EVE New Citizens Q&A

I am finding myself disappointed with the performance of the ships I've had the pleasure of piloting as of late (Cormorant, Moa, etc.). I've only trained Caldari in the past. I have decided to take a month or so off from flying ships so that I can train up to a much better ship. I want to pilot frigates that are the fastest and hardest to lock onto, even if that means lower damage from my turrets and less HP. I would rather orbit enemies at close range than snipe. Is there one race that would cater to this type of play style, or does every race have a ship for each play style? I am just having a difficult time browsing for ships in the market, and it is timely to look at and interpret each ship's statistics, especially for a newer player. I want to train up to fly a tech 2, so I will be patient until I have the skills and ISK to fully fit and pilot a ship of this calibre. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am clueless when it comes to ships.

You are asking for blaster boats. You may find pleasure in piloting Thorax, Brutix, Megathron.

At the other hand you are most likely asking the wrong question. A ship is a utility to get stuff done. If the ships doesn't fit to the stuff you intend to do you will find yourself between a rock and a hard place, no matter what ship your fly. So what do you want to do?

Those ships are all slow.

For missions, go larger then frigate. Frigates are only good in level 1 and maybe some level 2 missions. Any higher level missions need Destroyer / Cruiser / Battlecruiser / Battleship size to be done (in that order, from lower level up to high level missions).

For pvp:

1.) Assault frigates = above avg speed, can be nice tackle + some DPS, great ships to do frig roams in.
2.) Interceptors = great ship in fleets with slower ships, slower guys count on you to burn to target at high-speed to tackle it so it is still there when the slow guys arive.
3.) Global fast frigate = *Yes here it comes again* the Rifter, put a speed-tank on it and it can do some damage while outrunning other peoples guns *with the exception of missiles, but on those you can outrun most of the explosion velocity*.
4.) One of the fastest ships (and really hard to kill) = Dramiel, it is the king at speed-tanking and kiting. Really hard to dictate the range against 1 of those as likely he can outrun you (even if you web him he is likely still faster then you are)

so...you're PVPing now?

Fairly certain the point of the question was "you're always fit to pvp"

just head out to low and have some fun, avoid the camps and you can meet some very interesting people.

One word... rifter.

Here are some fun fits that are somewhat.... not normal

http://brutorbullfighter.blogspot.com/2011/05/rebellious-rifters.html

(Save the Crazy Dual Rep Rifter for when you know what you're doing, that is one batshit insane frigate to fly... hull fighter)

If you have a ton of cash you could try Dramiels even in their current nerfed state their still not to be trifled with, or a republic fleet firetail.

Well, I took my Rifter out for a spin for some factional warfare. I got podded.

It wasn't an ambush, we had 6 or 7 guys, 4 who decided to wimp out when we ordered the fleet to warp. So it was me and two others. Also, I wasn't fitted with the 150 dps 4500 ehp yet, had some training left.