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[Eve Online Special Edition] Expansions, Mac/Linux Clients, and newbie drive
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The kind of character I wanted to create is a small ship fighter pilot type. I don't have much interest in piloting larger ships, would Minmatar match that correctly?
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Gallente come in second, either race is still a solid choice for pvp orientation.
In the legion we had a guy flying a stiletto as scout/tackler, probably one of the best I've flown with. Just make sure your cap skills can deal with perma-running a mwd/scram. I'm refocusing onto smaller ships ever since the upcoming nerf of carriers, and the gallente recons/command ship, and drone bandwidth.
Allright. Uh. First, I understood maybe 20% of your post. I think you said that Minmatar and Gallente are both good choices for a focus on smaller ships?
At the time I just couldn't get into it because it was almost to much thrown on to me at once and I had no idea what to do or how to get into the game. The interface was all like "FUCK YOU MAN, ENJOY THESE 1000 BUTTONS", and then we broke up and it kept my favorite hoody
But after reading this post I'm pretty interested again. A player run government and an ongoing war? Hells yes.
I assume that if I tried again but got in with you guys I would thoroughly enjoy myself within seconds?
(This is the part where you reply and say "Nay! Milliseconds sir!" to further cement this idea in my head.)
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EDIT: Ok I docked at a station and was simply overwhelmed with the like 100 windows of tiny text to read and sift through. I'll give this another shot tomorrow.
Jesus christ I hate laptop keyboards sometimes. Also, I apparently can't type. The one time I don't double read my post, it becomes entirely incomprehensible. Re-read it, hopefully my fixes this time around make it a bit more understandable.
Character name: Lawinator
Oh, and for further proof that having low skillpoints is fine: the CEO of Goonfleet (guy in charge of Goonswarm, all 5500 people) just broke 20m SP. A lot of "pvp" corps won't even accept people with less than that many SP.
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ed: only go Amarr if you are in for the Long Haul. The first decent ship you can fly in any capacity is a battlecruiser, and its still worse in pretty much every way to the Minmitar version. The Battleships are Good with tech 2 guns and high skills, and the Command Ships are O.K. Great Capitals though. But really, the long haul.
I was wondering when Trinity is due for a release, or if it has a confirmed release date yet? The OPs don't seem to mention.
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The harbinger isn't worse than the hurricane :/
Getting killed by NPC ships, however... Not so good. Not so good at all.
Pretty much slightly in every way. Look at the DPS it does after HP/Resistances are taken into account.
In the short range/small gang, the armor tanks make the DPS against EHP much better even after falloff on the Hurricane.
In the long range/large gang, the alpha strike, and increased damage on carbonized lead makes the Hurricane more efficient against the majority of targets.
The Harbinger isnt that bad, and its not much worse than a Hurricane, but it is worse.
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If you roll a Special Forces Gallente you start with Drones 5 right out the door, and you're basically on top of getting a Vexor. From there I would say (1) beg for money and (2) train Hull Upgrades 4 so you can fit armor hardeners. A properly fitted cruiser just chews through Sansha battleship spawns and you'll be gushing cash in no time.
Also, come to E-Pr0 right away (after you join Merch Industrial) since there's quite a good selection of Sansha space nearby (you'll want to start with low true-sec ratings to give you easier rats initially).
CCP introduced Warp to Zero - which means when you manually warp to an object you arrive at worst 2500m from it (meaning you can jump immediately at a stargate). However, autopilot does not do this - it warps to 15km and then makes your ship fly there manually. It is an extremely slow way to travel, and if you pass through low-sec or 0.0 it means you will get ganked.
No, No, No, you've got it all wrong. Having people use autopilot is BRILLIANT. it gets you very familiar with losing your ship, which every capsuleer should get used to immediately.
It's a good way to say, "This is not fucking WoW. You WILL lose things, and you won't get it back for free."
Perhaps we should put it in the OP or the thread name to not use auto-pilot, so merchi newbies know not to use it.
Seriously, if you dont particularly care about dying, try it. 2/3 times i live through doing it in a shuttle
I am so going to throw expensive skill books into my shuttle and AFK autopilot back to empire. And then blame you for saying i had a 66.7% chance of making it.
Though it's true, I made an empire chicken run from Stain to Molden Heath 3 times and survived everytime, granted I wasn't autopiloting, but only once did I run into a gate camp. And promptly got blown up, but I made it out of the bubble and didn't get podded, so I can't complain too much.
A new fucking computer. Or maybe a 6600GT like I have. I don't know if it works in a 1x slot though.
Pentium III 1.2 Ghz
512 mbs of RAM
Radeon 9200 PCI card
15inch CRT
So I dont want to hear any bitching about "my system is only 3 years old and it doesnt run eve at 100 FPS"
I used to get 20 fps on a good day
we use the goon's ts, and I know someone just said yesterday we could use their vent server. For goon's ts, you need to have a forum account to move yourself to the various channels like the op's or merchi. If not, we have to find a SA who can drag you. This is all explained on the merchi forums and i believe in corpmails. If its not I'll clear it up later today.
Also, you're a newbie, and as such there will be things we wont tell you unless we know you better. This is for everyone benefit so that spies jobs are much harder and will stop trying to get in.
Even though like 2/3 of the people in MerchI are spies.
EDIT: Just to be clear, we will try to help you, and we only do certain things for opsec. It's not you personally, just being careful
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