EVE New Citizens Q&A

There is only one "tech 3" ship class, and it's really not very descriptive. It's mostly just a colloquialism adopted by the community; ingame they're called "strategic cruisers".


T1 ships are the basic hulls. They're cheap and generally versatile with one set of bonuses based on the ship skill (vexor improves with Gallente Cruiser).

T2 ships are specialized hulls. They have the t1 variant's bonuses, plus a new set of bonuses determined by the t2 ship skill (Ishtar gets bonus from Heavy Assault Ships). T2 hulls tend to be generally way better at their role, but perhaps worse in a couple minor areas.

Example: A t2 Rifter hull, Wolf or Jaguar, are both notably slower and less agile than the t1 equivalent. However, they both have a ton more tank and damage making them overall more potent.



Train your drone skills. The most important ones are Drones V (lets you field 5 drones), Drone Interfacing (makes each drone ridiculously better), and the racial specialization skills (for t2 drones.

"t3" ships or Strategic Cruisers are customizable ships; you can swap out different subsystems to change the basic stats of the hull like bonuses and turret/launcher hardpoints. They're designed to be less specialized than t2 ships, but better able to do a variety of things.

the vexor is t2 and the ishtar is also t2, however each t2 means a different thing. with the vexor it is tier 2, aka the vexor requires gallente cruiser II to fly (it is also t1 meaning tech 1), where the ishtar is tech 2. need context to know what people mean. some will say t3=tier 3 and T3= tech 3 (or was it the other way?) but I don't think that ever stuck.

different tiers of ships as the tier goes up build cost, slot layout, and fittings usually get better. ccp is performing tieracide so sometime soon™ that stuff shouldn't matter so much, and each ship in a class should be more viable, with frigates is kinda at a point where each race really only has 1 frig worth using, that should be starting to change with the patch today as they are starting to buff other frigs, and are doing a bunch with mining barges. hopefully with the winter patch they will finish off the frigs and touch on a few cruisers, and maybe even the t1 bcs (ferox, prophecy, brutix, cyclone). t2 bcs (hurricane, myrmidon, drake, harbinger) seem mostly fine, and the t3 bcs (Naga, oracle, tornado, talos) are pretty damn new so no idea what ccp thinks of them

battleships mostly all have the same number of slots so are mostly okay even though there are some difference in tiers, extra hp and costs more to build, plus most battleships have different roles so that helps them too. also a whole bunch of faction battleships and t2 versions.

the **** are you two getting on about?

T1/2 (and now, 3) has always referenced TECH Level of the item in question.
Tier just shows what is a (slightly) better progression of a ship class... though that's gonna die in the next year or so, as they rebalance everything (yay!!)

Exactlely.

Many people refer to the tornado as the t3 battlecruiser.
So it's good that someone explained tiers vs tech to a NEW player. Sure you know the difference but not everybody is as allbknowing as you rhink you are.

As explained:

Most ships and modules have the following graduations:

Ships:

Tech 1 => build out of multiple tiers (tier 1, tier 2, tier 3, etc). Each tier requires more training and usually is a bit better.
Tech 2 => advanced versions of a Tech 1 ship. Always the model of a Tech 1 ship but usually specialized in a certain role (for instance: Interdictors, Logistics, Heavy Interdictors).
Tech 3 => (aka strategic cruisers). Modular ship that can suit many roles depending on which sub systems are added to it and how it's fitted.


Modules:

Modules work with a meta level system.

TECH 1:
Meta 0 = plain basic module (for instance: Small shield booster I)
Meta 1 - 4 = Improved versions of meta 0 item, usually better stats / lower fitting requirements but at higher price. Not uncommon that a Meta 4 is more expensive then the Tech 2 version (similar boosts but less training time needed to use it).

TECH 2:
Meta 5 = Tech 2 version of the meta 0 item (for instance Small shield booster II)

EXTRA:
Meta 6 and up = faction, deadspace, officer, storyline versions of the meta 0 item. Usually way better then anything but also comes with the price of being pretty expensive.

Adding to the good info already here:

T1 = tech one = meta 0. Manufactured from minerals and NPC sold blueprint originals (BPO).

Named T1 = meta 1 to meta 4 (often also referred to as T1). Only available as NPC drops.

T2 = tech two = meta 5. Manufactured from moon-sourced materials only available in lowsec and nulsec, and Morphite. Limited production run Blueprint Copies (BPC) created via invention (some pre-invention T2 blueprint originals exist, but they are valued in the billions).

T3 = tech three = strategic cruisers (no other T3 exists yet). Manufactured from materials only available in wormhole systems: Sleeper NPC salvage, wormhole exploration site materials, wormhole fullerene gas. Limited production run BPC created via reverse engineering. If your T3 ship is destroyed you lose 1 level in a random subsystem skill, which can be up to about 4 days of training max.

LP store, deadspace NPC complexes, and officer NPC drop sourced items are meta 6+

Higher meta items are not always better in every way, but they are often better in some way, even if it isn't something very useful.