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If you could choose only one race of ships, what race would that be? Returning player starting fresh
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Jazelle Hazaad

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#21 - 2012-01-19 09:59:54 UTC

Rel'k Bloodlor wrote:

King Rthgar you apologise to the duck with a purse, that is mean. Cry

Poor moa crying in to it's purse. Cry

Jazelle Hazaad your a forum alt so ............ Roll

Flying with a group and seeing what and how they fly is one of the best ways to get a feel for some thing with little investment. After you see some ships in the sky try a few out.

Hey babe, why you gotta be like that?

We're all fat nerds here, it's ok.

Federation Front Line Report Federation Front Line 208
Rel'k Bloodlor Federation Front Line Report Federation Front Line Likes received: 208	#22 - 2012-01-19 10:32:30 UTC @OP what did your old main fly? what do you dislike about them? I wanted to paint my space ship red, but I couldn't find enough goats.

Misina Arlath

Darkfall Helix

Likes received: 5

#23 - 2012-01-19 11:36:14 UTC

I started with Caldari way back when.

Changed to Amarr back when everyone said Amarr was crap due to too much dependancy on cap for their laser system (and the "loss" of a ship bonus on alot of ships due to the reduction in cap usage bonus many of them get). I'm a bit of an anti-mainstream person and always love underdogs. Granted, now Amarr are far from underdogs anymore.

Anyways, I stuck with Amarr and totally love their ships. Strong, reliable and overall great ships with a nice selection of decent ships for different roles. The only useless Amarr ships I know of are the Augoror, Prophecy and (arguably) the Retribution and Coercer (due to their one medslot issue). Besides those the Amarr has a very nice ship lineup.

Lately though I have crosstrained to Minmatar, which has been fun as well although I prefer the survivability that Amarr has. Not saying Minmatar doesn't have survivability, they do in plenty, but if you get bogged down in an Amarr ship you can still take a pounding before you burn.

For me the choice is simple.

If I have to choose one race only, Amarr all the way.

Tougher question would be... what if you could choose only one ship? Curse maybe... or... hmm... Harbinger... or Absolution!

King Rothgar

Deadly Solutions

Likes received: 408

#24 - 2012-01-19 11:51:46 UTC

Jazelle Hazaad wrote:

I must assume from this you know of the torpsnake rat-melter. Please do not spread word of it, lest people start driving the price of my beloved rattler up. TIA.

Nope, never occurred to me to use one like that. I was thinking more in line with high grade crystals, a tengu booster, blue pill and web+scram. Sadly this toon doesn't have the skills to fly it properly... yet. Twisted

And no, I will not apologize to the moa.

[u]Fireworks and snowballs are great, but what I really want is a corpse launcher.[/u]

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Hungry Eyes Imperial Academy Amarr Empire Likes received: 470	#25 - 2012-01-19 12:30:46 UTC Gallente. More buffs are still coming, and they have a strong line of both pvp and pve ships. and maxing out drone skills first will serve you well.

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Red Teufel Calamitous-Intent Likes received: 454	#26 - 2012-01-19 14:08:47 UTC gallente ftw

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Bent Barrel Likes received: 58	#27 - 2012-01-19 14:14:13 UTC 1 How about ship class instead of race restriction ? I started a new account (this one) and told myself that I won't set pod into anything larger than a frigate (ok I was flying a vexor for a bit :-))). Plenty of options in frigates alone for everything. But Gallente is my first choice because I love drones.


Hungry Eyes Imperial Academy Amarr Empire Likes received: 470	#28 - 2012-01-19 14:29:04 UTC in that case, take a couple of months to max out the Ishtar or the Domi, and you'll happily pve through pretty much anything. i went Ishkur --> Domi --> Ishtar --> Mega and was happy with my choices.

Garr Earthbender

Imperial Shipment

Amarr Empire

Likes received: 223

#29 - 2012-01-19 16:41:22 UTC

I'm glad I chose to focus on Amarr! I did choose to go over to Minnie for the rifter and DO have T2 small guns, but DANG I love flying Amarr!

Punisher- tank is good and speed is good enough, better than average small gun range with scorch.

Arbitrator- Jack of many trades. T1 neut ship, TDs FTW, can have multiple flights of drones, can fit armor or nano (although nano ignores the awesome TD bonuses.

Maller- Good bait ship, GREAT at breaking up plexing warp in camps (Faction War and all that). Can acttually be fit for surprise DPS as well.

Harbinger- Overall decent small gang ship, again, better than average gun range due to scorch.

Oracle- The true nano BC. Hell, it's even decently fast with a plate on it. 60km optimal range FTW.

I haven't used the BSs too much since that doesn't fit into small/medium sized gangs too well and that's what I'm running with recently. Can't wait though!

-Scissors is overpowered, rock is fine. -Paper

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Petrus Blackshell Rifterlings Likes received: 3,297	#30 - 2012-01-19 17:17:01 UTC I'm surprised at how little "winmatar winmatar CCP loves winmatar" is in this thread. I expected much more of a trollfest. If I were to start over, I would pick either Minmatar or Amarr... hard to decide. If I had to pick just one and not crosstrain, it would definitely be Minmatar, though. Accidentally The Whole Frigate - For-newbies blog (currently on pause)

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Naomi Knight Ministry of War Amarr Empire Likes received: 515	#31 - 2012-01-19 17:50:15 UTC Winmatard by far , it is good/best in everything not like other races ... :( sniping --> winmatar roaming-->winmatar solo --> winmatar is 1st or 2nd high end pve --> winmatar what else do you want? winmatar winmatar win win

Petrus Blackshell

Rifterlings

Likes received: 3,297

#32 - 2012-01-19 17:54:14 UTC

Naomi Knight wrote:

Winmatard by far , it is good/best in everything not like other races ... :(
sniping --> winmatar
roaming-->winmatar
solo --> winmatar is 1st or 2nd
high end pve --> winmatar
what else do you want?

winmatar winmatar win win

No idea wtf you're talking about.

Sniping - Minmatar is only any good if you need alpha. If you need DPS, it's Amarr, and range is Caldari
Roaming - Minmatar does have an edge due to faster ships (particualrly Vagabond), but not best by any means
Solo - All races have very good solo ships
PvE - Are you smoking? This is Caldari all the way.

I do hope you were trolling.

Accidentally The Whole Frigate - For-newbies blog (currently on pause)

Naomi Knight

Ministry of War

Amarr Empire

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#33 - 2012-01-19 18:14:43 UTC

Petrus Blackshell wrote:

Naomi Knight wrote:

smoking is for dumbies like you
sniping - today sniping is all about alpha no range or dps ---> go winmatar
solo --> altogeather minmatar is way more favoured than caldari or amarr
pve-- caldari rly?? only noobs think missiles is the way to go , only good for low sp/experience beginner players like you ,
turrets are way better especially if it is mounted on vargur or machi

Petrus Blackshell

Rifterlings

Likes received: 3,297

#34 - 2012-01-19 18:29:33 UTC

Naomi Knight wrote:

Alpha sniping is simply a flavor of the month. It does not mean that other forms don't work. For example, PL is using sniper Rokhs for fleet ops.
Solo: Harbinger, Pilgrim, Curse, Vengeance, Arbitrator, Slicer, Myrmidon, Ishtar, Taranis, Ishkur, Enyo, Tristan, Comet, Thorax, Vexor, Dominix, Drake, Caracal, Moa (Yes, I said Moa), Cerberus, Harpy, Hookbill, Merlin, Kestrel, Griffin. I do not see your point.
PvE: Tengu is totally not the most popular high level PvE ship. Not at all.

But no, please, keep giving bad advice and insulting others' experience while you post with a glorified forum alt.

Accidentally The Whole Frigate - For-newbies blog (currently on pause)

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Kagan Storm Doomheim Likes received: 71	#35 - 2012-01-19 19:28:18 UTC Ore ships.... You have an indi ore ship now.... My ego is the the size of my carriers jump range.

Tarunik Raqalth'Qui

Native Freshfood

Minmatar Republic

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#36 - 2012-01-19 19:50:11 UTC

Amarr is a pain in the royal rump at first (Amarr ships stress support skills HARD), but smooths out very nicely as you get higher up in SP with T2 pulses and battleship and T2 cruiser hulls. Also: Amarr ships are very light on supplies, which is handy for mobile pilots.
Minmatar can do pretty much everything well enough to get by even early on, but requires crosstraining to achieve its full potential (armor vs shield, guns/missiles/drones). Also: not being Caldari can cause logistical problems if you move into nullsec or something (I ran a whole constellation out of Fusion M from all the ratting I did down when I was in null).
Caldari is top dog for "traditional" PvE and Sleepers, still. Incursions and missiles don't mix well though: the Rokh is probably your best bet for a pure-Caldari Incursion ship with its good blaster DPS, or you can always fly a Basi. ECM tears are nice in PvP, but beyond that and Tengu fun, you're rather short on options.
Gallente since the hybrid buff is a good option all-around, with drones for solid traditional PvE performance, good brawlers in PvP, and blaster facemeltage in Incursions.

mecubed

The Scope

Gallente Federation

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#37 - 2012-01-19 20:30:01 UTC

Winmatar, because CCP gave them advantages in speed,sig radius,damage selection, CPU and PG fitting, versatility over every other race.. They have the best of every ship class except for t3 cruisers, in which the loki is a close 2nd to the tengu.
Their guns have pretty much the best tracking, the dps is up there with everyone, fall off range is an advantage.
Arties have far superior alpha damage.
They can pretty much dictate a fight and or disengage without much difficulty.
Which is why you see most of the pvp ships being used are Minnie.

Aside from a Drake (caldari) which is getting a nerf bat and its still inferior to a hurricane before the upcoming nerf.

Imperial Academy Amarr Empire 5,214
1-Up Mushroom Imperial Academy Amarr Empire Likes received: 5,214	#38 - 2012-01-19 21:49:15 UTC Amarr anyday, they rock in everyway, most solid race in the game, don't listen to these Minmatar and Caldari fools, the only people I know who ended up never cross-training were Amarr `5 Senses In A Person... 4 Seasons In A Year... 3 Colors In A Stoplight... 2 Poles On The Earth... ONLY 1-UP MUSHROOM!!! If You Like My Sig, Like Me! Remember EVE is EVErything!`

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Clyde ElectraGlide Emara Entertainment Inc. Likes received: 118	#39 - 2012-01-19 23:30:42 UTC Definitely Amarr. In Need of a New Signature