Missions & Complexes

Long overdue that I thank people for the helpful replies! I think I have a better grip on fitting Amarr ships overall now, and I'm well on my way to T2 tank. In the meantime, I'll be using my babby osprey to mine while running L2 missions in my Harby. Currently using the fit suggested first, and it definitely kept me alive longer in L3s, but I can see why people are recommending the T2 tank. It may be that I got into BCs too quickly, and I definitely don't want to repeat that mistake by moving up to Battleships. I'll be cruisin' in my gold dong for a while, now.

You can run L4s in a T1 tank easily enough. The standard dual rep domi works fine, for example. Slow as balls, but still better than L3s.

After reading your abusively insulting quote job there, I think I see something much worse. A very insecure person who can't handle a difference of opinion.

LOTS of people skip battlecruisers and go straight for level 4's in low-skilled battleships, and they never regret it. I gave my opinion, which I have followed on multiple characters, while respecting everybody else's viewpoint. There's no one way to play Eve, and your way is not best. Lighten up, jerk.

I am sorry but getting into a BS before you mhave the proper skills just to fly lvl 4 missions is a big mistake. Yes you can complete level 4 in a BS with low skills but it will take you way way longer. you would make more isk blitzing lvl3 missions as you can complete 5-6 lvl3 missions in the time it would take you to complete one lvl 4 with poor skills.

With the right skills you can easily finish lvl 4 missions with a drake, but that does not make it efficient to do so. If you are missioning to raise isk than isk/hour is what you need to look at. LVL 4 missions are not good money if you need over an hour to finish them. Not when you can complete lvl 3 missions in 5-10 minutes. If you can not do lvl 3 missions in 5-10 minutes than than you need practice and skills or you will die in level 4 missions.

Realistically?
You want all the relevant shield skills at 4. All relevant fitting and engineering skills at 4, and lots of 4's in missiles. Full T2 tank, T2 drones really help (you have them) is a good place to be - then you can work on 5'ing missile, fitting etc skills and upping to T2 damage.

Another way to test is spec up a LSB / X-LSB raven in EFT, fiddle with skills until the tank holds together well, then aim for that.

Two core problems.

You don't have any rigs.

You seem to be using one medium drone.

Now, some rigs are very expensive, and some rigs are very cheap.

If you don't want to pay for the expensive kind, get the cheap ones that help your fit.

And train Drones-5, Drone Interface-3.

If the drones don't seem to be doing any damage, that's cause Drone Interface gives +20%, yes +20% PER LEVEL.

And medium drones suck.

You want five drones out no matter what. If you have enough bandwidth to switch out a light drone for a heavy, do so.

But five light drones with Drone Interfacing do respectable damage.

To make your learning curve easier....

Fit cap boosters

Are you could give useful advice and point out that his fit is experiencing HEAVY STACKING PENALTY.

Certain modules that give identical effects are subjected to a stacking penalty. Not all of them, but definitely armor/shield resist modules.

The first module gives 100% of it's bonus.

The second gives 87%.

The third gives 57%.

The fourth gives 28%.

The fifth gives a mere 11% of the listed bonus.

Google "Stacking Penalty" and "Eve" for more info.

THIS IS KEY.

And download EFT.

Welcome to eve ... thats basicly just the start.



Hey where are going ? buddy ? ... Hey ?

Ahh here we have the most dangerous entity in eve.
The Noob-Corp Forum warrior.

They are extremely dangerous in their natural habitat, with common behavioural traits such as "short pointless posts" "terrible grammar and spelling" and "calling people noobz on the interwebz", however take them out of a nautral habitat into the real world, and a complete failure to grasp game mechanics reduces their effectiveness.

Unless of course, a unaffilitated forum troll is the best source of advice you can find, in which case - good luck - remember Battleships are only a hundred or so million.

ps. I lost my first BS on the second mission, as i didn't follow my own advice. Though this was in 2007.