EVE General Discussion

I got pretty excited about the clone states in EVE. I even bought one of the few ships I could, being free.

But I was distressed to discover that no weapons appeared to fit the ship unless I have a sub. Is this correct? Am I missing something? Where can I see a description of what can be fitted/used for free players?

Thanks!

Any t1 weapon that fit your racial ships should work. What race are you? What ship did you buy? And what are you trying to put on it?

AFAIK the only weapons you can't use are t2 weapons. And weapons systems belonging to another race. (Only amarr can use lasers, only caldari and gallente can use hybrids and only minmatar can use projectile.)

https://www.thealphasguide.com/

Be ganked
Be scammed
Be limited
Be hopeless
Be worthless

Pve is the most expansive alpha option.
Some level 4s are easily doable in a gnosis which is decent money if you out in the time and learn to do thek quickly stay alive.
T3s will be much faster and easier to do tho. This is what I'm doing in between exploration combat. Don't really feel limited beyond being locked out of battlecruisers or battleships for my faction.
8/10

Exploration is easily doable, you can make good money depending on what sites you find and where you go. You can make big profits for small ships that dont cost alot. I have done much frigate stuff in low or null sec but I've done high sec combat stuff and made good money. But for combat sites you'll be somewhat limited to low difficulty sites because of damage and what ships you can use to fight.
7/10

Mining don't bother venture sucks and you can't do anything with it by yourself worthwhile unless you have a fleet boosting you. You dont even get t1 mining drones. Its a joke.
2/10

PvP/fw success depends on you i guess. You can join a group and fight. I'm not much of a PvP guy so dunno on that front.
?/10

Industry haven't tried much of. Hauling options are limited with small cargo bays under 20kish unless you're gallente.
I dobt think there's many limits on what you can build if you can get a hold of the blueprints, just skills to speed it up I think.
I built a cruor with a bpc I got in an exploration site and that's a faction ship. I can't fly it but I can build it and sell it with no problems.
4/10 if you wany to do lots of hauling, you'll be limited to small shipments
5-6?/10 on building stuff

If you save alot of money you could try trading buy I've never tried that.
?/10

Training speed. 0/10
Old trial accounts had normal training speed, there was no reason to slow it down for alphas.
Training takes so long on alphas people will get bored waiting for skills and quit before they even finish there alpha list and feel the beed to subscribe which is ccps intent. They inadvertently shot themselves in the foot. If they let people get in and get hooked and blow through their list they would hit the end sooner and get the itch to subscribe sooner before they get bogged down by any really long skill queues. There never should have been training speed differences. It was a stupid decision on their part. The faction limits are also stupid but justifiable. They could just make faction ships omega only and it would solve that issue entirely and still allow for different ships to be used and keep the choices open which eve is supposed to have.

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Having fun is free!

All it depends on is you, and what you choose to do within the limits of the F2P.

If it isn't enough then sub.

Join an alpha friendly corp, they'll be able ti help you with what you can/can't do.

How to see what weapons you can use:
Board ship.
Click Fitting icon from Neocom menu.
Click Browser (wrench) icon on the left of the fitting window.
Choose filters there: Skills.
You should get a list in Turrets and Bays lower under the filters.

You have to get ship with high slots available to fit weapons if you want to use them, also you should learn skills to unlock additional weapons.

Okay thanks!! I'll do that. :)

I have a nicely skilled pilot, and I mainly ran T2 mining barges with all T2 mods when I used to sub. I've played on and off with various pilots since 2006.

Anyway, I'll take a closer look at Alpha and what I can turn up! Thanks!

You can be fodder for paying players. No wonder they are trying to sell this sinking ship. After 15+ years only 40k online globally, probably half of them bots.

Gameplay is horrible. What would be best for the game is they fire everyone who works at CCP and give it to a competent game developer.

A griefers paradise with no meaningful way to punish them.