EVE New Citizens Q&A

Move away from the asap?
Fit an afterburner or a microwarpdrive.

You could fit webs yourself, too.

Or switch to blasters.

But in general, you're using a ship for long range with long range weapons.

What do you think, should you be close?

I try to keep them at range but stuff happens and sometimes they get close. Using an afterburner but doesnt get me away so am going to try a microwarp drive. maybe the spped boost will help to slingshot me away. Want to figure out a way to get range back thats all.

Don't band-aid your tool, use a different tool. If you absolutely are set on destroyers, use the missiles one. Takes a couple hours to train light missile launcher.

You're given good advice but I can help you with something else as I was actually a heavy rail user myself. I know exactly of what you speak.

Sites are far easier to run on rails than missions. Missions you frequently don't get a choice where you drop in. If you want to say on rails and do missions, you need to IMMEDIATELY align to either the entry gate that launched you there, or some other direction away from the targets and hit afterburner. Dump the MWD, those are the surest way to get your destroyer plastered by larger ships as they increase your signature size 500%. Go AB for a mission runner.

Mission ships usually take a few seconds to react to you so if you start moving away from them ASAP you'll get enough range to take them down before they can zoom in on you and get in under your rails.

Now, if you can keep them at 5,000 then antimatter will take them down nicely, just keep burning away from them as they cannot 'orbit' you at that point and they are in a tail chase, which means they have little to no relative motion from you and that means your turrets will happily track them and reduce them to dust bunnies.

You can switch to blasters, as has been stated, but you do need to fit an effective regenerating tank which I think is shield on a Cormorant. That will kill your capacitor and you will need to fit some kind of capacitor regen systems which also tend to fill mid slots, (but there are some low ones too) thus it's not a great fit on shield ships. Armor destroyers tend to do better with this combination than shield ones which is why Memphis is directing you to missiles.

Gallente ships do about the best with the hybrid turrets. Caldari are more missile focused... but that's just in general terms. You can always find some ship in a race to do what you like to do relatively okay, but it may not be the best one at it.

Memphis is also right about moving up to a cruiser. You lose a little speed but get A LOT more power. Destroyers are really frigate killers. They can kill NPC Cruisers and even take on NPC battlecruisers if they are fit and flown properly. They don't have enough dps to kill an NPC battleship with regen abilities.

[Cormorant, cormorant2]
Damage Control I
Vortex Compact Magnetic Field Stabilizer

Small Clarity Ward Booster I
1MN Y-S8 Compact Afterburner
Upgraded Thermal Dissipation Amplifier I

150mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge S
150mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge S
150mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge S
150mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge S
150mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge S
150mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge S
Salvager I
[empty high slot]

Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-Kinetic Screen Reinforcer I
Small Processor Overclocking Unit I

thank you very much. I will give this a try.

[Cormorant, cormorant3]
Vortex Compact Magnetic Field Stabilizer
Vortex Compact Magnetic Field Stabilizer

1MN Y-S8 Compact Afterburner
Upgraded Thermal Dissipation Amplifier I
Medium Clarity Ward Booster I

125mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Lead Charge S
125mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Lead Charge S
125mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Lead Charge S
125mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Lead Charge S
125mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Lead Charge S
125mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Lead Charge S
125mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Lead Charge S
Rocket Launcher I, Scourge Rocket

Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-Kinetic Screen Reinforcer I
[empty rig slot]

with the antimatter my max was 20 km. will see once i get it put together what range the lead gives me

Oooooooo... I see the problem.

Okay... so... you have 2 ranges on all turrets: Optimal and Falloff.

Optimal range is where you can potentially deal full damage to a target.

Falloff range starts at the end of optimal range. The thing about Falloff is that the further into Falloff range you are, the less damage you will deal. Once you are at the end of Falloff range, you will be dealing little to no damage.


The "sweet spot" you are trying to aim for is between the edge of optimal range and 50% into falloff range.

The reason you want to be at this place is because it offers the best "damage-to-application" ratio.
In other words; you should be far enough away that you can track a target (see: application) and close enough to be dealing a decent amount of damage.


Looking at a 150mm Railgun loaded with Antimatter, your Optimal is ~15 to 17 km. Falloff range is an extra ~5 to 7 km on top of that.
So you would want to be between 15 to 18 kms away from a target you are shooting.

With 125mm Railguns loaded with Lead ammo... well... you want to hover around 15 kms as well. More if your skills are good (check the weapon stats when fitted to your ship!)

23 to 28 actually. You don't want to go too deep into falloff (due to damage penalties).

This thread is adorable.