EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello and welcome to Eve,

First of all, no there is no "Jack of All" ships, but there are ships that can fill a couple of different roles.

As far as fitting the ships there are a couple of handy resources you can use. First: the Eve Wiki.

Second: Jesters Trek has good guides on the right hand side for missions, incursions and PVP.

There are lots of other things such as EFT (Eve Fitting Tool) that can help, but you still need to understand what you are fitting first.

To give you a quick overview: The CPU and powergrid are finite resources used to stop you from fitting larger items on a smaller ship (battleship weapons on a cruiser for example). The powergrid at 95% means that all of the fittings you currently have on the ship takes 95% of the total powergrid. You don't draw power faster if that number is higher, as that comes from your capacitor.

You won't be able to use Drones on a Rifter, as it has no Drone Bay. The Rifter is a good little ship though and by doing a google search on fits for it you can find one that will make sense.

Hope this helps mate.

1.) The closest to a "Jack of all trades" ship there is in EVE is the Tech 3 Strategic Cruisers. But usually it's a different ship for different roles.

2.) Rifters have no dronebay. So good luck with trying to get drones on there.

3.) The following skill will increase the Powergrid on ships with 5% for each skill level: Engineering.

Then there are other skills that will decrease the powergrid need for certain modules.

Advanced Weapon upgrades for instance has a 2% / skill level decrease of powergrid need for Guns and launchers.

So there is a possibility to increase powergrid on your ship, but there are also skills that will decrease the powergrid need for modules.

4.) 95% cap stability means you barely use capacitor. Without stuff fitted, your ship will be 100% cap stable, when you fit modules so that they drain as much cap as you can regenerate it will be at 0% cap stable. If you used more capacitor then you can regenerate is will tell you how long your capacitor will last if you run ALL modules, ALL the time.

So even if a fit is unstable, it can still be used. It just needs management (like pulsing a shield booster only if you need it). Also sometimes it gives false readouts (for instance you have a MWD fitted just to get into range, the fitting window doesn't see that, it will assume you will use the MWD all the time).

And there are also cases where cap stability isn't too much of an issue. In PvP, stable capacitor is usually useless (you are sacrificing tank or gank to gain that stability). Typical fights don't last longer then 5 minutes tops.

5.) If you open your combat log in your character sheet and select "Your Losses" from the drop down, it will show you your loss. If you then double click it you will get a kill report which will show you the exact fit you had on that ship.

Also......

Don't underestimate the power of rigging.

Rigs are a bit pricey, and once they are fitted, they can't be removed without destruction, but they can allow you to squeeze a bit more CPU, power or whatever to fit that last module.

Some rigs require a certain amount of extra skill training, and many have drawbacks that come with the bonuses, but they are a useful tool to have at your disposal.

Take a look at what the EVE University wiki has to say about fitting. This website has lots of useful information for new players on other subjects as well. It doesn't cover everything, but nonetheless it is always my first stop when there is some aspect of the game I am trying to wrap my brain around.

Pretty much everybody uses out-of-game tools to test their fits before they start buying modules. Eve Fitting Tool (EFT) and Pyfa are both good, you can find safe links to the latest versions in the E-Uni wiki as well.

About 20% is where peak recharge is, so except for odd cases involving Cap boosters, you shouldn't see any stable fit that is stable at under 20%.

Thanx again everyone for the sound advise.

Oraac Ensor - Sorry, my statement is not complete. This was my first ship that I have lost outside the Tutorials. There were two missions where they gave me a ship to "lose" as part of the mission. My apologies for the misunderstanding.

Although I was gutted when I lost my ship, I understand the lesson behind it. Not only the preparation for future possible losses, but also to pick ships and fittings for specific missions.