EVE New Citizens Q&A

Obligatory 'Minmatar is OP,NERFZORS!!!! 'Post

e:drakes are easy to get into and good in numbers. But a bunch of Canes are fricking murder!

I say go Amarr, Drakes are quick and easy to get into but Amarr's worth the time investment as it pays off in dividends for PvE and PvP in a (relatively) short space of time.

PVP: Gallente

PVE: Caldari

Solution: Guristas

If I was a newer player, and only willing to train one race, it would be Amarr. They don't require alot of sp before you can be decent at PvE or PvP. And they are simple to use.

But there really is no reason to box yourself in. Once you've trained the support skills you aren't that far away from another race. You just need the ship and weapon skill.

i agree with you totally on this but the vargur is not a ship that you can get into straight away. Its a long way down the line

Ship bonuses. The reason that virtually all minmatar ships get damage bonuses is to counteract the fact that projectiles do absolute **** damage by default.





It's more complicated than that. All races have good PVP and PVE ships, as well.


a) Amarr ships generally have very little utility. However, pulse lasers project great damage at the highest optimal of any close range weapon system in the game...And their ships tend to be very tanky. Beam lasers have poor range compared to railguns, but do the highest damage of any long range weapon system making them pretty awesome at mid-range sniping.

b) Gallente have two lines of ships. The blasterboats do exactly as you describe - burn in and melt their face off with absurd damage. They also have droneboats which are supremely versatile though without the pure gank that the blasterboats give.

c) Minmatar do tend to be faster with smaller sig radii (e.g. harder to hit). They have a rather versatile primary weapon system, too - projectiles use no cap (meaning they can never be shut off by neuts) and have good tracking. Additionally, while they have very low optimal, they have very high falloff, allowing them to have a very large breadth of ranges that they can effectively engage at.

d) Caldari have two ship lines - hybrid boats and missileboats. Missiles use no cap like projectiles, and most importantly do not care about angular velocity. A missile ship that hits at 100km will have no more trouble hitting something point blank, and missiles tend to have fantastic range in general. They're very simple to use, as well. The hybridboats tend to get gigantic range bonuses, making them great either for sniping (with railguns, the longest range weapon system by default) or blasters (the optimal bonus negates the major downside of blasters, which is poor range).

Very bad idea. Why would you shoot yourself in the foot like that?

There is no single best race or best ship. Definitely not if you want it to do several completely different things, such as both PvE and PvP. You should open up as many possibilities as you can, if for nothing else then to figure out which path you like most.

Choose the race you like more, learn the pros and cons of their ship range. Select ships for PvE and PvP accordingly.

Also, don't get fooled by the bandwagon. A drake can be a powerful PvP ship, and a Cane can be an impressive PvE ship. You just need to fit them accordingly, and now how to use them.

Although it is true than that applies when you have enough skills to fit them properly.

Finally if you don't choose missiles and focus on turrets, you can easily cross train ships, but I recommend to first focus on one tank and one weapon system and after that, crosstrain for fun.

Gallente for pvp and pve.

the gallente have some seriously underestimated and under used PVE boats.

My dominix cranks out 757 dps in missions has never run out of cap and fits an afterburner too boot.

The ishtar Rocks ballz in PVP and PVE fitted properly.

Tripple rep myrmidon in pvp? get out.

Train up some mini frig skills and your in a dram.

Gallente for sure, if you want to stick to just one race. I stuck with Gallente and love it <3

We have a top of the line ship for every imaginable purpose except current sov 0.0 BC/BS blob doctrines, and even those will be backed by Gal supers and recons. However, that is also about to change with the upcoming Micro Jump Drive module. Soloing C3+ wormhole sites is the sole territory of the Tengu, so if you don't have friends and want to do that with one ship there are no other as efficient solutions.

We even have a viable kiting ship now in the form of Talos.

Downside is that getting the best out of Gallente ships does need quite a bit of SP- you really need T2 Heavy and Sentry drones, along with T2 Large Hybrids plus all the usual support skills. Also perfect fitting skills and implants.