EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi,

Welcome to Eve! Tengus, and the other tech 3 cruisers, have to be used with five categories of sub-systems that modify their stats (offensive, defensive, propulsion, engineering and electronics). There are different variants of each of the five main sub-systems, giving you options to customize your Tengu. The Tengu Offensive - Rifling Launcher Pattern sub-system gives you access to drones, for example, while the other offensive sub-systems do not.

Hope that helps!

Thank you two for getting back to me.. Very helpful :)

I'm actually looking to have salvage drones in the Tengu.

I'm wanting to be slightly greedy in the fact that I want to use the Tengu for salv/data/relic/ratting while doing exploration.

Hoping I can fit the Tengu to be able to achieve all 4 at the same time. I know it's not the best ship for the job, but I really like the look of it and I'm not fussed about being the best at something. I just think if I can do all those 4 on the Tengu I will very much enjoy the game.

Regards

IMHO this is a bad idea. I did the same thing when I was new and I feel it is a mistake. Your likes and dislikes change so much early on in the game. Also planning far in advance typically leads to players waiting for skills to train before they try or do stuff which again in my opinion is a sub par way to play the game and poor way to learn the game.

Do what you want to do now and skill up into the things that you are doing now. If you plan 4 months down the road you likely will be doing different stuff by then.

Just play the game and have fun. Experiment with all kinds of stuff and tactics and you will find your playstyle on your own and not need to ask us what to aim for. I mean we could tell you but really you are the best you and myself or anyone else here would probably not be as good of a you as you are.


Ships are tools and even at that tools to do a job. Often a specific job. If you try to get a ship to do everything it will not do any of them well. I understand the want to go into a wormhole and have everything that you need to do every site in there but just know that you will probably be crappy at all of them.

It's usually not too difficult to get a ship that you can scan down and run combat sites or scan down and run hacking sites. Even having a salvager on hand might not be too bad or a flight of salvage drones.

However if you want to be able to run combat sites in any decent amount of time and then salvage everything, again in a decent amount of time, and still be able to hack it might be a little rough. You can use a mobile depot and refit but by the time you fit the depot and the extra modules and subsystems etc... there's not much room left.

I'm not saying that what you want to do can't be done I'm just saying that you might find out that it's not as enjoyable in practice as it is in your head.

However again I say if in doubt try it out. Then you won't need to ask us and rely on our opinions when you have your own experience.

I would recommend focusing on frigates and not training cruisers at all for the following reasons:

- it will take a long long time before you can fly a Tengu effectively

- frigates fly faster (this is really key, when you fly fast, things go fast)

- frigates cost less

- there are more different kinds of frigates than cruisers

- your training time will be MUCH less to get into a high quality frigate like a Helios or an Ishkur

I should probably explain this last point. You will notice a number after each skill (like 1x or 3x or 5x or whatever). This is the training time multiplier. What this means is that some skills take different amounts of time to train to the same level. For example, to train a 1x skill to level V takes much less time than to train a 5x skill to level V. What you will notice is that some of the cruiser skills have a higher training time multiplier than the corresponding frigate skill. So, basically what this means is that you can get a high mastery in frigates much faster than a mastery in cruisers.

You are much better off being good in frigates than bad at cruisers.

If you want to do exploration, train up to a Helios or Astero.

There are 3 ships from The Sisters of EVE [SoE] specifically aimed at exploration.

Frigate: Astero
Cruiser: Stratios
Battleship: Nestor

The Stratios is probably what you are looking for, but the Astero is a nice start.

Note that no single ship is perfect for everything, that includes the above and the Tengu. The SoE ships are more specialized for exploration, where T3 like the Tengu are more versatile.

Every ship in EVE has a counter, and numbers often trump that too.

Ships in EVE:
* T1 = Basic
* Navy = Improved T1 (some more improved than others, and many very different than T1)
* T2 = Specialized
* T3 = Versatile
* Faction (includes Sisters of EVE) = Unique or powerful bonuses, i.e. allowed to "break the rules". Require 2 racial ship skills (SoE = Amarr & Gallente, hence lasers and drones).

I've been solo roaming through LS/NS/WHs for a while now in a stratios, and it works very well for any type of exploration. At this point I don't have a home, and only dock when I need to sell loot. If you're smart in combat sites and don't lose drones, there is literally nothing you need to replace on it, so unlike a tengu you won't have to trek back to a trade hub and replace missiles every once in a while.