EVE New Citizens Q&A

For a new player I'd recommend the fitting implants. Which are implants the increase your powergrid and cpu of your ships. These implants make ship fitting easier and allow you to get more of the potential out of your ships.

Engineering and cpu Implants

Otherwise selecting implants that suit your play style is a good idea.

Also note that if u do missions most npc corps got 1%/3%/5% implants on their LP Store which you can purchase cheaper then on the market. When I started playing eve i got full set of +1% Hardwiring from the LP Store. using focused ones (means all of them benefited single thing like let's say missiles or turrets made a nice improvements overall and not that expensive).

I didn't notice the fitting implants while in the market, but that's actually a great tip, sometimes I'm missing a few CPU or Pg to complete my fit. J'Poll makes a good point too, I'll go with both bits of advice in this case, get more fitting room, but leave the bells and whistles for a bit later.


When it comes to the LP, I'll be sure to keep that in mind, though I don't plan on running any missions if i can help it.


Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason I would go for the Passive Tanking implants/fits when PVPing? When I have more disposable income for clones full of implants I'll definitely set some up.

Thanks guys.

Ah alright. I thought there was a special reason for passive tanking being preferable or something.

Update: (please be advised the following events are filled with st00pid, if you have an allergy to st00pid, please look away).

So I go out today and do some more exploring, find a couple relic sites in lowsec, avoid getting killed and get home to Rens. I've made a nice (for my standards) profit, and am ready to get back to trying to get a legitimate kill in lowsec. “Today is a good day.”

With a post-dinner food-gasm and a beer at my side, I work on fits with a newbie corp buddy of mine, preparing for the expedition into the jaws of fiery, inexperience and ineptitude fueled death that is lowsec. I show off my super cool elite pew pew kiting Atron during a duel with him at the Sun, I graciously let him live at 25% armor. We duel one more time, this time with the fit I plan on taking out, a brawling Incursus with a single Armor Repairer I, because I am a peasant unable to fit 2 at the same and have his capacitor last any useful length of time. Being a wise and frugal capsuleer, I decide against fitting rigs, since they alone cost the same as a fully fit frigate. Stocked up on ammo, bravado and delusions of grandeur, we set off.

We poke our heads into Amamake, warp to a safespot I had set up earlier and begin scanning likely locations for a fight. No targets are in system, so we warp in next door. Once inside, we take the lazy and first not so smart choice, we do not pay attention to local, despite having it in a separate window. Second less than wise decision: we warp to the most obvious place in the system, like moths to a flame. After buzzing around the Sun for a few minutes, wondering why it kept burning us, we remembered why we had come, to pew pew gloriously. After a short D-scan sweep of the faction warfare sites, I locate a Rifter and an Ares in a Small Novice Complex. The plan is discussed all of 5 seconds: “Okay, focus fire and hate shoot the Rifter, we might be able to get at least one kill before one of us goes down.”

Famous last words.

While in warp, I dispense sage-like advice: “Remember to turn on your Damage Control I!” On arrival at the acceleration gate, the Rifter is gone, only the Ares, some 40km away. The misguided guru (that’s me, elite pvpers refer to themselves in the third person right?) orders a warp through the acceleration gate in the hopes of catching that thrice damned Rifter. Adrenaline rising, pumping and ultimately blinding, I attempt to warp in after my wingman but am unable to. Aura informs me that I “cannot initiate warp due to natural phenomena”. I take entirely too long to think a simple thought: “What the hell?”

All of a sudden, the Ares is 2km away from me, and turns itself into a very angry looking Federation Navy Comet. Instincts honed through a long, arduous, epic week in lowsec kick in: I click orbit at 1000m, activate EVERYTHING, including the armor repairer, despite still being fully in shields. My shielding proceeds to evaporate, my armor rep is halfway into it’s cycle. Armor explodes in a thousand shards of Tritanium, leaving a proverbial “chain mail bikini” on my Incursus, all the while my wingman is asking me “What’s going on? Where are you?”. Nude, in nothing but structure, I realize the waves of blaster fire have broken. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice a veritable Tsunami of blinking yellow hornets have invaded my overview. I manage to get the Comet into Armor, pepper it a bit more. A few more moments of respite, and I am finally torn apart.

Remember those reflexes? Warp to sun, warp to sun, warp to sun.

On arrival, I start to align toward another planet, all the while ranting and raving on Teamspeak to my wingman with a stupid, and slightly embarrassed grin on my face. While chatting, one of the enemy have caught up with my wingman and popped his frigate. We both say gf in local, aware that we just got tricked and taught a very important lesson. No answer from them, so I decide to keep warping to celestials until the inevitable polite “gf” makes it’s appearance. Nothing. Fine, I decided to warp out and get back to Rens, a Kestrel shadowing me every step of the way to High sec.

I make it back to my hangar in Rens and get a message from some friends inviting me out to a pub for a quick drink. I ask my wingman if he wants to get one more duel until structure in before I head out. We agree not to tell each other what we fit, so I decide to give a railgun catalyst with a MWD a whirl. We meet at the sun again (I’m a bit evil)

He is shocked to see a destroyer greet his frigate, I laugh maniacally in teamspeak and activate all 8 vicious guns.

“Your security status has been lowered”







Uh oh.

I get concorded. The two of us laugh, my buddy wishing he could have gotten on my killmail. I proceed click the “Dock” button of my home station, the central Rens trade hub. I arrive on grid, and head toward the docking perimeter and…



EDIT: Bolded and underlined "Update".

One thing to keep in mind in EVE is that everything is replaceable. Spaceships are like consumables, food / potions, in other games.

You don't need to hope for some random drop and be the lucky one to get it. You just head to a trade hub and buy whatever you need, with few exceptions.

This is why you should never pilot a ship you can't afford to replace. That includes replacing the implants, and upgrading the clone!

P.S. It is recommended that you insure any ship you intend to PvP with. The return on platinum insurance isn't much, but it is better than the basic amount, and more than the insurance cost.

we do love these kind of stories to be sure, and we love your attitude even more.

You get this message whenever you try to warp to a deadspace site you are already at. So since you were sitting on the gate, if you try to warp to the novice plex, or whatever it was, it will give you an error. You need to instead select the acceleration gate and press "activate"

Also, have you considered starting a blog? :)

it is worth taking a look at the 3% implants since many of them are a random drop in some missions and thus are super cheap. a few 5% implants are storyline mission rewards and can be somewhat cheap too.

Sorry to go off topic a bit more, But just to be sure on what you mean.:

I'm in my Rifter and let's say I warp to a novice beacon site (is that what you call a plex?) and I end up near the Acceleration gate.

But Uh oh! 4 yellow blinkies warp in on me! Now I can do two things:
- Use the Acc. gate. (And warp out after arrival)
- Warp out.
- Fight and go down in a blazing glory.

I decide to go with option two.
By accident I try to warp to, let me just call it plex from now on, novice plex (in which I currently reside).
Is that when I would get the Aura notification “cannot initiate warp due to natural phenomena” ?

Cause that recently happened to me as well haha. I thought I clicked some other plex on my overview but if that notification is connected to this action, then I need to pay more attention to where I am.

I must say, at that point I may have gotten pointed as well. So I thought it just meant I was being pointed and.. well.. it was basically Aura telling me I messed up and that she would be zooming in on my quick demise.


On Topic:
I lost a full set of +2 implants there :P