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On January 13 2011 20:34 Jayme wrote:


Kizu is slowly mastering the art of being an asshole. You do good work bro, you do good work.

On January 14 2011 04:31 happyft wrote:
A Basic Guide to Fitting
Been noticing some ... special fits on our roams. This wiki is pretty good, please read it. I wrote this up so we don't have to keep explaining how to fit your ship to every new person who signs up...

I'm still a really new pilot, but let me see if I can distill some of that into something more compact. The type of ship you want to fly is determined by what kind of role you should be playing. There are a few basic roles for low-sec roams: DPS, tackle, e-war, and remote repair. There are flavors of each, but I'll get into that later.

Generally you want to specialize in one of these 4 roles -- because bonuses compound, a fleet's efficiency is optimized when a single ship is geared towards a single role. (i.e. Putting gyrostabilizers on a blackbird would result in both crappy DPS and crappy e-war)

In order to fit your ship to a specific role, you need to understand what kind of mods go into which slots, in order to know what the tradeoffs are in selecting one mod over another.

Highs are for DPS and RR -- weapons, energy transfer, and shield/armor repair. Here, your trade-offs are your ability to hit small targets (tracking/explosion velocity and size), range, and DPS.
+ Show Spoiler [Fitting a Drake] +

Mediums are for tackle, shield tank, cap booster, ewar, and propulsion -- webs, warp disruptor/scramblers, microwarpdrive/afterburner, target painter/ecm/remote sensor dampener, shield extender/hardener/booster, and cap boosters. Your trade-offs are your EHP, ewar and tackle. (I consider propulsion to be mandatory in any fit)
+ Show Spoiler [Fitting a Caracal] +

Lows are for armor and hull tank, speed, and DPS -- armor plates/hardeners, bulkhead/damage control units, nanofiber/overdrive, and gyros/ballistic control units/etc. Your trade-offs are speed, tank and DPS.
+ Show Spoiler [Fitting a Rupture] +

Lastly, I really want to emphasize these last few points, because I see at least one person making one of these mistakes on every single roam for the past few days.
Fit cruiser-sized modules on cruisers, frigate-sized modules on frigates, and battleship-sized modules on battleships. So do not put 4x 200 mm armor plates on a Rupture. Do not fit standard missile launchers on a Caracal. Do not fit medium shield extenders on a cruiser. (Yes, I have seen you guys do all of these)

Always try to use the highest meta you can reasonably afford. There's no reason you should be flying with the worst mods, when higher metas provide you with more DPS/range and cost less cap/grid/cpu (except t2s). Seriously. Don't fly with meta 0s. Generally meta 3s are good.

Don't leave slots unused, and use all your grid & cpu. If you've got free lows, but no grid/cpu, then put nanofibers/overdrives there. If you've got free mids, but only CPU leftover, then put in a shield hardener, a target painter, something. If you've got free highs but only CPU, then put a salvager, or a small nos/neut.

Always have some kind of tank, especially if you're a tackler. Consider how much DPS is coming your way, and whether you can last 30-45 seconds of it. If you're in a rupture/caracal tackling a Cane, you'll need 15k EHP at the minimum (15k/500 dps = 30 seconds). If you've only got 1k EHP in a frigate, you're not tackling anything, because you'll be dead in 5-10 seconds.

Okay! This was longer than I expected. But hope this helps.

(waits for the flames from the vets, haha)

On January 14 2011 04:50 s_side wrote:


He's spent too much time around Yulwei and myself. vOv

It could have used a few ~~~~~~, though.

Just sayin'~

On January 14 2011 06:32 Weken wrote:
What is this EVE board you speak of?

On January 14 2011 06:32 Weken wrote:
What is this EVE board you speak of?