EVE New Citizens Q&A

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I've recently trained into T2 small hybrid turrets, and am a bit confused about the T2 ammo.
Blasters
Null: Long range, useful for any ships trying to kite you.
Void: Only useful against ships larger than yourself?

Railguns
Spike: Very long range ammunition, allowing you to effectively snipe ships.
Javelin: Only useful against ships smaller than yours orbiting very close?

Is this analysis correct, or am I missing some roles for these ammo? For close range fighting am I best sticking to CN Antimatter?

Antimatter has good range? The only ammo type that has worse is Javelin, which has better tracking and dps to make up for it.

I can only speak for blasters but I carry void, fed navy antimatter and null.
For PvP always use fed navy charges when not using t2 ammunition.

I generally have fed navy antimatter loaded and will switch from there depending upon what I'm going to shoot.

Void can be used on anything if you can slow it down enough,
Fednavy antimatter for when you can't
Null for when you need the range.

I'm not trying to make fun of you but help direct you by answering the question I think you should ask instead of did ask.

So with pretty much all weapons there is a close range version and a long range version. Short range is higher dps. So with hybrids blasters are your up close brawling weapon with high tracking but **** range. Rail guns are your long range snipping/ kitting weapons. Projectiles have autocannons for close range and artillery for long range. Lazors have beams for long and pulse for short. Missiles are long rockets are short or heavies and HAMs or cruise and torps.

This flash tutorial will teach you the basics and Eve Uni has many pages on it for more in depth look at tracking and gunnery in eve.

I'm fairly new to the game too, so I may not be totally correct, but I think it is best to always have your turrets at the same range.

The reason for this is that you want to have a defined engagement range for your ship. Versatility is good to an extent, but it isn't good if you sacrifice performance to achieve it. For example if you had a neutron blaster, a 75mm rail gun and a 150mm railgun on the same ship, you would have 1 turret that is good at very close range, one which is a middle-long and one which is a long range one. This means that at any given range you only have 1 turret that is effective. Instead you might decide that you're going to have an engagement range of just inside warp scrambler range, so you might put 3 125mm rail guns on them. You can then carry three types of ammo like people have mentioned, Javelin for extremely close range, Spike for much more distance, and Caldari navy antimatter as your primary middle range ammo.

So does anyone have any opinion on Javelin ammo? What situations does it outperform CN antimatter?

In general you don't want to mix weapon systems but you also don't want to ignore potential extra dps. That may sound confusing so I'll have to use examples.

Most ships are fairly specialized in that they have one main weapon type. Some are stricter than others but you might have hybrid high slots for your guns for example. On a ship like that you will want all the same gun. Not just all rail guns or all blasters I mean all the exact same gun so if you are using Light Ion Blaster II's you want all of your turrets to be "Light Ion Blaster IIs" you don't want to mix in any lower meta versions or anything.

However in the above situation if your ship has a drone bay you don't want to ignore that and just not use the drone. But you don't want to waste any rig or module slots on drone damage mods if the ship is primarily a turret platform. You want to focus on your turrets as your main dps.

That is more straightforward, there are some minmatar ships where it is not so cut and clear. There are some ships that are turret focused but have one or two launcher slots. In those cases you will have to make judgement calls. Sometimes you will fill those with launchers and if you do then yes stick to similar range weapons. Other times you might be better off with a utility high slot item.

You will learn more as you go and this will make more sense later but yes for now rockets with blasters and missiles with rails or as you get into bigger ships torpedoes with blasters and cruise missiles with rails.

One example is that my most used ship is the Dominix which is a Drone boat. I have 6 high slots and 6 turret hardpoints so it can fit 6 turrets. The most that I fit on that ship are 5 and many of my fits have 4 or less. My drones do most of my dps and my ship is set up accordingly. My turret dps is so low as compared to my drone dps that in most cases I'm better off using a high slot or two for other things like extending my drone's engagement range or for a remote armor repper or many PvPers use neuts or vamps. However if I am planning on using sentry drones then I fit long range turrets so I stick with the same range and focus all of my dps on one target at a time.

I'm the same, except I usually have T2 ammo preloaded.

Void hits like a freight train, good when you need to end a fight before the opponent can call in reinforcements.

Like said above, if you are going to have multiple weapon systems, then you ideally want them to have overlapping effective ranges. This is why drones are such a good weapon system, because they are good regardless of engagement range. There are a few exceptions however. For example you may decide to fit a vexor with it's primary DPS coming from its drones, but put small blasters in the turret slots so that you can effectively destroy any enemy drones that attack you.

yeah we generally have a scout with the target long before the fight starts so i have an idea of what ill need beforehand.

im also running a fednavy web and scram so that helps considerably with slowing stuff down

Antimatter range is decent, depending on your engagement range. Using a Comet, fit only with 150mm rails, you see see the paper DPS application based on range. The target stats is a Firetail running a T2 AB (roughly 1300m/s with a sigrad of 35) and an angle of 90 degrees.

http://i.imgur.com/h5rlQbH.png

Javelin is better until the 10km mark, where they meet, but anything after, Antimatter will apply better. Then you hit the (roughly) 13km mark, and Thorium takes over. Spike, due to its long range and tracking reduction, barely touches the target within a 20km range and doesn't peak until 35km.

Again, its all paper, and encounters on TQ rarely go as planned on paper.

EDIT: I also made one using 125mm rails, in case you are using those because of fitting reasons. http://i.imgur.com/TeZk6Ib.png