EVE New Citizens Q&A

1: They all have their strengths and weaknesses. As a *general* answer, Minmatar Projectile weapons are very good as they don't use capacitor and you can choose your damage profile. All weapons systems can see use in Incursions. Lasers on Nightmares, Hybrids on Vindicators, Projectiles on Machariels.
2: You will still receive a share of bounties and LP from incursions, the same share as the DPS boats. Bounties are divided by all fleet members ongrid IIRC.
3: All of them see use in some form. Guardians and Basilisks need a partner to cap-chain with, Oneiros and Scimitar can operate solo. Personally, I prefer the Guardian/Basilisk, one of my best EVE Mates is a Scalpel pilot par-excellence.
4: With some exceptions, no. The Capacitor skills under engineering and tanking skills required for T2 tank mods (Hull Upgrades V for example) should be prioritised along with skills that are a prerequisite for other skills you want to train. For example, if you want to fly a Guardian logistics cruiser, you'll need Long Range Targeting and Signature Analysis to V to unlock the Logistics Cruiser skill. Things like High Speed Maneuvering V can wait a little while.
5: So much choice here. Seriously, sooooo much choice. As a starting point, I kind of like the Algos destroyer as a cheap and cheerful boat to fly around with. Any small gang will appreciate an EWAR frigate like a Maulus. Train into the Logistics Frigates and you'll never be short of friends.
6: When you have at least 8-12 months of skills lined up that have the same primary and secondary attributes.
7: Tough one for a newbro. I'd seriously suggest leaving it alone for a little while. As a newbro, you have a lot to train in several different categories so the default map isn't all that bad. When you have a long list of stuff to train, then think about a remap. Use a tool like EVEMon to plan out your training/remapping strategy.
8: Yes. Jump in a ship, head for the warzone. Shoot things. Don't stress too much, this war isn't over by a longshot, despite what some all-knowing redditors would have you believe.
9: Quite simply, it's a case of The Imperium V The Rest Of EVE.

6: I would say the first annual remap can be used right away and I would recommend a 'generalist' remap that looks like this:

Int 24/Per 24/Mem 17/Wil 17/Cha17

By putting more points into Int and Per you get a increase in SP/Hour for most skills compared to keeping your initial 20/20/20/20/19 you start with. You will also get a substantial increase for Navigation skills which makes ALL your ships better since that category have Int as Primary and Per as Secondary attribute.

On skill plans there are several more or less outdated that you can use or be inspired by. I'm on this one (which lasts about one month in total): http://blog.beyondreality.se/Newbie-skill-plan-2

I am now highly debating buying 10-15 skill injectors to speed up the process a bit.

Most incursion groups who run HQ sites use Scimi's for tracking and Basilisks for combat caps due to "Otunis" npcs with capital sized neuts on them that takes pretty much all cap of battleship within seconds. That's for shield fleets. Not sure about what armor fleets are running as their logis

It sounds to me like you are thinking about specializing and getting your skills perfect. I am of the opinion that this is a hold over from other MMOs with level caps and linear progression through levels. None of that applies here. I recommend you stay general and when you know what you need train that.

There is no right or wrong way to play this game. There is no best in slot or top DPS spec or anything of the sort. Everything in this game is situational and you will need to develop your own personal playstyle.

Skills get exponentially longer to train with no increased amount of benefit. Senselessly training deep into skills just to be "maxed out" is not recommended.

That being said I'll address some of your questions.

1: They all have their pluses and minus and situations where they are better and worse. You will see all of them used in both PvP and incursions and there is enough situational differences and generic skills that are shared amongst them that you are probably better off training them all. At least until you figure out which you like.

I am of the opinion that the support gunnery skills are more important to train up earlier than the racial skills anyway.

2: They do get paid bounties like everyone else. I recommend you not refer to them as "healers". It makes you think that Eve is like other MMOs when it's not. Stick to logistics and keep an open mind and I fell you'll learn the game faster. It help drop some of the pre-programmed MOs that come from other games.

3: No most common. Again each one has it place. However the fleet that you are in needs to pick one. So if you want to do armor then then hook up with the guys that run armor fleets and if you want to do shield pick the ones that do shield fleets. As far as the cap thing goes you are either in a fleet that is going to be keeping up a cap chain or you are not. Logi ships with the cap bonus need to be paired up with others to form a cap chain. Too complicated to get into here but the answer to question 3 is fleet dependent.

4: NO. You should avoid level 5 skills unless you absolutely need to train it and typically that means unlocking access to some ship, module, or skill. More lower level skills is exponentially better than fewer higher level skills.

5: probably the most subjective question that you've asked. Only you can answer this question for you. Again there is no need for you to commit to one and focus on it. Stay general and try them all and stick with what you like.

6: My answer is if you have to ask then you shouldn't be doing it. I am of the opinion that you need stay very general especially early on. Once you understand the game better you can answer this question for yourself. If you do make sure you look over the skills that you are training out of and get those up first.

For example lots of people will tell you to go with an intel / perception remap as nearly all of your ship and ship piloting skills will have one of those as a primary stat. Other people will tell you that newer characters don't need charisma skills. However if you remap out of charisma you will be screwed for training up jump clones and market related skills.

You will also be kind of screwing yourself on drone training since it's memory / perception.

8: yes

9: not sure I understand this one. There are as many perspective on this as there are people involved. You could go out there solo and try to catch targets of opportunity trying to flee with holds full of goodies. You could join one of the big Alliances trying to fight the main fights. You could join one of the Alliance running in and causing trouble. The options are endless this is a sandbox after all.

I agree with Raging Bull on this. This game is about what you know not your skill points. I came to this game from WoW back in 2009 and it took me a long time to get over that mindset and it worked against me for the first year or so. But I am stubborn so maybe you'll convert quicker.

Back to my point that if you are chasing after skill points then you are playing this game wrong. Here is the eveiseasy video that Bull talked about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de1hwoFYA_k

Okay, im going to go a little deeper into the Incursion aspect of your questions, since, as far as ive read, no one has actually touched on this.

With regards to your first question, none of them really apply. In incursions, you will need to use T2 large weapons. But for PVP, its recommended, and more often than not, you will use smaller weapons. This is why Incursions are very skill-intensive, because you have to go straight for the larger guns and max those out, which easily take 2 months. And at the end of the road, you wont have the skills to fly a PVP ship well. You could probably fly them decently, if you stick to meta 4 guns, but you wont be using any T2 weapons.

If you want to get into incursions as soon as possible, id suggest going the Rokh and Blasters/Railguns route, which is accepted by Warp To Me.

Here is a link to the Blaster Rokh:

https://o.smium.org/loadout/dna/24688:1978:2032:2048:2281;2:3186;8:10190;4:19215:25948:26088;2:35662:12787;1337:12791;1337:21740:23045:28668:28999:2488;5::

This is the least skill-intensive and least expensive ship that Warptome will accept. You can use Meta 4 blasters and dont need to go for T2, although it is recommended that you both upgrade the ship and the weapon as soon as possible. Total cost is about 350 mill.

If you want to go "healer" as you say, for incursions, its gonna take more time to skill up just to fly the ship, but frankly in my opinion the skills are much more useful for PVP. Youre gonna want to max out the cruiser skills for PVP anyways so you might as well start now. Warptome uses shield fleets, which is the most common type of fleet in incursions, so you can go for the Scimitar or Basilisk and try maxing out Minmattar Cruiser or Caldari Cruiser to 5.

If youd like to know more, join the channel Warp To Me Incursions, theyre a great group of people and got me started in incursions too.

Well, being able to fly Incursions (the "elite" PvE content) as an ISK source is a long train or a couple hundred bucks spent on injectors, and what is if you do not like it finally? Why not keeping the 64B ISK for injectors in your wallet and do PvP for the next 10 years never doing PvE again? Buying injectors to train faster into an ISK making activity is less than pointless ...

You are right, my math is wrong ... but still 9B is a pretty big amount to burn in PvP. Finally it's important to have fun what you do, PLEX is still by far the most effective ISK source.

1) All turrets share support skills, best bang for your buck imo.

2) for PvP a competant logibro is worth twice their weight in gold, chances are you could just ask for it.
No idea how incursion runners handle this though.

3) every logi ship needs at least one cap transfer, mabey two. The rest should be dictated by the ship i.e. Dont put a shield transfer on a gaurdian. Which logi is called for will be dictated by the doctrins of the group you fly with but in my experiance all are as likely to be called for.

4) no, only what is a prerequisite for something els, III or IV is fine for themost part,
the train to V on some hulls is a month long for a marginal gain,
the only exeptions i can think are things like logi cruisers, for them V has a marked increase in performance.
Core skills are not to be neglected obviously but if you go to max those out first you wont be having any fun unlocking new roles for yourself and trying new things.

5) all of them, smallgangs are as diverse and varied as you cold imagine and can composed of almost anything, one could right several tombs on the topic and only cover a negligable portion of it.
The important part is that there is some synergy between the ships involved for the pilots to statagise around, once you have a group to fly with it should be aparrent (or they will just tell you) what they like and how you can fit in with their group.
Worth noting though that everyone loves logi, you will always have a spot in the fleet if you are willing to fly it.

6) other posters have covered this far better than i could have.

7) as above.

8) absolutly.

9) i would imagine "wow, **** those guys", yiu would need to be a little more specific to get more than that.