EVE New Citizens Q&A

Thanks ... and..





this is good idea ..

mmm.... i think he dont wants die..

Passive tanked Tristan with medium extender and regen rigs would prolly be better than activebooster for new player. Less things to keep track of in the beginning, small purgers wont cost too much, though they are bit more costly than resist rigs.

Something like:

[Tristan, Unnamed loadout]
AE-K Compact Drone Damage Amplifier
AE-K Compact Drone Damage Amplifier
IFFA Compact Damage Control

1MN Y-S8 Compact Afterburner
Medium F-S9 Regolith Compact Shield Extender
Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I

75mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Antimatter Charge S
75mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Antimatter Charge S
[empty high slot]

Small Core Defense Field Purger I
Small Core Defense Field Purger I
Small Core Defense Field Purger I

I personally dont think the damage control is needed and purgers may even be overkill but this thing has good tank, no need to track cap or shield levels or anything.

Didnt check prices, but you should get the idea. If rigs too expensive or if some metamodule cost too much, can use normal T1 stuff etc-

You have a couple fitting examples, so I'd like to give some theory behind fitting the ship, just basic stuff:

Tristan has an even slot layout, 3, 3, 3, with a full complement of light drones, and bonuses to tracking. In general, even slot layouts means versatilty; you can fit the ship with shield defenses (using up the mid slots) or armor defenses (using up the low slots). This leaves the opposite slots for a full rack of damage enhancing modules (drone damage amplifiers in the low slots) or full rack of ewar / support (warp scramblers, webifiers, target painters etc. in mid slots) respectively.

But the ship is a frigate, so its defenses are mostly speed; you don't have the number of slots required for a full tank (either shield or armor) with resistances, on a frigate. So for defense, you're looking at an afterburner taking up a mid slot, and then just a shield booster or armor repairer in case you get hit by a lucky shot, and call it "tanked."

If you were fitting for PVP, you'd have to fit the PVP modules in your mid slots: warp disruptor/scrambler, and possibly a webifier, because PVP players will simply warp away if you don't tackle them down with those modules. But you're fitting for PVE, and the NPC pirates don't run away (they're so brave). So you do have the mid slots available for a shield tank, if you want. The Gallente typically fit armor, but this ship is versatile, as I said.

So, the scout drones work up to 20 km (based on skills), and that's short-range to long-range for a frigate. You could supplement the drone damage with some guns, either blasters for short range, or rails for long. PVE NPC pirates have a tendency to fly to you and spin close range, so blasters can actually work pretty well.

So, for blasters (short range), fit a couple blasters, fit the low slots with a small armor repair and 2 drone damage amplifiers, and for mid slots put in the 1mn afterburner so you can get close to the enemies and a stasis webifier to keep them there for the blasters to shoot. Add a cap recharger to improve your energy management, and either capacitor recharge rigs or resistance rigs.

For rails, fit the 125mm rails, then the afterburner so you can control your range, medium shield booster, capacitor booster with charges (this will give you plenty of juice as long as you have charges), a damage control in the low slot and 2 drone damage amplifiers, and you should be able to manage staying at range and shooting NPCs with rails and drones.

Best PvE alpha fit for Tristan is an Algos.

Level 1 missions are waste of time unless you need to fix the faction standing. But even if that would be the case T1 hauler is better. Simply because distribution missions are less time consuming. OP should just learn social skill and go straight to level 2 security missions.

Mission running in ship, you can use does not mean you should use it. Isk/hour ratio is crap in low DPS mission running boat. As alpha clone you hardly get better DPS from any other ship but Gnosis. Eve-survival site will give you info what type of drones to use (damage type to apply) and what tank to install. Usually mission running = missiion specific hardeners + active reps over passive buffer, but in case of Gnosis in L2 missions You are good with large passive shield tank. NPC will not be able to bite through it as your DPS will shred them into peices way before the buffer rans out. L3 mission running = same ship, different story. Serios active shield tank + some capacitor help in lows over the DPS.
L2 mission = 250mm rails + tracor beam in highs; 50 mn MWD, couple of shield extenders + drone navigation computer + tracking computer + mission specific hardener in middle; 3 drone damage ampifiers + 3 magnetic field stabs in low. Rigs = any help you need to fit all into one ship. High initial cost of the hull will pay itself off cause you will still use same ship once you go into L3 missions

The pirates are too brave I would say I rather behave like suicidal kamikazes
and ist true for own experience the best defense is the Speed
Although the tank is mainly in armor I see that it is much easier and less energy expensive tank with shield.

thanks...

the shiel tank is lower cost in every aspects tan armor .. heavy cpu speed MW Tf..

Typically for Gallente drone boats, if you take out the guns to rely just on drones, that frees up a whole bunch of power grid that the guns would have consumed, so people put that power grid into oversized defenses. MEDIUM shield booster, for example, or dual small shield booster (one regular, one "ancillary"), or dual armor repairers. That's usually the trick that's done with the "no gun" fittings.

So, basically you can play with it in the Fittings Simulator in-game, Helt Anajkt.