EVE General Discussion

What is a Strategic Battle Cruiser?

I know a BattleCruiser and I know a Strategic Cruiser. Is it a new type of ship?

Anyway.. we are trying to help the dude get hang of the game any and all help is always useful.

And yes if you meant can I take down 2 battlecruiser... I have done so a month or two ago using a cruiser.

I've corrected myself, I said the wrong thing Strategic-Cruiser is what I meant to say :P

I have no problem posting on my main also. The OP was more a comment from a new players perspective of the game, and what I see as a deterrent for new players like myself to continue playing the game. As I have mentioned earlier, I am considering not renewing my subscription, but I always like a challenge and am more than likely to continue playing the game.

Had I started playing this game 6 months ago, I'd probably not find myself making this post. Timing is everything and I have clearly decided to play this game at a point where it is more beneficial for a new player to play solo, corp free, rather than to join a corp early, make new friends and start enjoying the game.

PS the new inventory is fine, if not better than the 1000s of tab that you used to have open.

Typical moron goon post. This is strictly a PVP game huh? No. If it wasn't we wouldn't have PVE, mining, exploration, etc. Is every goon member in this game a complete idiot? All they want is to kill highsec, blah blah blah. How are new players supposed to get into the game? They don't care. Everything should be done their way or no way.

Every time a goon opens his/her mouth on these forums, their whole alliance and the people in it look more dumb than we had originally thought. Do us all a favor: STFU. Nobody actually cares about your opinions, and really you are mediocre trolls at best. Carry on.

Ah yes... I have done that before using my Strategic Cruiser... Legion vs 2 Tengu's

But you know anyone can attack you anywhere, at anytime.

You can't say you don't, the stories about Eve are too prolific, and rookie help is plagued with horror stories and mind-numbing amounts of "DON'T GO INTO NULL" "DON'T TRUST ANYONE" and insane amounts of "I WAS GANKED" stories.

Complaining about this aspect of the game will get you nowhere, as that is part of what makes it an amazing game. Risk vs reward creates player-driven content, which in turn creates a sense of community.

And actually...Goons and TEST have the best new player experiences of anyone. So please, take your own advice and stfu. He was making a solid point, disguised as a troll.

Byenao

TL;DR: Joining a known pvp-centric game and complaining about pvp is stupid.

OP: Get your corp to hire mercs to defend you, or follow the other advice regarding bookmarks, etc.

Drath, you're new so have yet to learn some basic survival tactics that are easy to implement. You'll pick them up quickly enough; L0ck earlier on in your thread has mentioned most of them. Once you get the hang of these basic tactics you will be nigh on unkillable if you decide you don't wish to be ganked. The main ones I think you will find immediately useful are (1) use of local to prewarn you of trouble (2) bookmarks a few hundred km directly in line with station undocks so that upon undocking you can immediately warp away with absolutely no aligning (3) fly agile ships that can warp away upon jumping through a gate with little chance of getting warp disrupted as align/warp time is less than most lock times.

Newbie question: Does this work when I use my afterburner, too, or do I have to "drift" just with the normal engine to get a workable bookmark?

As various people said, Instas and grid loads are your friends, DScanner is always and excellent tool and can help you identify what is around you, so you can assess the situation better, fast ships are hard to catch unless your fighting ships specifically designed to counter them (Instalock Canes and Panic Zealots for instance).

Finally, learn to defend yourself, fly only what you can afford to lose and dont be afraid to explode, then just ask why you exploded and learn not to do it, just dont give up on it.

Also, train Thermodynamics, it wins EVE

Actually wrong look at the killboards there are plenty of rifters killing drams and daredevils. Just because your an old player doesn;t actually mean your any good at PVP (christ I'm useless at it).

EVE is more about knowledge than anything else and specifically understanding completely the knowledge you have been given.
I was lucky when I started I joined a good corp who taught me the ropes this is exactly what you need to do. You will learn more about EVE from a good corp than you ever will from trying to figure it all out yourself.


Getting killed is a very valuable learning tool, everytime it happens try and figure out how it happened and what you can do next time to try and fix it. It's not always possible but getting killed in EVE is pretty much the same as collecting chicken feathers in WOW nobody likes doing it but it's needed in order for you to evolve your character.

Most of the "I don;t like EVE" threads I read are basically because the newer pilot has joined a crap corp, join a good one and like me you'll be sad, socially inept and addicted.