EVE New Citizens Q&A

So me and two friends are starting to play and one is in a bigger missile bearing tank like build. The other is in this fast drone build. Sorry I forgot what they are following exactly, what would be a good position for me? We are planning to do more low sec stuff and small scale pvp, and obviously the pve also.

I've read a few things about builds that jam ship systems and prevent jumping. Would this be something good to go into? Please give me some opinions and directions of where to go into more or less :P Thank you all.

Your friends sound like they want to do DPS, which means that the other roles in the fleet will be up to you.

Warp Disruptor / Warp Scrambler are definitely required; if you don't have them the target will just warp away and escape. Search for these items on the market, then right-click and show info, to see the skills required to install them (they're cheap basic skills).

This is the "tackle" role; you need to get there, lock down the target so it doesn't run away, then your friends can warp to your location and kill it. Your friends should also install a Warp Disruptor on their ships, to reinforce the tackle once they arrive, but your job will be to catch the target initially. You'll need a fast, agile frigate, and you'll need to learn to fly it so the target doesn't kill you while you tackle it. Here's a tackling guide from EVE University.

Otherwise, there are multiple types of electronic warfare (ewar / jamming). Here's a guide from EVE University, including ships and what to do.

A three-man gang is a fun size. I do rather a lot of three-man low-sec PVP, and I usually do it with low-SP characters on one or both of my wings.

There are basically two ways to do a good fleet composition for this. You can go Fast-Tackle/DPS/DPS or you can go Fast-Tackle/DPS/Ewar. If you go with the latter though, you want to make sure that one or both of your Tackle and Ewar ships are also contributing a reasonable amount of secondary DPS. I wouldn't generally recommend flying a logi ship in a three-man gang.

Let's assume your friend with the "bigger missile" ship is going to be flying something like a Caracal (you don't want to go bigger than cruiser hulls for this gang). So he's definitely DPS.

Your friend in the "fast drone" ship could be fast tackle, dps, or even ewar depending on the ship he chooses.

The Maulus Navy Issue, for example, is a great tackle ship that also puts out respectable DPS. The Tristan (with neuts in the highs) is a strong ewar support ship with ECM drones, and a strong ewar/DPS ship with DPS drones. The Sentinel is basically a super-powered neut Tristan. And then there are fast drone ships that are pure DPS like the Ishkur and the Algos.

So what you want to fly will depend a bit on what friend #2 is flying. If he's flying a tackle/dps ship, you should look at an ewar ship like a griffin or a keres. If he's flying an EWAR or pure DPS drone ship, you should fly fast tackle and look at something like a slasher or atron to start, upgrading to an interceptor or faction frig like the Navy Maulus later.

Another very interesting option for this comp is the Hyena. It's a very good tackler, and the Target Painter bonus will really help your missile boat apply damage.

EDIT - Also this:


You can specialize to a degree, but redundancy is important. All three of your ships should be fitting a warp disruptor or warp scrambler in case someone gets killed/jammed/neuted/etc. And at least two of your ships (ideally all three) should be able to put out some amount of dps, so that you can finish the job even if your highest DPS boat goes down. You shouldn't be thinking in terms of "This ship is just tackle and that ship is just DPS." That's for much bigger fleets. Instead, every ship should ideally be able to fill multiple roles, even if one is its specialty. That said, you still want to give a little bit of thought to roles. Three DPS cruisers will have a hard time catching frigates even if they all have warp scramblers. Two DPS cruisers and a Tackle/DPS frigate on the other hand have a much wider engagement range.