having to worry about EVE).

If you can afford to replace +4's if needed...stick with them.

Just keep in mind that if you get podded, you will lose them.

I can assure you i have lost many new characters all with cerebral the most drastic was the 1bil variant

and you will lose them if podded.

you can lose your ship but not the pod.

do not die with them in

thanks

Hi Ive got another question,

the first cerebral accelerator i used was the protype cerbral accelerator which gives +9 to all stats for 14 days.

The standard cerebreal accelerator gives +3 to all stats for 35 days

Once my prototype cerebral accelerator runs out will i be able to use the standard one for another 21 days?

thanks

Spam warp out button on a celestial BEFORE your ship explodes. I suggest you get some practice with your friends on warping out your pod. Get a rookie ship, have a friend in a fast locking ship blow you up and try to warp scram your pod.
With enough practice, you should almost never lose your pod in Empire space (LS, HS).

First, you might want to create a new thread if you completely change the topic, so that others with the same question can more easily find it.

Second, yes, that's the transversal you heard about and no, it's not necessarily bad.
Transversal is a double-edged sword, it makes it harder to hit for both you and your opponent. (Assuming you both use turrets - missiles are a different beast, they only look at your speed, not your direction.)

So yes, if you want to deal maximum damage, you want to keep your transversal low. But then, you also want to avoid taking damage, so you want to have a high transversal. In the end, you should look at tracking - tracking counters transversal, so if you have better tracking than your opponent, you want high transversal as it will hurt him more than you. Otherwise you want low transversal. This is especially true if you are fighting a different size - smaller weapons have much better tracking than medium or large weapons, so a Frigate will want high transversal when fighting a Cruiser or bigger. OTOH in a Battleship you must reduce transversal to almost zero to be able to hit a Frigate (usually, you get that by being 50+ km away.)

And of course, if dealing damage is more important than avoiding damage (because you know you can tank it and want to finish the mission quickly, because you think he has friends that will come help him soon, because it's a suicide gank, etc...), then you want as little transversal as possible.

To reduce transversal, you can

• orbit at a larger distance
• orbit slower (turn off your afterburner and maybe even select a lower speed)
• stay at a distance and let them come to you - even fly away from your target
• fly in parallel ("look at" the target and match its speed and direction)

This is what I wanted to ask about the other day but forgot, I take it this means if I and someone else fly next to eachothers facing the same way, it does not matter even if our speed is 1km+/s since to eachothers we are standing still basically assuming we have the exact same speed?

It's not that simple, really. If we're talking about an entire weight class worth of tracking distance (frigate Vs. cruiser) then, yeah, the slower tracker isn't going to want to be in an orbit. Within the same weight class, it's not so simple. For instance, maybe your opponent has slightly better tracking, and is buffer tanked, while you have slightly worse tracking but are active tanked.

Orbiting will reduce the damage you both take, and, yeah, it will reduce yours more than his, but if doing so reduces his damage to less than your sustainable repair, you can eventually wear through his buffer while permatanking his damage.

Tracking and transversal only affect turret based systems. Missiles, bombs and drones use their own formulas (altough drones have a similar calculation to turrets).

Damage from turret weapons is not constant, it depends on your ability to control the engagement, and this will affect both your damage and chance to hit. Tracking is basically a measure of how well your gun can hit moving targets: just think of it as the speed as it can turn around to catch up with enemy movement. This speed is measured in radians per second, which is its angular velocity. The ability to track also depends on the target's size (in this case, signature radius). Smaller ships are harder to hit and vice versa. The other factor that affects damage and hit chance is the weapon's signature resolution, which is higher for smaller weapons and lower for bigger weapons. This basically means that larger guns have more difficulty at hitting smaller targets.

For best damage in turret weapons you want to keep angular velocity to a minimum. If the circunstances are right, even a large turret can hit small and fast moving targets reliably.

Reducing angular velocity can be done in several ways:
-slowing down the target's velocity means they can not create such wide angles with their flight
-increasing your distance to the target (assuming the target keeps its trajectory) will give you a smaller angular velocity (the further away you are, the smaller the arc created by the other ship is to yourself)
-match the target's flight. If both are moving in the same direction, angular velocity will be zero. This is why a small, fast moving ship can easily be destroyer by a larger weapon if it's flying straight to it.

There is also the factor of optimal and falloff ranges. Optimal range is the distance where your guns hit the hardest, and quickly start degrating as they enter falloff ranges. For reference, you deal full damage anywhere inside your optimal range, and it starts dropping to around ~50% damage and chance to hit as you approach the far edge of falloff. At optimal + 2x falloff, your chance to hit is basically 0%.

Each turret weapon has varying effective ranges and tracking. Autocannons have small optimal range and very large falloffs, and decent tracking. Artillery have larger optimal and average falloff but very poor tracking. Blasters have extremly short optimal and falloff, but the highest tracking and potential damage. Railguns have very long optimals and falloffs, with average tracking. Pulse and Beam lasers operate mostly within their very generous optimal range, but suffer from tracking issues.