EVE New Citizens Q&A

Yes it's possible to train up what you want. If you want to fly inty's that is possible.

1 thing to keep in mind, inty's are good in PvP (don't know about them in PvE, but in general higher level missions need larger ships) but keep in mind you might be asked to train for other ships too by a corp. As inty's are usefull but they might also demand you can fly other shiptypes down the line.

Player corps are always looking for some of the special type of pilots, mainly fast tackle, cloaky stuff and most of all logistics.

Advantages of a player corp:

- Community, you actually play with others instead of solo.
- Help, people in player corps are always willing to give advice to others and help them out.
- More game mechanics open up to people in player corps (POS, wardecs, alliances, SOV).

Finally someone who understands that bigger isn't always better. Yes you might at one day be part of a fight with loads of capitals on field, but even then there is need for smaller support ships (for instance that 1 cyno ship that brings in the capitals).

And people fly the fugly ships because they are usefull. Unless I missed the memo that war/fights are won on who brings the most prettiest stuff to the field, looks don't matter jack Sh**. Ships in EVE are just tools to complete the task you want to do, and the looks of a tool doesn't really matter as long as it does the job it should do.

Thanks for the informative replies guys! The interceptor was just an example BTW.

I'm surprised no one wants to play a healer in this game, since they look like they can take a lot more beating than healers can in other games.

Ah i see, so it's like a PVP Healer, I don't suppose the Logistics ship can heal itself?

Generally logistics are brought in a group (or at least a pair), so they can "heal" each other (eve slang is "rep" ie repair). There is nothing stopping you from fitting a self rep module on a logistics, except the rep tends to take a fair chunk of the fittings making it harder to do the job of repping the fleet and can cause capacitor issues so you can't keep going as long... there's nothing stopping you fitting almost anything to a given hull except the fitting requirements and effectiveness of the setup, one of the wonders of Eve is the combinations of hull and modules.

One of the other reasons Logis are sometimes hard to find in pvp pilots is because they don't appear on killmails... depends on how you feel about bragging rights against keeping your mates safe really.





As to the original question, you can chose to fly whatever you want. As with all choices there are some consequences. Limiting what you fly will limit what you can do in Eve to some extent, but having a preference isn't a bad thing. For example, I prefer battlecruisers and cruisers in general, but there are times I'll fly larger or smaller ships if needed. They're just not as fun for me.

Eve is often about adapting to the circumstances you find yourself in, which aren't always your choice.

Logis can also carry drones.

Although a lot of this was already covered I wanted to point out something about the 'interceptor only' comment. Being that specialized will probably drive you up the wall, but the path to interceptors also gives you all the regular frigates as well as the 'advanced' frigates (Interceptors (PVP), Assault Frigates (PVP/PVE), Covert Ops (exploration), and Electtonic attack frigates (group pvp) so you would be in a good position to have a mix of ships fairly early on.

Like to add that "healing" in EVE is very different from "healing" in most other MMOs.

Only place that really uses logistics is the high level incursion stuff, and high level plexes (both PVE). PVP is much more about stealth or DPS spam or giant ships.

So nothing against logistics, but they are nothing like healers in other MMOs... combat in EVE is generally much more DPS biased...