Warfare & Tactics

First of all, did you enter an enemy hisec system and linger? Faction navy will chase you around in Caldari and Amarr hisec. Second of all, are you in a player FW corp, or just the NPC one? The player ones are much better and will generally have intel that can alert you to enemy players camping a gate. Also, can you post your fit here? You should probably be getting a lot more EHP out of your Myrmidon, an unfitted one with no skills gets 18.6k EHP.

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H4: Drone Link Augmentor I
H5: Drone Link Augmentor I

Copy that. I don't think I lingered but maybe. So, level III in FW is not the same as a regular level III mission? I reviewed the Mission Survivability Report and the actual fight didn't seem too dramatic.

They just seemed to be able to abuse me so quickly. I mean, I barely had time to realize what was going on and I heard that dreaded "I'm eating your hull" sound. Sounds like a smoke alarm with a sinus problem.

It sounds more like you jumped a gate and landed in an incursion system.
You say this happened at gate 6 along your way.

OK AU, I fitted a Tristan as you suggested.

Didn't have enough CPU or POWER for Rails so I'll stick with drones. Picked up my first level 1 FW mission and...its the same story. 26 jumps away...through orange and red territory. How am I supposed to get there. I saw no warpable beacon. Do I have to tiptoe through 26 jumps?

The ISK and LPs are peanuts. I must be doing something wrong.

"Am I chopped liver?"

Yeah, pretty much, but you can change.

Tech 2 resistance mods will greatly amplify the effectiveness of your armor repairer, as well as adding quite a bit more ehp to your ship.

You will get more milage out of a large cap battery vs that mess of cap rechargers, which will also free up mid slots for tackle.
Fitting for cap stability isn't necessary.

If you are going to pvp, neuts are a better option for your high slots; I'm assuming the howitzer on your fit is for getting rat aggro in pve; a target painter works just as well for this purpose, doesn't consume ammo and will assist your drones in hitting their target. Mixing turret types is a bad idea.

Also, gallente ships have a lot of structure; a damage control could work out better than that eanm.

You haven't been playing long enough. 25 years of other video games doesn't count as a substitute for the game oyu are currently trying to learn, although you may pick it up quicker. Eve is pretty ******* complicated though.

Sounds like you hit an incursion system on the way, they are bad news if you're not fit to deal with it.

Also I advise not going to low-sec unless you are looking to actively pvp. This includes missions.

So you got attacked on the jump gate in a Caldari system? If so, it sounds to me like you lingered on the gate. I've flown all through Caldari highsec space as an FW Gallente player without issue. As long as you don't autopilot and you don't linger on a gate or station, you shouldn't have any issue with the opposing faction Navy. Move on through smartly and you shouldn't have a problem.

If you're playing faction warfare you should be in low sec most of the time. 19 jump route sounds like you have your autopilot set to prefer high sec, which sent you through Caldari territory and got you jumped.

If your aim is pve, not pvp then I'd recommend you don't join faction warfare just yet. You're likely to lose several ships while you learn how it all works and if they are all battlecruisers that will get expensive fast.

That just isn't how Eve Online is. It is not a case of getting good weapons or better ships, Eve is like a game of rock, paper, scissors, it doesn't matter how shiny the scissors the still lose to rock. It is a game where situations are king, and fitting for that situation is required. If you approach Eve Online as a sort of grind to the top, you will fail a great deal.

In any case if you want to run FW missions, a myrmidon is a poor choice. It is relatively slow, missions take place some distance away from agents, you are very easy to catch in a gate camp, and the sort of fits that are great at PVP aren't so hot in PVE for the Myrm. Fits like the triple rep, dual cap booster variety can tank well enough in a PVP situation but, aren't going to let you run that many missions on the cap boosters you can fit in cargo.

The worm works pretty well for level 1-3, it doesn't really do the damage to run l4s quickly though, a group of worms will work though, and are less worried about the webbing frigates than bombers would be (which are probably the most common ship still for l4 FW missions, though less in Gallente/Caldari missions due to the ewar). For l4s if you want to solo, the Stratios, Gila, and VNI are probably the most reasonable choices, all can easily tank the missions with a 100mn AB fit, or a heavy tank fit.

First and foremost though, remember these are assassination missions, kill the commander or industrials or stargate or whatever, don't worry about anything else unless a webbing frigate gets on you. Also, it is much easier to simply avoid the damage with an oversized afterburner than it is to tank all of the damage, when I ran a FW corp, we just used 2-3 10mn shield buffer Algoses and ran level 4 missions with those, we also killed whoever came into our mission to fight us, or at the very least pushed them off. You don't need big expensive ships, just ones that go fast with a low sig and can put out at least 400dps while kiting around.

Also regarding beacons, get an instawarp ceptor, go around to each of the mission systems, pick up a mission, then create a route to all of your mission systems, fly there in your ceptor, right click in space and say warp to the mission, this will open them and create a warpable beacon in space. Once you have opened all of them fly to your PVE ship and go get in that. If you open your mission with your PVE ship, you are letting everyone in local know exactly what you are doing and when, if you open your missions early though, it isn't apparent if it is "your" mission or not when you come back into local.

Also it just isn't worth doing any missions but level 3s and 4s. It is easier just to plex to get your standing up enough to do 3/4s than grinding 1s and 2s for little payout.