EVE New Citizens Q&A

I'm posting this in New Citizens because except for exploration (data/relic), I feel like I'm an absolute beginner. I have basically maxed scanning / hacking skills and can easily take a jaunt out into nullsec via wormholes and come back with 100-150 million isk (the max I'm comfortable flying with before returning to sell it).

But now I'm looking to expand my horizons and there are so many various things I could do and so many ships and so many opinions as to the best way to go about it, I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels, ESPECIALLY where it comes to designating my skill queue. I guess it was a lot easier with exploration because it was very simple knowing what I needed to aim for.

Can anyone give me a guide (just general advice) when it comes to a direction for, say, running level 4 DED sites? I need a goal to aim for (ship to be able to fly, basic needs to fit it correctly) otherwise I'll keep floundering about. And while I love this game, I truly do, it's so easy to get lost in all the options and lose focus. I've bounced from wanting to run missions, to DED sites, to salvaging, etc . . . with the OVERALL goal of having steady income, plexing my account with the help of my PI (oh how I hate initially setting up all the colonies) and then, once I'm fully established, throwing caution to the wind and just start doing some pirate work in lowsec.

I'm struggling to FOCUS my current efforts.

Also, I've given in to a little bit of the paranoia that comes along with this game. Is there a way to share my current learned skills without giving account information or whatever so that someone can see where I'm at and help me go from there?

Thanks for whatever help you can give.

o7

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Btw. T1 frigs are cheap. Don't wait until you are "fully established" before you get into PvP, or you never will and just end up like those highsec carebears.

Stratios is great, a Swiss army knife with drones and scanning bonuses, and it's a pretty decent hunter killer ship too. Drop a mobile depot and refit as needed.

I would also suggest the Gila. Either of those ships you can be in relatively quickly and you'll be doing DED 4/10's no problem.

Throwing another vote in for the Stratios, I knew someone who flew it when it first came out and Got some pretty amazing kills. Plus it has enough versatility in my own experience to handle complex anomalies with the addition of being able to escape and hide in systems with no station. Very solid ship, pretty easy to get into and the pricetag isn't awful either

I could ramble a while about how and why I rationalize things but I'll try to be concise!

I still use Federation Navy and similar faction navy versions of the drones for Medium sized on up because the 24 day cost to train into T2 for a few extra points in DPS just isn't worth it to me- in that same time I could boost damage output of all of them by 20% for example by training Drone Interfacing V.

I'm not a missioner so I'm not sure what the difficulty comparatively between DED ratings and level of missions but 4/10's aren't that bad in my experience. I find the Sansha one to be the most difficult compared to other 4/10's I've run.

In less than a day, you can train into all the other gunnery based weapons systems to level III and use meta 4 versions of the guns. That's what I did and if it was something I absolutely loved I would take it further. As far as working the same.. well I guess it depends on what you're flying- I used to do public roams more often and the fits they called for ranged all over the place from Amarr Battlecruisers to kitchen sink Frigs so that's why I trained all over the place to give it all a fair try. I seem to use missiles and drones the most and shield buffer tank.

Disclaimer: I'm not some fitting wizard but here's some examples of what I fly.



This is what I fly almost exclusively anymore:



I pack a Mobile Depot and a core probe launcher just incase I get stuck somewhere. I can run 4/10's no problem even though it's a PVP version and I seem to swim in troubled waters often so that's why I don't go for pure PVE fits like I used to.

The upfront cost does seem high but both these ships will make you so much money so it's definitely worth it.

Thanks for your fitting suggestions, but what do you mean by using meta 4 versions? I'm familiar with tech 1, tech 2, faction fittings and such, but what are you referring to by meta 4?

By buffer fit, I'm assuming you just mean that you have so much shield that by the time the engagement is over the enemy hasn't h ad a chance to cut through it all, right? I've always understood that buffer is for pvp and active is for pve? Am I wrong or is it just not that simple?

Holy unnecessary bling batman.
also eeeeeeeeeeeew shield strat.
you see what we mean about it having versatility though.

heres something practical and probably inline with your current skills
[Stratios, Reasonable Fit]
1600mm Steel Plates II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Damage Control II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

Warp Scrambler II
Medium Capacitor Booster II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
10MN Afterburner II

Medium Gremlin Compact Energy Neutralizer
Small Energy Neutralizer II
Medium Energy Neutralizer II
Sisters Core Probe Launcher
Covert Ops Cloaking Device II

Medium Trimark Armor Pump II
Medium Trimark Armor Pump II
Medium Trimark Armor Pump II


Vespa II x5
Valkyrie II x5
Hammerhead II x6
Ogre II x5
Hobgoblin II x5
Acolyte II x8
Infiltrator II x5

Nanite Repair Paste x46
Core Scanner Probe I x16
Navy Cap Booster 400 x23

i keep a rep,hacking mods and an m-depo in the hold and swap out the plate and add guns for pve.

swap the plate for a rep,
swap the neuts for lazorz.
swap the scram for ... ehh whatever non bloodthirsty savages use instead of scrams.

you have a hudge cargo so you can carry a couple of fits and field strip the hull and do something different if you want

bah, im an Armour Brawler through and through so those mids are generally spoken for

Time spent training core Navigation and Engineering skills is never time wasted.