Ships & Modules

Frigate: 400k isk
Cruiser: 4 mil isk

Yep, cruisers are superior in every way.

Your alliance name is very fitting.

*shakes a tiny fist* curse you!!! *laughs*

great minds and all :)

Frigate fleets themselves are extraordinarily fast and agile. A frigate fleet has absolute power over when and where to engage - it can go balls deep into an enemy fleet, kill something expensive, and get out with few losses.

If you see frigates as pointless, then you must by extension see destroyers, cruisers, and cruisers as pointless because battleships will **** on anything below in a straight up fight much like cruisers will **** on frigates.



My entire corp is dedicated pretty much to frigate warfare and we seem to do just fine.

Don't fly some cheap frigate.

1. Get the most expensive faction battleship on the market

2. Fit it with the most expensive stuff you can afford. In fact just buy PLEX and Officer fit it.

3. Jump into the first low security system you can find.

4. Watch in amazement as you just destroy every ship in the system.

5. If for some reason you fail it's only because of lag so repeat steps 1-4¡

OP did make one point very clear. That being that frigates need some love, if for no other reason than some that people will see them as valuable (which there most certainly are). IMHO frigates are one of the best and most underrated ship types in Eve.

Also, if so many ships are better then frigates, how come the only thing i really fear is an Alpha-Nado sitting on my undock Everything else i can get away from or maybe even kill (or at least scare the **** out of).

No, frigate are not worthless, not when flown well.

The only additional thing I can think of is making some frigates better at engaging cruiser-/BS-sized targets (at the expense of being fairly helpless when attacked by other frigates). Similar to what stealth bombers are like right now, just without the "stealth" part.

This would also make anti-frigate warfare more expensive, either by bringing some frigates of your own, or by equipping ships with anti-frigate weapons.

Anyone who suggests that flying an officer-fitted faction battleship in pvp/fw is a moron, and a detraction from a thread about making frigates relevant and a natural choice over a cruiser in some situations.

Anyone who cites that frigates are used in null sec is noting the exceptions which I already mentioned: intie, cov ops, and sb, etc. I am talking about the rest of the frigates.

And if a frigate is chosen because the pilot cannot afford 4 mil ISK for the cruiser hull, then that pilot has other problems.

Maybe people use them because it´s fun to use a frigate?

No other ship class is as agile as frigates, and no other ship class has scan res as high as frigates...thus, frigates are the best fast-tackle in the game, hands down. Not even exclusively specifying interceptors here...I've had plenty of success getting point on tings in T1 frigates.

No other ship class has as much pure speed, so if you need a warp in (and don't have probes...), then it's pretty much a frigate's job.

If you're going solo, it's often much easier to fight something large with a frigate, than to fight it with an equal-sized vessel. Case in point, there's a kill floating around somewhere of a Velator pilot that murdered an alpha-nado by getting under the guns.

No other ship class can move around in lowsec as easily, since most(not all, ofc) of the ships camping gates can't quite lock them fast enough to get a point.

I could go on for quite some time...