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Opportunities - Fit for purpose – help!
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Fetito
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2015-05-01 02:56:55 UTC
Well, this is embarrassing. I am doing the opportunities and I got stuck on the "Fit for profits"-tutorial.

I am supposed to equip an item in a "low spot". So far I was able to equip items into the mid and high spot, because I had those items in my inventory.

Anyway, since I don’t seem to have a low spot-item, I opened the market, but all items are very expensive. Is there an item suited for the tutorial? I tried to use a wiki, but it rather confused me.

Thank you for your help!
13kr1d1
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2015-05-01 03:25:54 UTC
try civilian search in market, or go through every pile of gear and learn what goes in lows, and find a Tech 1 version. It says exactly the name of the module + the letter "I" after the name.

try under hull and armor for resistance plating. not energized. Look through the four/five types, something there should be within 10k isk or less.

Don't kid yourselves. Even the dirtiest pirates from the birth of EVE have been carebears. They use alts to bring them goods at cheap prices and safely, rather than live with consequences of their in game actions on their main, from concord to prices
Rammel Kas
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2015-05-01 08:32:48 UTC
Not 100% sure on this as I've not had a chance to go back and do this over. But some of the other military missions used to reward racial specific tanking modules. I also think the hauling missions (from agents) used to give out expanded cargo hold modules which also fit in a low slot.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#4 - 2015-05-01 09:09:13 UTC
Anything from the armour/hull or weapon upgrades will be lowslots ,

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Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
#5 - 2015-05-01 10:16:30 UTC
Buy a "Damage Control Unit".

Not only is it one of the cheaper low-slot items, there's almost no newbie fit where it's not actually a good module to have on your ship. Increases all your resists a bit for both shield and armor, and doubles your hull HP so when you're about to die and all the alarm sounds are going off you have twice the time to GTFO.
Memphis Baas
#6 - 2015-05-01 10:29:17 UTC
Search the market for "expanded cargo", "small armor repairer", or "nanofiber" (without the quotes). These are low slot modules that should be relatively easy to fit in (they don't require that much powergrid or CPU, so you can fit them in even if your ship is full of heavy power / processing high or medium modules).

Your ship is limited by the number of slots it has, but also by its power grid and CPU.

Weapons and some utility equipment (tractor beams, cloaks, mining lasers, armor/shield/energy transfer modules so you can repair other people, etc.) go into high slots, shield defenses, propulsion (afterburner, MWD), and electronic jamming equipment go into mid slots, and armor defenses, DPS-enhancing modules (weapon stabilizers), and utility modules (expanded cargo, nanofibers, reactor control, micro auxiliary power core, damage control, warp core stabilizer, etc.) go into low slots.

However, weapons, shields, and armor typically require a lot of power grid and some CPU, and utility (mining lasers, cloaks, tractor beams) and electronic jamming equipment require a lot of CPU and some power grid. So you always have to choose between DPS and tank and speed, and so your ship will have strengths and weaknesses.

It's very recommended that you download and install a ship fitting emulator such as EFT or pyfa, because they let you configure ships for practice (or to maximize DPS or survivability) without having to buy anything.

CCP is working on adding this functionality to the in-game fitting screen, but it may take a while.
ergherhdfgh
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2015-05-01 11:57:45 UTC
Along with everything else listed:

Power grid up grades like Power Diagnostics and Reactor controls
CPU upgrades
Propulsion upgrades like overdrive injectors.

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ergherhdfgh
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2015-05-01 12:02:37 UTC
If you really can not afford anything you could try going into a system with some belt rats and killing belt rats until a or ow slot item drops. You could also run some missions and loot the wrecks until you find a low slot item. To belt rat just go into a 0.8 or 0.7 and warp from belt to belt until you see red crosses then shoot them until they are dead. I would not go much lower than 0.7 until you get a feel for the basics of ship piloting.

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