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Utilize Starter Corp's corp fittings window to provide fitting advice.

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Oliver Ward
Doomheim
#21 - 2016-06-16 23:08:59 UTC
At this point, people seem to be misinterpreting my newer questions. Whether it be due to my own failures in English to properly ask them, or some issue on their end (potentially even just wanting to troll), it seems that the choice for discussion is no longer available.
Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
#22 - 2016-06-17 02:36:17 UTC
Oliver Ward wrote:
Serendipity Lost wrote:

Yours will probably be the best all inclusive fitting guide site. Good luck, and don't skimp on the whys and wherefores.

Thanx in advance!

I could bite, but I'll play it straight. I don't have a site, and doubt I ever will.

I know there are sites out there, though, and some that go into detail about the how and why. I understand why folks feel that simply providing fits would be bad, though I disagree with it (again, I don't feel it would be worse than it is now). However, if there are well-known and reputable sites with good information on them regarding it, perhaps those would be a better resource to link, instead.

It's a shame that CCP pulled down their wiki; with a bit of cleaning and effort, perhaps that would have been something to link if they didn't want to give special preference to a third-party site.

And before you (or anyone else) make a sarcastic remark about why I didn't do the work on their wiki myself, it's because I've only been in EVE for ~6 months. I barely knew it existed before it was pulled. If I had, and if I had a better understanding of fitting at the time, I would have happily contributed.

I made this suggestion originally based on my own experiences, and what I feel would have helped me with some of my original fits. I didn't start really grasping fits and what was going on with them until I saw others' fits, what mods they used, and was able to see a few more of the many, many modules on them. Playing with EFT and putting the pre-made fits in and putting things on and off them did more to help me than receiving literally no information at all beyond what the Career Agents said (which is largely useless beyond their individual missions and mission chains).


I hate all WIKI. Their basis is flawed.

https://xkcd.com/978/

I hear what you are saying. I think the game would be better served if CCP pointed new pilots to explanations of standard fits and tactics.

General stuff:

Tanking - armor, shield, hull, active, passive regen, buffer and when/where they are traditionally applied
Tactics - brawling, kiting, sniping, range dictation, why dual prop anything is dumb Shocked
Travelling around in eve - WCS, interceptors, cov ops cloaks, T3 w/ max aversion fits, ships that laugh at bubbles......
How to save your pod when your ship is blown up by other players
Explaining that ship loss is a part of game design
Timers - weapons, suspect, limited engagement, bounty activation

Big picture stuff.

I fly most of my pvp ships 'dual tanked' using both active and buffer modules. Many folks would say this is horribly wrong, but I dual box pvp, so it's what works best for me the majority of the time. See - stuff isn't that straight forward and some explanation goes a long way.
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