EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello Ixion Rout,

I'd really like to answer your questions but I mainly fly Minmatar ships. Don't worry, I'm sure others will soon post answers for you.

However what I can do is welcome you to Eve and wish you a long and rewarding career here.

Fly smart and stay safe.



DMC

Thank you for the warm welcoming, always a pleasure to see how friendly the community is !




This doesn't answer my question. Plus I don't know all the ships yet, some explanations maybe ?

This is completely incorrect, I used the Ferox all through missioning 3's and 4's (Some harder 4's you have to warp out every so often though). It is very powerful and your large shield tank increases alot since you can sort of range tank. You can use its few drones to pick off the pesky frigs which you cant track.

Later on I used the Naga for missioning too, but its sorta hard since its designed to snipe at 100km+ and sometimes you have to use acceleration gates which dump you on top of the enemies which is really bad since you cant track them at close range. But you can still pack a pretty strong tank on these guys if you know what you are doing. Then if you want missiles with a REALLY strong tank, then ofc, Drake

I like guns way more than missiles, especially for pve. With missiles you generally have to over commit damage and fire a whole volley as you don't know if the NPC will rep or not while your missiles travel, also it is hard to mentally calculate how many individual missiles to fire to do a certain amount of damage. With time and practice you can get pretty good with it, but there is still always that random factor. With guns damage applies instantly and if you fire all your guns but only need 2 to kill the target you can then use the rest of your guns to start shooting the next target right away. If I ever use missiles it involves loading auto-targeting missiles and going afk.

with caldari the merlin, corm, moa, and ferox are all capable boats that should run missions well. Medium railguns are in a good spot and do pretty good damage. A blitz tengu or proteus can complete lv 3s very quickly blapping targets at range with railguns. A bit more advanced, but that all applies to the ferox, it will just be a little slower.

However in lv4 missions the Rokh is kinda underwhelming in this regard mostly because the damage is low, however the range is pretty insane. So if you want "easy mode" fit a MJD and do low damage at range, the rokh will be pretty good at that. For rails to work well ships like the hyperion, vindicator, and kronos are better goals. Although these days I mostly use autocannons when flying a bs as the Machariel is just sick nasty for missions.

Used to see ravens everywhere because they are versatile and can get the missions done with fairly low skills. These days I don't really hang out much in mission hubs. But I remember seeing way more variety last time I was out there.

This is a game it's about having fun. Fly what you have fun flying.

The Caldari snipe style of play has always been good for PvE and now with MJDs in the game even more so. I'm not a huge fan of hybrids but I do like guns better than missiles.

Probably the single most important thing to keep in mind however is that you just can't stop the Rokh

My advice is that bigger does not always mean better in EVE.

The core skills in Engineering and Navigation along with your choice of Armour or Shield tanking skills should be your priority instead of always looking at getting into the next bigger class of ship. I've been playing a little over a year now and while I can fly a Talos and a Ferox, you'll very, very rarely see me in anything larger than a frigate.

A well fit and well flown Cruiser like the Vexor Navy Issue or the Gila can happily run a wide range PvE content (and at least the Gila needs Caldari skills :P ).

Work on those Core skills for a while. The extra fitting room, speed, capacitor and agility you get will apply to all future hull choices.

Oh, one last thing: Thermodynamics V.
If you don't have it yet, I strongly suggest you tweak your skillqueue and put it at the top. That one single skill has saved me more ships than any other and has swung more fights my way than any other. Jump into a gatecamp and need to crash gate? Overheat tank & prop mods FTW!

And I would totally agree if I didn't suck at flying stuff in missions. I have absolutely no clue whatsoever how people fly L2 missions in anything but cruisers for example. At the moment, Missioning is pretty much all I do, it lets me time to learn about other activities such as PvP and exploration, which are my 2 other big interests (aside of mining, but I'll do it on an alt), it gets me a base of isk/hour (well, 2M/hour, it's still pretty bad) and it's pretty much risk-free with the ships who fit most depending on the missions levels.

Back to the main topic anyway, it looks like the Ferox is the main choice for Caldari BC with turrets. I respect the "fly what you like" argument, but ships have purposes right ? You can't bring a Merlin, as cool as it is to L2, 3 and 4 missions, solo at least.

Strongly disagree on Thermo 5.

I'm an 80 million SP character and I've never considered training it to 5.

Level 1 gets you the full ability to overheat. Level 3 is worth training because it's almost free. But compared to 3, level 5 reduces overheat damage to modules by about 10% - which sounds good until you realise that with heat mechanics, heat damage is a cubic function of the time spent continuously overheating, meaning you get only about a 3% increase in the time you can overheat.

The emphasis on getting level 5 core skills is right, but not Thermo. Thermo you get to 1 ASAP, then train to 3 in time, then leave it at 3 or 4 until you have 150m SP.

Do not use a rokh for missions its terrible, stick with gallente ships if you want to use hybrids. You really want to be doin lvl 4's in a BS, a mega or navy mega is what you want to aim for and that will set you up for a vargur which is the hybrid marauder.
Yes you can use some t3 and bc for lvl 4's, including t2 frigs, but if you can drive to work, why would you walk ??
Train for a brutix for lower levels, put rails, prop mod and some webs and you good to go.
If you in a decent corp once you in a BC you can run lvl4's with them to make isk and focus on core skills before you go to BS, that way you not too stressed about making iskis and having to rush in to a bs.

err yea, kronos.. sorry its friday afternoon, my mind is on beeroclock :)