EVE New Citizens Q&A

According to this thread from 2012

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=149635&p=2

Gallente are very very bad overall and Minmatar are best in overall ship quality. Is this still true? What is more favorable race at the moment in terms of ships?

Outdated info. All Tech 1 sub-capital ships have bee rebalanced.

Also... there are no "best" ships. There is no ship that can "do everything." Each racial line has pros and cons in certain situations based on what they can do.


Gallente: They can rush towards a target and apply facemelting damage with very short range weapons. Primarily uses armor but can be used with shields.

Caldari: They have range bonuses to apply damage from afar and have some very potent Electronic Warfare (see: de-buffs). Uses shields.

Minmatar: They have generally fast ships that can skirmish around the edges of different ships engagement envelopes. Different ships use either shields or armor.

Amarr: They have potent Electronic Warfare, large engagement envelopes, and fit in very well into large gang/fleet compositions. Uses armor.

I'm tempted to say that Gallente are the current flavour-of-the-month (FOTM) again, but that doesn't mean they are the best.

There is no best, and CCP Fozzie and CCP Rise do a lot of ship balancing to make sure that is the case.

However there are differences in the ships, and that means they require different approaches to combat.

Example:
* Gallente must control engagement range (they face-melt at very short range), or use drones. This is why the Caldari stay out of the danger zone, and use longer range weapons.
* Minmatar have fast and nimble ships for running around slower Amarr ships, but the Amarr have huge buffer tanks to soak up damage, unlike the less sturdy Minmatar ships.

It doesn't take long to learn all basic ships.

Primary thing day one is doing the tutorial and finding the career agents which you probably first started at. From career agents you will get the idea of general starting professions. In the larger scheme of things, ships don't matter so much, you can cross train later, core skills are what matter early on as you will use those skills in every ship you have. If you are Gallente, start with their frigs, your weapons and defenses will probably do better in the space you are in, rats have different resistance and damage which your racial ships will do best against.

A good resource about the game is ISK the Guide, a free pdf. It will give you a better understanding of the careers people do here, which are beyond what the career agents cover. The pdf also covers popular resources and apps commonly used as you begin to grasp the game in the coming weeks.

Who are your? I'm Caldari, immortal and impatient for making more ISK.
What do you want? Shiny cov-op ships, LOTS of them.
Why are you here? You can see me?!?
Where are you going? To fix my cloaky device.

To be honest, what matters more is the type of ship more than races themselves. Every race has an equivalent for every type (i.e stealth bombers, assault frigates, black ops) which perform more or less similar roles, with different perks on different areas. There are some common tendencies between ships inside the same faction (i.e Caldari being purely shield tanked, etc) but in the long run you will be cross training for a lot of races anyway.

Minmatar is the best, we do wonders with duct tape and super glue

Explosions? kinetic missiles. Then hybrid turret, shields, ECM (jamming), kinetic and thermal resistance. Maybe you meant EV? though generic for the races.
Each racial lines of ships are different. The races themselves have no bonus and can train for any ship.

My opinion for the Minmatar, "Bigger gun equals Bigger Fun!"

But each race has their own special bonus while it is still possible to pilot them all.

Choose with your heart. You will look at your chip a lot. As was already mentioned, all ships are balanced. What you can also consider is if you prefer sniper or close range combat.

If you do not degrade Eve to the Dark orbit or Counter strike level, you will find out, that amarr and caldary are bad guys, minmatar are not so bad (still they are terrorists, like caldary) and gallente is the only true democracy (read bureaucracy) worth joining to. Though Amarr are getting better, slowly refusing from slave trading tradition last few decades.

If you will get even further in game, you will find out, that it is not about what do you fly in , but whom do you fly with. Social game - just chek evenews24 to get an idea, how big this game is. Battles with hunderds or even thousands players involved.

This ships overview is a bit out dated (maradeurs are different, we also have SoE ships now) but still good for browsing your options. From my point of view amarr and gallente has more nice ships, minmatar has interesting industrials and frigates designs, caldary has one nice destroyer and couple of nice battleships, rest of caldry is primitive as my daughter's lego or plain ugly (Moa style, kche-kche)

JustTrial your mind is oh so small, please don't join eve