EVE New Citizens Q&A

Questions:
-Do you want to pvp? If so than how eager are you?
-Do you want to fly capitals?
-What do you want to do for your primary source of income? Missions? Incursions? Exploration? Trading? Mining?
-Do you prefer speed and finesse or raw clumsy power?
-What class do you typically pick in other MMORPGS?


Btw your avatar looks like John Goodman

Do you want to move on just because you aren't satisfied with the Harbinger, or just tired of the ship itself?

At 13.5M SP, I am certain you have room to build up your support skills, and weapons as well. I could be wrong, but if the reason you are interested in swapping is because your corpmate was able to beat you in a drake, you might consider focusing on the skills that will make your Harbinger (or other ship) better. If you don't take the time to get the necessary skills up and move from ship to ship, you won't be able to beat someone who has more focused skills (presuming all else is equal).

Part of your problem is flying lvl2's in caldari space. Most of the rats should be guristas, which are most vulnerable to kinetic damage. Laser crystals only deal EM/Thermal damage, so you won't be able to hurt them as badly. Additionally, guristas are going to be using missiles, which can be a pain while you work on getting into range. If you want to mission/rat, I would recommend moving to Amarr space, where you should have an easier time.

As far as training to an Abaddon now, I wouldn't recommend it. As mentioned, I would be willing to bet your skills can be improved for the harbinger, and many of the support skills will transfer over to the Abaddon. Additionally, you will have extra training for large energy turrets that you could wait on with the Harbinger. There is also the cost of the ships to keep in mind. Losing an Abaddon will hurt a good deal more than the Harbinger, and without making sure you have proper skills, the likelihood of losing it goes up a great deal.

As far as the best course of action, I'd have to wait and see your response to Eternal, to know what you want to do. I have had times in the past where I try to stick with a skillplan and just want to try something new, so it falls away. It isn't great, but it happens. Ultimately, the point of the game is to have fun though, so that should be your goal.

If you do want a more specific skillplan for the Harbinger, you can mail me if you need. Make sure you have a good fit for what you are doing, and that can help a lot as well.

Good Luck,
Sentar Dethahal


::EDIT::
And that's what I get for waiting so long to finish my post...I'll check your skills and then add on. Won't delete the rest in case you find any of it helpful, or for others future benefit if they want.

Ok, so I would actually say your skills seem pretty good for the Harbinger, you may need to get Adv Weapon Upgrades to 3ish for fitting stuff, but that would depend on your fit of course. Only other thing I noticed was maybe get armor compensations to 4 instead of 3. Battlecruisers to at least 4 will help with the Harbinger as well.

If you do want to stick around in Caldari space for the missions, you may consider changing ships/races. As far as which ships, the Drake is an excellent mission running ship, and even with the coming Heavy Missile nerf, it should still be more than adequate for level 3s and below.

Skill plan depends on what you want to fly. Easiest way to figure it out is find a ship you want to fly, and get the prereqs and certs in a queue with something like EVEMon.

Totally understand sticking with your corp. Makes a lot more sense than moving all over.

Sounds to me like Minmatar ships, T1, T2 and faction varieties, as well as projectile weapons are what your looking for. You won't need a whole lot of addition training for them either from the looks of your skills.


oh and as far as your avatar, I'm thinking a younger, tougher, more serious Rip Torn

Yup, John Goodman. Straight outta The Big Lebowski

Dont know what to tell you bro, fly whatever you want.

Focus on Amarr more for proper carnage. I switched from Minmatar who are supposed to be the PvP kings and am much happier and at least feel more deadly with amarr. The Harbinger should eat that drake if similarly skilled pilots (in my experience anyway).

Amarr are i would say the hardest race to fit for so dont be put off by early failures. Running everything off cap including weapons forces you to fit well and deal with heavily unstable fits. I really suggest giving the Harby another go or maybe try a Zealot for maximum drake pwnage.

Feel free to get in touch to talk Amarr stuff :D

Well, Harbinger is a great ship.
The problem is that there are so many people flying Drake-Tengu that when we choose another path we can't prevent ourselves to wonder if we are doing right.
Personally, i let my joy guide me.
If you don't like the Harbinger after having really tried it (not just 1-2 missions/fights) then ok, change ! But don't choose the Drake/Tengu just because everyone else do it. That is a bad reason. Maybe you'd like a battleship, or a T2 cruiser, or or or... it all depends of what you want to do and how... sorry to can't be of more help without knowing more precisely about which activity you want to do

I still stand by the suggestion of Minmatar, not because of any perceived advantage in pvp, but because they mesh well with your current skills and they provide flexibility in damage selection and ship setups that easily allow them to adapt to any activity you choose to try.

Oh, and as far as what you want to do, take a look at this http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/ for some ideas.

cheers

Yeah, I think I'll crostrain minmatar a bit along with getting better at flying amarr ships too :)

Thanks for all the remarks there. I actually forgot about the fact that I don't have +4s yet. I'll definately check out more of the drone skills too (think the main reason why I've got so many different skills is because I always wanted to train something that wouldn't take me 30days before I got there)

As for going to Amarr space, I've said previously in the topic that the main reason why I'm flying here is because my corp is located here and I want to stick around their base of operation :)