EVE New Citizens Q&A

I heard about "autocannont", as far as i know they are "Projectile" type, used with only "Hybrid"+"Projectile" turrets.
Amarr can use only "Energy turrets" - so i wonder, is there any "Autoenergy turrets"?

So they cant "auto target", like "auto targetting missiles" in PvE?

There are three types of turrets: Projectiles, Hybrids, and energy turrets

Each turret type generally goes with one race, Projectiles for Minmatar, Hybrids for Gallente, and energy turrets for Amarr

Each variety of turret has a short range option and and long range option

Projectiles consist of autocannons (short range), and artillery (long range)
Hybrids consist of Blasters (short range), and railguns (long range)
energy turrets consist of Pulse lasers (short range) and beam lasers (long range)

This is a general overview, but it is more complex than this, as each individual weapons system has it's own strengths and weaknesses. Blasters for example are Extremely high DPS, but they take cap and are short range, whereas autocannons are longer range and don't take cap, but are much lower DPS.

To answer your question specifically: No energy turrets don't have "autoenergy turrets"

Ok, thx.
Only missiles can auto target, thats what i wanted to know.

Also this.

Amarr also has droneboats and missile ships.


And nothing prevents you from using other weapons on a ship. Though usually the bonuses on a hull kind of dictate what weapons are used best on a ship.

Only SOME missile types can auto-target, not all missiles. Specifically, only "auto-targeting" missiles can automatically target.

Use of these particular type of missiles is generally not recommended, as they are not particularly smart about what targets they hit.

It's "auto" as in automatic gun not as in auto-targeting or auto-hitting.

There is also no relation between projectile and hybrid weapons.

Projectiles: autocannons and artillery. They fire actual bits of metal, which possibly have impact warheads. They do not require capacitor to run as all their energy comes from (presumably) chemical means of launch (think super-futuristic space gunpowder).

Lasers: pulse and beam lasers. They fire actual streams of electromagnetic radiation, without any physical element. These do not require ammo in the conventional sense, since the laser can just be generated using the ship's capacitor. However they require focusing crystals to hone the laser into something more useful than a flashlight.

Hybrids: blasters and railguns. These use electromagnetic fields to augment, shape, propel, and control the fired charge. So, they use ammunition and actual charges (like projectiles) but also require some of the ship's energy to be fired and controlled properly. The combination lets them do fun stuff, like use antimatter charges.

Missiles: guided and unguided. Despite the unfortunate naming, all missiles are actually guided and find their own way to their designated target, where they detonate their warhead. Because of their autonomous nature, missiles have a "friend or foe" or "auto-targeting" variant, which simply targets any nearby hostile target.

Not even then. They don't have that much damage to start with, and as every missile might decide to hit a different target you will have trouble killing anything at all.

Auto-targetting missiles are pretty much only useful if you cannot target anything - either because you are jammed by ECM or are damped by so many sensor dampeners that your targeting range is virtually zero.

As for auto-targetting modules: for one, it's an active module and you have to activate it for it to work. And it won't help you against ECM/dampers. In the end, it's almost exclusively used for the bonus to maximum targets and even that is very rare.