EVE New Citizens Q&A

While it looks like that site can accommodate your API being uploaded, PYFA and EFT are programs that are more commonly used and provide a greater amount of information. Although they require an install on your computer they are much more robust and both will let you upload your API so that you can see your fit with your stats.

Generally for missions you will want to use the long range version of the racial weapons as most targets will be relatively far away from you and being able to hit them from where you are as opposed to having to fly close to the enemy to hit them is preferred as it will cut down your mission times. So I would recommend Artillery, not auto cannons. Also, until you figure out what you are doing a damage control is recommended so that you will have a little bit extra tank to allow time to align and warp out if you get yourself into trouble.

1. Use EFT/Pyfa
2. For PvE is should do the work you should get some rigs. Not that long to train into.
3. You can fit the rifter however you want it to be.
4. Have you done the SoE arc for all that extra ISK?
5. http://www.aeonoftime.com/EVE_Online_Tools/EVE-NPC-Damage-Types-Cheat-Sheet/download.php
6. It should work for PvE. PvP will see it die in a fire so fast it will make the most hardened pirates cry.

Thanks guys! Unfortunately, I'm at work and don't have access to the game. I tried to install EFT before, but it needs .NET4 and I don't have that and don't have rights to install it. I got PYFA installed, but it needs a game export to load my fitting. I was hoping it could use an API key, but apparently not (or I can't figure out how). As for hardener/resistance amp, I didn't realize the amp existed. What's the diff between the 2? It seems that the amp costs less CPU (25 vs 40), offers lower resistance (40% vs 50%), but seems to be passive? Doesn't seen to have a power upkeep cost, unlike the hardener which seems to cost 2GJ/s. Am I reading that right? IF so, why would anyone use a hardener? For 10% more resist you have something that costs 15 more CPU, drains the cap and have to be actively managed. Doesn't seem worth it to me.

Hardeners give you more resists. It's really that simple. High resists matter a lot, especially when you consider the stacking penalty. Short version: many modules that provide a benefit will lose effectiveness when you use more than one. The first module will be 100% effective, the next about 80% effective, then about 50%, 30%, 10%, 3%.

Some ships have plenty of capacitor to squander on things like hardeners. Frigates are not one of them! In fact I'd suggest that high level frigate play is more demanding of both character and player skill than high level play of any other ship size. You have restricted fitting, restricted cap, a limited number of slots for modules, and you are in a paper thin little craft.

Okay, very cool. I'm learning! I'm training destroyers now, so maybe i can get in one tonight!

As for the question of if I've done the epic line yet, I haven't. I'm doing the last of the career agents, advanced military. The funny thing is that, until last night, all NPCs were ridiculously easy. Like, they would hit for maybe 1 notch on my shield, and i never had to touch the booster. Then last night happened; podded for the first time. I was invited into a PUG (3 man total), and we went looking for combat sites. Long story short, we ended up fighting waves of Angel Cartel, and since my ship was so much faster than the others, I got to the enemy first. I know I know, I should have been orbiting my fleetmate destroyer, or at least spiraled in, but in the heat of combat there was just too much to do. So, they all fired on me at once and before I could jump out, I was dust. The weird thing was, thinking back on it, it looked like they were hitting me with lasers. Reddish beams were coming from them and hitting me. Could have have been artillery? Does artillery cannon fire leave a tracer that I might be confusing with what a laser looks like? I want to make sure I understand things correctly, b/c if they were using laser then I was not using the right resist. But they WERE called Gistal.

Another question: Does it make sense to carry artillery and autocannons? you can soften up with artillary, then switch when enemy gets closer? What about ammo? I thought the ammo seemingly designed for autocannons (ex. fusion, emp) would only work in them, but it seems you can load that into artillery and vice-versa. Does it make sense to load short range ammo into artillery and vice-versa so you get a middle-ground weapon system?

Thoughts on thrasher fittings? I like the idea of artillery for quick missions, and the ship seems fast enough for some kiting, but I'm afraid of enemies getting too close and my weapons thus missing. Is that not an issue here?

Noted, thank you. I think I misused the term (podded means killed, pod death?). I meant, my ship was destroyed and I was ejected in my pod but didn't die. What's the term to mean your ship was destroyed but you weren't killed; is there one?

Thanks ShahFluffers!

Something that has been bugging me:
for autocannons there are 125, 150 and 200mm variants, each with their own named/faction/tier2 etc sub-variants. I looked at the diff sizes, and it seems the bigger you get, the more it requires and the more damage it does... makes sense. I'd think to slot the bigger ones if I can afford it, CPU/Power wise. But there there's a stat that i know is important that gets worse the bigger you go (and it makes sense logically): tracking speed. It seems like it's one of those things that you need up to a point (like, if you're overkill on tracking speed you don't get anything extra). So, how does one know, assuming you can fit them, whether to do 125mm, 150mm or 200mm? I assume there's some sort of similar dilemma with the artillery modules. Like, how muck tracking speed is enough? With damage it's probably "bigger is better" for must cases, but here I have to balance damage against tracking speed, and I don't know how to tell when enough is enough tracking speed.

This should help, it's very nice since it give you graphs and visuals, it covers some other concepts as well, optimal and falloff ranges, transversal velocity and blah blahblah blablablabla.

Warning, information overload is almost certain. If you feel your brain starting to sizzle, back away from the monitor, douse your head in ice water, and breathe slowly, and deeply. Go back to it when your brain stops hurting .

If he posted in GD I would have trolled him. But this isn ot GD.

https://o.smium.org/ is another site which you can do ship fits in, which you can give an api key to to grab your stats.