EVE New Citizens Q&A

Well I guess you could say that caldari needs more training to use ALL of its ships well, but youl want to specialise, so you could pick missiles, since theyre easy to get into if thats your thing.
They do have good pvp boats though, not only missile boats but also gun boats.
Another thing to note about the 5% to kinetic is that most pvp fits will be basically using omni tanks. It would be hilariously stupid to overtank EM/Therm only to meet a guy using blasters. So it doesnt mean as much as you might think, for normal pvp circumstances (unless the enemy knows what youre bringing and fits for it)

Gallente.. Has alot of drone boats, drones are very usefull depending on situation, in smaller engagements drones can and will make or break a fight. The more ships you add the less of an effect drones have.
Ive seen people use all kinds of drones in pvp, repper drones, ECM drones (annoying as hell) and obviously dps drones. I havent seen webber drones used, so I figure theyre pretty bad.
Drone boats also have guns, use guns, if those are the ships you want to use. But obviously, the other factions ships also have drone bays, gallente just usually has larger drone bays, or the other factions have some ships that are lacking the drone bay.
Its not like youre locked in any way by choosing what faction youl be flying.

The smaller versions have been released, there are medium and small webber drones, I think it is something like 10%, and 5% web respectively.

Spaceships are spaceships, and of course looks matter I love spaceships and they need to be sexy!



Gallente is not just a drone race, in fact majority of the hulls are meant for blasters. All drone boats can also use hybrid turrets, or use high slots for utility, making them very versatile. Damage drones come in many shapes, and are very viable weapons in small gang combat and PVE. Utility drones could be better, and drone boats don't receive any bonuses to their effects. I do keep ECM, web and repair drones in some of my ships in addition to dps drones.



This is my opinion as well, we have great choices across all the classes. For small gang PVP, you can't go wrong with Gallente. I just reached 30mil SP in pure Gallente skills, and have absolutely no wishes to crosstrain yet.

In large scale sov combat, Gallente lacks the "line ship" battlecruiser and battleship options, but in those Gallente fills the more interesting roles (recons, heavy tackle, anti-support, caps & supers!) and you don't have to be the faceless grunt :)

I'm gallente but Have began to skill up on amarr and minmatar ships (yes, against the judgement of more experienced players) solely because of looks alone!!!, they are so ugly (or I should say deformed) that its embarrasing to fly them :)

I don't know why CCP its so bent on creating deformed, uneven, and imbalanced ship designs but I personally try and find the nice, even, petfectly proportioned ships to fly, myself. Call it preference.

So to me, looks do matter.

Gallente Ship styles are gothic. Try not to attack what you dont understand. Sigh. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Im glad the op called amar ships boring and Asymmetrical because they are, but hey they're fitting because they're Amarians.

If the ships are more or less equal and nothing is "gimped", then looks are very important. I am training for a Scorpion Navy Issue. Why? Because it looks way cooler than a Raven NI. Raven is considered better, but looking cool is the better option when the differences are not that great.

Problem with the Raven is that it looks like that Javelin thrower from "The Twelve Tasks Of Asterix" Great right arm or wing in this case but an under evolved left arm/wing

hmm, well your partner flies Minmatar, which can be either shield or armour tanked, short range autocannon, or long range artillery.

Caldari ships are only shield tanked, Gallente ships are armour tanked (like Amarr).

Caldari ships tend to use long range rail-guns and missiles, Gallente ships use short range blasters (which have some of the highest DPS in the game).

It's kind of like 'rock, paper, scissors' here. I would say choose a ship to compliment your Minmatar pilot's ships, interests and skills.

For example, your partner wants to fly in a rifter, a fast, hard hitting tackle frigate. Both Caldari and Gallente have some excellent frigates for a speed tackle, although a blaster (Gallente) is a better suited weapon.

You guys could also both keep your range in an artillery destroyer (Thrasher), or have one destroyer for close ranges/ tackle and one for long range DPS.

If you guys were to run incursions together, and he was shield tanked, you would be better off with shield tanked Caldari.

If your partner is a Minmatar loyalist, and the choices were for roleplay, it would make sense to fly Gallente.

It's more important to train your core skills though, which are transferrable to every ship. So it wouldn't hurt to cross-train to fly both Caldari and Gallente.

Common MMO gamer flaw. Regardless of how awesome something is, if it doesn't look asthetically pleasing to their delicate eyes, they won't use it. They will demand that it be nerfed when other people use it against them though.