Ships & Modules

What would be best for me to focus on as a rookie? im currently using a Catalyst but i don't know if i should start focusing on a tier 2 frigate perhaps and then continue on destroyer tier 2.

What would be best for me? im currently focusing on railguns btw.

I will mostly use this for Missions and PvE but in the future i will be part of security in my corp. Any advice is helpful Thanks! :)

I am training t2 Railguns now its done in 2 days, im just curious about the ships. I would like to keep my railgun, i really dont like the blasters it's not my thing really to be close in combat.

I just want to know what the optimal solution would be for me to train t2 frigates or wait 42 days for a t2 destroyer.

I rather stick with gallante for as long as i can hehe.

Thanks!

I like your focus in gallente ships. Keep it, crosstrain only when it is absolutely worth it.

Enyo is a damn good assault frigate, Keres is one of the best tackle frigates and the Gallente interceptors rock with hull tank. I think you get generally more for going t2 frigates. Destroyer IV allows catalyst to do it's thing decently.

Thanks :)

Im yet not familiar with those phrases, whats a tacke frigate for example? I really have no idea what would be best, what would be most viable in Solo PvP or Pve ?

Thanks!

t2 frig: 30 mil?
desy: 1 mil?

If you got isk, yes, go spend them on t2 frig.

T1/T2 Gallente frigates have now the required tools to achieve almost everything, just like other races do but now Gallente is worth training for.
You must understand the main differences in between races to actually see further right now and choose your training goals.

Caldari main weapons are about equally missiles and hybrids, drones as support in some hulls
Gallente are mainly suited for blasters then Rails and awesomesauce with drones (drones are not primary Gallente weapons, if some one says this to you and insists he's an idiot)

Now if you take a close look at differences between Caldari and Gallente hybrid ships the first thing you'll see is tanking mode, ok, it's fair enough, but the main difference comes when you look at ship bonus to those hybrids and support.

Gallente is the "in tha face" dps brawler, has bonus to dmg and tracking to apply that dmg but none to increase range, drones are the support to help it achieve either max dps factor or to help it screw opponents day (ECM etc)
Caldari get extra range, often 2 range bonus but none or little to dmg and no drones on those hulls (from memory)

So, what I'm trying to say is that both races are awesome, have awesome hulls to fly and pvp/pve with but since you want to stick with rails the only changing factor you have to consider is tanking mode and ships bonus.
Right now Gallente are the race you want to fly, not because it's the current OP thing but because they're suited to make those guns work pretty good and having decent drones bay is always a must have for pvp as for pve.

From T1 to T2 frigs/cruisers are awesome, BC's except Talos are meh or solo/situational ships, BSs are awesome now so go for it and step by step fly them and loose enough until you feel comfortable flying them.
PVP with cheapo throwaway T1 frigs, those are awesome and very strong then T2's in gangs or solo when you feel ok doing so and so on.

Dessies are completely different at T2 level and if you should get racial dessie 5 because catalyst is awesomesauce T2s you can wait before getting in to those.
Train cloaking to 4 will give you the nice option for bombers too, those are very paper thin things but dish stupid amounts of dps at insane ranges for their size, you might want those to travel and explore Eve.

Hope this helps a bit.

As far as progression is the concern having more guns doesn't always means better, bigger doesn't mean better specially in Eve.
For instance, a well fitted blaster Enyo can dish 300 to 450 DPS once you have trained all skills to the top, this is a T2 frigate.
Catalyst can dish 600+ with top skills but has no way close the Tank of Enyo, it's a glass canon often used for gank or die.

I understand your concern now that is pve a bit while training skills and make isk, some will tell you you can do lvl4's in T2 frigates and yes it's possible but requires a lot of experience and top skills which you lack right now.

Train asap racial frigates to 5 - assault frigs to 4 (5 better but later) -pve/pvp all day long with those and never get bored

Dessie 4 - keep in mind this one is a must have at 5 but you can skip it for the moment, this will bring you no real benefit for pve over cruisers and training for cruisers with decent skills to pve is fast.
The best of this skill comes with 5 for catalyst just for gank or some missions, kill belt rats and not really fun as dictor because gallente one is rather meh.

Racial cruiser 5 -this will open to you the most important ships line in the game and also the most used from heavy assault cruisers to reccons heavy dictors and logisitcs all of these ships are fantastic to fly, of course some are stronger but in general you want them.
Why jump dessie if bigger not better? -frigate/dessie or frigate/cruiser is the exception imho, for pve as for pvp.

Sry for so much stuff when your question is about keeping one or do the other but it's a bit more complicated than it seems because has I've first stated bigger doesn't mean better.

Frigates first, T2's guns and tank/electronics/engineering, minimum for dessies (but you'll be back later) and go cruisers.
There's nothing you can do with your catalyst you can't do with a T1 or T2 frigate except paper dps not considering your real needs and skills asap.

"Tackle" is a word used to describe the use of a warp jammer on an enemy ship in PvP. Most frigates can be used to tackle for fleets because they are fast and cheap. You may want to check out the "New Citizens Q&A" section of the forums because there is plenty of terminology to learn and the people that frequent that forum are happy to answer your questions.