EVE New Citizens Q&A

as long as your cap recharge keeps up i think you can fire until you run out of ammo

Yes you could fire forever.

The point, though, is to kill the target, so if it repairs as fast as you shoot it, then add some heat sinks (in the lows) and switch to a more damaging (shorter range) crystal, maybe a faction or T2 crystal (which does wear out with time) so you overcome the target's tanking capabilities and kill it.

Not having to carry ammo is a benefit of lasers. You can carry different crystals, though.

I'm pretty sure that if the fitting screen says cap stable, it means you can run all your fitted modules indefinitely at the same time.

Otherwise the time it shows is the amount of time before you cap out running all modules at once.

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You can usually fit a capacitor booster onto an Amarr ship. The lasers and armor repairer will drain your cap, but the capacitor booster will replenish your cap.

Not that I am an expert or sth but going for cap stability usually makes your fit inefficient. Especially if we are talking about missions in empire space where there is no problem with resupplying yourself with cap booster charges or with docking for quick cap (and shields) recharge. Of course docking and/or consumption of cap charges will cut into your ISK/hr but at early stages of your Eve adventure you should not focus on that aspect IMHO.

For PVE you should go for active tank and as much dps as you can squeeze out of your boat. Faster you kill them, smaller incoming damage will be so you won't need so much cap for reppers and won't have to worry about having juice for killing rest of rats.

And if you are planning to try pvp at some point you really should learn how to manage your cap by pulsing reppers and injecting cap charges. Better learn it early when flying relatively cheap ships than later.

Yes.

Stable cap= indefinte fire (until either you have to reload or the cyrstals break. Note: only faction and TII crystals break).

Cap stable ships using lasers with big buffers are usually used for pos bust if/when the defenses are down.

Very true of course.



Indeed.

Yes. Pretty much the only thing the big Amarr ships are good for: all day sieges against non-moving targets with way too many hitpoints.

This is correct. If you're cap stable it's with every _online_ module running as far as the fitting window is concerned.

If you want to find out if you're stable with some combination of modules, you have to offline everything that wouldn't be on (for instance, I offline salvagers, tractor beams, and analyzers/codebreakers when double-checking my all-in-one exploration fit, because I'm only worried about stability when in combat with the NPCs).

It's also worth noting that in combat versus _players_ stability isn't usually a worthwhile goal in the first place, burst damage and applicability of that damage is your big concern.