EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hull ? Shield? Gun? Armor? For the first time,. which is the first thing you try to fit in? Did you find it quick and easy?

(As a very new player what you did? or what you could do as a new player?)

And the correct answer is: It depends.


There are some ships that are focused more on firepower... others are more defensive in nature... and then there are those that excel at speed.
To fit a ship properly requires a bit of experience and finesse as you will be attempting to balance several major aspects (gank, tank, speed, and utility) of the ship to get a working result.


But I assume that you have no idea what any of this means... so let us backtrack a bit and start with a very basic question:

What are you trying to do?
(note: be as specific as possible)


Depending on the answer you give, a ship's fit will vary greatly.

my usual order:
main weapons, propulsion, dmg, tank, cap, utility for pve ships.
main weapons, propulsion, tackle, tank, cap, dmg, utility for pvp ships.

Afterburner or MWD, Gunrack if combatship, then start to work on tank and support modules.

Guns, lot's of em.

As a new player, what I did was fit whatever crap I had in my inventory.

As I became more experienced I learned not to do that.


Set a priority based on what you intend to do and fit the modules first that are most important to that task. Then work your way down until you are fitting things - or leaving them empty - based on how much PG/CPU you've got.

There used to be a forum here specifically for the discussion of fits. Look around and you can find posts of people listing what they use. Don't take that as gospel - but think about it. Learn what the modules do and try to understand why the person listing that fit put what he did on it.

There are all kinds of things you can do - you just need to understand what it is you want to do - and what modules can help you accomplish that task.


In a humorous vein:

There used to be a video on you tube where this guy had fit his Hulk out to trick gankers into attacking him, then killed them with his drones. The Hulk did NOT have a mining fit but a gigantic tank with a webber and warp scrambler. Of course - this only worked because the guys who tried to gank him didn't scan his ship first. This is an extreme example of a fit that is based on "what do you want to do".

There was another guy who had a video of him ganking a battle cruiser with his rookie ship. The thing here - was that the guy picked his victim. The Battle Cruiser's guns were to big to hit the rookie ship and it did not have any drones - or friends. The guy in the rookie ship was a veteran pilot who knew exactly what he was doing.

*shrug*

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As a new player:

"Oh, what does this do? Well, let us put it on and find out. How about this? Is this a gun? We will find out..."


Now:

"Why can't I fit more guns on this damn thing!!!!!11!!1111!!!!!oneoneone"



So, not much difference in the 3.5 years I have been playing

Lets have a sample situation: lvl4 security missions ship.

-I load up a weapons system that would deal around ~600dps or more. High slots, drones and low slots. Pick weaker long range ammo, then stronger short range ammo.. see if I could reach up to 60km for battleship npcs.
-Next I look at my resist holes and try to raise them to mid 70s~low 80s resist ratings, missions usually deal two specific ones. So either low slots, mids, or I keep in mind there are still rigs that can help me with this.
-Then the repper and prop mod, mids or lowslots. Usualy just an afterburner, cause its easier on the CPU or PG.
-Then cap sustainability with rechargers, batteries, lows or midslots.
-Only then I round up things with the rigs, to either fill in more CPU/Powergrid, more capacitor regen/battery, etc..
-Then I review the all the highs, mids and lowslots again..

As a new player, hmm.. I remember when I started fitting ships, I over tanked. God, I did lvl3 security missions in like 3 hours lol, because of my abysmal dps. I never used the damage increasing low slot modules early on, cause I either had more capacitor modules up there or more resist (this char is amarr) modules.

A relevant topic here is, what skills you should train for and such... I just did whatever minimum skill requirements for a specific module as a newbie. Then maybe around my third month or so.. I started the core skills: PG, Cap, Nav, Targetting, etc.. It started affecting my fitting preferences because it freed up slots in the ship module-wise. Only then I started to fit damage-increasing mods in the lowslots, heh.

edit: Try to browse the ship modules in the market and see what things are possible. Regularly ask questions in the Help or eve-uni channels for clarifications/tips. Collect ship fittings and try to see how others dealt with capacitor, speed, tank. When you start to remember that damage mods are lows/rigs, shields are mids, armors in lows, etc.. things will get interesting :D

First thing I do....... google

Contrary to what most other players have posted, New Players usually don't have the necessary skills or experience to do a good ship fit. To make it easy for New Players who are training up skills and gaining experience, a buffer shield tank is the best way to go when first starting out in this game.

Basic set up would include Shield Extender, Invul Field, Damage Control, Power Diagnostic System and Shield Power Relay modules.

In my opinion the first thing New Players should focus on with ship fitting is their Defensive Tank which would also include increasing Resistance. After that fit up Offensive Firepower followed by Propulsion.

It's better to be safe than sorry. Start off with more Defense and less Offense, you can always cut back on the Defense and increase the Offense. If you go in with less Defense, more than likely you'll lose your ship.



DMC