EVE New Citizens Q&A

I'll look you up as soon as I got some ship to fly (not those things we got at start, the ones I have). So, gimme a month, maybe two. :P

Not to take away from the OP, he is older than me and likely a skilled pilot.

I would also like to extend the same offer to any new pilots feeling a little lost in the early game. I dont want anything from you aside from a bit of a chat and a laugh. I will always do my best to help anyone through the early game, all you have to do is drop me an EvE-Mail or a Conversation if i'm online.

Secondly if any new players wanna come on a lowsec roam i'll buy your ships and fittings and ammo and will pay for your new clone :) Just come on down and give it a go.

Fly safe o/

Not to **** on the OP's parade but looking as his loss fits I'm not entirely sure he'd be a good mentor.

It's not nice or necessary to base your opinions of a pilot on their killboard, especially not to the extent of taking it all out of context. I have a few bad fittings in my past, but everything more recent had a specific purpose or reason for being fit that way. I am actually one of the best ship fitters I know. I'm not bragging, it's just one of my selling points.

you can mentor me if you like :)

This, but not +1 but +10

You really aren't. I started living in 0.0 and PvPing just as my 21 day trial ended (and I was with the militia before that). I'm not saying that I was very good at it, but over time I got better. I still don't consider myself "good", but I try to know what I'm talking about. I still lose tons of ships, big and small, often to really really stupid mistakes -- but it's fun!

The only way to learn to PvP well is to get out there and do it, preferably alongside other more veteran players who can give you tips, fitting advice, and flying advice. More importantly, after every fight (win or loss), reflect back on it and try to identify what went well and what went badly. Stuff like "damn, I only have about 10-15 seconds to live if I attack an assault frigate in a T1 frigate; I should avoid that".

There are plenty of tutors around Eve, and newbie-friendly corps that have vets who enjoy helping newbies thrive. My corp is one example. Red vs Blue, Eve University, TEST Alliance, and Goonswarm are other (bigger and more well known) examples. These corps usually have very cheap or even free (in my corp's case) T1 frigates and fittings so you can explode as many times as you wish, gaining experience as you go.

OP might have been an actual tutor too, from what I could tell from the first post, but the phrase "I am one of the best ship fitters I know" rubbed me the wrong way so I had to call him out on it. One is not simply a "good ship fitter". That's not how anything works. He needs a tutor himself, and shouldn't be tutoring.

Edit: Also, I have only been playing for a bit over two years. If it takes 5 years to get into PvP... I better have a good explanation for my killboard.

I just said that cause the way I felt noobish reading your post, that's all. :P

(tried to explain this to you in in-game convo, but oh well)

Good to see so many people willing to help the newbies. Seems like EVE isn't so full of bitter vets after all. ;)

I can't fit guns on a shuttle? Just because I put autocannons on a rifter doesn't mean I intended to put it into combat. Sometimes being ready for the unexpected, or even the semi-expected, is a very big deal. There are no "correct" fits for any hull, something you apparently aren't aware of.

The energy transfer was on the hurricane because I wanted to hear the noise it made while I sat outside the station. The loss was due to a docking bug. I submitted a ship replacement petition on it, but as usual "the logs show nothing".

The Brutix wasn't completely fit because there wasn't enough stuff on the market at the time and it didn't survive till finishing. That happens from time to time, you know.

The Punisher was obviously a cargo ship, or did you not look at its contents? It was designed to be a blockade runner. Unfortunately, as is the nature of nullsec, it just happened to run into a massive blockade of which it stood no chance against.

I don't know what you're talking about as far as using more than 3 modules with stacking penalty, but you're probably picking at a gank ship or something else where there's clearly no purpose for anything but more offense upgrade.

Like I said, I make no pretenses about my pvp prowess. I avoid solo pvp because I have no interest in it. So yes, my kills are all ganks, mistakes, and group kills. I have no shame of this, but you still have nothing on my fitting skills. I'm not even going to talk about the incursus, since you clearly don't know much about the hull.

From the other things you've said here, I can see you know a thing or two about flying in ships. You don't need to resort to personal attacks just because you dislike what someone said. If I claim I'm good at fitting ships, you can't really use my killboard against that anyway. That only shows the ships I've lost, which for a passive flyer will almost invariably be either poorly fit or poorly flown, for one reason or another. My long, long list of ships I haven't lost would be a better testament to my fitting prowess, or when I glance at tried and tested fittings and make a quick improvement to them. I don't say this lightly, I'm damn good at fitting ships. If you don't believe me, I can show you.

As I took a look through your losses, the first thing I noticed was that you consistently half-ass your buffer fits. Every once in a while you have a decent buffer fit, but more often than not I see 2+ EANMs with multiple armor plates and 3 trimarks. You've got a lot of ships with empty slots, though in any of these cases I can easily extrapolate the possible reasons for this. You once fit a crucifier as a tackler though, I've no idea what possessed you to think that was a good idea. You have a few active repair-tanked bestowers which seems like a rather ineffective way to engage in any sort of pvp unless you're baiting a target. I'm interested in hearing what you were doing with those, and also with the faction fit Navy Megathron you lost. Seems a bit expensive to be taking into pvp, of course you could have just made a mistake like bring it out during a war you didn't realize was going on, or something like that. You've got amarr ships fit with autocannons. I'll admit, the powergrid requirements for lasers are high, but usually it's better to fly minmatar ships if you want to use autocannons. You clearly were able to, as you have hurricane losses right alongside the prophecy and harbinger that were loaded with autocannons. The last thing that caught my eye was a bestower with 3 shield extenders but no shield hardeners. That's pretty much asking to be destroyed, if you ask me.

So you see, I can pick out the worst from your killboard too. It doesn't mean you're bad at fittings. The only reason you have more decent fits mixed in with them than I do is because you're always going into pvp combat, whereas I'm always avoiding it. So unless you actually believe an aggressive mentality is a prerequisite for understanding the mechanics of module fitting, you really have nothing to say about my fitting skills based on my killboard. Killboards are rarely an accurate representation of the way a person fits, unless they take their favorite fits into combat so often they end up losing them all the time.

Still, you should learn to fit your buffer tank more efficiently. You could gain a lot of EHP from that.