Ships & Modules

I have compared navy issues and pirate ships but having hard times making the choice. Is it really worth the extra time training a second race battleship skill to fly a pirate ship?

Yes

It really depends on you. Even though you're in Amarr space you won't always be shooting rats with a weakness to EM/Therm(i.e Angel rats). You could skill into a Marauder if you want to stick with a single Battleship skill or get some variety by skilling into a secondary race's BS skills for Pirate ships.

The biggest difference between a Marauder and a Pirate hulls is that the Marauder can get away with cheaper fittings due to strong tanking bonuses while Pirate hulls do more damage. That said Marauder hulls are without a doubt more expensive then Pirate hulls.

Outside of the Rattlesnake, the Marauders generally use less ammo then Pirate hulls as well.

Final difference is that it's easier to sit in a Pirate hull then a Marauder due to role bonuses.

This

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Especially if you want to get into incursions at some point as a mission runner. I'd recommend x-training into Caldari.

You've been in the game for a year? If you focused well, you should be able to x-train. As long as you have your needed core skills up well enough. You would mostly just be training up to at least Caldari BS 4 and then shield tanking if you haven't already trained into that. It doesn't take too long if you had most/some of that down already apart from BS. At least for a Nightmare.

Rattlesnake is a different beast, x-train into Gallente and Caldari. I think more favored for regular mission running and ratting (missile ships are harder to get into incursions). If you do go in this direction as a missioner coming from Amarr, I'd still recommend training Caldari first so you can still have a Nightmare while you wait for Gallente training.

marauder > pirate > navy > t1.. in that order best to worst

What she said.

pretty sure 100 years ago someone said using a train is only for those who cannot ride horses.

Hmm.. While I get that electronic warfare can get frustrating sometimes, I see it as challenge. I have been jammed by Guristas for many years in my Raven - so what?

Then I see people making 546748742875642548675967204706516 whine thread how "unfair" that is because they cannot press F1 for 20 seconds - oh my..

If you fly a turret boat gunzz blazing into Sanshas, which you will know before you undock, you did not choose the right tool for the job at hand and I could not care any less about getting dampened by Serpentis when I sit in a blaster boat.

Pressing F1 every now and then is no challenge. Flying a ship right is.

find the burner mission thread and use those ships, and then add a mach, kronos, and/or paladin on top.

personally I like 2 or 3 machs as switching fits is annoying, and machs are super cheap right now. I only have 1 mach in station right now and it annoys me. I like having an arty dps fit (EoM, stop the thief), arty nano fit (die scarlet), ac dps fit (general use), and an AC MJD fit (the missions with the things at 100km). With the saved fit feature swapping is better than it used to be, but I still don't like it. for the most part rigs are all warp speed, although a t2 rof rig on the dps arty fit is kinda nice.

if you are going to do the boring missions only, then probably just go with a mach, or maybe a paladin (or nightmare but less good) if you are in amarr space. and you probably have the skills to at least do some of the burner missions.