EVE New Citizens Q&A

Take kestrel, good missile boat and beautyful explosion.

If you are "saving" up for a ship, then I fear you may setting yourself up for a disappointment. I am quite new myself, but to have a mind set of saving for a ship that you could potentially lose at ANY moment, is not a solid financial state to be in.

My personal rule of thumb is..."If I can't afford to buy 10 of them, I am not ready for them."

^ Great attitude.

Rule 1: Don't fly what you can't afford to loose (doesn't have to mean you should have the ISK to replace it, but just agree that you can loose the ship the second you undock it).

As for OP:

Don't fall for the trap of saying you are not ready for PvP.

99% of the people in EVE say I need xxx.xxx.xxx SP before I can PvP or I need xxx.xxx.xxx ISK before I can PvP. And each single time they change the numbers that they filled in on the x's.

You are ready when you want to PvP. A 2 day old character can fly tackle frigates. So it's not something in game that says you are ready for PvP, it's your own goal and attitude.

Sure as a new player you can't fly that T2 cruiser, sure you can't do as much DPS as that 4 year old vet next to you in the fleet. But as long as you have fun while playing EVE, you are doing it right.

Just buy some ships that are in your price range, fit them up and go out and shoot others (and of course be shot at and die a couple of times - hence why you buy ships in your price range).

Agreed, and that is one reason ECM is not allowed in RvB. Except against 3rd party war targets of course.

Incidentally RvB is not an educational establishment like E-UNI is. Sure we offer assistance and help to newbies. But generally if you want to learn PVP with RvB, it will be in at the deep end style.

Who cares if it's the blind leading the blind, as long as all those blind people are having a laugh? If you think we're doing it "wrong" then I suggest you look up sandbox in a dictionary.

Mindless blobbing with 10 ECM ships is an absolute hilarious way to **** off enemy fleets though.

You can autopilot high sec just fine (just make sure you don't autopilot .4 and below). And the vexor is an excellent ship, very good choice :). However, gallente is primarily an armor tanking race (some ships can go shield, but you never ever want to combine the two). Armor and drone dps in lows, and for mediums you can use stasis webs/target painters/sensor booster in middle. And one cap recharge won't be as helpful as a medium capacitor battery.

After spending some time in my new vexor, I realized that it was taking much longer to do level 1 missions than when I had a smaller ship. I came across the EFT program and played with it until I found a good fitting for an incursus, and I am going thought level 1 missions faster than my catalyst, and having more fun as well.


I went with 3 neutron blasters with an assortment of ammo options depending on situation, A meta 3 afterburner, a webifier to hold down targets, a multi-spectral ECM to make it even harder to hit my already hard to hit ship, and for the low fittings I went for meta 4 Nano adaptive plating, meta 4 energized explosive plating, a 200mm rolled tungsten armor plate, and a meta 4 overdrive. I also have to mention that the speed penalty from the armor plating is rather negligible, especially when you look at the fact that you get a little over 500 more armor HP, and with about 50% resists all around on the armor that is more like adding 1000 HP

With this setup I max out at 1025 m/s and orbit at around 1000m from my target. My guns deal a great deal of damage per volley and often 1 hit mission rats.

I also have only about 100 less effective HP than my catalyst with this setup having 3053 effective HP. The only advantage the catalyst has is range, but even with it's range it still takes longer to run a mission, especially when I need to collect my loot. Also, with the speed I have I can close the gap very quickly.

I think my setup could be considered a speed/ passive armor tank

I just thought I'd post this update so other noobies can see that rushing for a cruiser isn't as amazing as you think. I will still use my cruiser when I need to later on, and I'm happy I bought it, but honestly a well fitted frigate suits me much better at this point in time and is a lot of fun. Also, like I mentioned it beats out my catalyst and can survive better with only 100 less HP, but is A LOT harder to hit.

Bigger is not always better. While bigger guns do have some bigger raw numbers, they also:

• Are more expensive
• Are slower, both in speed and agility
• Have more trouble hitting smaller stuff
• Have larger signature radius (are easier to target/hit)

Congrats on the discovery! It's not very obvious to most newbies.

I might actually end up going for an assault frigate. It will be a while before that happens, but I did some experimenting in EFT and found I could fit an inyo to be tougher, faster, and deal more damage than my vexor. However, I could buy a battlecruiser for the price of one lol. It will be a while before I can afford, and afford to lose a ship that costly, and will take at least 2-3 weeks of training to get the skill requirements.

Because I have only been playing for a couple weeks lol. It takes longer than that to skill up, and get the isk for that stuff. I have only gotten as far as cruisers in ship progression. It will take some time even though keep my skill queue constantly busy.