EVE New Citizens Q&A

There propably isn't an up-to-date guide for that, since there isn't any need for it. The basics have stayed the same and still apply today.

1. Lvl 3 missions are generally for battlecruisers. Lvl 4 missions require a battleship. This is all generally speaking. Not every mission requires one, but that level of tank and damage will be generally required to efficiently do the missions. This also assumes you actually have proper support and ship skills. For example a battleship with bad support skills and low ship skill isn't going to be any good.

2. Any ship of the right class will be able to do the job. Just ask for a mission fit for the ship(s) you think about using and people will post fits and suggestions for them.

3. Anything fitting, capacitor, tanking and weapons related is good. Anything that improves your ship is good. The one major difference in the higher level missions is, that you will need drones. The larger ships have huge trouble killing small ships, that get too close. You absolutely must have a way to kill them and all larger hulls have a drone bay just for that. There are other ways to get rid of smaller ships, but I still would recommend having drones at lvl 5 as soon as possible.

Generally speaking:

L1: frigate, or destroyer if you're lazy
L2: destroyer or cruiser
L3: cruiser's fine for most, Battlecruiser is easier
L4: Battleships, for the most part (though a BC can run some)

Generally, if you pick a race and then look for the ships in the appropriate size category that have bonuses to defense (or, ideally, both defense and weapon damage) you're looking at a good PvE ship for missions for a newer player.

As far as fits go, you'll generally need to active tank as a new player (armor repairer or shield booster, depending on your race and ship) and fit resist modules to your selected tank type appropriate to the specific mission until you're comfortable. After that, fit weapons and weapon-enhancing modules, especially damage-enhancing modules since NPCs aren't good at avoidance.

As a new player, you'll want to avoid relying too much on drones (though don't avoid them entirely, once you get used to herding cats they're a good addition to your arsenal) and probably put capacitor control circuits or rigs that increase your power-grid in your rig slots. I'd only put the PG+ rigs in if you actually need the grid to fit something.

That's actually about it as far as general advice goes. How much of what exactly you (can) put on a given ship is sort of a matter of personal taste and what you find works more than some set of rules, especially in PvE. Just follow the general guide of your ship's bonuses early-on (e.g. don't fit a ship with a missile bonus with railguns) and train your fitting skills as found in the core fitting achievements to get better fitting stats and there you go.

(You can look up skills any number of places, but honestly if you just look at gunnery in the market and exclude everything in that category that's related to a weapon you're not using, those are the skills you want for your guns. Same with navigation, mechanics, and engineering. Those are your core skill categories early on in the game, plus obviously the relevant spaceship command skills to fly what you wanna fly.)

EDIT: Amarr is fine for basically everything with the possible exception of Angel missions. Even then, you don't have to use a different damage type, you can just take the more dokka approach. Or switch to a drone-boat if you really need other damage types.

hmm links now working here :S

oh well there is always google ;0)

Drake is so last year.
Tengu ftw.

Fly the new and improved prophecy (battlecruiser). Drones and missiles. You can switch out all of your damage output. Me and another guy in corp was running level 4's no problem.