EVE New Citizens Q&A

1. Correct. The venturs is a mining ship so fit it for mining. Use light scout drones for NPC protection.

Fitting a gun is like fitting hitching your mobile home behind your Ferrari (/me waves at the Ferrari-guy). Just because you can doesnt make it useful.

2. Drop the mining and do stuff that you want. Dont fall for the common newbie trap thinking you must mine. Go run security missions instead for instance. The added benefit is that skills needed for those are also needed for PvP where as NO mining related skill will help you in PvP. Also keep in mind that bounty hunting isnt really a viabld "profession" in EVE as of now.

And start with frigates. You will lose...a lot....whe you start to PvP. Doesnt matter if you start with frigates or with battleships...you will lose. Best to do it in ships that dont cost a fortune each and are easily replacable.

3. Really depends on what and how you want to do things. There are very high paying jobs in highsec too, mining aint one of those though.

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Mainly the fit, here is a couple of things that are different in PvP vs PvE:

Damage application:

PvE = lower actual damage but sustained over a longer of time. So your tank should be able to take the damage application that is project and keep that up for a longer time period.

PvP = higher actual damage but in short bursts. A PvP fight is much more fast pased and thus your tank has to be able to soak up a very high amount of damage in a relatively short amount of time.


Resists (tank):

PvE = Each type of NPC has a certain type of damage they like to do. So you can adjust your tank to just boosts the resists on those damage types and forget about the rest as it won't be needed.

PvP = Unless you REALLY know what the enemy will bring to the field, it's a random guess what type of damage to tank against. So in general PvP ships are omni-tanked, which means they try to keep all resists up as much as possible, as equal as possible.


Resists (damage):

Same as above but then the opposite. In PvE you know what damage the NPCs are weak against and thus you know what to bring, where as in PvP it is more random (see omni-tank) so you just hope for the correct ammo or reload if you have the options.


General modules:

In PvE there is absolutely NO need to fit a Warp Disruptor or Warp Scrambler, as NPCs don't ever try to warp away from a fight.
In PvP, if you don't have a Point or Scram, you are failing big time (keep in mind, this doesn't have to be on your ship if you have dedicated tacklers in the fleet). But trying to PvP without the ability to point a target down, is just fail and will do nothing more then make the other guys laugh (you might be able to kill them because they are laughing so hard they forget to warp out).

Correct (partially) on that.

Lasers = EM / Thermal damage (The longer the range the more EM and less Thermal)
Projectile = Mixture of damage types depending on ammo used
Hybrids = Thermal / Kinetic damage (Ratios alter with ammo choice)

Missiles = 1 damage type depending on missile used (For instance: Scourge = Kinetic damage).


And any ammo can kill both armor and shield. In general you keep going, as the reload time makes it useless to switch ammo types unless you are shooting something with huge amounts of hitpoints.

It's all about how their resists are in shield and armor that defines how good a type of damage is for it. Which in itself depend on the ship and fit itself.


The main difference between guns (hybrids) and missiles are:

1. Damage projection:

Guns do instant damage form the moment they are fired. Missiles take time till they reach their target.

2. Damage calculations:

Missiles use a totally different damage calculation then guns do.

With missiles it depends on signature radius vs explosion size + ships speed vs explosion velocity.
With guns it not only takes into account signature size but also things like angular velocity and optimal range and fall off range.