EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I'm mission running right now. I'm in a cruiser. I'm currently being circled by a single frigate. It has me warp locked. It can't kill me and I cant get far enough to kill it or escape. What am I suppose to do here?

Edit. So I logged off after spamming the warp key for like 2 min. When I logged back on I'm warping away. So I guess that's the solution.

All cruisers have a drone bay in some form.

Train up the needed skills, fill it with drones, and have them engage ships your main weapons cannot hit.


Some things to consider:

- The larger a ship is, the more it will have problems dealing with smaller ships. Battleships and Capital ships in particular are vulnerable against frigates as their primary weapon systems have trouble applying damage against smaller targets.
------------- The point behind this design is to make smaller, cheaper ships typically piloted by newer players have a chance against larger, more expensive ships.

- There are ways to avoid having to use Drones much, if at all. Most of the these tactics require you to use long range weapon systems and pull A LOT of range (we are talking 40+kms)... or you can fit modules like Stasis Webifiers to literally slow down the target and make it easier to hit.

- Different ship types and classes require you to use them differently. Frigates and Destroyers are relatively fast... so fit and use them to that advantage. Cruisers, Battlecruisers, and Battleships are very tanky and have the capacity to fit very large, high damage weapons... but they are very slow and have trouble at close quarters. Fit them and use them according to their advantages.

Noted. It was my tackle cherry pop so I've learned something new. :D

Always kill the tackling frigates asap, most of those will have a name that stands out, such as drones=viral frigs, spy for serpentist, guristas kyoukan, etc, these should be primary, but make sure their not the trigger for a reinforcement, eve survival is your best friend.

Mission NPCs typically have a simple AI that makes them MWD towards you, and then orbit at whatever range they prefer. Most of the time it's short range, sometimes medium.

As a result, setting up your ship for short range lasers (pulse lasers), and enough tank to survive the short range, + a webifier to help against pesky frigates such as in your example, is more effective than setting up for long range.

You can still do long range if you want, it just requires MWD / afterburner so you can still stay at range when the NPC's do their approach, and it requires knowing which frigate to shoot first. For that, you may have to spoiler the game for yourself and look up the missions ahead of time on spoiler sites like eve-survival.org.