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[EVE] - A Game of Megathrons
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It doesn't matter. Any race can fly any other race's ships.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
If you can fly a badass Drake maybe first take a look at your support skills and make sure nothing is a glaring hole - such as Evasive Maneuvering V. These will benefit you enormously in a Tengu. Make sure you're Shield and Engineering skills are polished up too. Then I would probably work on getting into either a Scimitar or a T2 Maelstrom.
Gassernorm, if you go hybrid I'd go the blasters route over the railgun route. The majority of PvP fits that use hybrid turrets use T2 blasters... which I can't use because I went T2 rails and am training other crap at them moment.
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I have already done this in preparation for the skill changes, so no worries there.
In regards to support skills, I just recently finished Evasive Maneuvering 5. I also have Shield Management 5 and Shield Operation 5, the Shield Compensation skills to 3, and all other Engineering skills to 4 except for the Capital stuff and Energy Pulse Weapons. I can fly a fleet Basilisk (logistics 5) with no problem. I don't seem to have Guided Missile Precision yet, so I could work on that or work on getting tech 2 HAMs. The other option is to start working on Battleship skills I guess, I don't have much of anything for Large weaponry.
Don't train shield comps they are bad. No one uses passive hardeners and they make no impact on the active invuls etc that do get used a lot.
If you have BC 5 and t2 heavies, grab the skills for a nighthawk perhaps? Also tengu skills.
Medium rails are bad, but light and large rails both have good PvP uses. The 75mm rail Harpy is a kitemobile of terror. Sniper Nagas and Talos both work extremely well.
For Gallente though... yeah, work towards Assault Ships as an early priority. Both the Enyo and Ishkur are fine ships now.
And of course let's not forget our dear friend, the ganker's delight, the Catalyst.
hypnotic.
Man a lot of people lose freighters in this game. I guess that makes sense...
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Awesome, how many skill points should I invest into frigates? I'm almost to 4. I have been watching the Seamus youtube vids. I am on his 4th now. this game is not like LOTRO or the other one we won't mention. I am liking Eve so far. Of course I played Traveller when I was a kid back in the day so maybe that's why.
To fly T2 Frigates you'll need the racial frigate at 5, then you'll need to train up the Assault Ships skill, and a good rule of thumb for t2 ships is: train the ship skill to 4 to try it out, and 5 if you decide you like it.
Now the good thing about the T2 ship skills is that they're trans-racial. Once you've trained Assault ships 4, that means you're at that skill level for any other race's AF that you qualify for: all you have to do is train up another racial Frigate skill to 5 and you instantly get access to their AFs. In your specific case, once you have Gallente Frigate 5 and can use T2 small blasters & rails, I'd say train up Assault Ships 4 and enjoy some Enyo & Ishkur goodness. While you're flying those, you could train up Caldari Frigate 5, and in 5 days you'll also get access to the Harpy, which also uses Hybrid turrets. Or you could train Minmatar Frigate 5, which would then also imply skilling up for T2 small projectiles, but would open up the excellent Minmatar Frigate range and the Angel & Serpentis ships (the Daredevil and the Dramiel). That will give you a good, diverse range of Frigates; speed ships, DPS ships, drone ships.
From there, I'd look at Cruisers. The Gallente T1 cruiser lineup isn't bad - you've got the Thorax and the Vexor. I like the Thorax, not just because it is literally a flying dong, but it's also fairly easy to fit, has great damage potential and a nice big dronebay. Plus: SPACE DONG!
I wouldn't worry about T2 Cruisers anytime soon: that's where shit starts getting really expensive and you'll want to know what you're doing with these highly specialised ships. Cruiser 4 is good for now, and then get Battlecruiser skill 4 ASAP because of the skill changes that are coming soon.
T2 medium guns are a big train, so think carefully before committing to that. If you're enjoying the up close and personal style of Gallente blaster ships, go to it and train Medium Hybrids 5.
It's like the video is fine but the audio is constantly hitching, is that just me?
I don't have a problem with the audio on my end.
It is quite soothing, really.
A sensible strategy.
Yeah if you've been inactive for > 45d or so I probably purged you. You'll just have to re-app.
Cog in the machineCog HerderI'll probably be resubbing and reapplying this morning once I get the client updated.
Also nice that everyone will still be in the same areas this time instead of having to drag my junk across the galaxy.
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Mineral prices have been skyrocketing, so mining is becoming a lot more profitable. Might even be worth it if you can fly a hulk, but it will still be terribly boring. PI has become a bit less profitable but you can still easily pay for an account with 2-3 PI characters. Working towards a Drake (including BC V and T2 Heavy Missiles) would probably be a good place to focus your skill training, for a bunch of reasons - you can use it for both pvp and pve, the skills cross over to a Tengu, and there are some likely skill changes in the next few months that you'll profit from if you have BC V.
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Yeah, hah. I figured I probably shouldn't, I'm just chilling in here learning some skills while I wait. Don't want to lose my sweet tackling ship my first week back.
If you don't lose your sweet tackling ship within your first day back, you did something wrong.
Thanks for the tips btw, I'll work on BCs and working my way up to Drake while I'm directionless. I don't have access to the MerchI forums anymore either, so I can't peruse the newbie threads there. I remember you guys being super helpful and you had lots of great advice when I started up last time, hopefully the trend continues. I remember having a blast on operations as a tackler, it's a surprisingly effective and easy role to play for a new person.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!