EVE New Citizens Q&A

I have a ship (Slasher) I'd like to use the small shield on, but inevitably, the capacitor reads 'depletes in 00:00:26' when it is fitted. I saw a thread where a player recommended the micro auxiliary power core, which I fitted & activate, but that does not have any effect, to my eyes. Activating the MAPC doe snot change the ship's GJ reading.

I am not looking at this time for the perfect combo, but to understand how the shield mid-slot works - is it only for larger ships? The thread I read talked about medium shield boosters on a Frigate, so, a small should work, right? TIA

Aha, thanks Ralph - makes sense, if I hit the armor repair, track disruptor and whatever else, then it drains. Thanks!

Capacitor management: cycle the shield booster on-and-off as needed to repair shield, and maintain capacitor level.

You don't need to activate the shield booster until your shield reaches roughly 30% (no lower than 25%).

Then let your shield repair until shield either reaches roughly 75% or the capacitor reaches roughly 30% (no lower than 25%).

If the shield level is stable, you don't need to activate the shield booster.

These numbers are a rough guide. It varies depending on ship, fitting, and incoming damage.

This is always good advice. Whenever you're trying out a new ship or a new fit, take a friend along and take her through a trial run.

Or try it out on SiSi.

A quick CAP 101 guide

(all numbers are completely random and do not represent in-game modules, skill boni etc)

You have 2 values for your CAP
- CAP total
- CAP recharge rate

If your ship has
- CAP total: 100
- CAP recharge rate: 10/second

When drained to 0 it will take 10 seconds (100/10s) to fully recharge

You can fit modules that
- Increase CAP total
- Increase CAP recharge rate

If you fit a module that adds 100 CAP
Your ship now fully recharges in 20 seconds (200/10s)

If you fit a module that increases your recharge rate to 20/second
Your ship will fully recharge in 5 seconds (100/20s)


There are Mid-Slot, Low-Slot & Rig-Slot items that alter both these values
Found on the market in the Engineering Section of the listings

(FYI native shield recharge works exactly the same way as CAP does )

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Modules have an Activation Cost
If the combined total is less than your CAP recharge rate, your fit is CAP stable
If the combined total is more than your CAP recharge rate, it's not CAP stable
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NB
tbh I wouldn't worry too much initially whether your fit is optimal or not
running a CAP stable fit initially means you have 1 less thing to worry about as you learn about eve
and there is a LOT to learn in eve

As your knowledge grows you can replace CAP modules with other ones, it's no biggy really.
Personally I'd recommend initially swapping out CAP stuff for Resistances, then tracking, then DPS, then utility.

why do I rate tracking higher than DPS
If you add modules that do +50% dps, but your tracking is poor
your going to miss a lot, and 50% of 0 is ... yep, 0

Hope this helps, and if you have more Q's
Don't hesitate to ask, someone will give solid advise.

Another thing to remember is that you don't have to fit a module that boosts your shield or repairs your amour. It is sometimes better to fit a module that increases the hitpoints or the resistances instead. I am not going to start a long discussion about active / passive / buffer tanks (although it is a vital piece of research to do) but I'll make one point, especially for newer players: with a passive tank, you can't forget to switch it on in the excitement of combat.

EVE University is a good place to look for fitting ideas. Not that they are necessarily great fits, but it will give you a start. Don't just copy a fit, think about why it is fit that way and how it needs to be flown.

The reason I mention this is because the Slasher entry has three fits http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Slasher/Fittings

Two of them are passive, one is active. Now its a cheap ship, so a good idea would be to fit one active, one passive and try them. See what works best, and when. Experimentation with cheap ships, getting blown up and trying again is a great way to learn.

Neuts work on active tanking rats, they dont cap out but they have a rep value that both nos and neuts screw with.

To be honest though its rearly worth doing as feck all rats have a strong enough tank to warrent screwing with.

And yeah, cap stability is a good thing in some situations but by an large its no even remotly worth the compramise.

in a 1v1 frig fight, 26 secs is long enough. :)

You might be mistaken or maybe just didn't read further down the thread. There's only one power module that actually affects other ship systems besides powergrid and that's :

Power Diagnostic System I

Powergrid bonus
5 %
Shield recharge rate bonus
7.5 %
Shield HP bonus
4 %
Capacitor recharge rate bonus
7.5 %
Capacitor bonus
4 %

That's just a Tech 1 Meta level 0 module, higher meta levels will have better stats. As you can see it not only boosts powergrid, but also shield and cap stats as well. All of which can actually help boost ship defense and help make it cap stable. I usually try to fit one on my ships, whether it's passive or active shield tank.

Course it's always best to train up the Core Fitting skills asap. Those will help your ship perform better as well as make it easier for you to do good ship fits.



DMC