EVE General Discussion

Okay, I have been playing this game for a good little while now, and I have been thinking of creating an Alt. My main is a Miner, and normally during Hulkageddon I just dock in a station and train up on skills until the whole mess blows over.

But this time around I noticed that while Mining / Refining / Manufacturing can be a good way to make money. I have been missing out on the combat side of things and would like to make a Combat / Mission oriented Alt. I have done some research into races and a slight bit into the class of ship I would want to specialize into and these are some of the things I have come up with.

Cal - Missile Boats
Gal - Droids / Hybrid Turrets
Am - Lasers
Min - Not really sure. Seems to be a little bit of everything (with speed).

I haven't decided on race yet, but leaning towards Cal.

As far as the class of ship, I know that some combat missions have ship size restrictions on them. So I was actually thinking that whichever race I go into that I might focus on Cruiser since it seems to be widely accepted into these size-restricted areas for the most part.

I guess really what I am trying to figure out is what to train up in first, what the priorities for training should be, and so on. I mean, should my first goal be to get into a Cruiser? Or should I work on weapon / defense systems first while running lower missions until I have some of the "recommended" skillsets for a Cruiser and then get into one?

I know I am going to sound like a complete noob when it comes to this topic but, Combat and Industry are two completely different beats in and of themselves. So any help on this would be appreciated, maybe a guide or something that can sort of help me out.

Caldari. Get your frigate competencies up first. As a MINIMUM, this means Core competency - basic, Active/Passive shield tanking - basic, missile + frigate launcher control standard. Plus a lot more but I don't want to list them.

For mission running, I found I had the most fun with caldari. Not because of the easy missile spam, but that there is something enjoyable about watching a stream of missiles fly out. I combined my fits with not the heavy shield boosting ships, but smaller boosters or passive recharge with afterburning. This allows slots to be freed up for damage mods and clear pretty quick. For training, my start of fun ships were:

Lvl 1: Kestrel
Lvl 2: Rapid fire light caracal
Lvl 3: Drake (of course)
Lvl 4: Raven

If you want them fun, have to use the afterburner and range combination, even with the raven, and don't try for full shield cap stable with for example on the raven an x-large booster. Keeping the range, a smaller Large booster (med for caracal and drake) work well so you can fit them damage mods, target painters, etc. It also keeps it from being just easy mode.

Side note, new missile launchers coming!

Train Minmitar. If you can dictate range, you win or have the option to run. Just for the love of all that is holy, do not train Gallente.

train a tengu guy

op said main is a miner, so no noctis

Confirming Amarr has great looking ships with lasers that rely heavily on cap and can't switch damage type. They are skill intensive (cap + armor), awesome and slow (except crusader ofc) but a bit limited so I bought some duck tape and cross-trained to winmatar. Now all I need is shield + missiles and I am good to go. Thinking of crossing into Gallente for the Ishtar/Gila/Cynabal/Machariel. I can already fly the Ishkur.

I'll be around.

i would go minmitar.
you get a lot of versatility in their ships

Rifter, a great frigate, considered the golden standard of starter PVP, also good for lvl 1 missions
Rubture/stabbers, both good cruisers
Hurricane next to the drake is probably considered the best BC in the game, it too is good for pvp and pve.
tempest, maelstroms are good battleships.

Minmitar weapons are powerful and use no cap.
minmitar ships are fast
most minmitar ships shield tank
primary weapons are projectiles.
one thing great about minmitar is the tech 2 ships have a HUGE resistance to EM/thermal damage.

Why do you need an alt? Your Miner probably has a high memory. Go Galente Drone Boats (Since all the drone skills are Memory > Perception). Quick and easy to mop up missions, don't need to buy much ammo. Don't need super high gun skills as most of your DPS is from the drones.

The extra drone skills will help your mining barge's drones fight belt rats a bit more effectively too. (though don't think they'll save you from a ganker).

It doesn't matter what race your miner is, since training up to a Vexor is super quick, even if you don't have the Galente Frigate skill yet.

huh, why's that? Something wrong with a mission Ferox or mission Rokh?