EVE New Citizens Q&A

This might be a silly question...considereing I am still working on the career trainers....but If I prefer to fight with lasers, should I have created an Amarr as my race? And same thing if I prefer missles....should I have chosen Caldari?

ANd a separate question.....lol....I sold my Batham. I probably shouldn't have done that should I have.

which weapons are best for a complete beginner to this game? Missles or lasers?

There is no "beginner" race. Read up on what the different races do, and train whichever one sounds cool.

I am just having trouble deciding which race to choose as my main. I am still on my trial, but I will be subbing this weekend....when I gets paid. I have also already decided to start over one more time because I want to go through the tutorial one more time.

How about answer me this question....this might help me decide.

When and how do you decide on ship progression? Like should you just upgrade to say a cruiser whenever you get enough money or something? I keep reading things about people sticking with nothing but frigates forever.....what are the pros and cons of upgrading to a larger ship? And when do you know the right time to do it?

This game confuses me...which makes me happy....I just need a little help getting started is all. I need a general gameplan for a career and all that. Should I ONLY stick with frigates or what?

Depends what you're planning on doing with the ship. Ships are tools, nothing more. Just as you would keep a good selection of tools in a workshed, so you would keep a good set of ships handy (or the ISK to buy them)

Scouting for a fleet in lowsec, probably a cheap frigate or covert ops ship.
Massive fleet fight in nullsec, maybe a battleship
L3 missions in highsec, a battlecruiser or a T2 cruiser quite likely.
A lowsec roam with a small gang, maybe frigate or cruiser, depending with the others are doing.

You don't chose 1 ship in this game, you chose a ship specific to what you're currently doing.

For new players lacking good capacitor skills, lasers tend to be a pain. Lasers require large amounts of your capacitor to fire, you will also be needing that cap to power your armour repair module/afterburner or microwarpdrive and initiating warp if you get in to trouble and need to escape.

That being said however, lasers have no travel time. As soon as your turret fires the enemy ship will be hit (or missed). Unlike the other turret systems & missiles, lasers only do EM/Thermal damage which means they aren't very versatile. Though they make up for this drawback with the ability to change their turrets optimal range/fall off by simply changing ammunition types. Oh there is no reload time either and the tech 1 crystals don't ever deplete unlike hybrid charges, projectile ammo and missiles.Once your skills are trained up, lasers are awesome.

Missiles are great because they can deal all damage types, they don't have an optimal or fall off range and they don't require any capacitor to fire. If a target is within the flight time of your missile and not outpacing it, the missile will always hit. Missiles however are the only weapon type that can be targeted and destroyed though this rarely happens for you to worry about it becoming a major issue.

They are both great weapon systems, personally I prefer Missiles having flown with lasers for years. Though it depends what you are after.

You should move in to a bigger ship when you have the skills to fly it effectively. Most ships come with a recommended certificates tab in their info window. Look at the ship you want to fly and get your skills to match what the certificates suggest, that's usually a good start.

The pro's of moving in to larger ships means you can tackle more difficult encounters that the smaller ships simply can't hack. Though as the ships increase in size, their speed and agility suffers. Some people prefer frigates due to their speed and zippyness. Some people prefer being the sluggish brute who can take a punch and dish it out at the same time. Of course there are ships in the middle but it's all about finding out what you enjoy and training for it.

It's late, so sorry if this made no sense. I'm really tired. Hope this helps!

Lasers. Amarr.

Missiles. Caldari.

Simple as that.

As for your Bantam. Pft. Get yourself a Kestrel and go shoot something.

YTK

With Odyssey just around the corner, there are heaps of missile options: many Amarr ships will become missile boats, and the Minmatar have a few missile-spewing options too. So you can have your missile systems and choose between shield, armour or speed tanking.

Also coming in Odyssey is a general rebalance of missiles: higher flight speeds, lower flight times. So you get the same/similar range, with less delay between pressing the button and the missile dealing damage to the target. This is good news for cruise missile spammers, no longer will it take a minute or so for your missiles to reach that target 200km away :)

Missile with lasers mounted on them. Opportunity for silly answers to silly questions \:D/

Train Caldari and Missiles. They're the best