EVE New Citizens Q&A

1. Zoom out? Or if you're in amarrian space place the camera on the other side
2. No. It really depends on the corp.
3. Yes you can make enough ISK. There are better ways but with more risk otherwise enjoy the very bad isk/hr of highsec
4. Good. Keep on training them drones because the stratios uses them alot. As for tanking, the algos can go either way but not both. It depends on what you want that ship to do.

The general rule of thumb is to compare the mid and low slots, more mids than lows generally means a shield tank, more lows than mids generally means an armour tank

Amarr and Gallente ships are normally armour tanked, Caldari ships are normally shield tanked and Minmatar ships are normally tanked with whatever loot is lying around

Seriously though, Minmatar ships are split between armour and shield, some work well with either; no races ships work well if you try to combine an armour and shield tank.

I've seem far far worse from native speakers, you've nothing to worry about there.

If you're up against Serpentis you should be dealing kinetic and thermal damage, drone wise that means Hobgoblins or Hornets.

If you haven't already done so there are racial drone specialisation skills to train, they buff drone damage and health and give you immediate access to the relevant T2 scout drones (Hobgoblin II and the like) which are considerably more powerful than the T1 scout drones (Hobgoblin I).

1. Are the rats going through your shields into armor?
if no
Drop the armor rep for another drone damage amp
if yes
put some rigs to increase your resist or passive regen and see if it works

Here are two algos fits (for pvp use but can be modified for pve)

[Algos, PVP Algos Mk II-S]
Pseudoelectron Containment Field I
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

Medium Shield Extender II
5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive
J5 Enduring Warp Disruptor

75mm Gatling Rail II
75mm Gatling Rail II
75mm Gatling Rail II
75mm Gatling Rail II
75mm Gatling Rail II
Small Gremlin Compact Energy Neutralizer

Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I


Hammerhead II x2
Hobgoblin II x3
Warrior II x5

Spike S x2000
Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S x1000
Nanite Repair Paste x20

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[Algos, PVP Algos Mk II-A]
400mm Steel Plates II
Damage Control II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II

1MN Afterburner II
Warp Scrambler II
X5 Enduring Stasis Webifier

75mm Gatling Rail II
75mm Gatling Rail II
75mm Gatling Rail II
75mm Gatling Rail II
75mm Gatling Rail II
Small Gremlin Compact Energy Neutralizer

Small Trimark Armor Pump I
Small Trimark Armor Pump I
Small Trimark Armor Pump I


Hammerhead II x2
Hobgoblin II x3
Warrior II x5

Spike S x1000
Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S x1000
Nanite Repair Paste x78

okay il try removing the scanning rigs i have set up andchange for shield rigs and drop the armour repairer. should i drop the damage control too?

Have you been trying to build a "swiss army knife" ship?

If you have, give up, it's just not possible; by making it able to do everything, it does nothing well.

For scanning use one of the frigates with a scanning bonus, the Imicus is the Gallente one; you'll find that the actual scanning takes less time, bookmark your results and then swap into a DPS ship to kill all of the things.

If you venture into lowsec use a Helios, which has scanning bonuses and can warp cloaked when fitted with a covert ops cloak, I have no idea if the cloak is still called that though, CCP have changed a lot of names in the last couple of years as part of tiericide.

Your rigs are toast when you remove them, you'll have to buy some more if you go with a dedicated scanning ship.

Keep the damage control, it's probably the most powerful tanking module in Eve.

When the icon for it looked like a suitcase, a common refrain on the forums and in threads talking about ship fitting was that "you never leave without your suitcase"

I think that is mostly just in Amarr space. I dislike Amarr space for that reason. Like other's have said zoom out or face your camera away from it or go to non-Amarrian space.

There are consequences to everything. However there is no built-in mechanic that puts some restrictive penalties on you. Sometime having a long employment history can raise some questions when applying for corps in the future. Also if you do something to **** people off big time, potentially they could try and follow you around and harass you. However that is highly unlikely and you'd have to had done something grudge worthy.

Short answer is no not really. Or only in extreme cases.

Yes. High sec incursions and mission running can both earn over 100 million isk per hour. Note that I said can as just doing either of them won't necessarily get you that much isk per hour. You'll have to do some research and practice but you can get there. Keep in mind with both of those activities you will be making isk from LP so don't focus on just the initial payouts of isk.

Other's have made good comments on this so far. To add to that:

PvE tanking usually focuses more on repairing damage where PvP typically focuses more on buffer (having more EHP). Both requrie resists.

For PvE typically you want to focus your resist mods on the faction that you will be up against. So for Sansha / Bloodraiders you'll want to resist Em/Therm and for Serpentis / Guristas you'll want to resist Kinetic / Therm etc... PvP is typically focused more on an omni tank meaning have fairly even resists across the board.

There is such a thing as a passive shield tank. You can read up more on that here I'll just cover active tanking. So you usually want at least a couple resist modules so against Sansha / Bloodraiders that would be one EM resist and One Therm resist (on my BS I use two of each so four resists total). Then you want a local repper. This goes the same for either shield or armor but you want either not both. You can use rigs also to help with tank. Keep in mind that your best defense is a good offense, you don't need to tank dps from dead NPCs. Also smaller ships can typically avoid most in coming DPS with skilled piloting.

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Fitting_Guidelines

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Fitting_101

The above links are probably a good place to start reading
http://www.hostile.dk/files/eve/eve-tracking101.swf
That link is a gunnery / tracking guide which is good info to know when trying to use piloting to either avoid or apply DPS to or from turrets.

okay ill give those a read and see what i come up with. regarding leaving the corp its just i dont see them online often they tend to be mining and i was just interested in exploring xD

If what your corp is doing does not fit in with your playstyle you should not be afraid to look for one that does. Also it's rare to find just the right corp on your first try. So look around for something that suits you better.

Signal Cartel would probably be a good corp for you to try, they're very much about exploration and a good bunch of folks.

This is where to start if you want to look into joining them

@ISD folks, while I'm aware that recruiting of any kind isn't allowed in NCQA, I'm not associated with Signal Cartel; my intent is give Erfbek an option and point him in the direction of a corp that shares his interests, if the link breaks the rules please remove it.

I am not involved with signal cartel and therefore can not recruit for them and would have told the OP the same thing. Also you can get involved with signal cartel without joining them as far as I understand. Or at the very least their members could direct you to public channels that they and players like them hang out in.

So I don't see any issue with you making the recommendation for an explorer type to reach out to them.