EVE New Citizens Q&A

You have the right idea.

You have two more low-slots on your Incursus... I suggest an Adaptive Nano Membrane/Plate and always fit a Damage Control.

And I do mean ALWAYS fit a damage Control. That one mod can often double your odds of survival.

Never leave station without your....oh...never mind...

OP you may find this recent thread helpful.

I'd go for something like this, since at the very least, it'll allow you to live longer and get used to the initial rush of PvP combat. Bear in mind, you absolutely need to catch people as they warp to you, or as you warp to them. Launch your drone, approach enemy with AB, set everything on them. Use the armor repairers when you take damage (Start 1 when you're about 25% shield), use the cap booster when you're at very low capacitor, but before your modules shut off. With low skills, it will fill your entire capacitor again.

At 4 mil or so, it's no too horribly expensive, and it's a fit you can upgrade as you get better skills if you like it. There's still fitting room on there even with absolute beginner fitting skills, which I built it for.



[Incursus, Dual-rep Brawl Low-skill]
Damage Control I
Small 'Accommodation' Vestment Reconstructer I
200mm Crystalline Carbonide Restrained Plates
Small Ancillary Armor Repairer, Nanite Repair Paste

1MN Monopropellant Enduring Afterburner
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
Small Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Navy Cap Booster 400

Modal Light Electron Particle Accelerator I, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S
Modal Light Electron Particle Accelerator I, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S
Modal Light Electron Particle Accelerator I, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S

Small Anti-Explosive Pump I
Small Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Small Auxiliary Nano Pump I

Hobgoblin I x1

To my knowledge, there is no difference between Caldari Navy and Federation Navy ammo, other than the name.

With the dual-rep fit, you really need the cap booster. This means you only have 2 mid slots available. You need a point to hold people from warping as the minimum. Since you are blaster-fit, you want to be close, and you want to turn off any potential enemy MWD so they can't get away, so it's a scram. Since you don't have a mid slot for a web, your only option to try and stay close is a prop mod that doesn't turn off if you are fighting another scram-fit ship: An Afterburner.

The dual-rep incursus is really really sturdy for a T1 frigate, but the price is the above. You can't fit a web. There are other incursus fits out there that don't dual-rep and thus don't need the cap booster, freeing up the slot for a web. So, if you want to fit an MWD, you should drop 1 repper and put in an adaptive resist plate, removing the cap booster to instead in a stasis webifier, since your MWD will likely be turned off in a brawl, and you need -some- way to try and stay close enough for your blaster DPS to apply. Also a note here, to fit the MWD, you'll probably need to replace the resist rig with a powergrid rig (small ancillary current router I)

The fit I recommended is made for a specific purpose: Surviving, and brawling. You can get in trouble very quickly as soon as you can't catch someone, BUT: For a complete newcomer to the game, survivability has one big advantage. It gives you time to acclimatize, to think, to get used to PvP in EVE. I can still remember the first few times I PvPed in EVE. It was violent, quick, and I had fairly little idea of what the hell was going on. A tanky ship gives you time to think, and this one can still get a kill against the right kind of targets.

Personally, if I was starting over again, I'd probably fit up 3-5 of these and go out into faction warfare lowsec, and fight (and die). And then move on to another ship that struck my fancy.

Thank you for the explanation. It does make sense - I was thinking I might need the MWD to get close, but of course, it can be turned off.

And what you wrote above is my plan to start with PvP. Another question. I have saved the fit you suggested - is it possible somehow to simply use that save to buy another ship fitted the same way? I can't find a 'buy this' type button, and buying all these items one by one to have four backups takes so long (- especially since I then need to fly them individually to a better staging point).



Thank you, but my skills are nowhere near being able to fly that yet. I've only been playing three weeks. It is useful though, to see how one might upgrade. Capacitor and power grid seem to be the first focus, but should one aim to upgrade guns, armour or rigs as the next priority?

Great, thank you. Much appreciated.