EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi all, me again

So I have got myself a nice new Amarr Destroyer Coercer. I have the shield boost and shield extension fitted. Unfortunately I now don't seem to have the slots available for after burners, or warp disrupters etc.

is there any way I can increase the available slots for extra equipment?

Or may be even a way to switch equipment around whilst flying

thanks S

Yes, by using a Mobile Depot.

Also is there a way to move all my ships to another system?

Since it hasn't been said explicitly:
When figuring out how to fit you ship, make sure you choose EITHER shield or armor for your ship's defense. Not both - a mistake called dual-tanking.

So with most Amarr ships, for now you'll be better off simply forgetting that it has shields at all. This isn't a precise and 100% accurate directive. But for now, when you're new, stick with only 1 out of those two options until you're more experienced with fitting.

The reason dual-tanking is a mistake, generally, is because the benefits that a ship's modules grant tend to compound on each other. Roughly, if you had two modules for shield, and two modules for armor, you would be less survivable than four modules focused on your armor tank.

Although one thing you can try with frigates and destroyers(who are small) is avoiding getting hit at all, by being fast with an afterburner, and flying roughly perpendicular from what's shooting at you, when possible.

Different topic. In regards to assets and mobility.
There are a few places in Eve where players congregate to do the majority of their buying and selling, and the amount of people there makes the prices very competitive. It makes it possible to buy something, decide you don't like it, and then immediately sell it back to another player with little(or no) loss. If you utilize these places, then it makes a lot of sense to sell everything you don't need. This will partly solve the problem of moving out to the Sisters of Eve mission spot - it's perfectly effective to fly there in a functional coercer, leaving nothing behind but empty hangars.

The two largest market systems, btw, are Amarr and Jita. Use the system-search to find these locations, and bookmark them as Market Hubs.

Should you need something different, you can always fly back, and there will also be some selection of items available at your destination too(since that area has a decent population).

It's very common to pack up your stuff and move to different places in Eve, but you can only fly one ship at a time. So you'll find yourself liquidating assets very often. Sometimes you might do this at a loss, but it's a very acceptable loss: Your destination always holds more promise and potential.

As for moving ships: Just sell what you don't need, and fly the rest yourselves. Or just leave the ships there, just in case you dock there in the future and find yourself needing a frigate. Only very few ships in Eve are irreplacable, and people tend to not fly those anyway.

Fitted with rigs:

Assuming you do not have the skills and access to a ship with a maintenance bay or a bowhead:

1. Pay someone like Red Frog to move them all at once at a few million per jump
2. Fly them yourself. If there are industrial facilities at other end take a shuttle blueprint and build one to fly back to collect the next ship

Ships with no rigs:

Remove all modules and repackage the ships. Move them in a T1 industrial.

As for moving your ships there is no reason to take all of your stuff with you where ever you go. Many new players including myself feel the need to do that early on. I can tell you from experience not only is there no need to do that this game will break you of that habit in a short amount of time.

Some players just have stashes of stuff all over eden. Some players sell of everything that they are not immediately using and are constantly liquidating assets. Some players have several "homes" set up. How you wind up doing things depends on you and what you plan on doing and how you like to do things.

My advice in the short term is to only take with you what you need and leave everything else where it is. If you need the isk then sell stuff off. If you can get by without the isk then just leave it. Later on when you know more about the game and more about your playstyle and can fly more ships which make moving stuff easier then you can decide what to do with "your stuff" and have the rescources and knowledge to make it happen more easily.

A couple month ago I went and picked up a ship from a station that I had not docked at in years. I sat in a ship that I had fit out in my first couple weeks of playing this game. It was hilarious to see my fit from back then. It was a really cool step into "the way back machine" that gave me a shot of nostalgia.

How to fit any Amarr ship: Lasers and armor. If the hull has no laser bonuses then it's drones and armor.

If at any point you are fitting shield modules you are wrong.

You can't change the number of slots except for tech 3 ships. You don't shield tank amarr ships. Caldari and most, but not all minmatar ships are the shield tankers. Gallente and amarr armor tank.


I triple tank my indies in high sec.