EVE New Citizens Q&A

Ok. Thanks.

This, almost the entire market is player driven. Meaning that supply and demand make prices change and that players are the people making out how much any item is worth.

Disagree though with the less suicides over RL markets, there are tonnes of suicide ganks in EVE every day cause people ship stuff in paper-tanked ships and make it too easy to make money of suicide ganks.

Im actually really confused. I cant decide with what to fit my ship. I was thinking of going with 8 150mm compressed coil guns but it turns out that i can't even power them all. I can only power 7 and that means no modules. But isnt 8 turrets kind of an overkill? Considering the fact that ive been doing just fine with 2 till now. Im thinking of maybe fitting it with 4 guns and then a salvager, mining laser etc, drone launcher etc. Is it possible to do some kind of system management in space? Like if i bring all those extra high power slot modules with me all the time can i put them offline so that i can use the energy they'd normaly consume to power my weapons and defensive modules and when i decide to mine i just put a few weapons offline to provide power for the other modules?

Your idea is actually quite good, using 4 (maybe 5 or 6 later on) guns and then a salvager and other utility stuff.
Keep in mind there is no such thing as a drone launcher, if a ship has a dronebay it can use drones. If it doesn't have a dronebay, it can't, it's as simple as that. If it has a dronebay then the size of the dronebay, your skills and the bandwidth of the ship decide how much and which type of drones you can carry and use.

Also you can offline a module in space by right clicking it and select "put offline". Same counts for onlining modules that are offline but this requires a lot of capacitor to do, so you're better of doing that in station (no capacitor required there).

Also if a module is online, it doesn't require capacitor unless it's activated, it only uses Powergrid and CPU. And my advice is to never sacrifice modules (specially tank) if you can't use them all on the ship. Try to get support skills up, specially the core certificates, as this means you have more Powergrid and CPU on every ship and makes fitting stuff more easy.

So what I mean, why take a mining laser to a PvE (mission site) as all you risk is loosing it, same for your guns, unfit them (maybe keep 1 for defence) as you don't need them during mining (again maybe keep one for the occasional high-sec belt rats that may appear).

There is no such thing as a fit that can do all stuff, you have to fit a ship for a designed duty it can perform with that fit. And you can always refit (with the exception of rigs) a ship to do something else. Saw someone post this a while back on forums: Ships in EVE are just tools, they help you do stuff you like to do.

1.) Having empty slots on a ship isn't that bad. If you can only take 5 guns instead of 8, take 5 and add the others later when you have the skills to fit them, this also saves up PG/CPU for your tank. Don't bring a miner (even offline) to a gunfight as you said, why would I need one when I'm shooting something. So then again, why would you need one fitted to your ship if you don't use it.

2.) *This may sound harsh* Whenever you undock your ship, you are risking it. There is no 100% safe place in EVE beside the inside of the station. In space people can always shoot at you, though being in high-sec makes it a lot safer, being in a cheaper ship makes it even more safe. But there is always a risk also when doing PvE too, some PvE rats can scramble you which makes escaping a lot harder (but not impossible, and you won't see them in the lower level missions).

3.) Yes and No to the fitting of small guns to big ships. You can do it, but you will loose bonuses, you will loose a turret-hardpoint (as main topic people are taking hybrid turrets as examples) so you loose a large turret for a small turret. And if you ever loose it, people will laugh at you for the fit (that is how harsh people are). It's in general better to counter what you are shooting with the appropriate ship. Also most larger ships can use drones, in missions you will usually see other pilots shoot the larger rats with the big guns while the drones take care of the smaller stuff in a mission.

For missioning:

Level 1 = Frigates / Destroyers
Level 2 = Destroyers / Cruisers
Level 3 = Cruisers / Battlecruisers
Level 4 = Battlecruisers / Battleships or T3 Cruisers (Strategic Cruiser)
Level 5 = Fleet of ships (mainly battleships) / Carriers.

For PvP:

This all depends on what you want to do, what you come across and mainly how your intel is. If you know what the enemy will bring to the fight, ship into the appropriate ship to counter it. If you can't, then it's more a decited on what you encounter and if you can take it on with the ship(s) you have in the PvP fight.

The thing is i want to do some exploring on my own. For that i need a proble launcher, a salvager and codebreakers, analyzers etc. I actually don't think that bigger is always better but ive tried both and find the 150mm more appealing. Besides its only logical to use it on this ship. It gives a bonus to tracking and range and i have a tracking link which further boosts tracking.
It seems logical to take a stronger and slightly slower weapon and compensate for the slower tracking with the above said than taking an already fast weapon. The only thing i plan to change is the ammo type. anti matter is good but it forces me to go within web range and then im a sitting duck.

Oh but s GM told me that a site(signature) despawns after it has been cleared. I may have understood that wrong but i thought thaf if i go with my dps ship to clear the rats i won't be able to come back with a mining one later. In that case il refit my ships immediately.
Ive got a question about wormholes i was hoping you can answer. I scanned out an unstable wormhole last night and stripped my weakest ship and went in for the lulz. Needless to say i got acquainted with the sleepers. The thing is. I ended up in an uncharted system god knows where. Are these uncharted systems temporary or permanent locations? IE do the despawn, shift position with time? If they are permanent is there a way to make them a part of the known space? Maybe by exploring and killing the hostile NPC's or something? Or will they always remain uncharted and the NPC's will just respawn.
I was thinking if i am being hunted down by say another corp. Assuming that they are guarding the stargate so i cant go to another system would warping to a signature be a good way of hiding? It took me a good 20 mins to scan down that wormhole and i guess a veteran player can do it in double maybe triple the time but hey that still gives you time to wait for reinforcements or something. Or can they easily track you down?

First of all the GM is right, as soon as you cleared a normal combat site out it despawns, though wrecks stay there for about 1 hour I believe. But if you take for instance a magnetometric site, you can warp in and kill all rats and reship under 1 condition, the site will despawn if anybody touches the trigger can (run a analyser or salvager on it) and warp out. So as long as nobody touches that can it will stay there, problem you might encounter in high-sec is that in the time you warp out to fetch a ship for salvaging / analysing someone can warp in and clear the site before you return.

On to WH part:

There are 2 different sorts of spaces: Known space (K-space) which are the normal high-sec/low-sec and null-sec systems and Wormhole space (W-space).

K-space is all linked to each other (with the exception of Jove space, that is locked and only accessibly to CCP) through jumpgates and every thing in those systems (planets, stations, moons, asteroid belts) are known, so show up on overview/right click menu.

In W-space nothing is known, you have to probe everything out, there are no stations in W-space and no normal asteroid belts only Gravimetric sites to mine in for instance. Also, W-space is not shown on the map, so if your in it it won't show up when you open the map where you are in relation to the K-space systems and if you're in a Wormhole locater agent can't find you.

Also W-space is "permanent" in the way it is, the only thing about it that is different that there are no gates but wormholes to enter and exit them. Those wormholes shift location every now and then (when they collapse at one place they respawn somewhere different, this can be next system in known-space but also on the other end of the universe).

Wormholes collapse under 2 conditions, each wormhole has a timer and a mass limit, if one of those hits 0 it will despawn. So if it's lifespan runs out it despawns but if a lot of ships or large ships jump through it it can despawn before it's lifespan runs out (this is called collapsing a WH, mostly done by people who live in there if they don't want that entry/exit to exist).

So W-space is linked to K-space but not in the general way K-space is linked to each other, there is always a link between W-space and K-space, but not always in a fixed position.
Also sites in W-space respawn, but living in one is more a group effort as it takes more logistical problems with them (you have to live out of a POS and some things are really hard to do solo).

Another different thing is that Local in W-space is not updated on entry. If people don't speak in local in W-space they don't show up, so if local chat is empty that doesn't mean you are alone in it. W-space is covert, so you need your D-scan and/or probes to find out if there are others and where they are. This makes it more safe but also more hostile at the same time, people can't see your there when they enter and have to take time to find you, on the other hand the same counts for them, you won't know they are there unless you watch your D-scan very very often.

Also if you are a good prober (so good skills in probing) and use a ship with bonuses you can probe a lot of site within 1 or 2 minutes if you know how to do it effectively.

And on the respawning, this also counts for K-space anomalies / signatures. If you clear a site in K-space it despawns in your location but it respawns somewhere else at random.

To add to that:

combat in EVE isn't just about who brings the guns with the best damage output.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Turret_damage

Shooting guns (missiles work a bit different) take into account a lot of things to calculate how good you hit targets:

* Angular velocity - The speed that your target has using his orbit around you. If something your orbits you very fast it outruns your turret while if you directly fly towards something with big guns it will hit you hard (found that out the hard way, my frigate was easy prey for a sieged dreadnought if you fly straight into his guns.)
* Turret tracking - Defines how quick your turrets can turn, related to angular velocity, if their angular velocity is higher then your turret tracking it will outrun your guns (aka they run around you faster then you can turn).

* Turret Signature Resolution - The resolution of your turret, it's a factor that defines how good your turrets shoot certain ships (this value is a base on which type of ship your turret works best on)
* Target signature Radius - The sig radius of the target defines how good your shot will hit it. Shooting with a large gun at a frigate will not hit very well.

* Range to target - The distance between you and your target.
* Optimal range of turret - The optimal range of your turret + ammo type.
* Falloff range of your turret - The falloff range of your turret.

# About Range, Optimals and Falloff:

If your target is between 0 and your optimal range you can hit the target for 100 percent damage output, given that your turrets can track the target at close range. If a target orbits you at 1000m with 500m/s it means it has a really high angular velocity, if this same target orbits you at 5000m its angular velocity will lower as it has to travel more distance to orbit you one time.

If you shoot something in your Optimals + 1 falloff you have the possiblity to hit it for approximately 50 percent damage output (so if 100 percent damage output would have been 600 Damage, you have the chance to deal 300 Damage when at your Optimal + falloff).

If you shoot your target from Optimal + 2 falloff you will deal around 0 percent damage of your damage output, anything further than Optimal + 2 falloff means you will miss or hit for 0 damage.

http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Accuracy_falloff

Danny, I want to help you, but without trolling, can you help yourself a little, as well?

Many (all) of the questions you have asked are either covered in the opening tutorials or in one of many (many) guides out there. I am saying this because, at this rate, this thread will be at 10 pages before you fly a cruiser and you won't have learned much because you'll get *basic answers to basic questions* and won't be asking the smart questions.

This is a completely free guide that covers everything you've asked and every answer you've been given in more detail : http://www.isktheguide.com/

Once you've at least read the basics, you won't be asking some very basic things.

I only say this because no one is going to sit in this thread and answer everything that pops into your head unless you (at some point) show some initiative to learn yourself. Eve is a game where you will have this many questions every day for weeks or months; you need to educate yourself.