EVE New Citizens Q&A

you typically are not going to have everything on at once so don't try to remain capstable with everything running if you are going to have RR for drones.

I don't have a fitting tool installed on my new machine and also do not currently have access to the game to look stuff up. But just looking are your fit I would say that the MJD is certainly something that you use for sniping. The MJD and web do not belong on the same PvE ship IMHO.

I also do not see any tracking mods on that thing which again look like a problem to me.

Once again with the resits I hav a hard time believing that 2 invuls is a better omni tank than using an EM hardener to close up the huge EM hole that the Mael has.

Also those Capacitor Flux coils are shooting yourself in the foot. Cap regen is a percentage of your maximum capacitor capacity at a specific interval. Anything that decrease the interval or increased the percent or the amount will all give you more regen. With the flux coil you are increasing the rate but decreasing the amount they offset each other to a point. If Anything I would say you might want to look into a PDU but probably get rid of the flux coils and put in a cap recharger. Maybe 2 caprechargers or one and a PDU. Also put in some tracking mods in the lows.

In Eve every ship and every module has it's place. Bigger is not inherently better. It is better at some things and worse at others. Your posts lead me to believe that you are stuck in the progression mindset from other games.

I also don't think that you understand gunnery very well.

http://www.hostile.dk/files/eve/eve-tracking101.swf

Target painters are used to help missiles do more damage. Painters do not help other weapons, only missiles.
A Maelstrom cannot fit missile launchers, it is a gun-only ship. If you are looking to fit a ship for solo-ing C3's, a target painter on a Maelstrom is useless.



That can work. Snipe the rats, then jump when they get too close for the artillery to keep their aim, snipe some more, jump again, etc.



Maybe fit a Capacitor Booster, which uses it's own type of charges to inject power into your capacitor.



Sentry drones cannot move once you have launched them from your ship, and they are long range which means they cannot keep their aim on ships which get close. If you want to use sentries with a MJD, it's launch sentries, shoot stuff, pick up sentries, jump, launch sentries, shoot stuff, pick up sentries, jump, wash, rinse, repeat.

Possibly fit the Mael with autocannon. Launch sentries, set your ship to orbit them, let the sentries deal with the long range ships, you deal with anything that gets close with the autocannon.

A Tracking Computer or two and perhaps some tracking bonused ammunition such as Titanium Sabot or Depleted Uranium will help the autocannon keep their aim on smaller ships. Tracking Computers also give a bonus to the range of your guns, both autocannon and artillery. There is another version of a tracking computer you can fit to your ship which improves drone weapon range and tracking, but I forget it's exact name right now.

Did you know there is a test server you can log into where you can try out stuff like this? It's called "Singularity", also called "Sisi". If you are using the new game launcher, you can select the Singularity server from a menu near the top left corner of the launcher window.

Character data is not refreshed from the main game server to Sisi regularly, so your characters skills and wallet on Sisi can be behind the main game server. The good points are that PvP on Sisi is by mutual consent only, being ganked by other players on Sisi can result in consequences from CCP for the gankers. Also, CCP seeds the markets on Sisi with pretty much every item for only 100 isk each. You still need to have trained the right skills to use the different ships and modules on Sisi.

Want to try out all the different battleships? 100 isk per ship, 100 isk per module, 100 isk per drone and 100 isk per round of ammunition. If your wallet on Sisi is low, find some NPC rats to blow up, you'll get the same payout as you do on the main game server. You cannot bring anything from Sisi back to the main game server, no skills, no isk, no ships, no equipment. Everything you acquire on Sisi stays on Sisi. The only thing you bring back is knowledge of what works for you and what doesn't from your testing on Sisi.

Also be aware that when CCP does refresh character data from the main game server to Sisi, your skills, wallet and even the ships and items you have on Sisi will be replaced with what you have on the main game server. You may find yourself needing to re-buy stuff on Sisi because you didn't own that stuff on the main server when a character refresh happened.


I'll leave commenting on the fit you listed to others.

If you're worried about damage to your drones, there are several T1 battleships which have bonuses to drone dps and tank, but not from Minmatar. The Gallente Dominix and the Amarr Armageddon do have drone bonuses, as well as enlarged drone bays which let you carry more drones (carry more spare drones or carry different types of drones that do different types of damage).

Hint: You do not have to fit hybrid turrets to Gallente ships, and you do not have to fit energy turrets to Amarr ships. You could fit artillery or autocannon turrets to them. The Domi and the Geddon do not have turret bonuses, so you do not face any penalties for fitting them with artillery or autocannons. I've personally tested medium artillery on a Gallente battlecruiser and it works fine. This means you could train into the ships themselves, but use weapons you've already trained for, reducing the total training time for the ship and it's weapons.

Both the Domi and the Geddon have a 125Mbit drone bandwidth, and like every other non-capital ship, you can only operate 5 drones at the same time, even if you still have enough bandwidth for more than 5 drones. There are a few other battleships that have drone bonuses, but from memory the Domi and the Geddon are the only basic T1 battleships with drone bonuses.

An alternative to a remote repairer to fix your drones is repair drones. The down side is that non-capital ships are limited to 5 drones (or less) in space at any given time, so having a repair drone out to look after your combat drones means using one less combat drone. Also, you need to manually control the repair drone to make it repair the combat drones, and this involves targeting any damaged drones in the same way you target hostile ships. This has two effects. 1: The number of hostile ships you can target is reduced, because you are targeting your own drones to repair them (but you have to do the same if you use a remote repairer on your ship). 2: If you're not careful you could start shooting at your own drones.

Another detail to realise is that shields regenerate for free, and this includes drone shields. Armor never regenerates for free, you must do something to repair armor, including drone armor. While there are modules that boost the shield regeneration rate for ships, there are no modules that do the same for drones. if you are flying a T1 battleship and intend to use light drones, you should be able to carry multiple sets of drones.

Make sure your drones are set to passive, so they don't fly off on their own. If you want to keep the drones close to your ship to deal with small ships that get close to you, having your drones on aggressive can allow them to fly off to targets further away from you than you want them to. In passive mode, drones only attack the targets you specifically tell them to, then they come back to your ship and wait for your next order. There is no way to set drones so that they will only attack targets within X km of your ship while in aggressive mode, if they are in aggressive mode, they will attack any hostile target within your drone control range.

Since drone shields regenerate (slowly) for free, don't worry about repairing their shield damage. If they start taking armor damage, bring them back into your ship and launch a new set of drones that are at full health. This will also cause the hostile ships to drop aggro on the drones, at least for a little while.

When you've finished clearing out the hostile ships, launch any drones with armor damage, and an armor repair drone. Target your damaged drones like you target hostile ships, and tell your repair drone to "engage" the damaged drones. You will need to monitor the repairs, the repair drone will not change it's target until you tell it to, but you can repair all their armor damage for the cost of buying the logistic drone skill and the cost of the repair drone. if any drones have gone into hull damage, that needs a separate hull repair drone, or just pay to repair that damage in an NPC station.

There is a bit of an art to using drones well, they aren't a magic bullet, you do need to manage and monitor them. Also consider T2 drones instead of T1's. T2 drones have a larger tank, so they can take more damage before they pop,

In simple terms, you can use a repair drone to repair any object which you can lock as a target (assuming that object can be repaired at all).

Since you cannot lock your own ship as a target (I've tested this, I cannot lock the ship I am in as a target), you cannot repair your own ship with your own repair drone (you must target an object before you can repair it). You can lock the drones you own as targets, therefore you can repair them with a repair drone. I've repaired my own combat drones with a repair drone many times this way. You also cannot make a repair drone repair itself, it can only repair objects that are: 1. not your ship, 2. not itself, and 3. are able to be repaired.

If you were flying in a fleet with another player, or multi-boxing alts, you can target each other, therefore you can use repair drones on each other, but even in that situation you still cannot use your repair drones to repair your ship because you cannot lock your own ship as a target.



That's fine, do what works for you. There is no "one way" to do anything in this game, unless the game mechanics themselves only allow something to be done in one specific way.

Training into large ships and weapons take a significant amount of time. I don't understand what "looking at trim" means. When you say BSs are better than T3 atms that leads me to the conclusion that you are just not paying attention. I'm not sure how many times I can say that bigger is not necessarily better until you really understand it.

This is not a game about gear progression.

There are two types of cruiser sleepers in the lower class hulls. Ones that like to get up close and ones that like to sit further out. They both can fly very fast. You will have a difficult time soloing them. I recommend that you make friends and run them in groups.



Going on the test server might help you to get a feel for this.

"trim" was supposed to be time, as in time to train into. The reason I'm saying BSs are better than T3s for now is that in the time I am training for a t3 I could be running sites in a BS, even if its slower.

Usually BCs are considered the t1 ship to fly while "waiting for t3 ship skills to train. Or the SOE ships, the stratios for example.

The problem with training BS is you are training away from your goal. BS turret skills don't help you at all flying a t3 cruiser. Cruisers use medium turrets, BS use Large. So you're "wasting" your training time by planning to go BS then come back down to t3 cruiser.

Also, t3 cruisers are expensive, try flying in a stratios or something first, they are cheaper and pretty good at most combat sites. You also don't lose sp from dying.

Not necessarily. The tankier frigates have very high resists and many of the sites have remote reps that you cannot kill without triggering the next wave. So you need to be able to apply some minimum dps to even break them. It might be doable with a flight of lights, but definitely slow and tedious.

I'd be surprised if any of the BC could handle C3s. Possibly a super tanked Drake or Myrm, but it would not be very efficient.

Scorpion navy issue is another missile ship with a tank bonus. It'll cost you as much as a T3 though.

Keep in mind if CCP has not already they are talking about adding a combat timer to refitting. I think it's only like a minute with weapons off before you can refit but still that is a minute each time and if you are switching back and forth for each wave that could be significant.

You can have a different training plan on SiSi than you have on TQ. You won't get those skills on TQ obviously but at least you can try something different.


repairing is only part of your tank. Speaking purely from an HP stand point there are 3 aspects to your tank. You have totally HP. Rep amount and then resists. In many situations you are much better off resisting the damage in the first place than trying to repair it after the fact.

Ships with resist bonuses can have incredible tanks. Resists benefit buffer and incoming remote reps as well as local reps. Rep amount bonus only helps local reps. Also you can't compare tank numbers that you see in EFT from a medium ship to a large since the medium can use speed to mitigate a decent amount of the damage.