EVE New Citizens Q&A

The fast, close orbit with an afterburner on is called "speed tanking" and reduces damage taken by a lot.

Parthus has an energy neutralizer which he activates, and the effect is typical of energy neutralizer use in PVP: bigger ships (cruisers, etc.) can disable smaller ships by neutralizing their capacitor to 0. A neutralizer drains out your ship and the enemy's ship, but if your capacitor is bigger, your enemy will be completely dry while you still have some juice.

In any case, counters to an energy neutralizer are:

- capacitor booster, which uses charges to refill your capacitor by a large amount

- stay out of range - neutralizers are short range 5 - 20 km (more on specialized T2 ships)

- be capacitor-independent: drones and missiles don't require capacitor energy to do their damage, nor do Minmatar projectile weapons. Passive shield defenses that enhance a shield's natural recharge rate don't require capacitor either.

So different races have different options: the Minmatar can get in close, with weapons and defenses that require minimal energy, the Gallente can send in the drones and wait, Caldari can shoot missiles from afar, and the more energy-intensive Amarr can use long range lasers in combination with missiles or drones.

I just lost two Tristan to good old Kritsan Parthus :). Don't have cash (or skills) to buy a better ship, so I'll try the suggestions in this thread and see how much damage I can do when I get up close and personal with the right equipment.

It may be possible to kill this NPC in a Rifter, but this Rifter fit is awful.

First a small neutralizer will do nothing to this rat, but is causing all the capacitor problems that other mods are being fitted to solve, which in turn are causing the PG problems that the rigs slots are being wasted to solve.

Without the neutralizer, you don't need the cap booster or the cap battery. Yes you have to withstand being neutralized yourself, but the only thing that needs cap is the AB and while it will sometimes shut down, you will be able to restart that between neut cycles with your natural cap regen. Additionally by the OPs admission, you only need the AB while the escorts are up.

Without the neutralizer, cap booster or cap battery you won't need the most ridiculous part of the fit, the 3 PG rigs.

With all that crap removed you can then start adding stuff that actually helps the task. I wouldn't like to advise what to fit in their place without EFTing it and then or course I'd need to know the fitting skill set of the pilot to make a good job of it. But when you have a ship that performs the same task as well with 1 missing high slot, 2 missing midslots and no rigs, it really is time to bin the whole setup and start again.

However, just to round this post off, rather than leave people with nothing. I'd suggest fit Projectile damage rigs, a Rocket Launcher, either a Target Painter or web and perhaps a Cap Recharger, the latter has much lower fitting costs and will alleviate the neut pressure which will be higher if you fit a TP/Web. If you do have fitting issues, just drop the Rocket Launcher.