EVE New Citizens Q&A

Good morning all, I am running a Punisher which has four slots, I of course equipped four lasers now my question is when you get in a fight and you lock a target do you have to manually click the gun tabs to fire or do the guns once in range fire on there own? I guess the same could be said with opening crates on ships.

ok thanks for the info:)

Great info thanks, another quick question, moving to the next ship type in the tree is it a progression thing or do you just buy the blueprint and make the next ship?

To go from frigate to destroyer to cruiser, for example:

1. You already have the Amarr Frigate skill in your character sheet, from the start. Ship skills are listed in your character sheet, in the first category (Spaceship Command). You have to train that skill to 3 squares, and at that point you meet the prerequisites to train Amarr Destroyer.

2. Search the Market for the skill Amarr Destroyer, it should be sold at the starter University station where you are, or in the Career Missions University station. They also give you the skill if you complete the Military Career missions. In any case, buy/get the skill book, and drag it to the training queue.

3. As soon as you have 1 square in Amarr Destroyer, you can fly the ship. Of course, training the skill to 2 or 3 makes the ship give bigger bonuses. Open the market again and look for a Coercer (if you like to use lasers) or a Dragoon (if you like drones), and buy it. Again, if you complete the Military Career they'll give you a free destroyer.

4. You'll also need to buy the modules for the destroyer: guns, afterburner, armor repairer, capacitor modules, etc. You can find some basic fitting examples on the EVE University wiki (click the ship names). You can also play with the in-game fitting emulator to see what will fit given your skills and the ship's slots and powergrid/cpu limitations.

5. Once you train the Amarr Destroyer skill to 3 (and by the way, you can right-click this skill in your character sheet and choose Show Info -> Required For -> III), you unlock the prerequisites to train Amarr Cruiser. Buy the Amarr Cruiser skill from the market and add it to the queue.

6. Unlike Destroyers, cruisers use Medium lasers, so you also need to train Medium Energy Weapons under the Gunnery category. They also use medium drones, so you'll have to train Medium Combat Drones in the Drones category. You can find these skills on the market and Show Info to see what their prerequisites are; you'll probably have to train several skills under Gunnery and Drones to meet the prerequisites.

7. Frigates rely on being fast and agile to survive; Cruisers rely on an actual armor tank, so you'll need to train some of the Armor skills, and while you're at it, train some of the other support skills (Engineering, Navigation, Targeting, etc.) so your cruiser performs better.

8. Anyway, once you have the Amarr Cruiser skill trained, and the Medium Energy Turret (weapons), you can go ahead and buy a cruiser from the market; I believe the Maller is the main combat cruiser. You'll also need some medium lasers, medium crystals for them, medium armor repairer, 10mn (medium) afterburner, etc.

So that's the process.

Be aware that you may lose the ship that you're flying, even in high-sec. This is a PVP game and people shoot other people for fun. If buying that cruiser wipes out all the cash in your wallet, don't buy that cruiser yet. Gather some more ISK by whatever means, and wait until you have about 4x the cost of the cruiser. You'll need to pay for it, pay about half its cost to fit it with quality guns and armor so it doesn't die easily, and keep some reserve cash so you can buy another one if you lose it.

Thank you all for the great info, seems to me I better do some heavy mining first to pad my bank account, then I'll concentrate on the ships, by the way did you mean the advanced Military career or the regular one you get the destroyer?

ok will check my inventory, did all the 10 normal military that's why I was asking:)

Civilian guns are unique in that they don't use ammo, to make total newbie's life a little easier. You can buy ammo in the market. Look for Ammunition/Frequency Crystals/Standard Crystals/Small. Just grab a standard yellow(low cap use medium range) or red (long range, white is highest cap use, and highest damage, but lowest range.

Just buy whatever is cheap for now. You can upgrade to more damaging crystals later. All Standard crystals are infinite life too. Faction crystals you'll get later have a lifespan, but a lot longer than any other form of ammo.

make sure that they are in your cargohold and then while in space right-click on the gun and you will have an option to load the crystal.

While in station you can just drag and drop the crystal onto the turret.

Keep in mind you need small crystals for small weapons. Medium crystals for medium turrets etc...

As a general rule in this game if in doubt then right-click. Even if there is nothing to right click on just right-click in space. It won't solve every problem but probably 80 - 90% of them .

When your in station or outside of it is there anyway to know if your guns are empty or in need of a crystal besides being in a battle and you clicking on them and they give you the message you need to fit a crystal?

Ok I'll have to test that out because, since I've been playing I've only seen the icon for my guns and not ammo and they fired fine till recently, would that because they were damaged maybe and thats why I got the message of having to fit a crystal. This is on the Gatling laser 1?