EVE New Citizens Q&A

I'm constantly getting tracking disrupted. And by constantly I mean 9 out of 10 Sansha lvl 4 mission I (attempt to) run. Currently flying an apoc with pulse lasers, I tried adding tracking enhancers & computers + experimenting with different types of ammo but as of yet I'm still unable to hit anything. My drones can take care of the frigates, but the last couple of missions were filled with bc's and bs's disrupting me, (usually had 3 TD's on me at the same time). I'm starting to wonder whether I've made a mistake by spending the last three months training Amarr battleship related skills. Multiple people in rookie chat have told me shield tanking + missiles are the way to go for mission running. Are they right? ...frankly I don't feel like spending another three months of training before I can do what I would like to do in this game.

You might want to try a Micro Jump Drive. It allows you to move 100 km, which will greatly reduce the traversal you have to deal with.

Another method is to simply kite. Move away from the NPC in a constant direction. They will fall in line behind you as they follow, making their traversal 0.

You're a month old flying level 4's.

Welcome to EVE, Ayla. I think you've just found one of the greatest rules in the game: Bigger is not always better.

ie. lacking proper support skills can put you in a bad position when it comes to large guns


People have already suggested numerous ways you can avoid tracking disruptors, namely "do anything".


I'd rather talk about missions. They are a good starting point, and a good fallback income, but try not to fall into the trap of missioning as a career. This game is not like other games, and you do yourself an extreme disservice by treating it like them.

For example, the act of sitting still, lasers firing, being tracking disrupted and wondering why your guns won't hit.

EVE does allow you to take part in menial activities that require little attention, but the point being they require forethought, planning, and 'common sense' in a particular mixture that is really hard for new players to master. Whatever you do, do not discount PvP. An hour of missioning could net you a couple t1 cruisers or a dozen frigs to fly around and get blown up. There is so much to learn in this game outside of missions, get your toes in early while you can!

Forgive me, but I don't really understand how this works. I found out about angular velocity on the eve wiki but I couldn't find any info about traversal velocity. Are those two one and the same or? Also, how does reducing your traversal affect tracking disrupters? In the same way it affects guns?


I tried fitting beams and outranging the TD ships, it did help a little bit, but dps seemed very low compared to pulses. Took a long time to kill them. If I fit a MWD should I kite away from them or approach them in a straight line (wuts point blank range :s)?


Forum alt here. Main's actually five months old.


I certainly won't! I'm only running missions because it seemed like the fastest way to build up capital. Once my wallet reaches the ten digit mark I plan on spending all that isk on buying and fitting a couple of dozen frigates, cruisers (and if I'm feeling bold maybe even some bc's) to have some fun with. My longterm goal is to join a pvp corp and get involved in either piracy or nullsec warfare. I felt like missioning would be a good starting point to learn basic game mechanics and get some isks so that I can be self sufficient and won't be too much of a burden to corp mates.

As far as I'm aware, angular velocity is relatively new in the overview. A lot of people mean that, when they say traversal.

Yes, angular velocity is the more useful one, for direct comparison with your tracking. You can simulate it with traversal, but that requires a trifle more knowledge (and is, tbh, pointless when you have angular velocity)

Frankly the people in the channel were right, shield tanked missile boats have been the best missioning ships for a long time and every time CCP have gone and tried to make NPCs smarter or more challenging or whatever that's only made other ship types worse by comparison.
None of those "smart" NPCs have the least effect on a passive shield tank and hardly any on the missiles themselves.

Now i'm not saying you can't mission with any race's ships, i'm just saying this hasn't changed in half a decade and if missioning is your goal rather than just a means to make money you should probably just go ahead and train for the better mission ships.

Not enough quote in the universe to quote this enough. Listen to this man.