EVE New Citizens Q&A

Yes. During the rebalance they supposedly buffed Drone damage to compensate for the reduced DIV effectiveness. Of course there was a Drone Nerf that followed when Drone ships became the preferred pvp ships. So I really don't know where drone damage falls now. Personally, I miss my 100% extra damage.

I don't just gank. Gankers should train Thermo 1 and leave it there as there is no difference between 1 and 5 for us.

In wardec situations I absolutely have made use of the sustained tank boost.

Additionally, I have done a lot of PVE (both for sec status and for trading reasons) and use overheating extensively in PVE and PVP. I've overheated guns, precision modules, tackle modules, prop modules, resist modules, cap injectors, active local reppers and active remote reppers at various times. Sometimes module by module, sometimes the entire rack.

In all of these situations, 5% less heat damage is not a lot, because average damage is based upon an integral of rack heat with respect to time, and rack heat is an integral of a function of the number and type of modules you have overheating with respect to time. This makes heat damage quadratic in time (and linear in the number of overheated modules), and so each 5% you reduce heat damage only increases time by about 2.5%.

Not meaningless, but not significant.


TL:DR - Get Thermo 1 ASAP because it's one of the biggest power boosts in the game. 2 and 3 are an OK use of skillpoints. 4 and 5 can wait.

PVP Must-have: Strap Droidster and Dryson Bennington to the front of your ship, each equipped with head-mounted computers, and destroy your opponents with their stream-of-consciousness ****** trollery

It's completely overpowered - I destroyed not only every pod in Jita with it, but I also caused a whole EVE node to burst into flames!!!1!!11!

Dryson Bennington has ideas that are based just enough in reality for their madness to have all the more impact.

hes a glorious poster and i relish reading his oddness.

has no patch on Dinsdale Piranha ( o7 )

I miss Neville. His avatar was so punchable.

I think generally the most important thing is to not get discouraged. Someone could just link you like a Slasher fit. It's got an afterburner and a shield extender and a scram and a TD.

What do you know that it can engage really well? Not so well? The trouble with learning PVP in this game doesn't stop just here either. And the classes (the fights) especially in Frigates and Dessies can be 5-20 seconds long and perhaps few and far between.

There's not really any one skill ingame I would say is most important. Don't loaf around waiting for level V skills it's overrated

This is a playstyle that is taught to them by other games with level caps and gear progression.

To me it is more than just a matter of them missing out on content by not being able to make the mental adjustment from "gear" and "level's" which in those games are all important to "skill points" and "modules" which in this game are only a part of things. To me it is a sign that the player does not understand this game and is not going to make it too long if they can't let go of the expectations that they bring from other games and play Eve as if it were a different game rather than just playing it as if it were another WoW clone.

If they can not make that mental adjustment then they will wait for skills to train just like they did in the other games with level caps and then go get expensive ships and modules, just like they did in games with gear progression and then go out and try and learn PvP just like they did in games with a respawn mechanic in a structured and balanced PvP arena. Of course none of those tactics will work out well in this game and they will get frustrated and leave.

This is why I tell players that appear to me to be stuck in their WoW clone programming to either play Eve as if it were Eve or just leave and look for another WoW clone because waiting for skills to train won't work out well here.