Ships & Modules

Each ship have a basic purpose.
So each ship should have a base fit that could be fly by any pilot who have the recommended skills and certificates.
These base loadouts could be rewards in some missions given by agents.
Special missions could give you a Navy version of the ship entirely fitted.
With this base fit it would be easier to see how far your own fit is.
It would help newbies to understand the fitting principles.

I'd agree only on ships given with all civilian modules :) normal or dear god navy fitted ship for a mission? You should run that mission for 10 straight hours with perfect tengu, and big chance to loose it...
If you're talking about only fit giving for a mission, but not a ship, then you're wrong again - nobody would do that. Some newbie missions does gives some modules, what more do you want? buy T1 or worst case - civilian modules.

No in fact i do not have any problem in fitting ships.

But if there is no base fit, how can you see if you are doing it right or wrong?

I do not speak for old players. I speak for new players.

If it does what you intended it's 'right', if it doesn't do what you intended then it's 'wrong'

Simple as that really

For the love of god don't take my comment here as support for the OP but no amount of "basic fits" could lessen innovation in fittings. In fact I would fully expect a bad basic fit to be completely ignored and wifdely ridiculed...

In fact seeing what the Polaris fleet dropped and the KMs they produced I would be minded to go missioning for the basic fits myself... for the comedy value...

I would have to concure. Standard fitting not only throws out a fundamental part of what makes Eve what it is, it also throws out how training into slills effects fits. The diff in fitting with wep upgrades 5 and others greatly changes what the right way to fit is for each pilot individually.

Then there is the question of more versatile hulls. Lets look at the hurricane for example. You have the welpfleet 2xLSE fit and then the 1600 brick fit. Which one should be the "right" way to standard fit it? Or a strat cruiser? Should there be a 5^5th number of standard fits to go with a tengu then?

Finally who sets the fits? The devs? Haven't they done enough to homogenize ships into being more amd more all the same? The T3 BCs show what a standardized function looks like where your "highly suggested" to use a ship only one way. Id really rather avoid that in the future.

WoW transplant?

From personal experience, it was fun fitting cruiser ab on a rifter, not a very usefull fit, but it usually bogles the minds of people like the Becket when I post it in corp chat.

Getting a little p****d off with all the, make Eve easy threads of late.

Darik

Out

I don't trust CCP to know what ships are actually good for. Have you ever read the descriptions of ships ingame?

-Dominix: "Its...powerful weapons batteries means that anyone not in the largest and latest battleships will regret ever locking horns with it."
-Drake:"the inclusion of sufficient CPU capabilities for decent electronic warfare goes without saying."
-Celestis: "True to Gallente style the Celestis is especially deadly in close quarters combat due to its advanced targeting systems."
-Caracal:"The Caracal is a powerful vessel that specializes in missile deployment. It has excellent shield defenses, but poor armor plating. Its missile arsenal, when fully stocked, is capable of making a piece-meal of almost anyone."
-Omen: "The Omen is a stereotypical example of the Amarrian School of thinking when it comes to ship design: thick armor and hard hitting lasers."
-Prophecy: "it was determined after mixed fleet engagements with early prototypes that the Prophecy would be more effective as a slightly smaller, more mobile form of artillery support."

What is "right" ? Tell me.

I fly 2 different fits of armor raven ; and let's just say they are efficient.