Ships & Modules

1) Jita is the market hub. It has nothing to do with race.

2) These are simply some of the most iconic/popular hulls in the game. Again, it says nothing about the race of the pilot.

3) In PvE probably. Definitely not for PvP. Again, nothing to do with race as many pilots cross-train for different platforms.

1) But jita is not the only market hub. All the factions have one right?

2) their the most popular for a reason

All this caldari dominance in ship, weapon sysyem. Economy. Whats behind all of it?

3) so missiles arent the prevalent weapon system for pvp? Was just reading topic guy was all excited about making missiles on account of good/test war. He didnt mention other munitions. Not that i think others arent being used. But if this guy was predominantly excited about prividing missiles doesnt jive with the notion that missiles arent most popular weapon in pvp as well as pve

you are new so ignorance can be forgiven but don't jump to conclusions based on the few players who post on these forums.

Caldari ships and missiles have their good and bad points. For both pve and pvp. in time you will learn them and decide if the ships/weapons system are for you.

DON'T RUSH IT.

As for Jita being 'the' trade hub, well it is human nature to have one area were we can all go for stuff. Yes there are market hubs in each of the empire spaces and various other systems that serve small comunities in their locale but Jita has evolved to be the biggest market hub in eve over the decade or so of it's existance. Deal with it.

@Missiles in PvP: they are average. Unlike turrets you cannot do critical hits with missiles. Also you cannot maximize your damage by lowering transversal. Missiles will do less damage against small and/or fast targets. You need to fit modules (TP, Web, Rigors, Flare) to counter this effect. A turret ship can do this just by piloting or positioning. A non-gimp fitted missile ship will never blap a smaller target with one volley. But on the other side: they do damage in every case. Also they're ewar proof. All this makes missiles quite flexible.

But as said: you cannot get 'peak performance' with missiles. Except the target size matches exactly or exceeds your missile size. In this case missiles perform better than long range turrets - missiles have the best damage projection. At cost of delayed damage at range. Which isn't an huge issue in small gang PvP.

Then fitting. Turrets have tiers. You can shift your turret fitting more towards tank by lowering your turret tier. At cost of range and damage - but increased tracking. Missiles don't have tiers. So you cannot fit a Torp Raven like an Electron Mega. Exception: Rapid Light Missile Launcher. A medium sized launcher firing light missiles at higher rate. It's the only exception to this rule and quite handy on missile cruisers.

In short: there is no better.

You can't go by what's posted in the forms to tell what is popular. Here's what I suggest you do to see what is really popular.

1. Fit at least 50 ships. You need a higher number to get a true representation. Make sure they're fairly expensive so they aren't ignored.

2. Fly them through various lowsec and nullsec systems.

3. Get blown up

4. Look at the loss mail to see what killed you.

5. Post back on here with results of your scientific study.

I have a feeling you'll see more guns than missiles but I could be wrong.

That might be be fun but it wouldn't answer your question. It was meant to be a little funny but you would learn what was popular if you did that. I use both missiles and guns for PVE. For PVP I used to fly a Drake with missiles but that was a while ago.

This is due to path dependence and the network effect. Path dependence means that your current and future choices are determined by your past choices. For example, if your country's marketplace chose to have cars with steering wheels on the right hand side, a car company that only makes left hand drive cars will do poorly in the marketplace. The network effect means that as more buyers go to Jita, sellers will get better prices selling in Jita. As more sellers go to Jita, buyers get better deals shopping in Jita.

Historically, Jita used to be a mission hub for Caldari factions. There was a healthy number of "high quality" mission agents (back when quality existed - high quality agents gave more isk and loyalty points than lower quality agents at the same level) and a decent amount of asteroid belts. Most travel from one end of Caldari space to another would pass through Jita. This meant that Jita always had a healthy population.

Yulai used to be the original hub - to get from one faction space to another would require traveling through Yulai back when there were "highway gates".


In the beginning, different bloodlines had different skills and attributes. Today, the only real differences are face and what racial frigate you fly. In the beginning, some bloodlines had no skills in mining or industry.

Today, Caldari appears to be more popular, probably from an appearance issue. Source


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The Drake is an easy ship to fly and with the large shield and capacitor, requires less skill (mostly the skill between the keyboard and chair) to fly.

The popularity of Ravens and Tengus are due more to the popularity of missiles.

Missiles always hit their target. There is no tracking issues to worry about (only speed of the target in relation to the speed of the explosion reducing the damage), no consideration of "am I in optimal range or falloff?" This makes using missiles easier for players to consider. People can't focus on too many things at once - and each person has their own limit of the number of different things they can focus on at once. Cognitive overload (too many things going on at once) is a factor in car and aircraft accidents. That's why texting and driving is illegal in many jurisdictions.

Missiles are fine PvP weapons its simply a matter of application

1) Missiles are prefectly capable of picking prefered damage, and unlike projectiles they do pure damage, not two damage types like the matari.

2) lasers and hybrids ARE jammed into damage types, EM/therm for lasers and Kin/therm for hybrid that is what you get...both of which use cap...unlike missiles

3) http://eve-kill.net/?a=top20 looks like missiles are suffereing.

4) Battleship missiles have issues that are slowly being addressed, large turrets of all types are pretty good. Again, depending on application, taking rails to fight tengu's is generally a bad idea, as is bringing lasers for an AHAC fleet.

I have exactly the ame feeling. And in numerous video guides for beginners I was told, that caldary and minmatar are two races to choose if you are going to fight a lot. But their ships are so ugly, that I've choosen Gallente. If you are good in drones management, Gallente also can offer you a nice bunch of war vessels. It is just harder to fit them due to rather low CPU...