EVE New Citizens Q&A

T2 is defined as a ship that requires a specialized skill and the ship class skill at level 5

Example:
Prospect needs Expedition Frigate 1 and Mining Frigate 5

They are all T1

Easy solution to check, look up a supercarrier and it will lack the T2 chevron on the corner of the "item".


A supercarrier was a tier 3 carrier until the overhaul.

Yes, those are all T1. T2 ships have blueprint copies (BPC) that can be obtained through invention. T3 ships have BPC that are only obtained through reverse engineering Sleeper artifacts.

There is only one T2 capital hull-class, jump freighters: Rhea, Anshar, Ark, Nomad. Jump freighters cost so much because they are primarily made of moon-derived materials.

Very good question. Glad that fellow players provided such good support and answers. I'm curious, do you have any particular goals toward Capitals and Super Capitals? I've always said that if I could have any one ship, I'd end up choosing the Nyx. Very beautiful ship.

And remember what Nalelmir said regarding how to recognize Tech level of a ship or item.

Sharp looks aside, I'm not sure. I just find the model really appealing. (Using one's imagination, place yourself in the re-imagined BSG series, but instead of Galactica, you are flying a Nyx. This is immediately a better looking show.) :P


The Proteus is also a wonderful ship, although some variations of less than appealing in my humble opinion.

The reason I asked this question is I was reading a section about Amarr T1 Ships 101. And Dreadnoughts, Carriers, and Titans were not included even though in-game (ISIS) these ships have no markings (or color variations) like T1 vessels.

So is it suffice to say that these ships are in a sort of "Unspoken Tier" where its T1, Faction, T2, T3, Capital?

I don't think that's particularly useful.

If you look at tech 1 and faction and tech 2 ships, you'll find there are some 'progression' paths - example, you have the Vexor, then the Vexor Navy Issue which is similar but better, and then the Ishtar, which is a higher priced, higher performance version of the Vexor.

Then there are ships that just do totally different things altogether, like the Phobos, which is not a 'high performance Thorax' - it's a totally different ship that is used to prevent supercapital ships (and sometimes subcaps) from escaping combat.

Capital ships fit into the 'totally different to other ships' category. If you want a structure dead fast, nothing does the job like a Dreadnaught, but the same dread is a waste of space (and a sitting duck) in a small fleet engagement where your opponents are fielding a logistics ship and a few cruisers.

Don't think 'higher tier is better'. Think of a toolkit - a power drill is an expensive and very useful tool, but sometimes what you need is a hammer. In this analogy, a dreadnought is an extremely expensive Geiger counter - it's not a high performance hammer, it's a very effective, very situational tool that many people will never use.

Interesting. So what would faction ships, specifically Amarr Navy Issue (all of them), fall under toolkit wise? They seem to focus on DPS only, with the a slicer still being a good tackler/webber. The Augor lost its logistic bonuses so I guess that's a straight up tank now or is it still used as a logi?

Yeah that's usually the case, except for a couple of oddballs like the Navy versions of the logistics cruisers.

They are usually higher statted versions of the base ship, sometimes with a new capability. But overwhelmingly, the (empire) Navy ships are pure combat ships (not specialist role ships) and the pirate ships are combat ships with unique abilities that make them the best ships available for certain combat scenarios (example: the Bhaalgorn is the best ship at using energy neutralizers in the game, the Daredevil and Vindicator have the best webs in the game, and so on).