EVE Online - RIP VileRat

[Ins]

I think I'm going to pick up the full version after my trial runs out, but be Amarr on a new char, that way I can do Amarr missions and not have to worry about my Caldari standing and fly the "flavour of the month" pvp ship. Then train Caldari ships if I decide to take up mining, because it does look interesting.

Although Amarr are FOTM, they also require tons of training to be good. They use lasers which have the best range for their closest range ( Fit pulse on a BS and you can hit out to 40km) Fit blasters on a BS and you'll be lucky to hit at 10km. My first character was Gallente, and by the time i had 4mil skill points i had around 200 solo kills in my Ishkur.

It's an Assualt Frigate that can use 5 light drones leaving you to fit a nice tank on it or go pure DPS, loved the little thing

The main problem you'll run into with Amarr missions as an Amarrian is NPC types on missions. You tend to get quite alot of Guristas and Angel missions which are weak to Kinetic and Explosive damage (Amarrs lasers are EM / Thermal) so alot of Amarr mission runners cross train Minnimatar aswell. Caldari are hands down the best mission runners purely because they can use any damage type just by switching missiles.

Amarr do have some nice missile based ships (Sac HAC & the other Command Ship). So if you want to run missions you can always go Caldari and jump in a Drake whilst you get your missile skills up, then cross train into Amarr whilst you use the Drake to mission in whilst doing so.

If you want to solo pvp, get yourself into a Ishkur or Wolf. A friend flys around in a Wolf (20 mil cost to buy and fit) atm in 0.0 killing what he can. He has many Vagabond kills (100 million HACs) Battlecruisers, Interceptors and even Rapier kills.

He doesn't have alot of SP compared to those he kills, but he proves just how versatile EvE is and what can be accomplished.

PUNT Killboard - Pilot details - Tollefso Kyanus

[Eanae]

Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships. Fuck drone ships.

Drone ships take all of the fun out of the game. I mission in a Dominix and it's the most boring thing EVER. I also use an Enyo to pvp with. Drone ships drive me physically insane from sheer boredom.

[Galaika]

Aargh, choices choices, I'm also restricted by the fact that I think caldari and minmatar ships look butt-ugly ><

[Eanae]

Minmatar ships are ugly. The Machariel (cross trained consisting of Gallente and Minmatar BS) is a sexy sexy ship though (900mil worth of sexy).The Caldari Raven is <3 too.

[Kurp]

This game seems really fun but the way people gain points over time is gay. People that have played longer have a gigantic advantage that transcends skill due to point allocation.

I'd probably play seriously, if i didn't know that I'm always going to be at such a horrible stat differentiation.

[Galaika]

Minmatar ships are ugly. The Machariel (cross trained consisting of Gallente and Minmatar BS) is a sexy sexy ship though (900mil worth of sexy).The Caldari Raven is <3 too.

Yeah, that Machariel looks nice, didn't know you could fly the pirate ships. Don't like the raven though :/ all blocky and angles with bits stuck on, amarr and gallente ships are so much nicer looking

[Eanae]

Yeah, that Machariel looks nice, didn't know you could fly the pirate ships. Don't like the raven though :/ all blocky and angles with bits stuck on, amarr and gallente ships are so much nicer looking

You can fly any ship except Concord and Jove as far as I know.

[Galaika]

OK I take it back, I haven't seen a raven yet, but went on a mission last night that sent me 8 jumps away from my home and saw a lot of caldari ships in-game rather than just in pics online and they look a lot better than I thought. Might just make my main char a caldari, because I do like the idea of missiles.

[Rem]

I rolled Minmatar, only ship of theirs I like so far(looks wise) is the Rifter.

[guartz]

This game seems really fun but the way people gain points over time is gay. People that have played longer have a gigantic advantage that transcends skill due to point allocation.

I'd probably play seriously, if i didn't know that I'm always going to be at such a horrible stat differentiation.

while that's true, it also depends on player skill and situation. For example, a 2million SP fighter can rock the shit out of a 20million sp miner. Or somebody with 4 million sp on a small frig, can totally own somebody with 40 million sp on a large ship (if they know how to get under their big guns, and jam correctly)

On the other hand, if you don't know what you are doing, a mining barge will own you.

or take a look at those people who have been playing for 5 years, and have 100mil sp. You think they take their 500 billion isk ships into space alone? No way, they need a bunch of people to watch their backs.

[Eanae]

500 billion? lol. Even titans only cost around 40 billion to make, 100 bil on the market.

[Kiro]

My corp moved to low-sec to "pirate". Our system blows ass. We were in Carrou for a few days and we ran everyone out and went like.. 45-0 k/d. Dunno why we left.

[Sol-Blackguy]

while that's true, it also depends on player skill and situation. For example, a 2million SP fighter can rock the shit out of a 20million sp miner. Or somebody with 4 million sp on a small frig, can totally own somebody with 40 million sp on a large ship (if they know how to get under their big guns, and jam correctly)

On the other hand, if you don't know what you are doing, a mining barge will own you.

or take a look at those people who have been playing for 5 years, and have 100mil sp. You think they take their 500 billion isk ships into space alone? No way, they need a bunch of people to watch their backs.

I don't think the skill disadvantage is as large as people make it seem. It's not like a fully skilled and specialized frig or destroyer could take out something like a Dreadnought. If it was like that I doubt very many people would play.
I personally like the training in real-time aspect. It beats the hell out of grinding on mobs for xp or sitting around looking for a party. The only thing that does kind of suck is having to manage your supplies and ships without any kind of delivery service. I remember screwing up and buying my destroyer, but having to travel 12 jumps away for the ammo/guns that I bought.

[Jotaru]

Recently got back into it, started a new account since my old one was lost FOREVA... currently at 1.3M SP...

and then got my original account back ^^ 8.5M SP on that one, rejoined my pirate corp, and have a nice dual-box setup now for Level4 missions for cash. Pirating is quite a bit easier when you have a hundred mil backing you (as opposed to doing it with 45k in your wallet...)

[Kiro]

For those of you that don't know there's a "BlueGartr" EVE channel up. Bunch of us are in there most of the time.

[Rem]

I have a couple of noob questions, maybe someone can help me out with. A couple of nights ago I got my ass handed to me in 0.4 space by an Ishkur, a frigate sized drone boat. Is there anyway to neutralize those drones or am I just fucked when they get close enough to jam me and can't run away? I looked up smartbombs but they have various types of damage, is there one I should be looking for if they're effective on drones? Oh yea my ship was/is a Rifter.

[Kiro]

Uh, against jamming drones you can't really do much in a Rifter except attempt to warp out or try to blow the drones up.

[Eanae]

Ridill Rap, meet pop culture:

YouTube - Suas : I Robbed a Goon

L O L

[Kiro]

Band of Brothers pulled some more "we know Devs and GMs so we're gonna cheat at the game" shit recently, el oh el. Forums are having a field day with this shit.

[Eanae]

Band of Brothers pulled some more "we know Devs and GMs so we're gonna cheat at the game" shit recently, el oh el. Forums are having a field day with this shit.

Yeah lol can't go to any forums without seeing 20 threads. Pretty funny.

lolT20.