EVE New Citizens Q&A

Well, i would like to point you towards battleclinic for some ideas on how to fit ships (only ideas guys, calllmmmmm)

Firstly using turrets on a raven is sub optimal. Being a Jack of all trades does not work well, even if you know what you are doing.

Secondly although you are in optimal range, are you shooting the optimal targets? Try hitting a fly buzzing around your head with a bazooka, that idea in this game is quite stressed.

Turrets suffer from issues regarding "tracking" which is in essence how fast the turret on your ship can spin, relative to how fast the target is flying around. If your guns can't keep up likely the ammo is going to be landing where your target was 3s ago.

If you look into the brand new and shiney "mastery" of a ship it will explain to you what skills are recommended to use a ship to a acceptable degree.

TBH jump in the newb help chat and start asking away. The games big, and you have a lot to learn. I would be here all day if i were to soley type out responses and give you pointers.

But i'll leave a handy list for you.

Start learning about how to optimally fit ships, what their uses are and when you should use what.
Read up on mechanics behind all the weapons. They are individual and each play differently.
Ask questions, there is no such thing as a dumb question in this game (except if you talk to some well known trolls that splerg **** all the time)
Go back and learn some more.
Play with other people. It's an MMo and you'll have the most fun and heartbreak interacting with others.

Two year old character fitting a Raven with a meta 0 medium turret mix - sure, seems legit.

So do you have the support skills for gunnery as they may help also never fit guns to a Raven as you get more bonus out of the missiles also drones!!!!! And finally don't mix guns.

I have a level of experience with missile ships that is just slightly above 0. However, I would be happy to add what I know. As others have stated the Raven is a ship with bonuses to missiles, so never fit turrets to it. If you wnjoy the raven, then begin developing your missile and shield skills so you can fly it effectively. If you really want to fly a turret based ship than its best to focus on one of the other 3 races and the skills that are associated with turrets. Also, you dont want to fit mid sizes weapons to a battle ship. Fit the appropriate weapon system and use your drones to attack the smaller tergets.

Also, are you using the appropriate ship class for your objective? If you are fighting mostly smaller targets then maybe you should ve using a cruiser or a bc. Its cool to fly a bs, but you are not going to get optimal results if you are using it outside its inteded purpose. Finally, even though the missiles are landing, they are likely wasting a lot of damage on smaller targets.

I hope some of this helps.

I was about to help with the fit...but don't even know where to start, there is just too much wrong.

OP, suggest you drop down to BC while working on fitting knowledge and core skills before moving on to Battleship.


Okay...I'm giving it a shot..


1. How have you tanked it.
2. Work on the core skills...a battleship should never be fitted with a Co-processor, specially if it's T1.
3. Work on the support skills...A T1 BCS...really.
4. It's a freaking Raven, why do you use guns.
5. If you use guns....use the correct system (all the same, not mix and match), but do it on a Gun ship (hint: for Caldari it's the Rokh)
6. If you have trouble hitting small stuff, welcome to the world of battleships...they don't gave these things a drone bay for no reason...use the annoying little things.
7. Fit to size... Battleship = large modules. BC/Cruiser = Medium modules. Frigate / Destroyers = Small...Bigger fitting is fine (so a medium shield extender on a frigate - fitting smaller...don't...).
8. Train those support and core skills. CCP didn't add them in the game for no reason. They aren't there to fill up space, they are there to be used.

As stated above, because of this list and some very major "must haves" on it, I doubt you are ready for a battleship and frankly am surprised it is still alive in the first place.

Good lord...

Put missile launchers on that Raven.

If you have 8 weapon slots, use 8x weapon xyz

this means that each individual weapon will have an identical performance with the others, less micromanagement is good
this also means they can be grouped for easier weapon management

mixing weapons is not ideal, because you will have to constantly check
'is that target in range for this weapon' for each weapon
whilst your busy checking different ranges, bad things have a higher chance of happening, because your not able to concentrate on the bigger picture

Too bad the RAVEN isnt one of those...

Really old Raven post of mine, that will at least get you started even if the fit is a bit inaccurate now:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=394780#post394780

He does proof a point.

Character age does NOT say anything about the player.

Characters can be bought, makes the pilot a newbie with an older character.
People come and go, makes the pilot a newbie with an older character.

Bottom line, never judge the player by the age of his character.