EVE New Citizens Q&A

That really depends on what kind of fleet PvP you are looking for.

Fleets usually fly some kind of doctrine, which forces you to use a specific ship type. So you should look for a corp and inquire about their doctrines before getting too committed on a specific ship.

The large fleets in null-sec wars usually use Battleships. Roaming fleets usually use smaller ships and especially with the warp changes in Rubicon, I expect HACs to become even more popular. Wormhole citizens love T3 cruiser for their relatively low mass. FW often uses frigates and destroyers, as they can enter all/most plexes. And then there's Bomber's Bay which only flies stealth bombers.

Oh, and what do you mean with "teir 3 cruisers"? The tiercide got rid of tiers. The only place where the word "tier" is still used is for Tier 3 battlecruisers a.k.a. Attack Battlecruisers. You might mean Tech 3 cruisers, which are quite expensive and not something a newbie should fly (you even lose skill points if you die in one).

Hacs should be 2 per race : )

What sort of roles do battlecruisers/battle ships come in. I mean when would you pick a battlecruiser or battle ship over a tech 3 cruiser.

Thanks for the input

Speaking as someone in Faction War low-sec...

- battleships are good for either attacking/defending structures or brawling against similar sized (or larger) ships. They are incredibly slow though (and will be more so after the coming expansion tomorrow) and are vulnerable to being overrun by smaller ships when alone.

- battlecruisers are for when you want to take on large groups of smaller foes with limited numbers... or you need some of the tank/gank of a battleship without the immobility of a battleship.

- Tech 3 ships are when I...
---- have a lot of spare money
---- am very drunk
---- have an awesome plan that I know will work.
---- have a some support as back up.
---- some combination of the above.

I personally can't rationalize spending 400+ million ISK on a single ship that is, ultimately, a cruiser at its heart**. And since I never have to worry about storage space or not having a friendly station nearby I can afford to buy multiple ships and fit them with a different specialty... then proceed to not care [much] if they get blown up.

However... if I lived in wormhole space I would probably be singing a different tune. Storage is at a premium there so it makes more sense to put more money into one ship that can do "everything" to minimize logistics and clutter.

- Tech 2 cruisers somewhat fall into the same category as Tech 3s... but swallowing the ~200 million hull cost is a bit easier for some reason (maybe because I know I can fly around a Tech 2 cruiser around low-sec and be only of mild interest to people... but in a Tech 3 everyone and their mother several systems over come to hunt me down).



**People who say they can get "battleship level" tanks or damage (which, for reference, is 150k+ EHP or 700+ DPS respectively) on a Tech 3 are referring mostly to gimmicky fits that will almost never be seen outside of a station's undock radius. There are exceptions to this however.