Warfare & Tactics

More training! there are a LOT of skills to train up in missiles, each one will help. Energy neuts wont help with npc, im sure those guys have infinate cap!

Can't say I'm familiar with that specific Rat but it sounds to me like you need to web them and make sure you are tracking them.

Its sounding like you need more support skills. Missiles are notorious for not applying their full damage even under ideal cirumstances. Also elite rats have very small singature radiuses which make them take even less damage from missles. Also a fair number of them self repair. (non sleeper rats to not remote repair each other)

I know you are just a new player, but this is the incorrect sub forum for this topic. In the future, please stick to one of the dirty carebear sections =P

I have no recollection of that specific rat, but if this isnt a troll, here is a good place to start:

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Fitting_Guidelines

Some of the links at the bottom go to mission fittings. I think that may be where you want to start.

Basically, it sounds like you need support skills. Dont mix guns/missile bays. Use either rockets or light misssiles, but not both.

Some other general tips:

Just because you can fly a ship - doesnt mean you should. This game does not reward, and in fact, penalizes, people who rush to the "bigger is better" ships before they have the proper support skills.

Dont fly a ship unless you can afford to lose 5 of them. Again - just because you can buy something and sit in it, doesnt mean you should. A guy attacked me a few days ago in low-sec and I killed him. He was in a navy faction cruiser - cost him about 60M isk. He was less than a month old. Dont do that. I sent him the same fitting link.

Also - generally - no matter what the skill is, its at least worth it to train it to level 3 at a minimum. The vast majority of starting skills can be trained to level 3 in less than a day. Basic Capacitor, fitting and tank skills should be trained to a 4 when you start out.

And I recommend checking out one of the teaching corps, if you are so inclined. If you dont like it, you can always leave. Eve has a steep learning curve, and Eve University and others like it help you get over the hump.

This describes it just about perfectly. :)

Will do cap'n. I have to say, I love the expression your avatar has on. Up until now I thought mine had the most character that I've seen, but yours is definitely better.

Im not sure which mission you tried to do (but I assum it was a mission). If yu dont have seen it, the following link will give you some advive on missions http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReports.

For Centii Loyal Slavehunter Lazers should be a good chooise since they are week to EM and Therm, which are what lazer boats do. However, for lazesr as for all other guns taking and distance to target are importent.
Tracking - make you able to hit target the orbit better (having a spped not directly against ot away from you)
Optimal/fall off - give you information for what range you can apply ok damage (I will not go into any ditails here)

So, for a laser ship you might need mods that increase your tracking. But also choose the right crystal to get one that have optimal/fall off that match the distance to the target. using the wrong crystam can reduce your dps alot.

For missiles, which you tried. first, missile do only one kind of damage, so if you pick teh wriong one the target will have to good resist.

Independen of if you will continue to use missiel or lasers, you should get the support skills up a few levels it will make a big difference, the same for drones.

If you are really young the differencers between unable to break a tank on a rat and killing it very fast can be one or 2 levels of a skill that take a few h each or less.

Caldari cruiser lev 3 should make u do more damage withk kinetic missiles then with em missiles against this shansha frig

not quite true i believe. i read that when you neut/vamp them the chance of active shield/armor boosting of the rat is decreased. but yeah, it's a very small impact.

[quote=Count of MonteCylon
At one point I was in my Caracal (I learned how to use Caldari ships), and I had a target painter, a webifier, two drones, two rockets and two light missiles on a single one of the frigates, which was only moving at 89 m/s. I also had an energy neutralizer on it, so I'm pretty sure that it had no capacitator energy to work with. But, my attacks even under those conditions seemed to be doing no damage.

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post your caracal fitting here. i know everyone suggests training your skills, but i think the problem lies with your fitting.
are you mixing weapon types on your ship? from your post it seems like you were using both rockets and light missiles.

stick to all missiles, thats what the caracal is designed for

edit: also make sure you were firing your missiles in range (flight time X missile velocity)