EVE New Citizens Q&A

Are Minmitar weapon systems (projectile turrets) a dead end? The range and damage are lacking it seems... My Fleet Issue Hurricane was using Artillery Cannons for longer range and I was doing the same damage with it as I was with my brand new Maelstrom which was using Auto Cannons.

Now, the part that confused me was that I have:

Gunnery 5

Medium Projectile Turret 5
Medium Artillery Specialization 3

and only

Large Projectile Turret 3

The short range was no problem when I flew my Thrasher

Small Projectile Turret 5
Small Artillery Specialization 4

but it doesn't help me when I'm flying a battleship. Before my battleship was destroyed, I spent my time in null chasing down battleships in Anomalies trying to close to 15km so that I could destroy them. It was tedious and very not fun.

Should I abandon my turret skills and start training missiles or should I even bother with Minmitar ships anymore?

Sounds to me you just need to train up skills. Definitely take the Specialization skills at least to level 4. There's also a lot of Gunnery support skills that will help :

Long Range Targeting

Motion Prediction

Rapid Firing

Sharpshooter

Surgical Strike

Trajectory Analysis

Course there's also various Damage types for Projectiles. Always a good idea to research which damage type to use against the NPC's before engaging.

There's only 2 types of T2 Projectile munitions available. I usually use those and carry some Faction munitions for specific damage type when needed.


DMC

If you look at your ammo and guns, the damage per shot from ammo goes up with a bigger charge but your tracking goes down on the gun itself. This means that you will do more damage to large targets but less damage to smaller (unless they sit still).

You're also comparing artilleryu to autocannons, try fitting 1400mm artilleries to the battleship and see what happens to your range. Medium autocannons would have bad range even on a hurricane, that's why you've fit artilleries. If you need extra range from a ship, look for ones with a fall-off bonuis (in this case, Machariel with 10% per gallente battleship).

you want to check this page for skills: http://www.eve-skilltracker.com/badges

there it is...
Trajectory analysis to 4 and t2 tracking computer iirc

use this for making ship fits and posting on the forum: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=24359

also if u see good fit on the forum you can copy + paste it into the EFT software directly.
Also you can connect your API inside EFT and then you get the correct numbers for your character... very handy tool .

I recently switched from cruise missiles to guns.

Missiles are indeed laziest form of gameplay.. not much thinking in there where with guns bit thinking and actually playing the game will yield better results.

And I can 1 shot frigs at 80 km so I approve.

every time I see Projectile weapons in eve I think .. Battlestar Galactica.....
http://youtu.be/nwkYaxkDO3c?t=1m28s

both are red too (well, for some varieties of apple).