EVE New Citizens Q&A

My goal is small scale pvp in a frigate.

• How does logistics play in this context?
• Is a logi frigate (Like a burst) any good?
• Would I have any weapons?
• What sort of support could I bring? (besides boosting people's shields)

Anything you can tell me about anything is fantastic. Thank you!!!

Logi frigates are very cost effective.

Imagine having stacks of five or ten spread in every other system.
You lose your ship. Dock. Reship. Undock. Engage.
They will have to constantly deal with you for cheap.

All the utility frigates are pretty mucb a PITA if you don't stop throwing them at the enemy.

Wow. Nice!!

I can imagine... it must be annoying to have an ECM fly buzzing you non stop :P

There's this saying from a great, imaginary person from New Eden.

It's about jamming those first who cry about ECM the most ...
... and killing them last.

People hate ECM. It's a really good choice of ships to fly. :)

Mmm. I'm a total newb but from the looks of it the Burst game is mainly positioning with some resource management?

Looks like what I've been doing in most video games for the past 15 years! Only with an RTS view.

I think I may set up for Burst first and then fill in Griffin ECM skills second...!

Thanks for the video :)

Good point.

So as I take it, ECM vs Damps....

• ECM is a hard crowd control with a high failure rate and slow re-activation time.
• Damps are more reliable, less effect sometimes, and you can juggle them on more targets from greater range?

yes / no?

If so Damps sounds like more fun... but a successful ECM is devastating....

Also what sort of feedback does the target get for an ECM vs Damps? Loss of targetting and?

This game doesn't have exactly the same kinds of "crowd control" as other MMO's, but you can kind of draw parallels.

ECM is a full stun (if you can't lock targets you can't do damage), sensor dampeners reduce range and increase locking time (more like a blindness), energy neutralizers drain energy (mana drain), webifiers slow you down (slow/snare), target painters make you a "bigger" target so the missiles do damage better (hunter mark), and tracking disruptors protect you by making the guns on the enemy ship not able to keep up with how fast you're moving (sort of like a blur / chameleon).

Warp disruptors and warp jammers are the "don't run away from this fight" module, pretty much required for PVP.

As a logi repair pilot, your job will mostly consist of remote repairing anyone who needs it. Remote repairers (remote armor repairers, shield transfer arrays, energy transfer arrays) are all high slot modules, so if you fit any guns it's like a healer bringing damaging spells to a fight when he's supposed to be healing.

Now, "anyone who needs it" means you may keep a few people on the watch list so you can see their armor and shields all the time, but if your fleet is huge, the logi team may rely on people "calling" for repairs, which is handled through the fleet interface (they can hit a button to broadcast the need). In that case you need to target-lock them fast so you can repair them.

So, you need good targeting skills.

And, any electronic warfare (ECM and Dampeners) that messes with your targeting is your nemesis.

So this is what determines who gets called the primary target first. Your team will have to take out any enemy jammers, so you can do your job and heal them. Enemies will try to take YOU out first (healers are hated), and then the other high dps ships.