To: GOTG Ratting High Command, GOTG Carrier Division, GOTG Ratters, SPAIs.

Hello All, Keyes reporting in.

I have now finished the preliminary report on Carrier ratting, requested by Leadership due to the massive amount of misinformation floating around in space.

It will be as brief as I can make it as I know you are busy, calculations will be left out, this will be quick and dirty, so let us get started.

The question we had to answer was “Is Carrier ratting worth it?”
We have done so in a satisfactory way starting with an intro -> Carriers(short) -> Combat Sites -> Fitting your Carrier -> Drones to use -> Implants??? -> How to rat(This is important to avoid losing fighters, especially with the new patch coming out)

Why? – A lot of different claims floating around about carrier ratting profitability, videos on youtube claiming “average ticks” of 35 Million ISK, something making many people not even consider Carriers, as their Rattlesnakes will make them between 30-38 million ISK per tick, considering the cost of a Rattlesnake 0.5-1BIL vs. a carrier at 2-4,5 Billion ISK depending on the fit.

The Misconception: We have all heard some people claim they get 70 million ISK ticks, and we have also heard people say they only get a consistent 35 spiking to 40. What we have found is that both can be true, but reaching the high ticks you have to be dedicated.

Is it worth it? – Yes, very much so.

Carriers:

We have 4 different Carriers with different bonuses, in this case we will only look at the Carrier bonus relevant to Ratting.

The Archon gets a 4% bonus to Armor resistance per level, a completely useless bonus for ratting – This carrier is guaranteed the lowest possible ticks from ratting.

The Chimera gets a 4% bonus to Shield resistance per level, also useless for ratting – This carrier is as useless for ratting as the Archon.

The Thanatos gets a 5% bonus to fighter damage per level, as well as a 2,5% bonus to fighter hitpoints per level – This is amazing, at Carrier 5 it is 25% fighter damage and 12,5% fighter hitpoints, almost able to get the highest ticks.

The Nidhoggur gets a 5% fighter damage bonus like the Thanatos, but the second is a 2,5% bonus to fighter velocity per level. – This is also amazing, super fast fighters will make it possible to get the highest possible ticks.

Recommendation: We recommend either the Nidhoggur or the Thanatos, and will not work with the other two as they are inferior as ratting capitals.

Combat sites:

There is a multitude of different combat sites (Alt+P) spawning, different layouts and different spawn locations within the site as well as wave-sizes and damage output from the sites.

As the analysis has been done before by others we will just provide the priorities of sites here:

1. Havens (Rock Havens)*
2. Forsaken Hubs
3. Sanctums (Ring Sanctums)**

This is the priority in which you want to run sites, personally I do not run Ring Sanctums because I found their damage output to be a little too high for my liking, whereas the other sites provide decent ISK and low Risk.

When you undock in your ratting system, the first thing you should do is open your Probe Scanner with all the signatures, start by sorting by name and then Ignore all the sites that are not one of the above 3 types. (I also ignore Sanctums). – now you only have sites you are interested in and if any new sigs spawn you will see them.

*: The trick to find out if a Haven is a Rock Haven and not a Gas Haven is right click -> warp to -> ctrl+space to stop the ship. If the Haven in question is a Rock Haven, you will get a pop-up saying “I have detected a stargate nearby” – if the pop-up does not appear, right click and ignore that site as well, do this with all the Havens before you start ratting, so you only have the Rock Havens and no Gas Havens in your scanner.

**: There is no trick for Sanctums, you have to warp to all of them(in a fast ship) in order to find out what it is, no shortcut here, hence why I skip those.

After this, you should sort by “Distance” so you get the closest ones on top.

Fitting your Carrier: 

Fitting your carrier is very important if you want to achieve the high ticks and not just the low ones.

In order to fit it for pure ratting, you need to be in an alliance that has a good INTEL channel, I cannot stress this enough, make sure the space is safe before you undock your expensive ratting carrier.

As a rule of thumb, for a ratting carrier you want the following:

High-Slots:
– Networked Sensor Array
– Cynosural Field Generator I
– Fighter Support Unit I/II
– Fighter Support Unit I/II
– Fighter Support Unit I/II

Cyno in case you have people that can potentially save you if you get tackled(remember Liquid Ozone), if not you can either add a Heavy Energy Neutraliser or another FSU. I recommend FSU IIs but the T1 variant works more than fine.

For a Ratting Thanatos your mid slots should be:

2x Drone Navigation Computers, below you can see the Maximum Velocity Bonus gains from the variants.
Personally I use Sentient Nav. Comps. because the bonus is simply too good to pass up, and the T2 variant takes several days to train into from the T1/Faction variants. The price for 2x Sentients will be around 230 Million a piece.

3x Omnidirectional Tracking Links, as you can see below, the difference in bonuses is worth noting.
Also here the T2 variant takes time training into, and the Faction modules cost around 50 million a piece, definitely worth it. In this module you can also fit a Tracking Speed script and an Optimal Range script.
We have played around with the different scripts and we have come up with the best for us being 2x Optimal range and the last either with a Tracking speed script or with no script at all – you should test for yourself with your faction rats, we have tested VS Guristas.

For a Ratting Thanatos your Low Slots should be:

4x Drone Damage Amplifiers, in this case the T2 variants are not hard training into but as you can see by the Damage Bonus (that also applies to fighters), the Faction variants are significantly better that their T1 or T2 counterparts, these will run you in 130 million a piece, you could also switch the 4^th DDA out for a T2 variant because the fourth slot does not provide any significant boost because of diminishing returns.

1 x Capital Armor Repair Module, here you should start with a Tech 1 Capital I-a Enduring Armor Repairer,
this thing is relatively cheap and will do the job. I would not advise you to train Tech II, because it takes 6 more days, and I haven’t done that.

What you could do is buy the CONCORD Capital Armor Repairer, it reps 25-30% more than the other one, but it has a price tag of almost 600 Million ISK, compared to the 90 mil for the I-a Armor Repairer – this is up to you, personally I wouldn’t buy CONCORD unless I had enough ISK to throw around, but if you live in risky space it can provide more time for your rescue fleet to arrive.

1x Centum C-type Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane (EANM) for the final low slot is what we have used due to the resists it provides, 24% / 27% / 27% / 26%, which on our ships provide around 50.000 EHP more for increased survival. – if Survival is no problem you could put on an Experimental Hyperspatial Accelerator which increases Warp Speed so you get faster from Site to Site.

For any ratting carrier you Rigs should be:

 3x Capital Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizers.
These rigs increase your Warp Speed by 20%/25% depending on the T1 or T2 variant.
Price for the Tech ones are 43 million, whereas the price for Tech 2s are 190 million, which begs the question “is it worth it” and you are the only one that can answer that question.

For one of our testers, 0 rigs equals 1.70 AU/s warp speed.
T1 rigs = 2.66 AU/s warp speed  (130 million ISK)
T2 rigs = 2.95 AU/s warp speed (570 million ISK)

Fit as you like, T1 rigs makes it more survivable if you have to sell it or you need to refit it to a combat carrier sometime, it also depends on how long you hope it will survive.

Difference between ratting Thanatos and Nidhoggur in fitting them:

As the Ratting Nidhoggur is a shield fit, you should utilize the extra Mid Slot for a Capital Shield Booster I, or T2 if you have trained it and a CONCORD if you have the ISK for it.

As for the low slots I still recommend 4x DDAs and instead of the armor repairer and EANM you could put in a Damage control, or something else you could want.

Fighters to use:

Before you undock, you need some offensive capability, AKA Fighters, for this you should look at what type of damage your target is susceptible to, we have compiled a little table below you can use.

What we recommend is 3 full flights of Light Fighters, that is 9 fighters per squad, plus some spares, personally I only have 5-10 extra, perhaps more will be needed in the new patch, I only carry them “in case” I lose one if I go afk or fuck something up.

Additional very important is having a squad of Dromi webbing support drones, I carry 10 in the fighter bay in case I get tackled, then it is nice having a squad of webbers to slow the interceptor down, again, better safe than sorry even though they are expensive.

Implants???

So, yes, it is possible to get implants that help you with an extra boost to warp speed, more specifically the
Eifyr and Co. ‘Rogue’ Warp Drive Speed WS-613 and WS-615’s, as you can guess they give 13% and 15% increased Warp Drive Speed, the set goes from 5/8/10/13/15/18%. The 13% implant cost around 100 million ISK and the 15% is around 150 million ISK, the 18% is expensive at nearly 600 million ISK, which is why I recommend the 13 or 15% Implants for Slot 6.

Personally I also have a set of High-Grade Random things for the Attribute bonus, but if you really want to chase the ticks you can fit your clone with a full set of High-Grade Ascendancy set for even more increase in warp speed. By my calculations a full set without the Omega of Mid-Grade Ascendancy implants will cost you around 950 million ISK, and a High-Grade set will be around 2.5 Billion ISK, so don’t just go throwing the ISK around, remember, we will all lose a carrier sometime.

HOW TO CARRIER RAT AND GET DANK TICKS

Now you hopefully have a fully fitted ratting Carrier, with the appropriate Light fighters, and maybe a 15% Warp Speed Implant, some good Intel, you are on comms and in standing fleet, you have a PVE channel for the system you are ratting in to call out the 3 letter signature so no one else lands in your anomaly, and have un-fucked your Probe Scanner so now you only have Rock Havens in there, and Forsaken hubs in case all the rock havens are taken.

Fighters are controlled in a special way compared to drones, so do as I say and set your default orbit to 4000meters. Down where your Modules are, you can toggle between modules and fighter control panel, when on fighter panel click the square below that and detach the fighter panel. What I do is move it up to just below where all my targets are, this is to minimize mouse movement. – Just do it.
Then I click on squad one, shift click and mark the two other squads so the blue circle thing is around the fighter squads and NOT also the carrier.

Module management: I load 2x Optimal and 1x Tracking/nothing Omni, and activate them, keep them running forever. You Repper will have to be pulsed when you have lost enough EHP to warrant a cycle.
The Networked Sensor Array(NSA) you should cycle when the first wave spawns, and from that point on you should start the cycle when you have your fighters target the last rat in the wave.

The Warp-in. – Always warp in at 100km, that is how we do it, some people do it another way, it’s safest this way.

Landing – when you land, the first thing you do is always align to the Keepstar / Fortizar / Safe POS / Station, and set your speed to 80% of full, in my carrier that is around 80m/s.

You want to move your fighters all the time, when you land, you launch your fighter squads, press “w” and click on the pirate gate in the middle of the Rock, this should make your drones move towards it and start orbiting, this is the reason we put our default orbit at 4000 meters, your drones will now orbit the center at 4000m.
Because you landed at 100k you should engage the MWD on your fighters, this can be done manually, or if you marked all 3 squads you can just press F2, shortcut for MWD.

Kill order for rats:
Frigates > Destroyers > Cruisers > Battlecruisers > Commander BS > BS

Frigates: 1 Squad Guns only.

Destroyers: 1 Squad Guns only.

Cruisers: 1 Squad Guns only.

Battle cruisers: 1 Squad guns + 1 Volley (one volley and 1 cycle of guns is usually enough)

Battleships: 3 Squads and 1 Volley from each, basically target and press F1 + F3 to activate guns and missiles on all 3 squads, should take them out in no time.   — some people say 1 squad on each BS but we think they regen too much and found it to be ineffective for MAX KRABS —

Movement of Fighters:
An important thing to note is you have to make your fighters be constantly moving, each time they kill a target they slow down to standstill, which means you have to press “w” and click on the new target after each kill, the good thing is you can have all 3 squads marked, but only the squad that is *not* actively engaging something will follow your orbit command.
This mechanic is important, the time it takes from one gun-cycle to the next is enough to let your drones take damage, even die in the new patch, if you keep this “w” orbit movement up your fighters will also reach targets earlier and be orbiting when the gun is ready to cycle(Neat, I know!)

If you want higher ticks, you can look at the Rock Haven and when only Battleships are left and you have them all targeted, you can sort the targets according to range so you start from one end and kill the one close to your previous target instead of having your fighters fly more than necessary.

Aligning and warping:

Now you know how to rat and keep your fighters alive, what is left?

When you are on the second-to-last wave, you should start aligning to your next combat site instead of the Citadel, you should Claim it in your PVE channel and make sure no one else did it first, personally I Ignore an anomaly and remove it from the list if someone else claims it. Make sure the one you claim and align to is close to your current one for reduced travel time.

When you have killed the last rat you call your drones back to your drone bay, press F2 for MWD and they should return to you in 10-15 seconds from 100-130 km out. Once they are in, you warp to a 100km on the new anomaly and repeat for DANK TICKS.

Thank you for reading, I hope it helps, if you found it useful but have advice, please send it to Fleet Master Keyes in-game, donations are also welcome.

Fly safe and rat rat rat!!! o7

By Vulxanis Viceroy

Welcome! This document is intended to help less informed or newer players(and older players trying to explain concepts) enjoy eve online in a much easier manner by consolidating a lot of useful information sources into one. I will periodically edit this, so sorry if that throws you off while you are reading! 

If you have any suggestions or questions, please comment on the reddit post with the same name, and I will try and edit the document accordingly!

 You should look for players to play with and join a corporation, of course. But not everyone likes to do the same thing, and a lot of people are not sure what to do in eve to further their career. This document hopes to make that a simpler task. Remember to join the ingame channel “Rookie Help”.

Also, I actually found a similar document on reddit that goes into a lot of what I have here. It’s simply in a different format. You should totally check it out too!

Most of the links in this document are not embedded specifically so you can easily copy and paste them when sharing. There are a bunch of helpful links at the bottom of the document that I may or may not have covered before, so be sure to check them out!

Hope this all helps!

General Guides and Tips you should definitely check out:

• CCP’s flight academy videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCczUeYqoS7d40bkeWmJHXGw/playlists 
• EVE Pro guides: https://www.youtube.com/user/Abbadon2110 
• The Things people don’t tell you!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLZNnKD4zhs 
• The Things People don’t tell you! Revised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUqhl2xvb4g 
• Quick Reference Guide: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5721731#post5721731 
• “Have a tip, leave a tip”: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1c211z/the_have_a_tip_leave_a_tip_eve_thread_round_v_the/ 
• Guide for New players: http://www.thonky.com/eve-online-guide/new-player-guide 
• What I wish I knew as a new player: https://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=910880&page=2 
• Things EVE Pilots wish they knew when they started: http://www.eveproguides.com/things-eve-pilots-wish-knew-started/ 
• The Most Obvious thing I wish I’d learned earlier: http://backstage.eve-inspiracy.com/index.php?topic=219.msg1250#msg1250 
• What you need to know before playing EVE Online: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1p915i/what_you_need_to_know_before_playing_eve_online/ 

Mailing lists you should join:

• Overviews 101(WIP!!!)
• Zirio-Syundai Overview 
• Color Coding 101
• Implants 101
• PVE 101
• NPC Mining 101
• Tradehubs 101

Sidenote on mailing lists:

I will be referencing mailing list a few times in this document. How to access a mailing list? Go to your neocom (the bar on the left by default with the icons), and look for the envelope icon. That’s your mailbox. Open that, and go to the bottom left of the window, it says “add mailing list”, then type in the name of the mailing list you want to join (or create).

This is especially helpful for multiple reasons. It is an easy way to send information to a specific group without adding them individually to the mail, but it is also easy to store information across characters.

Table of contents:

1. The Neocom
2. The Overview
3. The information tab
4. Fitting your ship
5. The Skill Queue
6. Killboards
7. PvP
8. Markets
9. Eve Slang
10. Fitting Tools
11. The Lore of EVE Online
12. Clear Skies
13. Making Money in EVE Online
14. Out of Game Content
15. Broadcast4reps
16. Links for Easy Reference (In no particular order)

The Neocom:

The Neocom is your menu interface. It is by default on the left of your screen, and the order of the icons can be edited at any time. If there is an icon not on your neocom that you wish to be there, or are curious what features your neocom provides (such as ingame browser or calculator), simply go to the top left, click the “E” button above your profile picture, find what you are looking for, and drag and drop the icon onto your neocom. This can be changed at any time and is totally customizable.

Links:

• Tips and tricks for setting up your user interface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI8EGuoYjCQ 

The Overview: 

The Overview is the single most important tool in eve online aside from the neocom. Without it, EVE becomes incredibly difficult to play. The Mailing list “Overviews 101(WIP!!!)” is periodically updated with each new change that comes out, based off of the famous “SaraShawa-Overview” setup. The mailing list explains how to edit the overview further, as well as provides ready made edited versions of the overview for easy use.

For any further questions that mailing list does not address, please join the channel “Zirio-Syundai Overview ”. 

Links:

• E-Uni Overview Setup guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY2scKcFnv4&list=PLC09EB7E88FB25E5E&index=5 

The Information tab:

The information tab on any item in the game (ship, module, ammo, structure, etc) is extremely helpful for understanding its properties. When you click “show info” on a ship, you can see how much base cpu and powergrid (essentially the little building blocks you can fit inside your ship fitting) your ship can hold before skills, rigs, or modules edit this.

When looking at a turret, launcher, drone, etc, you can actually see what their likely damage output is before your skills affect it. Just right click the “show info” tab on the item, and go to the section that says “attributes”. A good way to understand what different modules and drones do is to hold them side by side and compare them. You can separate tabs by holding the shift button and clicking on the info tab.

Fitting your ship:

Fitting your ship is one of the most important parts of the game. You access the fitting window via your neocom with the little ship icon in a circle. 

Links:

• Fitting introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89fyABSd9OU&index=3&list=PLC09EB7E88FB25E5E 

The Skill Queue:

NEVER LET YOUR SKILL QUEUE RUN DRY WHILE YOU ARE SUBBED!

Always make sure that your skill queue is running. Your skill queue is a time-dependant setup where you “train” or “download” skills into your character’s head. You need skills to use ships and modules alike, as well as to use them more efficiently. Different skills do different things, and some skills are helpful (such as armor resists) that may not be visibly important right away.  You would do well to go into the market and look at all the skills and read what each one does.

Links:

• What to train in your first month: http://www.tentonhammer.com/guides/the-first-month-of-playing-eve-online 
• Top 10 most Frequently asked questions about skills: http://www.tentonhammer.com/guides/ten-frequently-asked-questions-about-eve-skills-eve-online-guide 
• Support Skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ_2tuXt3G4&index=25&list=PLC09EB7E88FB25E5E 
• Good Skills to train: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2969118 
• Skill Training Guide: http://eveinfo.net/wiki/index~16.htm 
• Skills and Learning: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Skills_and_Learning 

Killboards:

Did you know that when your ship is killed by another player, it will likely show up in the public domain? Anyone can look up any losses or kills you have if someone either posts it or you give your api to www.zkillboards.com so you can see the results. Zkillboards is generally considered more accurate in referencing how much a loss is worth vs the in game killmails because it tracks the market prices more accurately.

PvP

PvP (or Player Vs. Player) is a core part of EVE Online. It can happen, anywhere, any time, if you are undocked. Join fleets, make mistakes, ask questions, try things out, and you’ll get it eventually. Joining a corp that has an SRP(Ship Replacement Program) setup would be wise when first starting out. If you are curious about flying a specific type of ship or doing a specific type of combat, YouTube has hundreds of videos on the subject. Experience and skill points are what get you good at pvp, in that order. See the links at the bottom of this section for opportunities for public fleets.

PvP in different sections of space:

Hisec:

• Ganking: Someone shoots at you to harass or attain your cargo for profit.
• Wardecs: Concord is paid to look the other way and you can legally be attacked by that corporation or alliance even in hisec. Only player corporations can be wardecced.
• Warp interdiction bubbles and bombs are illegal to use here.

Lowsec: Any and everyone can be attacked. You will lose security status if someone is not flagged “criminal” (they did something to piss off concord like shoot someone) or “suspect” (they irritated concord by stealing something). Also, if you attack someone on the gate or stations, the guns anchored there WILL attack you. If your security status gets too low, you will be unable to go back into specific areas (or potentially all) of hisec. Please join the mailing list “PVE 101” for further details. Warp interdiction bubbles and bombs are illegal to use here.

Nullsec/0.0 space: Bubbles and bombs are legal, no rules. 

Wormholes: Same as null, except there are no gates. Please see the exploration section of “Making money in EVE online” for further details.

Links:

• To get in on public fleets going every day, join the in game channel “Spectre Fleet” for various types of fleets, or “Bombers Bar” if you are interested in specifically going on bombing runs and such. Great way to get in on some pvp in an NPSI(Not Purple, Shoot It) environment.
• Tackling a ship 101: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy02-DfcItg 
• Concord response time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYdb8riJUvk&index=9&list=PLC09EB7E88FB25E5E 

Markets: 

Do you want to know where the most popular trade hubs are? Join the mailing list “Tradehubs 101”. It not only has in game links to the stations you can use for bookmarks if you lost yours, but it is very easy to label them if you follow its suggested method.

But say you know where the trade hubs are, and want to know how much something is being sold for in a different trade hub? Look up www.evecentral.com for all your marketing needs!

Also a newer feature(as of 2014?), you can buy multiple items simultaneously! Just click “buy all” on a fitting window. You can also “sell all” your items in the item hanger if you so choose. Gets a little slow after you fill it with enough orders, so be aware.

Links:

• Market Trading in EVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-9nhCCScIw 
• Market tutorial (old): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU_AnKRk3Bk 
• Market Orders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDmon8H2ROo&list=PLC09EB7E88FB25E5E&index=6 
• Market Price History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppxkfx39EU&index=7&list=PLC09EB7E88FB25E5E 

Eve Slang: 

Ever hear a term on comms that you don’t recognize but are too scared to ask? First, you should still try and ask. But for future reference, see the links below for many of the common phrases in eve online used as slang terms!

Links:

• http://www.tentonhammer.com/guides/a-glossary-of-slang-in-eve-online
• http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Category:Eve_Lexicon 
• http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Fleet_Terminology
• http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/The_Rookie’s_Guide_To_Fleet_Ops

Fitting Tools: 

Fitting tools are extremely helpful in saving you money on fitting ships and figuring out how to fly them! EDIT: There is an in-game “Ghost Fitting” tool that is a work in progress as of this writing. Look into that also!

Links:

• Pyfa: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Guide_to_using_PYFA 
• EFT: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Guide_to_using_EFT (Outdated)

The Lore of EVE Online:

Ever since CCP decided to quickly and abruptly remove the wiki(CCP statement) with only a week’s warning, the lore for the game has been difficult to find in a consolidated manner until there is a replacement. Some dedicated players were able to back up most of EVElopedia, as well as there are other sources of EVE online lore available out there. The following links are the best sources that are available at this time.

Links:

• EVElopedia backup: http://wiki.eve-inspiracy.com/index.php?title=Main_Page (special thanks to the backstage forums team!)
• Scope News: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQvKSs1k6DLND_n1eyjHLML_0G__CEqMg 
• Rare items: http://eveinfo.com/inventory/IDG17/commodity.html 
• Brave Newbies Wiki: https://wiki.braveineve.com/?_ga=1.201141734.998382119.1424401821
• Eve Uni Wiki: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Main_Page 

Clear Skies:

There is an AWESOME (but super old) fan made video series called Clear Skies. Even if some of the game mechanics have changed (ask a vet about clear skies and how the game has changed since) it’s still a lot of fun and really well done series. It’s really sad how few people actually know about this. If you like eve, you’ll like clear skies. Episode links below!

Links:

• Clear skies 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5285kr1J4xE
• Clear Skies 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NRJgxkK-t8 
• Clear Skies 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehN1eS6HSro 

Making money in EVE Online

Here are some easy examples of ways to make eve online that you can do. This is by far not a complete list, but it should cover most of the more popular ways of making isk. My personal suggestion would be to make a different character for every type of gameplay that you want so you have multiple options for when one source of income dries up. This will take time, but it is most definitely worth it. Some of these categories overlap, so please just be aware. Hope this helps! 

• Missioning: Missioning is the easiest and most common(although not the most lucrative) way to make money in hisec for new and more experienced players alike. All you need to do is find an agent in the agent finder(see Neocom basics) that you have enough standings to use, follow their directions, don’t die, and salvage the loot. Don’t bother salvaging if the mission is only a level 1 or 2. You want to get to a level 3 agent as soon as possible, and then a level 4. Then you most definitely want to salvage and loot.  Join the mailing list “PVE 101” for helpful reference on damage types.
• After you have enough lp, you cash it in at the lp store and can either sell it on the market, or use it yourself. Sisters of Eve missions are generally considered the easiest to make money from. The station “Simela IV – Moon 7 – Sisters of EVE Academy” has a level 1, 2 and 3 agent in the same place, so it saves you a trip from going a lot of places to find the right agent level. Reprocess all the loot that you can’t bother to sell, use your lp to buy astero blueprints, make the astero, and either sell or use the astero yourself. You can easily make yourself a 60mil profit from doing this alone. 
• A great way to help you get yourself back on your feet so you can try more lucrative means of making isk!
• BE AWARE! If you do a mission that fights a particular faction YOU WILL LOSE STANDINGS AGAINST THAT FACTION! So if you care about factional standings, don’t shoot at anyone that are not pirates (or Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, and Minmatar navy npcs). This also goes for anomaly ratting.

Links:

• Eve survival: This is a really link I will reference multiple times. I embedded it instead of linking the address because I needed to explain this link’s significance. This site essentially gives you the information on almost every mission in the game so you know exactly what you’re getting into. It also has information on anomalies in hisec/lowsec/nullsec and wormholes as well. It is one of the most important websites you will ever bookmark. For anything else that it doesn’t cover, there’s google.
• LP Store: https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/lpstore 
• Missioning and Standings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzUyXWILFmo&list=PLC09EB7E88FB25E5E&index=22 

• Incursions: Incursions, in short, are essentially large scale fleets of players shooting at npcs, and if they do it right they all get paid. The largest public english speaking fleets ran in eve are “Warp to Me Incursions”, and “The Valhalla Project”.  There are others that are Non-English speaker focused(Russian, German, Japanese, etc), so check them out if needed. 
•  It takes a lot of skill points to get into this form of isk making, but if done right can get you billions in a fun and social environment, and is one of the most popular side projects to fund the various exploits of players. Join the in game channels of an incursion fleet and ask them about what to do.

Links:

• Introduction to incursions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Cp-Zuxp5M 
• Other Incursion running fleets: Join the in game channel “Incursion Public”. MTOD has a list.
• Warp To Me Incursions: In game channel “Warp To Me Incursions”
• Warp To Me rookie Guide: 
• http://forums.eve-warptome.com/index.php?/topic/587-rookie-guide-new-players/ 
• Warp To Me Incursions New Forums: https://forums.warptome.net/ 
• The Valhalla Project: In game channel “The Valhalla Project”
• The Valhalla Project: http://thevalhallaproject.info/ 

• Faction Warfare: Faction warfare (aside from the pvp aspect) is a very profitable style of gameplay consisting of earning lp passively through “plexing” or sitting in a complex long enough without dying and shooting the npc that comes up for it to get you lp. You do get lp from killing people on the other side of the war as well. You can also do Npc missions in lowsec for a lot of lp (level 4s being the most lucrative). Similar to mission running, you turn in lp to get items to sell for money.

Links: 

• Defensive Plexing: https://youtu.be/SU6P6hccom8?t=7s 
• Offensive Plexing: https://youtu.be/nR_rVkdeLfQ?t=16s 
• Guide to Lp conversion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnv4eW9hwP0 
• Full tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOwPv9Y7TBQ 
• Eve Uni FacWar: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Factional_Warfare
• Eve survival Guides: http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=FactionalWarfareGuides 
• LP Store: https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/lpstore 

• Station trading: One of the more difficult and boring but ludicrously profitable methods of making money in eve online. Station trading is the act of buying and selling items and ships with the intention of making a profit. Please also see the market section of this document.

Links:

• Eve uni Station trading explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-DKtrJXOR8 
• Station Trading 101: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI8EyalC1J4 
• EVE for billionaires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMwKa9UjeaA 
• Simple Market tip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw_zG-9piig 

• Ratting in anomalies: An Anomaly, simply put, is anything that can be scanned down or warped to directly in space. Usually there are NPCs to shoot there, but not always. Different types of anomalies do different things. Look up the type of anomaly you want to try ahead of time on EVE survival before entering it so you know what you are getting yourself into. Join the mailing list “PVE 101” for further details.

Links:

• Top 5 questions about ratting in EVE: http://www.tentonhammer.com/guides/five-frequently-asked-questions-about-ratting-in-eve-online 
• Cosmic Anomalies: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Cosmic_Anomalies 
• Nullsec Anomalies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pUTZZV4gc 
• Profitable Combat sites: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1mhqy9/ 
• Ratting 101: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Ratting_101 

• Hauling: Transporting, or “Hauling” items and ships can be profitable if you take contracts and haul for others for isk. You need a ship with a big enough cargohold to do this, though, so hauling professionally is generally done in freighters. Freighters generally have over 1,000,000 m3 (meters cubed, how cargo size is measured) so they can hold quite a lot.

Links:

• Markee Dragon’s hauling guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NjY9aU-uBQ 
• Jump Freighter Hauling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huV9RD8FIx8 
• Space Trucking for Profit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaQaj8CjeSk 
• A Freighter’s guide on how not to get Ganked: https://www.themittani.com/features/freighter-pilots-guide-not-getting-ganked 

• Exploration: A unique and very easy to get into way to make money in eve with very little skill, this is something that is highly recommended for alt characters for new players after a few weeks so they have something to switch back and forth to in case something happens where they can’t do something on their main character. Exploration does not take very many skill points to get started in at least, and can be very profitable if you are lucky. Much of exploration is wormhole focused, but a lot of it is also in known space. Many players love this aspect of the game so much it is almost all they do.

Links:

Exploration tutorials:

• Wormholes 101: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXiqpglBw_s&list=PLC09EB7E88FB25E5E&index=20 
• Making money through exploration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSpIw7x3QEE 

• How to do exploration in eve playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-drWM1tzV4&list=PLeoQW9teD29NfugYP5ZieZbEQ8HHyxopt
• What kind of ship to start out with https://www.themittani.com/features/guide-become-eve-explorer-48-hours?nopaging=1
• Eve university guide to what exploration is http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Exploration 
• Top 10 things to know about wormholes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_eRP3NwACg 
• Wormhole tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDmLrjIUwNo 

• Living in wormhole space: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Living_in_Wormhole_Space 
• How to make Bookmarks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0jodqAZ8U&list=PLC09EB7E88FB25E5E 

Wormhole tools:

• Everything wormholes: http://wormholes.info/wordpress/links/

• Wormhol.es: http://wh.pasta.gg/ 
• Wormhole types: http://www.ellatha.com/eve/wormholelist.asp 
• Siggy: https://siggy.borkedlabs.com
• Eveeye: https://eveeye.com/?opt=I&x=l&system=Jita

• Industry: Industry(and manufacturing) is EVE online’s crafting. You essentially make modules, ammo, drones, and ships with blueprints using materials. This can be anything from minerals mined from asteroids, to algae scooped off of a planet. It’s a long and complicated process, but if done correctly it’s a good way to make money. Also see the links at the bottom of the document regarding industry and manufacturing, as well as the PI(planetary interaction) section.
• Side note: Be careful of CODE. and other gankers while mining in hisec(and anyone else anywhere else). They will try and blow you up in hisec and bully you into paying them to go away.

                                                                                                                                                  Links:

• Mining Career Training playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aDLzx5c1EE&list=PLeoQW9teD29OAPrjk31ajkjgTw9-2-YBs 

• EVE Uni’s industry overview: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Industry_Overview 
• Industry Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbEY7xC88I 
• Ore mining Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs7Y7Cd0q1I 
• Mining and reprocessing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbEi_zSRsFI 

• Mercenary contracts: If you are good enough at pvp, someone may hire you to wardec and harass someone else, or to hunt down a specific player. Entire wars have been fought on behalf of others via mercenaries. For example, the infamous World War Bee was started by IWantIsk (a gambling site) that paid a ton of players to harass SMA for various reasons that are beyond this document. Suffice to say, this is a viable option, but not an easy one to get a consistent source of income.

• Pirating: Yoho me hearties! There be booty to be got! In all seriousness though, this is a viable source of money, but requires you to be decent at pvp. You mostly survive off of the loot you get from destroying player ships. You can also fight someone to the point where you ask them for money to not blow them up (ransoming). You will have a reputation at some point, so be sure to be consistent if you want people to see you as honorable. BE AWARE! If you are a pirate that frequents lowsec, your security status will go down and eventually that character will not be able to access hisec, so be prepared!

Links:

• Art of poor part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kh6L4bmy24 
• Art of Poor part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha-EtIPCfSY 
• Art of Poor Full Lecture: https://youtu.be/_pcabm_U0dM?t=8m29s 

• Gambling: Yes I said it. Gambling. There is gambling in eve online. It is legal in all 50 states since it’s not using real life currency(when people do cross that line, they get shut down). Open the below links in the in game browser and follow the directions they provide. You need to be logged in via the in-game browser to use their services. There is everything from raffles, lotteries, poker, to betting on real life sports games.  See this article by Mynxee for details.

EDIT: Gambling has been banned as of November 8th, 2016 by the EULA changes. Please refer to EVE’s EULA for more information.

Links:

• Eve bet: https://www.eve-bet.com/ 

• IWantIsk: https://iwantisk.com/ 
• Eve Lotteries: http://eve-lotteries.com/ 
• Eve Hold’em Poker: http://www.eohpoker.com/ 

• Project Discovery: Project discovery is a real life science mini game implemented into eve online. You can get the items in the reward store and sell them in contracts in a trade hub or use them for yourself! It can be accessed via your neocom at any time.  

Links:

• Official CCP video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXHV2MMZmQw&feature=youtu.be 
• Guide and examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m63S8Lg0A9s 

• Scamming others: And finally, Scamming. Or as I like to call it, “fishing for stupid”. Almost everyone in the game has fallen for a scam or been inadvertently victimized by one at one point or another. They can come in many forms. The most obvious ones are in the trade hubs local chat. Others might be someone coming into your corporation, getting into a position of power, and stealing all the corp’s stuff(called AWOXing). This is not the nice part of eve. You should never trust anyone with enough of your stuff that they can take it all from you for this very reason.

Links:

• Eve scams: http://iskwatch.blogspot.com/p/eve-scams_08.html 
• Newbie guide to scams: https://www.themittani.com/features/new-players-guide-eves-most-common-scams?nopaging=1 
• Isk scams: http://www.pcgamer.com/isk-scams-eve-online/
• Scamming in EVE: http://www.tentonhammer.com/guides/scamming-in-eve-online 
• EVE Uni guide to scams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FMJ0Fv8RoA&list=PLC09EB7E88FB25E5E&index=21 

Out of Game content

Are there ways to contact players publically out of game? There most certainly are! Other than corp/alliance specific app uses, there is an easy way to communicate with the EVE community via twitter. Just put the #tweetfleet on the tweet when you mean it for the eve community.

There is also a slack channel called “Tweetfleet” that anyone can join after a moderator invites them. There are plenty of Mods you can ask. Please try and contact one of the mods in the list to add you if you are not already on slack.

Links:

• How to use slack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS21MySFvaw 
• Slack: https://tweetfleet.slack.com/ 
• Moderator list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kYlosgbE8q5TWTPC3Ocrjn8snXW-3peTbx-ZtQ2Nujc/edit (scroll down to “Active Moderators”)

Broadcast4Reps

If you are having trouble in real life and need someone to talk to, there is an ingame channel called “Broadcast4Reps”, as well as a channel on slack of the same name. The below link also has plenty of phone numbers and ways to contact people no matter where you are. Please know that you are valuable and appreciated, and there is help out there.

Links:

• List of help sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/eve/wiki/broadcast4reps 

Links for easy reference (in no particular order):

General

• Killboards: www.zkillboards.com

• Everything wormholes: http://wormholes.info/wordpress/links/
• Wormhol.es: http://wh.pasta.gg/ 
• Wormhole types: http://www.ellatha.com/eve/wormholelist.asp 

• Siggy: https://siggy.borkedlabs.com
• Eveeye: https://eveeye.com/?opt=I&x=l&system=Jita
• Dotlan Maps: http://evemaps.dotlan.net/
• Updating sov map: http://sov.space/ 
• Daily updating sov map: http://eve.farlab.org/ 

• Eve tools: http://wiki.eve-id.net/List_of_tools
• Alliance Standings: https://eveskunk.com/s
• NPC Damage chart: http://www.ogrank.com/content/view/698/59/ 
• Pirate’s little helper: http://eve-plh.com/ 

Markets & Manufacturing

• Eve Central: https://eve-central.com/home/market.html
• Gas prices: https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/ore/gas.html
• Ore prices: http://www.eve-calculator.com/mining/income_calculator/gas.html
• Ore Chart: http://eve.grismar.net/ore/
• Ore types: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zeCSAHxRGU&feature=youtu.be 
• Eve Appraisal: http://evepraisal.com/

• Drug manufacturing: http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=3_36&page=4
• Moon Mining: http://privateersconfederacy.yolasite.com/resources/7538853-Eve-Online-Moon-Mining-And-Reactions-Guide.pdf
• Polymers: http://www.eve-guides.com/ui/polymers.php 

Planetary Interaction

• Eve Planets: http://eveplanets.com/
• Pi Commodities: http://picommodityrelations.comyr.com/pi.html

• Resource list: http://www.ellatha.com/eve/resourcelist.asp?cmd=resetall
• POS Fuel: http://eve-space.ru/planetology/planetary_interaction.html
• Alysii’s Pi chart: http://alysii.com/eve/pi/ 

Other

• EVE-Survival: http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReports
• EVE Central: https://eve-central.com/home/market.html 
• Eve Appraisal: http://evepraisal.com/ 
• Damage Types: http://www.ogrank.com/content/view/698/59/
• BattleClinic: http://eve.battleclinic.com/browse_loadouts.php
• Osmium.org: http://o.smium.org/
• Chruker: http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/
• T3 Manufacture: http://www.evemanufacturing.co.uk/manufacturing-guides/t3-manufacturing-guide/
• EVE guide polymers: http://www.eve-guides.com/ui/polymers.php
• Safe spots and tacticals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkOCfuqkMns
• LP Store: https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/lpstore 
• Fleet Broadcasting: http://i.imgur.com/y2kTsOX.png 
• How Contracts work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVu30B5zLKE&index=27&list=PLC09EB7E88FB25E5E 
• EVE Online tropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/EVEOnline 

*But were afraid to ask

Compiled by Anize Oramara

Version 1.2.3

Foreword

**Note: The following missions have been stealth nerfed or changed by CCP some time in 2015 September-ish: Attack of the Drones, Gone Bezerk and Recon 1. No posts, no patch notes and no dev blogs and most importantly no acknowledgement via either bug reports (ignored and closed) or forum posts (locked). Why I do not know, nor have I been able to find out. Regardless it doesn’t make a difference to this guide or blitzing in general. It just pisses me off.**

With the introduction of Burner missions to Lv4 mission agents it has become somewhat trivial to consistently make well in excess of 200million isk per hour with just a little bit of training and preparation. This can be done on a single, well trained character in the relative safety of Hi-Sec, indefinitely.

This short guide is here to help you gain the knowledge on how to do it, and maybe a bit of an explanation around the mechanics so that you can easily adapt the processes found in the guide to your own situation. I can’t guarantee results if you deviate from the guide but I encourage you to experiment. This is only one way of doing this after all.

In particular I would like you to review the thread below on the Eve-o Forums. Most of what I know came initially from there and the extremely helpful chaps. Thanks to everyone I stole and borrowed fits from as well.

Quick Link to Burner Video Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzPaTWMzXCo22oa2tCmjlc9JHcyxNM_VA

Contents

1. Requirements

1.1. Standings

1.2. Skills

1.3. ISK

1.3.1. Implants

1.3.2. Ships

2. Missions

2.1 Standard lv4 Missions (Blitzable)

2.1 Burners

3. The Pay-out

Appendix A: Ship Fits

A.1. Machariel

A.2. Daredevil – Angel Agent

A.3. Daredevil – Sansha Agent

A.4. Daredevil – Gurista Agent

A.5. Wolf – Blood Agent

A.6. Garmur – All Team Burners

A.7. Hawk – Serpentis Agent

A.8. Vigilant – Angel Base

A.9. Vagabond – Serpentis Base

A.10. Orthrus – Blood Base

A.11. Barghest – Lv4 Blitzer

Appendix B: Sample Skill plan

Appendix C: Thanks and Version Info

1. Requirements

**Note: With the introduction of Skill injectors a player with a modest initial isk investment can create a hi-sec mission running alt quite quickly and be running these missions as soon as the required standings have been farmed up. Alternatively a well established character with a solid skill foundation can be used. The better your support skills the easier it will be to quickly move into burner missions as well as grind out that initial standings. That said this guide does cater for brand new pilots, check out the skill plan at the end.

To that end we will look at the following:

– Standings

– Skills
– Isk (Ships and Implants)

1.1. Standings

Standings requirements for Lv4s:
– Faction or Corp Effective Standings: 5+
– Agent Effective Standings: Higher than -2
– Effective Security standings: High enough to get into most Hi-Sec systems, depending on where you mission.

Here is a short explanation of why this whole exercise works in the first place; because of how agent and faction standings work and the requirements for running lv4s you only need to be over effective standings of 5 with either the Faction or the Corporation you want to run missions with. Additionally your agent standings need to be above -2 or they won’t talk to you.

Now there are two mechanics that make it possible to decline successive missions so you can cherry-pick only the good ones. The first is that the lower your standing, the smaller the effect of a decline and conversely the lower your standings the bigger the effect of any successful missions. Yes if you decline enough missions without completing any you will eventually get to -2 agent standings. However you will find with the proper skills that you’ll hover around 3 standings with the agent. Standings might go down to 0 after a long string of missions that you decline but will quickly shoot back up to 5 or higher after just a few successive good missions. The second mechanic comes in that while Corp standings goes up and down by a large amount every time you complete or decline/fail a mission(similar to agent standings), you can substitute that standing with Faction standings.

Faction standings is not affected by completing a normal or burner lv4 mission, however there is a very small negative impact every time you decline a non burner mission (the first one every 4 hours is free). To gain Faction standings you run Storyline missions primarily, or a couple of other ways like cosmos or tag missions (check out the guide called ‘The Plan’ by DMC for more details). You get Storyline missions every 16 lv4 missions you complete, including burners, for a specific corporation. Depending on the mission the standings gain might be anywhere from decent to very large (15%+) and you will easily cover any faction standing losses by running even just a third of the storyline missions you receive. You tend to rack up a lot of Storyline missions in a very short time due to how fast you are completing missions simply due to how blitzing works.

These two mechanics taken together means you can almost (but not quite) decline every single lv4 missions and only run burners with the occasional storyline. Just keep an eye on your agent standing and supplement it with blitzing the odd ‘The Assault’ or ‘Pirate Invasion’ with your trusty Machariel or Barghest.

1.2. Skills

Zora Aran was kind enough to set up/host a skill plan at this link:

I scanned it over and it looks pretty solid so I’m posting it as is. It’s for the Machariel + burners blitzing so some modification might be needed if you want to go for the Barghest. Thanks a bunch Zora!

A character capable of achieving the desired 200million+ ISK per hour mark comfortably would need around 22 to 25 million skill points, or about one year’s worth of focussed training. However a wide range of skills are used, almost all of it universally useful and in fact probably most of it already trained on your average Lv4 mission runner or PvP combat pilot.

The exact training order for the skills would be heavily dependent on what has already been trained but the Social related skills and the skills for a Machariel blitz fit ship should be the first priority. After that any low hanging fruit should be prioritized to get started on burners as quickly as possible. Check the appendix for a sample skill training plan. The progression is relatively simple, aiming to get into a Blitzing armour tanked Machariel capable of running the required missions and then transitioning into the armour based burner fits, the missile based burner fits and then the shield and cruiser burners.

1.3. ISK

Estimated isk investment: Between 5 to 7 billion isk for implants and ships. To jump from the starting SP to a character that can run all burners you will need around 50 skill injectors or roughly 32 billion isk worth.

As the old saying goes, can’t make money without spending money, and this is all too true in this case. Now unless you’re a really old character than has all the skills and standings already available, you won’t need (or even can make use of) all of the assets that you’d buy with that ISK so don’t panic quite yet at the large bill.

A breakdown of what you’ll be spending this isk on:
– 2-4 billion: Implants
– 3 billion: 9-10 ships with fits for Lv4s and burners.

Starting out you will only need the Machariel or Barghest, around a 700mill investment, and as you work on your faction standings you will build up the capital for the other ships as well as the Hi-Grade implants.

1.3.1. Implants

The first 6 slots are relatively straightforward. Depending on the initial ISK available either a Mid-Grade or High-Grade Ascendancy set is required. As will be explained in the ship section these implants greatly boost your warp speed, not only in the Machariel but in every single ship you’ll be flying, and there will be quite a few of them.

A note on the Omega implant; it is by far the biggest single cost item you will buy and for the Mid-Grade set is completely pointless. There is a far better warp speed implant available for far cheaper that should be used instead, namely the “Eifyr and Co. ‘Rogue’ Warp Drive Speed WS-615”. For the High-Grade set the Omega is a slight improvement but will probably double your implant cost alone and requires a lengthy Cybernetics 5 train. If you have the skill and the ISK it’d be worth it but for the purposes of this guide we’ll stick with the normal warp speed implant.

Other implants that I’ve found to be incredibly useful is the “Zainou ‘Deadeye’ Missile Projection MP-705” for increased range on the Hawk, Garmur, Orthrus/Onyx and Barghest fits and make up for not quite perfect projection skills. The “Zor’s Custom Navigation Hyper-Link” is great for the Machariel/Barghest as well as two of the Daredevil fits that make use of an AB or a MWD. The remaining two is up to the player however “Zainou ‘Snapshot’ Rockets RD-905” is an immense help on the Garmur and Hawk in particular and the “Eifyr and Co. ‘Gunslinger’ Large Projectile Turret LP-1005” makes a great addition to the Machariel.

1.3.2. Ships

Quick description of why and how this works from a warp speed perspective. More than 50% of your time running missions is spent in space, warping from one system to the next or from one acceleration gate to the next. Ship characteristics that effect this is align time and warp speed. The higher your maximum warp speed the faster your ship accelerates to that speed. The same is true for the deceleration although that is capped at a lower speed. Not only that, but most blitzing missions have a relatively small group of ships that need to be killed to trigger mission completion.

So this is where the Machariel, and the implants covered in the previous section, come in. The Machariel has a role bonus that increases warp speed by 50%, giving it a whopping 3 AU/s BASE warp speed, the same speed as T1 cruisers. The important part here is it modifies the BASE speed, so this dictates how strongly both the Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II Rigs and the Ascendency implants affect the max warp speed. With a full set of implants and the Rigs the Mach will be able to out warp even T2 frigates (interceptors notwithstanding) and have a huge impact on mission completion times.

Qualities that make the Machariel the premier blitzing ship:

• Aforementioned role bonus to Warp Speed
• Excellent range (70km+ falloff)
• Short range weapon tracking
• One of the best align times and great agility in general
• High base sub-warp speed
• Great fitting characteristics
• Utility high
• Large drone bay/bandwidth
• Very high base DPS (well over 1k dps)
• Decent variety of selectable damage

All of this makes for a ship perfectly suited to blitzing lv4 missions.

Barghest

I’ve been running the Barghest in place of the Machariel for a while and all around it’s turned out to be an excellent and surprisingly viable alternative to the Machariel. The skill requirements to really make it work is a bit steeper in some ways although Cruise missiles are in fact not required at all and I’ll explain why in the comparison section. I’ll do a similar list to the above for the Barghest.

Qualities that make the Barghest a viable Blitzing alternative:

• Better range than the Machariel (90km+) Allowing it to start hitting ships for full damage sooner
• No range falloff on damage
• No Tracking issues
• Pure damage type selection
• Align time only .5s slower than Machariel
• Better scan resolution than Machariel
• Can dedicate all 3 rigs to Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizers without compromising damage application
• Very High burst damage, a bit higher than Machariel in fact
• Sustained dps (Reloads on the RHML) it still quite high
• Just under 1k DPS with reloads but better application due to Missile Guidance modules.
• Two utility high slots
• Amazing damage mitigation due to being able to go full MWD and apply full damage.

This means the Barghest is slightly better in some missions while slightly worse in others.

Cruise vs RHML

It turns out actually that there is no point in fitting cruise missiles to the Barghest, except perhaps for Angels Pirate Invasion. A few numbers to illustrate why: Fit is the one in this guide and skills are at all V

Cruise Fury will actually lose a decent amount of dps even on some BS rats, not to mention cruisers or battlecruisers and a few missions do actually have frigates (Serpentis Assault comes to mind) so those are out. Caldari Navy actually has really good stats and would make a good weapon system until you look at the RHML and the fact that the dps with reloads is less than 30dps while the burst dps is a whopping 260 dps higher. This is very useful for missions like The Rogue Slave Trader 1 and 2 and Stop the Thief. Even better is that it gives you the option to fit faction Heavies for Serpentis Assault.

In the 2nd room there are 4 scramming frigates. Normally in the Machariel you would need to MWD away to around 30km from the Frigates, blap them and then MWD back to the acceleration gate. Fitting the Faction Heavy missiles you can quickly and easily kill them while slowboating towards the Acceleration Gate, killing only the ones actively scramming and then taking the gate (Reloading to Fury while doing so for the last room).

Basically you get the DPS of Faction cruise but with better application and the potential for Frig blapping AND high Burst.  

2. Missions

For the purposes of this guide, there are two types of Level 4 missions you will want to blitz: ‘Standard’ and ‘Burner’.

2.1 Standard lv4 Missions (Blitzable)

Blitzable level 4 missions share some common characteristics:

• They generally spawn close to your agent’s system
• You only have a few ships to kill
• All gates are unlocked and / or easily bypassed
• Easy-to-complete mission triggers

The missions in the below list are all best run with either the Machariel, Barghest or a fast frigate. For the initial Standings grind you will have to accept and run most of the missions.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT : Once your faction, corp, and agent standings are at the required levels, wdecline any mission that is not on the list below. Even then, so long as you monitor your standings, you can often skip some of these missions as well.

You will not achieve the advertised 200mill ISK/h if you do every Blockade or Angel Extravaganza that shakes it’s bounty at you.

Missions are listed in rough order of profitability. (Most profitable top)

For more information on these missions, go to the Eve Survival Mission Reports. Be aware, however, that some of the information there may be outdated or missing.

Once you are running most or all of the burner missions you will find you only need to run very few of these missions to maintain a positive agent standings. This means you can eventually decline most of the above missions as well and only run the occasional one. However Recon 1 and Dread Pirate Scarlet are both missions you should always run. The Assault and Pirate Invasion are both acceptable as well once you get T2 Guns for the Machariel or are using a Polarised Vargur.

2.1 Burners

Burner missions are generally intense and short fights. To run them in a timely manner, you’ll need good skills, shiny fits, and over-heating.

Since this guide is focused on maximizing the speed at which you can run missions, the fits in the appendix are generally considered to be some of the most efficient fits possible.

You will find similar fits on the forum, although some may have seen some modification based on trial-and-error. There are also possible alternative fits, but the skill list provided in this guide doesn’t guarantee you can fly any fit not listed in the appendix.

Expect to lose a few burner ships before you get fully comfortable with burner missions. However, once you have experience and are comfortable with burners, you should only have the occasional ship loss. (Usually due to either a lapse of attention or a closed socket.) This is simply the nature of burners (and the game).

The pay out for burner missions is well worth it, though, ranging from anywhere between 35 to 50 million per 6-10 minute run.

In the appendix, every possible burner mission[*1] is listed. For each burner mission, three pieces of information will be provided:

• An appropriate fit
• A short description of exactly how to run it
• What to have in your cargo hold

Remember to repair heat damage after every fight and whatever you do, don’t forget the cap charges or drones!

[1]: The Gurista Base (Super Carrier) burner mission is currently not a mission you should run. Hence, there is no fit for it in this guide. (It takes over 30 minutes to run, even with a blinged fit. It is never worth running, even if it had max payout.)

3. The Pay-out

Ah finally the reason why you’re even reading this in the first place, that magical 200mill+ per hour income. How this is accomplished is quite simple; a combination of raw isk rewards/bounties combined with the insane amount of LP given out by burner missions. Each burner Agent and Team is worth 5mill bounty as well as another 5-6mill ISK reward. Burner bases are worth between 15mill (Blood) to 20mill (Angel and Serpentis) in bounties, with the Ashimu dropping an additional 2-3mill in guaranteed loot in the Blood Base. All Burners except for the Blood and Gurista Base currently pay out over 14k LP in a .5 system with Security Connections trained to 5.

The real magic however comes in with the LP and who the Corporation is you’re getting the LP with. Sisters of Eve is currently the best Corp to run missions for and Lanngisi is the best SOE system to run missions in. The spawn location of most missions is 1 or 2 jumps away (including burners) with very few spawning in LS or more than 3 jumps away. The system itself is also a very low .5 truesec so it has a very high LP and ISK payout.

The best items to trade your LP in for is SOE Probe launchers (both kinds) as well as Stratios BPCs. Probes and Asteros also have good ISK/LP ratios but can fluctuate more than the other items, sometimes very much in your favor. Generally you’re looking around anywhere between 1600ISK to 1800ISK per LP. There have been spikes in the price of these items and the market seemingly has an insatiable appetite for these items. There can also be dips so make sure you check your conversion rate.

That is not to say there aren’t other corporations with extremely well paying items in their LP stores. There’s plenty of 5-run BPCs or other faction items that you can easily turn a good profit on. It all depends on how much effort the player is willing to put into the market/research side of things.

Appendix A: Ship Fits

I would like to stress again that there are many alternative fits, including cheap fits that are not listed here. I have found these fits to be the most effective for me. Expect to lose a few of the burner fits.

A.1. Machariel

[Machariel, Blitz Machariel – Meta 4 Guns]

Gyrostabilizer II

Gyrostabilizer II

Gyrostabilizer II

Gyrostabilizer II

Centus C-Type Large Armor Repairer

Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II

Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II

Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script

Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script

Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script

Shadow Serpentis 500MN Microwarpdrive

Heavy Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Cap Booster 800

800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Republic Fleet EMP L

800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Republic Fleet EMP L

800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Republic Fleet EMP L

800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Republic Fleet EMP L

800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Republic Fleet EMP L

800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Republic Fleet EMP L

800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Republic Fleet EMP L

Small Tractor Beam I

Large Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II

Large Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II

Large Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II

Caldari Navy Warden x4

Hobgoblin II x5

In Cargo:

• One of each T2 Armor hardener
• 2k Ammo of; RF EMP, RF Phased Plasma, RF Fusion (Barrage and Hail if using T2 guns).
• Cap Charges 800
• 3 Tracking scripts
• Gate Key (Dread Pirate Scarlet)

In station:

• 4 Navy Curators
• Reports (buyable from NPCs for 27 isk each)

Some people do use a second 1400 Arty fit Machariel specifically for Dread Pirate scarlet. Using this fit allows you to bag an extra 5mill ISK per run. I will leave this up to each player to decide for themselves if it is worth the extra effort.

An alternative fit to the above replaces the cap booster with a sensor booster. None of the blitzing missions technically require a Cap booster but it is a good ‘just in case’ to have. It is also required for the initial standings grind and even replacing a Gyro with a reactive armour hardener or DCU II will not go amiss. Another alternative would be a MJD purely to escape NPC warp disruptors though again, not something you should be running into much, if at all. Feel free to add Faction Gyro’s and T2 guns if you the skills.

A.2. Daredevil – Angel Agent

[Daredevil, ‘Unified’ Burner Dramiel – Daredevil]

[Daredevil, Angel Agent]

Centii A-Type Small Armor Repairer

Core B-Type Armor EM Hardener

Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

Centus B-Type Armor Explosive Hardener

Stasis Webifier II

Small Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Cap Booster 25

Stasis Webifier II

Light Neutron Blaster II, Antimatter Charge S

[empty high slot]

Light Neutron Blaster II, Antimatter Charge S

Small Auxiliary Nano Pump II

Small Nanobot Accelerator I

Small Auxiliary Nano Pump I

A.3. Daredevil – Sansha Agent

[Daredevil, ‘Unified’ Burner Succubus – Ion Daredevil]

Corpii A-Type Small Armor Repairer

Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

Core B-Type Armor EM Hardener

Coreli A-Type 1MN Afterburner

Small Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Navy Cap Booster 400

Federation Navy Stasis Webifier

Light Ion Blaster II, Void S

[empty high slot]

Light Ion Blaster II, Void S

Small Auxiliary Nano Pump II

Small Auxiliary Nano Pump I

Small Nanobot Accelerator I

In cargo:

• Navy cap booster 400
• 1k Void S

Unified burner; you will notice that these two fits share most modules as well as all rigs. Just swap out mods for either Dramiel or Succubus depending on the mission you need to run and save on an extra ship if you want.

For Dramiel Mission: OH Explosive Hardener and Guns. Keep at range 1.5km. Activate Hardeners, Rep and Webs. Once within 3km activate Guns. Activate Cap Booster once cap is low.

For Succubus Mission: OH EM Hardener, Afterburner, Web(1 cycle) and Guns. Keep at range 1km. Activate Hardeners, Rep, Web and AB. Once within 3KM turn off OH on AB and activate Guns. Activate Cap Booster once cap is low.

A.4. Daredevil – Gurista Agent

[Daredevil, Burner Worm – Daredevil]

Corpii A-Type Small Armor Repairer

Shadow Serpentis Armor Kinetic Hardener

Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

Core B-Type Armor Kinetic Hardener

Coreli A-Type 5MN Microwarpdrive

Small Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Navy Cap Booster 400

Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I

Light Neutron Blaster II, Void S

[empty high slot]

Light Neutron Blaster II, Void S

Small Auxiliary Thrusters II

Small Auxiliary Thrusters I

Small Ancillary Current Router I

In cargo:

• Navy cap booster 400
• 1k Void S

For Worm Mission: OH both armour hardeners, Warp Scram(1 cycle) and Guns. OH MWD for 1 cycle ONLY(Optional). Keep at range 1.5km. Activate all tank modules. Once within 10km activate Scram and deactivate MWD. Once within 3km activate Guns and turn off OH on Shadow Serpentis Armor Kinetic Hardener and scram. Activate Cap Booster once cap is low.

A.5. Wolf – Blood Agent

[Wolf, Burner Cruor – Wolf]

Republic Fleet Gyrostabilizer

Republic Fleet Gyrostabilizer

Tracking Enhancer II

Coreli A-Type Small Armor Repairer

Energized thermal Membrane II

Stasis Webifier II

Small Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Navy Cap Booster 200

200mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Fusion S

200mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Fusion S

Small Nosferatu II

200mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Fusion S

200mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Fusion S

Small Anti-thermal Pump II

Small Auxiliary Nano Pump II

In Cargo:

• Navy Cap Booster 200
• RF Fusion S

For Cruor Mission: Activate web and guns. I tend to keep at range 100km (Anything over 10km is fine) to help reduce transversal for your guns. As soon as you activate the cap booster, activate armour rep. OH Cap booster if tank is having trouble keeping up. Only OH guns at 25% armor.

[Wolf, Burner Cruor – Wolf alternative fit]

Gyrostabilizer II

Gyrostabilizer II

Gyrostabilizer II

Coreli A-Type Small Armor Repairer

Coreli A-Type thermal Plating

Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I

Small Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Navy Cap Booster 400

200mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Fusion S

200mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Fusion S

‘Arbalest’ Rocket Launcher I, Caldari Navy Nova Rocket

200mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Fusion S

200mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Fusion S

Small Anti-thermal Pump II

Small Auxiliary Nano Pump II

In Cargo:

• Navy Cap Booster 400
• RF Fusion S
• Caldari Navy Nova Rockets

OH the Armor repper when you activate cap booster and armor repper. It will help get the most out of the cap charge.

A.6. Garmur – All Team Burners

Team Burners are back to the normal behaviour and can be brute forced with the DPS Garmur. I will keep the ECM garmur fit up as an alternative. Due to some Ganking activity, see the cheap alternative fit below.

[Garmur, Team Burner T2]

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Missile Guidance Computer II, Missile Range Script

Missile Guidance Computer II, Missile Range Script

5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive

Phased Scoped Target Painter

Polarized Rocket Launcher, Caldari Navy Nova Rocket

Polarized Rocket Launcher, Caldari Navy Nova Rocket

Polarized Rocket Launcher, Caldari Navy Nova Rocket

Small Hydraulic Bay Thrusters II

Small Rocket Fuel Cache Partition II

Small Warhead Flare Catalyst I

Caldari Navy Mjolnir Rocket x2220

Caldari Navy Inferno Rocket x2787

Caldari Navy Scourge Rocket x4000

Caldari Navy Nova Rocket x2267

In cargo

• 2K of each Caldari Navy Mjolnir, Javelin Mjolnir, Inferno, Nova and Scourge Rockets.

Use the following ammo for the specific rats:

Hawk, Bantam, Burst: Mjolnir

Enyo, Navitas, Inquisitor: Nova

Vengeance: Inferno

Jaguar: Scourge

Orbit at 20km for the Hawk, Enyo and Vengenace

Orbit at 25km for the Jaguar

Kill 1 logi then focus on the burner for Hawk, Enyo

Kill one or two Logi then focus on burner for Jaguar (DPS dependent). Use Javelin Mjolnir if you need range against Logi

Kill both logi then focus on burner for Vengeance

Cheap Alternative

[Garmur, Team Burner]

Ballistic Control System II

Ballistic Control System II

Co-Processor II

Missile Guidance Computer II

Phased Scoped Target Painter

5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive

Missile Guidance Computer II

Polarized Rocket Launcher

Polarized Rocket Launcher

Polarized Rocket Launcher

Small Rocket Fuel Cache Partition II

Small Hydraulic Bay Thrusters II

Small Warhead Flare Catalyst I

Caldari Navy Mjolnir Rocket x3000

Caldari Navy Inferno Rocket x1183

Caldari Navy Nova Rocket x2491

Caldari Navy Scourge Rocket x5632

Mjolnir Javelin Rocket x842

In cargo

• 2K of each Caldari Navy Mjolnir, Inferno, Nova and Scourge Rockets.
• Precision Script

A.7. Hawk – Serpentis Agent

[Hawk, Burner Daredevil – Hawk]

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Ballistic Control System II

Pithum C-Type Medium Shield Booster

Small Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Navy Cap Booster 400

Dread Guristas Stasis Webifier

Dread Guristas Stasis Webifier

Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron

Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Rocket

[empty high slot]

Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Rocket

Small Bay Loading Accelerator II

Small Warhead Rigor Catalyst I

In Cargo:

• 2k Caldari Navy Scourge Rockets
• Navy Cap Booster 400

For Daredevil Burner: Always keep Cap booster and Target painter OH at all times. Run Shield Booster at all times. Activate both webs. I tend to keep at range 10km or you can try orbiting at 14km. Reactivate any modules that go offline. Be careful of Heat on weapons. Be very mindful of range as it is quite sensitive if you don’t have enough. If your range is good you should be able to start overheating as soon as you get through the shields and end up with around 12 or so rockets left.

[Hawk, Serpentis Agent]

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Federation Navy Stasis Webifier

Pithum C-Type Medium Shield Booster

‘Micro’ Cap Battery

Federation Navy Stasis Webifier

Small Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I

Rocket Launcher II

Rocket Launcher II

125mm Railgun II

Rocket Launcher II

Rocket Launcher II

Small Bay Loading Accelerator II

Small Warhead Rigor Catalyst I

In cargo:

• Caldari Navy Uranium Charge S x1000
• Navy Cap Booster 400 x22
• Caldari Navy Scourge Rocket x2000

Alternative build for hIgh skilled pilots. If TP is not giving additional damage application switch to this fit. Makes full use of cap booster 400s so you won’t have to overheat the cap booster.

A.8. Vigilant – Angel Base

[Vigilant, Burner Angel – Vigilant]

Medium Armor Repairer II

Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II

Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

Armor Explosive Hardener II

Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

Armor Explosive Hardener II

Medium Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Cap Booster 800

Stasis Webifier II

Stasis Webifier II

Stasis Webifier II

Heavy Neutron Blaster II, Void M

Heavy Neutron Blaster II, Void M

Heavy Neutron Blaster II, Void M

Heavy Neutron Blaster II, Void M

Heavy Neutron Blaster II, Void M

Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump II

Medium Anti-EM Pump II

Medium Nanobot Accelerator I

Hornet I x5

Hornet I x5

In Cargo:

• Mobile Depo and Tractor Unit
• Cap booster 800
• Void M
• 50mn Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive

For Angel Base Burner: OH Both Hardeners and Weapons. Lock all Dramiels and deploy MTU and Depo. Web only when Dramiel is orbiting at +- 3km. Launch Hornets. Once first two Dramiels are dead turn off OH on hardeners. Activate Cap Booster when low. Once all 4 Dramiels are dead refit 50mn MWD and pick up Depo and MTU. Kill transport.

A.9. Vagabond – Serpentis Base

[Vagabond, Burner Talos – Vagabond]

Gyrostabilizer II

Gyrostabilizer II

Gyrostabilizer II

Overdrive Injector System II

Damage Control II

Shadow Serpentis 50MN Microwarpdrive

Pith X-Type Kinetic Deflection Field

Pith C-Type Large Shield Booster

Medium Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Cap Booster 800

425mm AutoCannon II, Hail M

425mm AutoCannon II, Hail M

220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, Hail M

[empty high slot]

425mm AutoCannon II, Hail M

425mm AutoCannon II, Hail M

Medium Core Defense Capacitor Safeguard II

Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer II

Hobgoblin II x5

In Cargo:

• Hail M
• Cap Booster 800

For Serpentis Base Burner: Activate DCU and Hardener. Manually approach nearest Talos at an angle with MWD on. Once at range 60km Orbit Talos at 6km. Once within 20km turn off MWD and launch drones. Pulse Shield Booster as needed. If Talos aggressed on drones approach to 3km. Pull drones just before Burner dies. Loot and move to next Burner with the same procedure. Try to stay at least 10 km from sentry turrets. Remember to loot the Taloses, they can drop up to 250mill+ drops and do so more regularly than other burners.

If you have the skills, slitting in a meta 4 or T2 rocket launcher in the free high slot using Nova Rage ammo adds a little bit of punch.

A.10. Orthrus – Blood Base

[Orthrus, Ashimu Burner – Orthrus]

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Damage Control II

Caldari Navy Large Shield Extender

Caldari Navy Large Shield Extender

X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster, Navy Cap Booster 400

Pithum B-Type EM Ward Amplifier

Pithum B-Type EM Ward Amplifier

Rapid Light Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Light Missile

Rapid Light Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Light Missile

Rapid Light Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Light Missile

Small Tractor Beam I

Rapid Light Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Light Missile

Rapid Light Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Light Missile

Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer II

Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I

Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer II

Hornet I x5

[Onyx, Safer Alternative Ashimu Burner – Onyx]

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Missile Guidance Enhancer II

Pithum C-Type EM Ward Amplifier

Pithum C-Type EM Ward Amplifier

Shield Boost Amplifier II

X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster

Large Shield Extender II

Large Shield Extender II

Rapid Light Missile Launcher II

Rapid Light Missile Launcher II

Small Tractor Beam II

Rapid Light Missile Launcher II

Rapid Light Missile Launcher II

Rapid Light Missile Launcher II

Medium Warhead Calefaction Catalyst II

Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer II

In Cargo:

• 1k Caldari Navy Scourge Light Missile
• 1k Scourge Fury Light Missile
• Max Navy Cap Booster 400

For Blood Base Burner: Wait for Sentinels to orbit player so you can apply full damage with RLML using Caldari Navy Scourge. Keep transversal on Ashimu by orbiting at 13km. Once Sentinels are dead load Scourge Fury and target Ashimu. Use tractor beam to pull in wrecks as cap becomes available.

A.11. Barghest – Lv4 Blitzer

[Barghest, Blitzer Alternative]

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

Ballistic Control System II

Missile Guidance Enhancer II

Missile Guidance Enhancer II

Shadow Serpentis 500MN Microwarpdrive

Sensor Booster II, Scan Resolution Script

Missile Guidance Computer II, Missile Precision Script

Pith C-Type X-Large Shield Booster

Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Heavy Missile

Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Heavy Missile

Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Heavy Missile

Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Heavy Missile

Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Heavy Missile

Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Heavy Missile

Drone Link Augmentor II

Small Tractor Beam II

Large Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II

Large Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II

Large Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II

Hammerhead II x5

Hobgoblin II x5

In Cargo:

• One of each T2 Shield hardener
• 2k Fury Ammo of; Scourge, Mjolnir, Inferno and Nova.
• 2k Caldari Navy Inferno
• Gate Key (Dread Pirate Scarlet)

After testing the Barghest with T2 Fury missiles and close to max skills it is definitely a viable alternative to the Machariel.

As per the Machariel fit, a Heavy Cap booster can be fitted (though the drone link augmentor will need to be offlined) in case you’d rather want the panic button. This though is not so much of an issue because being able to kite the rats well outside of their range due to missile projection.

Appendix B: Sample Skill plan

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vcnzq0nrs5iya76/Blitzing.emp?dl=0 Courtesy of Zora Aran.

This skill plan has all the skills required to fly every single one of the fits listed in this guide. It is just under/over 1y of training depending on implants and if you use remaps or not. It is mostly optimised for a new player and corresponds with the order that I listed the ship fits in. If anyone is willing to host the Evemon Plan file for this let me know.

1. Cybernetics II

2. Cybernetics III

3. Cybernetics IV

4. Minmatar Destroyer I

5. Minmatar Destroyer II

6. Minmatar Destroyer III

7. Minmatar Cruiser I

8. Medium Projectile Turret I

9. Minmatar Cruiser II

10. Medium Projectile Turret II

11. Minmatar Cruiser III

12. Medium Projectile Turret III

13. Repair Systems IV

14. Hull Upgrades IV

15. Kinetic Armor Compensation I

16. Kinetic Armor Compensation II

17. thermal Armor Compensation I

18. thermal Armor Compensation II

19. EM Armor Compensation I

20. EM Armor Compensation II

21. Explosive Armor Compensation I

22. Explosive Armor Compensation II

23. Kinetic Armor Compensation III

24. Kinetic Armor Compensation IV

25. Repair Systems V

26. Minmatar Battlecruiser I

27. Minmatar Battlecruiser II

28. Minmatar Battlecruiser III

29. Drones V

30. Long Range Targeting II

31. Long Range Targeting III

32. Signature Analysis II

33. Signature Analysis III

34. Signature Analysis IV

35. Target Management II

36. Target Management III

37. Target Management IV

38. Capacitor Management IV

39. Capacitor Systems Operation IV

40. Weapon Upgrades III

41. Weapon Upgrades IV

42. Energy Grid Upgrades II

43. Energy Grid Upgrades III

44. Energy Grid Upgrades IV

45. Sharpshooter III

46. Rapid Firing III

47. Motion Prediction III

48. Surgical Strike II

49. Surgical Strike III

50. Trajectory Analysis II

51. Trajectory Analysis III

52. Drone Interfacing I

53. Drone Interfacing II

54. Drone Interfacing III

55. Drone Durability II

56. Drone Durability III

57. Drone Avionics I

58. Drone Avionics II

59. Drone Avionics III

60. Drone Navigation I

61. Drone Navigation II

62. Drone Navigation III

63. Drone Sharpshooting I

64. Drone Sharpshooting II

65. Drone Sharpshooting III

66. Light Drone Operation I

67. Light Drone Operation II

68. Light Drone Operation III

69. Light Drone Operation IV

70. Rapid Firing IV

71. Motion Prediction IV

72. Surgical Strike IV

73. Sharpshooter IV

74. Trajectory Analysis IV

75. Drone Interfacing IV

76. Light Drone Operation V

77. Gallente Drone Specialization I

78. Gallente Drone Specialization II

79. Gallente Drone Specialization III

80. thermal Armor Compensation III

81. thermal Armor Compensation IV

82. EM Armor Compensation III

83. EM Armor Compensation IV

84. Explosive Armor Compensation III

85. Explosive Armor Compensation IV

86. Gunnery V

87. Spaceship Command IV

88. Large Projectile Turret I

89. Minmatar Battleship I

90. Large Projectile Turret II

91. Minmatar Battleship II

92. Large Projectile Turret III

93. Minmatar Battleship III

94. Drone Sharpshooting IV

95. Sentry Drone Interfacing I

96. Sentry Drone Interfacing II

97. Sentry Drone Interfacing III

98. Hull Upgrades V

99. Gallente Frigate I

100. Gallente Frigate II

101. Gallente Frigate III

102. Gallente Destroyer I

103. Gallente Destroyer II

104. Gallente Destroyer III

105. Gallente Cruiser I

106. Gallente Cruiser II

107. Gallente Cruiser III

108. Gallente Battlecruiser I

109. Gallente Battlecruiser II

110. Gallente Battlecruiser III

111. Gallente Battleship I

112. Gallente Battleship II

113. Gallente Battleship III

114. Social I

115. Social II

116. Social III

117. Connections I

118. Connections II

119. Connections III

120. Diplomacy I

121. Diplomacy II

122. Diplomacy III

123. Social IV

127. Leadership I

128. Leadership II

129. Leadership III

130. Security Connections I

131. Security Connections II

132. Security Connections III

133. Negotiation I

134. Negotiation II

135. Negotiation III

136. Large Projectile Turret IV

137. Minmatar Battleship IV

138. Gallente Drone Specialization IV

139. Sentry Drone Interfacing IV

140. Security Connections IV

141. Negotiation IV

142. Connections IV

143. Diplomacy IV

145. Gallente Battleship IV

146. Capacitor Systems Operation V

147. Energy Grid Upgrades V

148. CPU Management V

149. Acceleration Control II

150. Acceleration Control III

151. Evasive Maneuvering II

152. Evasive Maneuvering III

153. High Speed Maneuvering II

154. High Speed Maneuvering III

155. Warp Drive Operation II

156. Warp Drive Operation III

157. Evasive Maneuvering IV

158. High Speed Maneuvering IV

159. Navigation IV

160. Navigation V

161. Infomorph Psychology I

162. Infomorph Psychology II

163. Infomorph Psychology III

164. Infomorph Synchronizing I

165. Infomorph Synchronizing II

166. Infomorph Synchronizing III

167. Jury Rigging I

168. Jury Rigging II

169. Jury Rigging III

170. Astronautics Rigging I

171. Astronautics Rigging II

172. Astronautics Rigging III

173. Astronautics Rigging IV

174. Security Connections V

175. Social V

176. Weapon Upgrades V

177. Advanced Weapon Upgrades I

178. Advanced Weapon Upgrades II

179. Advanced Weapon Upgrades III

180. Thermodynamics II

181. Thermodynamics III

182. Thermodynamics IV

183. Armor Rigging I

184. Armor Rigging II

185. Armor Rigging III

186. Armor Rigging IV

187. Small Hybrid Turret I

188. Small Hybrid Turret II

189. Small Hybrid Turret III

190. Small Hybrid Turret IV

191. Small Hybrid Turret V

192. Small Blaster Specialization I

193. Small Blaster Specialization II

194. Small Blaster Specialization III

195. Small Blaster Specialization IV

196. Gallente Frigate IV

197. Minmatar Frigate IV

198. Controlled Bursts II

199. Controlled Bursts III

200. Propulsion Jamming II

201. Propulsion Jamming III

202. Propulsion Jamming IV

203. Controlled Bursts IV

204. Minmatar Frigate V

205. Small Projectile Turret IV

206. Small Projectile Turret V

207. Small Autocannon Specialization I

208. Small Autocannon Specialization II

209. Small Autocannon Specialization III

210. Power Grid Management V

211. Mechanics IV

212. Mechanics V

213. Assault Frigates I

214. Assault Frigates II

215. Assault Frigates III

216. Capacitor Emission Systems I

217. Capacitor Emission Systems II

218. Capacitor Emission Systems III

219. Capacitor Emission Systems IV

220. Small Autocannon Specialization IV

221. Assault Frigates IV

222. Launcher Rigging I

223. Launcher Rigging II

224. Launcher Rigging III

225. Launcher Rigging IV

226. Caldari Frigate I

227. Caldari Frigate II

228. Caldari Frigate III

229. Caldari Frigate IV

230. Missile Launcher Operation II

231. Missile Launcher Operation III

232. Missile Launcher Operation IV

233. Missile Launcher Operation V

234. Rockets I

235. Rockets II

236. Rockets III

237. Rockets IV

238. Rockets V

239. Rocket Specialization I

240. Rocket Specialization II

241. Rocket Specialization III

242. Rocket Specialization IV

243. Target Navigation Prediction I

244. Target Navigation Prediction II

245. Target Navigation Prediction III

246. Warhead Upgrades I

247. Warhead Upgrades II

248. Warhead Upgrades III

249. Missile Projection I

250. Missile Projection II

251. Missile Projection III

252. Missile Bombardment I

253. Missile Bombardment II

254. Missile Bombardment III

255. Guided Missile Precision I

256. Guided Missile Precision II

257. Guided Missile Precision III

258. Rapid Launch I

259. Rapid Launch II

260. Rapid Launch III

261. Target Painting I

262. Target Painting II

263. Target Painting III

264. Electronics Upgrades IV

265. Target Painting IV

266. Signature Focusing I

267. Signature Focusing II

268. Signature Focusing III

269. Missile Projection IV

270. Target Navigation Prediction IV

271. Warhead Upgrades IV

272. Missile Bombardment IV

273. Guided Missile Precision IV

274. Rapid Launch IV

275. Caldari Frigate V

276. Signature Focusing IV

277. Medium Hybrid Turret I

278. Medium Hybrid Turret II

279. Medium Hybrid Turret III

280. Medium Hybrid Turret IV

281. Medium Hybrid Turret V

282. Medium Blaster Specialization I

283. Medium Blaster Specialization II

284. Medium Blaster Specialization III

285. Medium Blaster Specialization IV

286. Minmatar Cruiser IV

287. Minmatar Cruiser V

288. Shield Operation II

289. Shield Operation III

290. Shield Operation IV

291. Shield Operation V

292. Shield Management II

293. Shield Management III

294. Shield Management IV

295. Shield Upgrades II

296. Shield Upgrades III

297. Shield Upgrades IV

298. Tactical Shield Manipulation II

299. Tactical Shield Manipulation III

300. Tactical Shield Manipulation IV

301. Kinetic Shield Compensation I

302. Kinetic Shield Compensation II

303. Kinetic Shield Compensation III

304. Kinetic Shield Compensation IV

305. Shield Compensation I

306. Shield Compensation II

307. Shield Compensation III

308. Shield Compensation IV

309. Medium Projectile Turret IV

310. Medium Projectile Turret V

311. Medium Autocannon Specialization I

312. Spaceship Command V

313. Heavy Assault Cruisers I

314. Heavy Assault Cruisers II

315. Heavy Assault Cruisers III

316. Medium Autocannon Specialization II

317. Medium Autocannon Specialization III

318. Shield Rigging I

319. Shield Rigging II

320. Medium Autocannon Specialization IV

321. Heavy Assault Cruisers IV

322. Shield Rigging III

323. Caldari Destroyer I

324. Caldari Destroyer II

325. Caldari Destroyer III

326. Caldari Cruiser I

327. Caldari Cruiser II

328. Caldari Cruiser III

329. Caldari Cruiser IV

330. Light Missiles I

331. Light Missiles II

332. Light Missiles III

333. Light Missiles IV

334. Light Missiles V

335. Light Missile Specialization I

336. Light Missile Specialization II

337. Light Missile Specialization III

338. Light Missile Specialization IV

339. Caldari Drone Specialization I

340. Caldari Drone Specialization II

341. Caldari Drone Specialization III

342. EM Shield Compensation I

343. EM Shield Compensation II

344. EM Shield Compensation III

345. EM Shield Compensation IV

346. thermal Shield Compensation I

347. thermal Shield Compensation II

348. thermal Shield Compensation III

349. thermal Shield Compensation IV

350. Caldari Cruiser V

351. Caldari Drone Specialization IV

Appendix C: Thanks and Version Info

I’d like to thank the following forum gurus and forum members for their help, willing or not, in the creation of this document. Any potential donations should go to them for their help on the fits especially. Many of these fits are near enough straight up copies or only slight modifications of their own fits.

• Jori Mckie – Fits
• Jackudza – Videos and fits
• Chainsaw Plankton – Fits and generally being helpful on the forums
• Ploing – Fits
• The Bigpuns – spotting a very stupid an obvious mistake on the machariel warp speed
• DeMichael Crimson aka DMC – His standings guide ‘The Plan’ is pretty much the definitive source on standings mechanics and is what makes most of this possible in the first place.
• Zora Aran – Creating/hosting an Evemon Skill Plan.
• Fire Trooper – For pointing out CPU fitting issues on bling Garmur due to paint changes.
• Bumblefck – I think he originated the Onyx fit for Blood Base.
• Larold for a couple fixes here and there and a revamped section 2.

I know for a fact I’m probably missing people so please contact me ingame if you feel I missed you or someone you think I missed should be added.

Special mention goes to Market McSelling Alt. He really helped push me to complete this guide in his own very special way.

If you spot any mistakes please let me know and thanks for reading!

Versions:

v1.00 – Original guide

v1.01 – 20/11/2015 – Added Garmur alt build, Barghest Experimental build and fixed warp speed on Mach, minor editing changes.

v1.02 – 22/11/2015 – Added Version Info, Gurista Base burner information.

v1.03 – 23/11/2015 – Gone Bezerk trigger randomised or changed.

v1.04 – 09/12/2015 – Added note to Forward and to Missions, added back the DPS Garmur fit to Team Burners, Many changes in the Missions section.

V1.05 – 12/12/2015 – Added missing Credits

V1.06 – 18/12/2015 – Added Cheap Garmur fit and updated with Javelin advice.

V1.07 – 08/01/2016 – Fleshed out the Barghest Fit and Ship Discussion under 1.3.2 Ships

V1.08 – 17/01/2016 – Update regarding stealth changes to missions and CCP’s lack of answer.

V1.1 – 28/02/2016 – Update to Skills under 1.2 and Appendix B with a link to a skill plan for Evemon.

V1.2 – 24/04/2016:

• Updated Foreword
• Updated 1.1 text to be clearer.
• Updated 1.3 with Skill Injectors.
• Minor Updates to 1.3.1.
• Updated section 2’s note, missions, headings and some other text.
• Updated 3. Ashimu loot drop amount and added some text.
• Updated A.2. Daredevil with Stasis Webifier II.
• Updated A.5. Wolf with Stasis Webifier II.
• Updated A.6. Garmur with Phased Scoped Target Painter and 5MN Y-T8 Compact  Microwarpdrive. Removed ECM fits.
• Updated A.8. Vigilant with Stasis Webifier II.
• Updated A10. Removed Orthrus Cheap Fit, added Onyx fit and updated how-to text.

V1.2.1 – 22/05/2016

• Added alternative Serpentis Agent fit for high skilled pilots.
• Changed ammo loadout on Blood Base (Onyx fit). CN Scourge does about 12% more damage.

V1.2.2 – 22/11/2016

• Added quick link to Burner Playlist

V1.2.3 – 20/12/2016

• Huge thanks to player The Larold for the help in making section 2 easier to read! Pop him a few isk if you like the changes 😉
• Normal lv4 missions are now listed in order of profitability
• Added Right hand of Zazzmatazz to the mission list
• Replaced thermic in every case with thermal
• Removed Fast Talk as a skill in the list

Introduction

Background and experience: I’ve played eve for 4 years, 3 of which have been in Null sec, 1 in high sec running level 4 missions, and some mining. I have lead one of the largest corporations for its time for over a year and was even an alliance leader for a time. I have since stepped back into the joy of no leadership and just enjoying the game.

When you are new to eve and start the game, chances are you have no idea about 1/100^th of the game, it is new and vast. Enjoy this time, the game is on a scale that is really hard to explain. In the many of thousands of hours I have spent in this game I have not touched every aspect and far from an expert in some areas. I need to stress, this is okay.

The first thing you should do when starting eve is think about where you want to be in 6 months to a year. This game or hobby is not something you will master in a few hours after reading some guides, if you choose to stick with it, this little game/hobby will teach you some things about yourself. How you learn, what your own limits are, and what you are willing to do to achieve a goal.

I ask you take this guide for what it is worth, my opinions and experience so far in the game, what struggles and stresses I have endured, the experience gained and knowledge I wish to share in a game that is hard to find good reliable information.

Another thing forgotten by a lot of long players of the game is that EVE is like a second language. I will try to explain the abbreviations and mechanics of the game but, I’m bound to miss or forget something.

DAMAGE TYPES

·         Electromagnetic (EM)

·         Kinetic (KIN)

·         Thermal (THERM)

·         Explosive

FACTIONS

·         Amarr

·         Caldari

·         Gallente

·         Minmatar

Step 1: The Goal

Ask yourself. “What is it I want to do in Eve?” – don’t worry this will change as you grow.

Eve is a sandbox, there is no right or wrong way to play this game despite what is said by some in the community. You can high sec mine, do missions, explore, production, research, invention, planetary interactions, wormholes, pirate, player vs player, faction warfare, gank, troll, steal, scam… The list goes on. This is your time, your money, your enjoyment. That being said you need to give yourself a goal in order to continue the drive. The carrot on the stick idea. For me it was level 4 missions and getting into a Drake, that moved to getting into a Raven, then lasers are cool so I trained for a Paladin Marauder. You will evolve as you grow so don’t worry if you change your mind.

Setting the Goal: Some steps that have helped me along the way in how I set my goals.

Skill Plan:

·         What do you want at the end of 365 days?

·         Set a short, medium, and long goal – example: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months.

·         Your goals should be in line with your end of year.

·         Be flexible, if you end up changing your mind in a few months, there are a lot of cross training in eve.

Corporation:

·         You don’t need to be in a corp to enjoy the game but it is really suggested as it gives you a support group in a sense.

·         Look to newbie corps, they are low to no skill point requirements and the good ones will have some programs in place to help you grow

·         Make friends, not enemies. Some things to consider in EVE. This is one “shard, server” Your name will follow you as you go.

·         Get on voice coms when you can, get to know your corp mates. Ask questions of them and be an active part of your new family.

“I am alpha and omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

Alpha clone or Omega?

Something new to the game is the option to play for free with restrictions or to jump right in and play as the “paid” omega clone, the monthly subscription. (NOTE: This is my opinion on the matter) I would suggest going Alpha to start, the reason for this is time/money/expectation.

Benefit of being an Alpha to start.

·         There is no real commitment, this is your chance to explore the beginning of what EVE has to offer without any regrets or expectations. It is 100% free.

·         Gives you time, you are not obligated to play. A lot of friends I tried to get in the game in the past were stand offish because they felt obligated to play, if you are forcing yourself to play EVE you will not enjoy it.

·         The community, as funny as this sounds but it is true. Our lovely community has a soft spot for the alpha clones and most of us want to kill you, drop some isk that is maybe 10 times worth your loss, and explain what you did wrong and how to avoid it.

Detriment of being an Alpha to start.

·         You will not have access to the full range of the game, what I mean by this is you won’t be able to use all of the ships, modules. You are also restricted to logging into one client per pc. The other more important restriction is you will train at half the speed of an Omega clone.

·         Some corporations will not accept alpha clones.

·         You can max out the amount of skills available to you in under a year.

Taking all of this into consideration, being an alpha for any given time is not an issue. You can make up for lost skill points with skill injectors, but they are pricey.

Final note: This is a game, there are a lot of fun aspects to it as well as some tedious almost work related aspects to the game. Do what you enjoy, and never forget, this is a game.

Step 2: ISK

Arguably the driving force of most players in this game is ISK, and the making, hording, stealing of it. I will let you in on a secret. ISK is easy to make, but even easier to lose. In this segment I’m going to go over the importance of ISK, the many uses of this wonderful set of numbers, and how to make it.

P.L.E.X. – Play as an Omega for no real money cost.

It is possible to play this game as an omega clone without spending any real money in the game. You can do this by buying a P.L.E.X. from the market. Current prices are about 1 to 1.250 billion ISK. To a new player this number is large, scary and feels unobtainable. You are most likely correct. It is very rare for a new player to make over a bil in their first month of gameplay. There are a lot of reasons for this, this is normal. There are stories and even some guides on how to accomplish this, but it is not a guarantee it will work for everyone. Realistically it will take time before you can play for no cost for months at a time.

How do I make ISK?

There are multiple ways to make ISK in eve. To new players asking this question the responses are mostly the same.

·         Mine

·         Missions

·         Nullsec ratting

·         Exploration

These are the “top” suggested and most successful new player ISK making activities. Don’t be fooled though, there are many more ways to collect the mistress known as ISK. Some of the other ISK making ventures are…

·         PVP

·         DED sites

·         Scamming

·         Market trading

·         Manufacturing

·         Market manipulation

·         Hauling

·         Salvaging

·         Scavenging

·         Reprocessing.

I’m sure there are some additional ways I have not listed, but you get the point. There are a lot of ways to make is in EVE. Some easier and some dangerous and much more rewarding.

MINING

Mining in EVE is what I feel the core of the game is. Without ore you can’t reprocess minerals to create anything in the game. This is a complex process that involves Reprocessing and Blueprint research, as well as the inevitable blueprint invention for tech II modules and ships. I’m going to cover my experiences with mining as well as friends who have had great success.

SHIPS – There are a lot of mining barges, exhumers, and even capital class mining ships. Each has its own perks as well as detriments. EVE is a sandbox, there will never be a fit or ship that is the best for all situations. Keep that in mind as we delve into this part of the guide.

This section of the guide will list the ships, attach a related EVE UNI wiki guide and a small description of each ship. Skills needed and suggested plans will be listed below.

FRIGATES

·         Venture – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Venture – The first mining ship you will most likely use.

·         Prospect – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Prospect – This is a tech II version using the same model as the Venture, this ship focuses on gas cloud harvesting normally found in wormhole space.

·         Endurance – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Endurance – Another tech II version of the Venture, this ship focuses on Ice mining in hostel space, as well as wormholes.

MINING BARGES

·         Procurer – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Procurer – This barge has extremely good tank, as well as the ability to do decent damage with drones. Ideal for Dangerous areas of space. Lowest mining yield of the barges.

·         Retriever – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Retriever – Middle of the pack, this barge has okay tank, better yield than the Procurer and what sets it apart is a very large ore hold.

·         Covetor –  http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Covetor – This barge has the worst tank, and smallest ore hold but, highest yield of the barges. For solo mining this barge is not recommended as it is vulnerable to PVP in both high and low/null sec. This barge will shine with a group doing a mining operation as you can mine at high yield and normally there will be a process in place to recover the ore mined, allowing you to focus on getting as much ore in as short of a process as possible.

EXHUMERS

·         Skiff – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Skiff – The tech II version of the Procurer, the skiff has a reputation for the toughest mining ship sup capital ships in the game, with a role bonus of 50% more drone damage and hitpoints, the Skiff has been dubbed the “Battle Skiff” I would suggest using a Skiff if you are in low/null sec space as you will live long enough for help if you get caught, in many cases you can kill your attacker and not stop mining while you do.

·         Mackinaw – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Mackinaw – The tech II version of the Retriever, the Mackinaw has been said to be one of the best solo mining ships and excels at Ice mining. The tank is not even close to the skiff and has minimal damage application. Like the Retriver, the Mackinaw has the highest ore hold of all the Exhumers. I would suggest using this during mining operations or mining Ice. I would not suggest using this in high sec as it is an easy target for suicide gankers and will set you back if you lose a few in a row.

·         Hulk – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Hulk – The tech II version of the Covetor, the Hulk is a monster when it comes to ore. By far the greatest yield of all exhumers it suffers from the lowest tank, and a smallest cargo of the group. This monster will excel in mining operations as it will mine more ore than any other sub capital mining ship and should be used with strong defense groups as its tank isn’t enough to protect it from the pirates if you are flying solo. In fact I would only recommend using this ship if you are in a protected mining group.

SUPPORT / BOOSTERS

·         Porpoise – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Porpoise – The Porpoise uses the same ship model as the Noctis and the newest ship to join the industrial family. The Porpoise is capable of boosting mining fleets on field. Bonuses to tractor beam range and speed, as well as survey scanner range, this ship makes an excellent command ship for mining operations. I would suggest using this in a mining fleet, great for security of space.  

·         Orca – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Orca – The Orca is a wonderful utility ship that can fit many roles for mining operation as well as solo play. The Orca has a small ship bay so it can be used to move ships. It also has a sizable ore hold and ship cargo hold so it can move cargo as well as large sums of ore. With a role bonus to mining drones and command burst modules as well as others this is a great mining command ship as well as for personal mining use. The orca has more utlity than a paragraph is worth, here is EVE Uni’s in-depth guide for the Orca – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Orca_Guide

MINING CAPITAL SHIP

·         Rorqual – http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Rorqual – The history of this Capital class monster is long, however the Rorqual has received its most significant buff ever, making it the number one mining ship you can obtain. The full fit currently included the new mining drones is around 10+billion ISK. For better lack of words, this is the “end game” of mining for an EVE player. Extremely high tank, mining yield, cargo capability, and the ability to “jump” light years at a time just adds to the utility and worth of the Rorqual. The Rorqual is the only mining ship that has restrictions to where it can go. This ship can only be used in Low / Null security space.

There have been changes to the Rorqual that do not reflect the related wiki currently. The core of the changes can be found – https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/mining-foreman-revolution/

MINING SKILLS

This part of the guide will go over what skills are needed and suggested paths to help achieve your goal. I am going to break this section down in categories in no particular order; Ship, fitting, Mining specific, Leadership, Reprocessing, Drone, and finally Tanking.

This list will give the name of the skill and a short description of what the skill does. I will also include the (X) multiplier for the skill, this is important when planning a skill queue because the higher the X multiplier the longer the skill takes to train. Example: 1X is 256,000 to train to level V, skill points, 3X is 768,000 (3 times longer than 256,000)

NOTE: RIG MODULES CAN BE INSTALLED TO A SHIP WITHOUT THE NEEDED SKILL. THEY ARE LISTED IN THIS GUIDE AS A SUGGESTION, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT NEEDED THE SKILL STILL WILL BE HELPFUL FOR REDUCING THE DETRIMENT SOME RIGS GIVE.

BASIC SKILLS

 MINING – 1X – 5% ore mining yield per level

ASTROGEOLOGY – 3X – 5% ore mining yield per level

SPACESHIP COMMAND

 MINING FRIGATE – 2X – Skill at operating ORE Mining Frigates

EXPEDITION FRIGATE – 4X –  Skill for operation of Expedition Frigates

MINING BARGE – 4X – Skill at operating ORE Mining Barges

EXHUMERS – 5X – Skill for the operation of elite mining barges

INDUSTRIAL COMMAND SHIPS – 8X – Skill at operating industrial command ships

CAPITAL INDUSTRIAL SHIPS – 12X – Skill at operating Capital Industrial Ships

SPECIALTY MINING – Note: These skills are only needed if you plan on going beyond mining ore or Merxocit

ICE HARVESTING – 1X – 5% reduction in cycle time per level

DEEP CORE MINING – 6X – Required for mining Mercoxit

GAS CLOUD HARVESTING – 1X – Allows use of gas harvesters

FITTING

CPU MANAGEMENT – 1X – 5% CPU output per level

 ELECTRONICS UPGRADES – 2X – Required for fitting and using co-processors

MINING UPGRADES – 4X – Required for fitting and using mining upgrades

JURY RIGGING – 2X – Used for fitting rigs

Drone Rigging – 3X – Used for fitting mining drone augmenter rigs

TANKING

POWER GRID MANAGEMENT – 1X – +5% power grid output  per level

SHIELD OPERATION – 1X – 5% reduction in shield recharge time per level

SHIELD UPGRADES – 2X – Required to fit shield upgrade modules

TACTICAL SHIELD MANIPULATION – 4X – Required to fit shield hardeners

SHIELD MANAGEMENT – 3X – +5% shield capacity per level per level

SHIELD RIGGING – 3X – 10% reduction in Shield Rig drawbacks per level

HULL UPGRADES – 2X – 5% bonus to armor hit points per level

DRONE

DRONES – 1X – Increases number of drones in space by 1 per level

DRONE INTERFACING – 5X – Increases drone damage and mining drone yield by 10% per level

MINING DRONE OPERATIONS – 2X – Increases mining drone yield by 5% per level

ADVANCED DRONE AVIONICS – 5X – Allows use of electronic warfare drones

LIGHT DRONE OPERATION – 1X – Allows for the operation of light drones

MEDIUM DRONE OPERATION – 2X – Allows for the operation of medium drones

AMARR/CLADARI/GALLENTE/MINMATAR DRONE SPECILIZATION – 5X – Allows the use of Tech II drones

LEADERSHIP

LEADERSHIP – 1X – Increases Command Burst and Mining Foreman Burst area of effect range by 7% per skill level

WING COMMAND – 8X – Increases Command Burst and Mining Foreman Burst area of effect range by 6% per skill level

FLEET COMMAND – 12X – Increases Command Burst and Mining Foreman Burst area of effect range by 5% per skill level

MINING FOREMAN – 2X – Grants a 10% bonus to the duration of Mining Foreman Burst effects per level

MINING DIRECTOR – 5X – Increases the strength of Mining Foreman Burst effects by 10% per skill level

COMMAND BURST SPECIALIST – 6X – Reduces reload duration of all Command Burst and Mining Foreman Burst modules by 10% per level

BASIC SKILL PLAN

I’m going to link a basic skill plan for mining, feel free to change this to fit your priorities. A tip, you can copy this list and import into your skill plan directly to the game, or third party skill planners such as EVE MON.

Attributes and Remap – Remap Points: Per 17, Mem 27, Wil 17, Int 21, Cha, 17

Time before Remap: 18d 16h 4m, After Remap: 15d 18h 32m

At the end of this train you will be able to fly Mining Barges with most of the upgrades available to you.

Mining Frigate I

Mining Frigate II

Shield Upgrades I

Mining III

Mining Upgrades I

Drones I

Drones II

Drones III

Light Drone Operation I

Mining IV

Target Management I

Target Management II

Mining Frigate III

Science IV

Astrogeology I

Astrogeology II

Astrogeology III

Industry I

Industry II

Industry III

Industry IV

Industry V

Warp Drive Operation I

Warp Drive Operation II

Mining Barge I

Tactical Shield Manipulation I

Mining Barge II

Mining Barge III

Mechanics III

Jury Rigging I

Jury Rigging II

Jury Rigging III

Shield Rigging

Capacitor Management I

Capacitor Management II

Capacitor Management III

Capacitor Systems Operation I

Capacitor Systems Operation II

Capacitor Systems Operation III

Mining Upgrades II

Mining Upgrades III

Mining Upgrades IV

Light Drone Operation II

Light Drone Operation III

Drones IV

Survey I

Survey II

Survey III

Salvaging I

Salvaging II

Salvage Drone Operation I

Salvage Drone Operation II

Shield Management I

Shield Management II

Shield Management III

Shield Operation I

Shield Operation II

Shield Operation III

Tactical Shield Manipulation II

Tactical Shield Manipulation III

Target Management III

Hull Upgrades I

Hull Upgrades II

Hull Upgrades III

MISSIONS

Mission running in EVE is how I started the game. There is a large grind to this part of eve and out dated (over 10 years) and dry content, it does however give you a feel of combat in the game and starts your path to fitting ships and potentially losing some. There are guides to the mission you can look up on google so I will not be covering each mission.

The rewards you get from missions are ISK, Loyalty Points.

To start doing missions you need to run them for agents. The NPE will get you access to the default security mission runners of your factions. More can be found in the agent locator in game, it should be noted that you do not have to run missions for your faction. It should also be noted that missions will effect standings with other factions.

The ‘agent finder’ can be found in the ‘people & places’ at the bottom of the ‘agents’ tab.

You will start with level 1 missions, no matter what your security standing is with any faction you will always be able to run level 1 missions.

Level 2 – 5 missions require higher agent standings. The standing requirements are as follows.

·         Level 1: None

·         Level 2: 1.0 or higher

·         Level 3: 3.0 or higher

·         Level 4: 5.0 or higher

·         Level 5: 7.0 or higher

There are skills that can help increase the rate you earn standings with the agent, and other skills that can reduce standing hits from missions that will have negative effects.

What makes missions profitable is the loyalty points you gain from completing the mission. Level 1-3 has really low loyalty, ISK, and the bounty you gain from killing the NPC Pirates (rats) is rather low. Getting to level 4 and ideally level 5 is where the payout is rather nice. The idea is to blitz the missions, complete the minimal requirement to complete mission and collect the reward.

NULLSEC RATTING

Nullsec ratting, or krabbing (yes spelled wrong on purpose) as it has been called is one of the best income sources in eve. Nullsec ratting is done by running anomaly sites. Pirate combat sites to be more specific. Depending on what region of space you live in will depend on the faction on pirates you will be fighting. This will also determine what ships and fits will be more optimized for tank and damage.

For example: if you are fighting against Sansha Pirates, you would want to tank against EM/THERM and deal the damage type of EM second best is THERM.

Nullsec ratting has risks however. You will be hunted, you will lose your ship. It does happen, the difference is that you can make a lot more than your ship is worth in a short time. If you are dedicated and pay attention, you can do this going months in between losing a ship.

What you need in order to Nullsec rat.

·         You will need to be in a Corp that owns Nullsec space

·         The system you rat in will have to have an ihub upgrade, (this isn’t something you will be able to directly control) in most Nullsec Corps ihubs will already be upgraded.

·         You will need a ship that can run the site, there are a lot of ships and fits that will work, and there is however one that currently is the king. That ship is the Vexor Navy Issue. (more on this later)

·         You will want to learn your area of space, who is around you and what dangers you may face.

·         NEVER rat with a neutral or hostel in space. That is asking for death.

·         NEVER leave your character in space when you need to step away for longer than a few seconds. I have lost a ship to walking to the kitchen for a

There are so many points and suggestions that can be spoken about with Nullsec ratting that would be a guide in itself. What anomalies to run, escalations, how to do each one, what anomalies to run and what to avoid. I will suggest for this that you get with your corp and ask. Don’t ask “what is the best!” Ask “what should I be running at a newer level, what ship would be best for my skill points and path, ect”

EXPLORATION

This is one of my favorite forms of income and can be more than worth the invested time. I was working at a job where during downtime I could play games and my time was my own. I would scan in my alt until I had something to do. Cloak up and do my work, then get back to scanning. I would make on average 300-500 a day.

Scanning is hard for an alpha however. What makes scanning so worth it is going into too low and null sec space and doing sites there. This is risky and you will die, but the rewards are many times over the cost of the loss. The issue for Alphas is they don’t have the option to use a cloak. This means in low sec getting caught by gate camps. Null sec you have bubbles to worry about.

Scanning is taught during the new player experience, but to master this craft you will need to learn how the map works, and how to use some special tools. The most important tool is a website called Dotlan.

DOTLAN

This site will provide you with detailed information about what region of space you are in, Jumps per hour/24hour, kills, npc kills, ect. The wealth of information in dotlan is something so all players should get acquainted with.

What you want to use dotlan for is jumps per hour/kills per hour.

·         Lower jumps per hour mean a chance there are sites waiting to be scanned down.

·         Checking the kills per hour will help identify dangerous gate camps or systems that should be avoided.

If you plan on doing Exploration for a long period of time, it is worth getting tech II relic and data analyzers as soon as possible. It is something I would even recommend injecting if you are able. The skills improve your success rate in scanning so much that you will recover the loss of ISK for the injectors fast and make a lot more profit in the long run. This is not required, but strongly suggested if you are able to.

Step 3: Learn

DEATH

Over my eve life I have lost many ships, some to Rats, some to gankers, and a lot to my own stupidity. The truth of death in eve is the experience gained. Every time I’ve died I would always ask myself if there was something more I could have done. Something I could have changed to stay alive, fit my ship a different way, and not get baited away from the main fleet. So many little things make up a fight and your first few times will be swift and confusing.

When you die I would suggest the following

·         Convo or eve mail the person who killed you asking how it happened, explain to them you are new and wanting to learn for next time. Most players will be glad to share advice and tips to avoid the death in the future. EVE being EVE you will run into a few jerks as well. Don’t let them bother you.

·         Look over the loss mail and see what killed you, look how much damage was done to you and how much you took before death. Where you were in space, what corp/alliance the other players were.

·         If you are in a Corp, ask what you could have done to change the outcome. Was there anything you could have done?

·         Stand up, go to the potty, make a samach, chat with the wife/kids/dog/cat and get your ass back in the chair, reship, and get your butt back out there! The only way to learn, REALLY LEARN is to experience for yourself!

IN CLOSING

I hope you gained something from this guide. I enjoyed writing it and would like to make information in eve more readily available for newer players

Sources and useful tools

·         EFT/PYFA – ship building tool (in fitting tool is great as well)

·         EVEMON – Maintaining skill queues and character information.

·         DOTLAN – Map tool, love of my life.

·         http://www.eveuniversity.org/

Relevant Skills List

If you started out as a Caldari brand new character, these are the skills that you will need to purchase from the market and acquire. 

How long does it take for me to fly the Kestrel?

Training times are listed with a remap to 25 Perception, 23 Intelligence throughout the entire training process. This is a very good and healthy remap for a new player and it’s not a super specialised Kestrel remap of any sort, Intelligence/Perception are the most useful attributes unless you’re following a specialised plan like to become a Trader, leadership character, miner and refiner etc. You can bring this time down if you use a program like evemon and remap to pure Perception/Willpower, then to pure Intelligence/Memory using the characters bonused remaps if you so choose. I would not recommend this though unless you want a pure Kestrel smurf character.

The Basic Kestrel

15D 2H 20m 40s 

SP Needed from starting skills 730,938

Total SP: 1,130,669

The Recommended Kestrel

57D 4h 21m 30s (72D 6H 42m 10s)

SP Needed (over basic) 2,738,772

Total SP: 3,869,441

The Polished Kestrel

137D 5h 32m 26s (209D 12H 14m 36s)

SP Needed (over recommended) 6,575,111

Total SP: 10,444,553

Fittings

The “Basic” Fit

I’d recommend not using this as you will probably have a somewhat painful time, you’ll struggle against anything that isn’t a tackler, you can maybe kill other PvP ships which will have difficulty hitting you at range. 

[Kestrel, The Basic Kestrel]

Crosslink Compact Ballistic Control System

IFFA Compact Damage Control

5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive

Medium Azeotropic Restrained Shield Extender

Fleeting Compact Stasis Webifier

Initiated Compact Warp Scrambler

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Small Warhead Calefaction Catalyst I

Small Ancillary Current Router I

Small Rocket Fuel Cache Partition I

Mjolnir Rage Rocket x1000

Scourge Rage Rocket x1000

Nova Rage Rocket x1000

Inferno Rage Rocket x1000

Nanite Repair Paste x25

Fitting Skill List;
Advanced Weapon Upgrades: 0 (Not Learned)
Power Grid Management: 4 (Starting Level)
CPU Management: 4 (Starting Level)
Weapon Upgrades: 3 (+1 level from starting)

Shield Upgrades: 3 (+1 level from starting) 

Launcher Rigging: 0 (Not Learned) 

This kestrel can be sit in very quickly from the starting base Caldari Character. With the Flight time rig and the Basic Skill list, you’ll hit out to 10km with Rage rockets, the Flight time rig takes your flight time almost exactly on 3 seconds with missile bombardment level 3. So you won’t have to worry about your missiles not hitting. This assumes missile projection level 3 and caldari frigate 4. DPS, speed and non targeting stats shown are with the basic skills.

The “Recommended” Fit

This is where things get much better, you’ll be able to bring down pretty much every t1 Frigate, Interceptor and some t2 Frigates, Sabre fights are a little harder until you’re more polished but it is still possible in this fit. 

[Kestrel, The Recommended Kestrel]

Ballistic Control System II

IFFA Compact Damage Control

5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive

Medium F-S9 Regolith Compact Shield Extender

Fleeting Compact Stasis Webifier

Faint Epsilon Scoped Warp Scrambler

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Small Warhead Calefaction Catalyst I

Small Bay Loading Accelerator I

[Empty Rig slot]

Mjolnir Rage Rocket x1000

Scourge Rage Rocket x1000

Nova Rage Rocket x1000

Inferno Rage Rocket x1000

Nanite Repair Paste x25

Fitting Skill List (+ in brackets indicates skill changes over the basic fit)
Advanced Weapon Upgrades: Unlearned
Power Grid Management: 5 (+1)
CPU Management: 5 (+1)
Weapon Upgrades: 4 (+1)

Shield Upgrades: 3 

Launcher Rigging: 3 (+3) 

With better fitting skills we no longer need the compact ballistic control unit for more DPS with t2, ditch the PG rig for another DPS rig. This gives us a significant DPS boost and with this fitting improvement, and the skills improvement, this kestrel does more DPS before heat than the Basic Fit does with heat, with better range. Note: Training either Weapon Upgrades 5, or launcher Rigging 4, will enable you to upgrade the fit by upgrading the named Scram to a T2 Scram. 

The “Polished” Kestrel

This is just rounding off loose ends and enables us to get a few improvements, notably, the T2 Scram and the swap to Azetropic Medium Shield Extender which saves some cost from the fit, and also improves damage mitigation slightly. 

[Kestrel, The Polished Kestrel]

Ballistic Control System II

IFFA Compact Damage Control

5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive

Medium Azeotropic Restrained Shield Extender

Fleeting Compact Stasis Webifier

Warp Scrambler II

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Small Warhead Calefaction Catalyst I

Small Bay Loading Accelerator I

[Empty Rig slot]

Mjolnir Rage Rocket x1000

Scourge Rage Rocket x1000

Nova Rage Rocket x1000

Inferno Rage Rocket x1000

Nanite Repair Paste x25

Fitting Skill List (+ in brackets indicates skill changes over the Recommended Fit)
Advanced Weapon Upgrades: 1 (+1)
Power Grid Management: 5
CPU Management: 5
Weapon Upgrades: 5 (+1)

Shield Upgrades: 4 (+1 

Launcher Rigging: 4 (+1) 

With the extra skills from the polish section, the T2 scram and slight cost saving modules, we are now in the 160 DPS cold club, which is insane, the T2 scram allows more control at further range, and with your increased speed and missile range you can bait out Sabres and ships better. Any further improvements take a long time and don’t give too many benefits.

The “Maxed Fit” AKA the Mizhir Fit

Mizhir gave me this fit, it’s slightly better than the polished fit but requires much higher skills and a 1% CPU Implant to fit. Alternatively, you can use a T2 CPU rig instead of the 1% CPU Implant if you don’t like fits which require implants but the CPU rig is more expensive than the 1% Implant. 

[Kestrel, The Maxed Kestrel (Mizhir 1% CPU)]

Ballistic Control System II

Ballistic Control System II

5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive

Medium Shield Extender II

Fleeting Compact Stasis Webifier

Warp Scrambler II

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Small Core Defense Field Extender I

Small Core Defense Field Extender I

Small Processor Overclocking Unit I

Zainou ‘Gypsy’ CPU Management EE-601

Mjolnir Rage Rocket x1000

Scourge Rage Rocket x1000

Nova Rage Rocket x1000

Inferno Rage Rocket x1000

Nanite Repair Paste x25

Fitting Skill List (+ in brackets indicates skill changes over the Polished Fit)
Advanced Weapon Upgrades: 1
Power Grid Management: 5
CPU Management: 5
Weapon Upgrades: 5

Shield Upgrades: 5 (+1) 

Launcher Rigging: 4 

Alternatively, if you use the T2 Electronic Rig fit, you can train AWU to level 4 instead of Shield Upgrades 5 which is about ½ the training time and more useful on a larger amount of fits, and use a 1% PG implant with the Polished Skill set. SU5 is pretty useful though. 

The Mizhir Fit offers a very small DPS and an EHP improvement, at the expense of being much fatter with the higher signature radius. 

Basic Strategy

Your basic Strategy against everything is to kite at extended scram range, this is usually referred to “scram kiting”. Your aim is to keep at 8-9km against most ships (going further out against ships like the Sabre with heated scram). At this range you out DPS most frigates and even some destroyers, interdictors and T3Ds, while also mitigating a significant portion of their DPS. Rockets will do full damage regardless of if you’re at 0 km or 12km so you should aim always to be the furthest you can be comfortable retaining tackle on that ship. Other close range weapon systems will have to load lower damage ammo types like Null or Scorch to hit you, and you always out-damage those types. The only time this strategy ever changes is if you’re fighting against long range turrets (Railguns, Beam Lasers, Artillery) or against kiting ships or ships significantly weaker than you that you just want to hold onto, such as Condors, Stiletto, Crow etc. 

Here is a damage comparison between some other weapon types with drones for the ship and decent fits.

As you can see, the Cyan line is the Kestrel, It reigns supreme with the highest DPS past 6km, and any further you can kite out will result in significant damage mitigation. The only ship that comes close to your damage output at range is the Tormentor and (not listed) the Punisher with Scorch Crystals. Both of these ships are not popular in nullsec because of the weaknesses that they have (Speed, Cap) which you do not have, so you won’t be running into them very often. Even a Double Gyro Thrasher which can put out a monstrous 370 DPS up close will struggle to trade with you at 10km! 

You have a pretty big signature radius so mitigating DPS from long range turrets can still be difficult if they have appropriate modules. One tactic you can employ is offlining your medium shield extender when you start to take armor damage for some damage mitigation. 

The TL;DR of it is that you should almost always stay at the edge of scram range unless faced with an opponent that is much weaker than you, or a kiter (because them getting away is the most important aspect you want to prevent, its ok to go close anyway because they’ll be doing full DPS to you regardless, even if they are allowed to swap into higher damage ammo types your main goal is to get on top of them for the advantage). 

The Kestrel is a great ship since it requires very little module micro-management, you have no charges to manage, you mostly don’t care about your capacitor, and have few active modules.

Damage Types

Choosing the right damage type is important. There are 4 types of missiles of the same type, Mjolnir, Inferno, Nova and Scourge, these have identical ranges, damage and application, the only difference is the damage type they deal. Mjolnir deals EM Damage which is usually best VS Shields, and T2 Caldari, Inferno deals Thermal damage which deals best with Shields and Amarr T2 Ships. Scourge does Kinetic which is usually better VS armor and T2 Minmatar, and Nova deals Explosive which is best against Armor and T2 Gallente. Note that there is a small difference between T1 Racial Resistances and a bigger Difference between T2.

In General, Thermal is probably the best damage type universally if you’re not sure what to use then Inferno is usually a safe bet, it’s only really bad against T2 Caldari/Gallente. 

Match-Ups

I would recommend avoiding all ships that aren’t easy when you’re flying the Basic Kestrel, maybe try the Moderate listed ones but be prepared to lose some of the matchups. When flying the recommended, I would say you can take all the easy-moderate match-ups, and maybe try the hard matchups at difficulty. Once you have the Polished Kestrel, everything that isn’t listed as avoid is possible, but again, they will be difficult fights at hard+

Tech I Frigates

Navy Frigates

Pirate Frigates

Interceptors

Assault Frigates 

Electronic Attack Frigates 

Tech I Destroyers

Interdictors

Tactical Destroyers

Advanced Tactics

If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you’re interested in owning/flying a Jump Freighter.  My goal is to go over everything you need to know to get started and fly safely. Without further ado, let’s get into it.

0a What is a JF/How do they work?

Jump Freighters are T2 freighters.  They haul less than a freighter (~1mil m3 max for freighters, ~350k m3 max for jump freighters), but they trade this reduced cargo capacity for a capital Jump Drive.  I’m not going to go into deep detail, but basically jump drives allow capital ships to jump directly from one system to another without using stargates. This requires fuel, and has a limit measured in light years.  A jump freighter has a 10 light year range at max skills, making it able to jump across entire regions in a single jump. Jumping also incurs jump fatigue, which you’re likely already familiar with from bridging titans or jump bridges.

0b How much does it cost/How long does it take to train/How much can you make?

Between the cost of skillbooks, the JF hull, fits, and fuel, you should expect to spend 9-10bil.  On top of this you need seed money either for contract collaterals or market seeding capital. Aim for 3-5bil to start.  The more the better. Training for a JF isn’t nearly as bad as most capitals, but it’s still long. You can expect to spend at least 4-6 months, depending on how far you take the training and implants/attribute remaps.  How much you can make depends a lot on how you use it, but market seeding and courier contracts can make quite substantial money. The amount you make also depends on how much you’re investing, what you’re doing, and how active you are, but ~6 billion per month is readily attainable for active pilots. It all depends on what you use the JF for though.  If all you use it for is hauling your own pvp stuff up to 7RM, you’ll lose money to fuel costs.

1 Skills

I’m not going to post a skillplan here, mostly because there aren’t that many skills that are relevant, so I’m just going to go over the skills you’ll need, and why you’ll need them.

Racial Freighter 4 – This is a requirement for the Jump Freighter hull, it also increases your cargo, so this should be one to get to 5, but it’s a very long train, so 4 is fine to start.

Jump Freighters 4 – Technically only level 1 is required for Jump Freighters, but it increases your hull and shield/armor (depending on JF) hp by 10%, and more importantly, reduces fuel consumption by 10%.  Get this to at least 4, 5 eventually, but after racial freighter 5.

Jump Drive Calibration 5 – Technically only level 1 is required, but this increases your jump range by 2LY per level, so this should absolutely be the first skill you get to 5.  I wouldn’t even start flying a JF until it’s at least 4, and it should be 5 as soon as possible.

Jump Fuel Conservation 4 – Not technically required, but reduces fuel consumption by 10%, so absolutely get it to 4.  Eventually 5, but after racial freighter 5 and jump freighters 5.

Evasive Maneuvering 5 – If you haven’t flown a freighter before, they are SLOOOOW.  Like crazy slow. Jump freighters are a bit better, but the agility bonus from Evasive Maneuvering is hugely helpful to shorten your align times, and it’s a 2x skill, so get it to 5 because it’s short.

Mechanics/Hull Upgrades/Shield Management 5 – These all increase the related hp bar by 5% per level.  When you have over 100k hp, a 5% increase is a lot. These are also low training multiplier skills, so train them to 5 because they’re short.

EM/Thermal/Explosive/Kinetic Armor Compensation 4 – This is of particular importance for Arks, but useful overall.  Increases the resistance bonus of adaptive platings, which are one of the fits it’s useful to have, particularly for the Ark.  5 If you want to be a perfectionist, but 4 is fine.

That’s it! If you have all these trained up, you’re a solid JF pilot.

2 Which JF is best

This is a very common question, and one that doesn’t have a definitive answer.  Every jump freighter, like every freighter, has a particular specialty. Which specialty you prefer is up to you, they all see regular use.

Rhea – The rhea has the largest cargohold of the JFs.  It also has the slowest align time/speed, and the second lowest EHP. It also consumes the most fuel, making it more expensive to run.  This is the freighter of choice for pilots that already have a lot of money and want to maximize cargo at the expense of fuel cost.

Anshar – The anshar has the highest EHP of the JFs.  It also has the second biggest cargo hold, second most fuel consumption, and second slowest align time/speed.  Generally the least likely to be ganked due to it’s high ehp.

Nomad – The nomad has the fastest align/speed of the JFs.  It also has the lowest EHP, and the smallest cargo hold. It makes up for this by having the lowest fuel consumption, and thus is the cheapest to run.

Ark – The exception to the rule, the Ark is pretty much the jack of all trades.  Second most EHP, second fastest align/speed, third biggest cargo, and second lowest fuel consumption.  The ark’s only unique quality is that since it has such a particularly large amount of armor HP, it can actually have the same/better HP with adaptive plates and Slave implants than it can with Bulkheads, making it safer to haul larger volumes of cargo back into highsec.

They’re all perfectly serviceable, so if you prefer one, that’s fine.  Personally I fly an Ark. I like the high tank with Adaptive Nano Platings for the highsec leg of my trips, and I also just think it looks the coolest, especially with the Cold Iron skin.

3 Cynos

3a What they are/how they work

Cynosural Fields are the beacons that jump drives lock on to to jump from system to system.  They require the field generator itself which is a highslot module, and they require Liquid Ozone as fuel.  With Cynosural Field Theory trained to 4, 3 of the 4 racial corvettes (sorry amarr) can hold enough fuel to light a cyno.  The corvette cyno is the standard for pretty much everyone, since when you light the cyno you’re locked in place for 10 minutes, so this way if you lose it, all you lose is the cyno (assuming you can’t loot it).

3b Station/Citadel Cyno Placement

Placing cynos properly on stations is complicated, but not horrifically so.  It would take a ton of explanation to cover how to do it properly, and fortunately other people have already beat me to it, so there are two links at the bottom of this section.  The first is a Station Cyno Placement Guide. This gives you handy pictures for good cyno spots on any NPC station in high/low/null. The only thing not covered are Outposts (player deployed stations like you find in sov-null).  The second link covers the theory behind creating a perfect station cyno, so if you want to make your own from scratch, read that.

The basic concept is that a station has a docking radius, outside of which you can’t dock.  It also has a bumpable station model, which if you land inside, you’ll be thrown out to space and probably die in a fire.  So the ideal station cyno will land you within docking range without bumping the station 100% of the time.

It’s important to remember that when you jump to a cyno, just like warping to an object, you land at a point off the target.  When warping to something, you land 2500m off in any random direction, when jumping to a cyno it’s 5000m. Also remember your JF is big, so account for the size of your JF as well when figuring out how far from the station you have to be to avoid bumping.

4 Jump Fatigue

Most people are probably familiar with Jump Fatigue by now, but I’ll go over the basics.  When you jump with a jump drive (or titan bridge, or jump bridge), you get two timers. A red/orange Cooldown timer, which prevents you from jumping again until it’s gone, and a blue Fatigue timer, which magnifies the cooldown timer on your next jump.  This fatigue timer grows exponentially as you continue to jump, eventually making you have to take super long breaks to let it tick down, otherwise you have crazy long jump cooldowns.

Thankfully JFs have a 90% reduction to jump fatigue, which makes the fatigue a lot more manageable.  Doing a run from Jita to GME and jumping on cooldown incurs about 1hour of fatigue. You can use the below calculator to calculate exactly how much fatigue you’ll build up, as well as play with wait periods to figure out how to make your trips most efficient.

5 Fits to have

There’s a few different modules you’ll want to have with you at all times:

Cargo Expanders – A no brainer.  Without expanders, JFs are ~165k m3, with expanders they’re ~350k m3.  However, don’t fit these unless you need them for what you’re hauling, and only fit as many as you need.  They reduce your structure hp significantly.

Bulkheads – Pretty much the polar opposite of cargo expanders.  They shrink your cargo, and significantly increase your structure HP.  You should fit these whenever you’re warping gate-to-gate and carrying cargo that you can fit within the smaller cargo space, the more tanky you are the more difficult it will be to gank you.

Jump Drive Economizers – These are big modules at 3500 m3 apiece, but worth it.  They reduce the amount of jump fuel you consume from jumping. You should equip these whenever you are jumping and your cargo fits within the smaller cargo space, because then you consume less fuel, and thus make more money.

Inertial Stabilizers – These reduce your align time significantly.  They bloom your signature radius, but you’re a capital ship, so you’re already huge.  Use these when warping gate-to-gate empty, as they’ll increase speed, and people are less likely to bother trying to gank you when you’re empty.

Adaptive Nano Platings – These increase your armor resistances.  Most potent on the Ark, but still useful for other JFs, because they increase your tank without decreasing your cargo or align time.  If you’re hauling ~160k m3 back to Jita, you can’t fit bulkheads, but you can still fit these to get more tank.

5a Faction/Bling/Implants

ORE Cargo Expanders are great, very expensive, but worth it if you use your JF a lot, since they give you even more cargo and reduce your structure HP less.

Deadspace A-Type Adaptive Nano Platings are great as well, not too expensive, and strictly better than t2.

Jump Drive Economizers come in three types, ranging from 20mil to 300mil apeice.  Take a look at the attributes, the more expensive ones give a greater reduction to fuel usage.  You can actually calculate how much fuel you’ll save with these and decide if it’s worth it to you to invest in the super blingy ones.  But definitely worth it if you haul a lot, since they’ll eventually pay for themselves and then some.

ORE Bulkheads are good, less cargo reduction, more structure hp.  If you use bulkheads a lot, these would be a useful investment, but not as much as expanders.

Don’t bother with faction inertial stabs, inertial stabs don’t get used nearly as often as the rest, and the increase from faction isn’t really that important for JFs.  It has a larger total reduction because of the longer align time, but even with t2 inertial stabs you’ll spend significantly more time warping than aligning, so the overall gain is still pretty small.

Implants are also great, and with the expense of all the rest of the stuff in this guide, well worth it.  It basically comes down to Ascendancies vs Slaves. Ascendancies are more expensive and make you warp faster, which means faster trips back into highsec, which is nice for efficiency.  Slaves are cheaper, and increase armor hp, making you tankier and slightly more likely to survive a gank. Implants aren’t required, but they are a help, so if your JF pilot is pretty much just being a JF pilot, this is a worthy investment.  Nomads aren’t bad, but for freighters/JFs the align is less important than the warp speed, making ascendancies much faster. Nomads are still great if you often use a BR/DST however, since both of those benefit from nomads more.

6 Planning a route

The Dotlan Jump Planner is the standard tool for planning a jump freighter route. You can select systems and then it will automatically pick a route.  You can then select alternative systems to find other midpoints. You can also see fuel usage. The Range tool is also quite useful if you’re trying to see whether you can reach nearby systems to where you want to go, or to see all the in-range systems in a region..

6a Picking good systems

Picking a good system for a JF midpoint isn’t too complicated.  There’s three main things you want: Good cyno stations (ones with a generous docking radius), not in a high-traffic pipe, and low jumps/kills.  All of these things are visible from Dotlan, so that’s what you should be using primarily. Make sure to look at the killboard, see how many JFs have been killed there, see what groups are active in the area, and try to avoid using the default systems when you put in your route to dotlan, because that’s where people will assume you’ll jump next.  Though being hunted in a JF is rare since they’re so safe, so that part isn’t as big of a deal. Not that it doesn’t happen.

6b Highsec Exit Systems

Highsec exits are a little more tricky.  You want pretty much all of the same things as above, except it needs to connect to highsec, which means low-traffic is probably unlikely.  Make sure you pick a system with multiple stations if you can, but more important than anything is that you connect to as high security highsec as you can.  The lower the security in highsec, the longer the concord response time, which means the fewer ships enemies need to kill you. If you can jump straight from lowsec into 0.7+, that’s great.  If you have to go a few jumps through 0.5, that’s not great.

6c Citadels

Citadels in general are fantastic to cyno onto, since your cyno is tethered until you light, you can tether your JF, and the docking radius is super large, and clearly marked.  It’s particularly great for your highsec exit because you can pretty much ignore Tiky Mikk-style ganks, which I’ll go over below.

7 Standard Operating Procedure

The basic procedure for moving a JF is super simple.  Make sure you’re in fleet with your cyno(s), undock the first cyno, move it into position, undock the JF, wait for the session change timer, light the cyno, right click capacitor, jump to the cyno, wait out the session change timer, dock.  That’s basically it. Repeat for every midpoint. Once you get to your highsec exit, Undock, align to gate, warp to gate, gate to trade hub, dock up. Make sure to make an insta-dock bookmark in any stations you’re warping to to dock.

7a Cyno Alts, multiple accounts

Some people get a JF without any cyno alts.  This is a horrible mistake. Having your own cynos is incredibly important, it allows you to move when you want, where you want, and to be sure that the cyno is good to your standards.

Because of this, running a JF basically requires having multiple accounts.  The more the better, you can never have too many cyno alts. Cyno alts are a fast train, you literally only need Cynosural Field Theory 4, and then they can use corvette cynos.  Park them in a station with a bunch of liquid ozone and spare cynos, and they’ll be able to cyno forever.

7b E-cynos

Emergency Cynos (E-Cynos) are what saves your ass when someone tries to gank you.  Whenever you’re warping your JF, you should have a minimum of 1 cyno character undocked with either a cyno already lit, or a cyno able to be lit at a moment’s notice.  This is primarily what makes JFs so difficult to gank in highsec. If they drop point on you even for a second, you cyno out and are safe.

If you don’t have an e-cyno, you’re just a tankier slightly faster freighter, and freighters are easily gankable.  ALWAYS HAVE AN E-CYNO. NO EXCEPTIONS. Also an E-Cyno doesn’t have to be different from a midpoint cyno. It can just be one of your existing cynos that is in range of wherever you’re warping in highsec.  If you have to go deep enough into highsec that you won’t be in range of any of your existing cynos, then move them. DO NOT WARP WITHOUT AN E-CYNO, EVER. I can’t overstate how important this is. JFs are very expensive, but the collateral you’re hauling is probably worth just as much or more.  Don’t end up losing it because you couldn’t be bothered to get an e-cyno in position.

7c Webbing Alts

Webbing is more commonly seen with freighters instead of JFs, but it’s still a great way to speed up your highsec gating trip.  The idea is to have an alt in a ship with 3 webs that can apply the webs to your JF. Doing this reduces the maximum speed of the ship, allowing it to enter warp more quickly.  You can use a simple t1 frigate for this, or if you want to do it the best way, get a Hyena or Rapier. The procedure is to duel your webbing alt from your freighter pilot (who should have auto-reject invitations on), then get your webbing ship within range, ideally before decloaking the freighter.  Initiate warp on the freighter, lock up the freighter on the webber, apply webs, and bam, the freighter kicks into warp. You need to get a certain amount of speed before the webs will work, since you need to be going fast enough to warp with your reduced maximum speed after the webs. This is particularly problematic when it comes to webbing off of a station undock for example, where rather than decloaking at 0.0m/s you’re decelerating and aligning to a gate, which can cause problems with webbing.  It’s important to remember that webs won’t provide any additional security, only speed. Since any would-be gankers need to bring suicide scram ships regardless in order to kill you, they’ll be able to lock and point you before you can web into warp (even properly executed it’s not instawarp), so you’ll still be tackled just the same. It’s just great for speeding up trips.

8 Common mistakes/ganks and how to avoid

8a Tiky Mikk style

This is Tiky Mikk.  For a while, he was the only one doing ganks like this, but now he’s got copycats.  What he does is he sits cynos in popular JF highsec exit systems, and then drops his super on unsuspecting JFs when they undock to warp to highsec.  His gank relies on two things. The first is that the JF pilot underestimates the amount of alpha a Super can do (they can alpha a JF), and the second is the JF clicked “Jump” on the gate, and thus has to ctrl+space before they can dock back up.  In their panic, they don’t do this fast enough, so they die. So how do you not die? When you undock, align to your gate, and then press warp/jump once fully aligned. If any supers cyno in, immediately dock up. If anything big undocks behind you, dock back up.  Easy peasy, you’ll never die to this as long as you don’t panic.

8b Highsec gank

Highsec ganks work pretty much like freighter ganks.  They’ll bring suicide scram ships to point you, then bump you with a machariel and bring in a gank fleet.  Usually this is catalysts, taloses, or bombers. With a freighter, once you get bumped you’re effectively dead.  With a JF, you should be lighting your e-cyno and jumping out at the first sign of trouble. If you jump in to a gate and there’s a bunch of nasty looking ships on the other side, just e-cyno out.  If they point you, then spam jump and hope that they let their point drop for a second and you can get out. If they successfully hold point on you non-stop, then you’re dead. But if they let it slip for a single tick, you’re saved.  Because of the difficulty of holding point while being concorded constantly in high-highsec, JFs aren’t targeted nearly as frequently as normal freighters. Most of the JFs that die in highsec die because they either didn’t have an e-cyno, or weren’t in an npc corp and died to wardeccers.

Fitting bulkheads and having slave implants can potentially make them miscalculate and not bring enough damage, but don’t count on this.

8c Dread undock bump

This is where after you undock from a station at a midpoint or highsec exit, enemies undock a bunch of dreads behind you, immediately siege them, then as you bump outside of docking range, they blap you.  The counter to this is essentially the same as for Tiky Mikk, align instead of warping, and dock up if anything sketchy happens. The only additional thing, is make sure you pick stations with generous docking ranges, if you pick near-kickout stations, this kind of gank is that much easier to pull off.

8d Taking a JF to anywhere that’s not a station/citadel

There’s a very small number of reasons someone might do this, and most of them include poses, but if you aren’t absolutely sure you know what you’re doing, you should think twice.  A jump freighter is a 7-8bil hull with no defenses and an incredibly slow align/warp, it’s pretty much the most expensive free kill you can put on field short of jump-instead-of-bridging a bridge-fit titan.  If you’re ever outside docking range in lowsec or nullsec, and you aren’t in warp to/landing on a highsec gate, you’re likely doing it wrong.

8e Jumped to bad cyno and bumped

This is the point where you enter full-on panic mode.  First of all, spam dock until you’re sure you’re out of docking range.  Then make sure you chastise yourself for not making a proper cyno, now you know why you take the time to make a proper cyno.  There’s 2 options when you bump. First is to find a warpable object roughly in-line with the direction you’re bumping and try to warp off to that at range, and the second is to try to burn back to docking range if you didn’t get thrown far.  Neither are good options, both leave you exposed far longer than you want to be. Just hope nobody who would do anything about it saw it happen, otherwise you’re likely going to lose your JF.

9 Courier contracts

9a Rates and subcontracting

JF Rates are usually calculated in isk/m3 plus a percentage of collateral.  This makes it so that no matter what the value you’re hauling, you can still make enough to cover fuel and earn a base fee.  Then the percentage of collateral rewards you for the additional risk of carrying higher value goods.

Always take any opportunity to stack multiple contracts together to make a full load.  Don’t leave any empty space if you can avoid it, the more you haul the more you make. Make sure when calculating whether a run’s reward is worth it that you take into account the fuel costs, both for your JF and for the cynos.

9b Subcontracting

Your JF pilot should never accept contracts from other players, because then those players know your JF pilot’s name and can more easily hunt you or target you with contract scams/wardecs.  The standard method is subcontracting.

Use some random alt for accepting contracts.  This character can just sit in Jita and hold a pool of isk to cover collateral.  Once you accept a contract (or contracts), right click the package(s) and Create a contract on them.  Set this up as a private courier to your JF pilot, going to the same destination. You can also do this from the assets tab, so the alt doesn’t need to be in the same station as the contracts they’re accepting.

This way nobody knows your JF pilot, and if you’re in a hauling corp, you can keep your JF pilot in an NPC corp to avoid wardecs.

9c Contract Scams

The only contract scam that works on JFs is contracts to undeliverable locations.  Usually this means a contract that’s going to a player-owned station, though citadels are also used for this.  When you get to the delivery station/citadel, you realize you don’t have docking rights. You can’t complete the contract, so you’re forced to fail it, and it turns out that the collateral was massively over-inflated so you lose a ton of money.  Beware of any public contracts to sov-null stations or citadels.

9d Problem contracts (not necessarily scams but maybe)

Assembled containers are a big annoyance.  They can’t be subcontracted, so when you accept the contract, the only way to deal with it is to direct-trade the package to your JF pilot at the origin and then back at the destination.  This can really be a pain if your contracting alt can’t fly travelceptors and the destination is deep in nullsec.

Contracts with collateral significantly under the value of the goods, or missing altogether isn’t really a problem for you, but it’s a significant risk for the contractor, and if you charge a percentage on collateral, they’re paying you less than they should.

Contracts to kickout stations are dangerous as well.  Kickout stations are dangerous for anyone, doubly so for JFs.  Avoid any contracts to kickout stations if possible.

How you handle these contracts is up to you, or the directives of the hauling group you work for, but they’re all problems to be aware of.

10 Market Seeding

I don’t know a ton about market seeding, since I’ve focused mostly on courier contracts, however I can go over the basics.  The key to making good money with market seeding is understanding what to import and when. The obvious goal is to buy low and sell high.  Remember to account for taxes/broker fees/fuel when calculating your profits, some things won’t be worth importing since the margins will be too small.  You can use sites like Eve-Central or Eve-MarketData for initial research to find profitable trades.

10a Reading the market window

There’s a few things you’re looking for that makes a good product for seeding.  The first is obviously a healthy margin between the buy and sell values. In this case it’s the value you’d buy it for (even if this is the sell value) in the station you’re buying it, and the sell value you can get in the destination system.  If you’re looking at something and it’s already seeded at under Jita value, you likely can’t make much money on it, if any.

The second thing you want to look for is volume.  Just because something has great margins doesn’t mean you should just import as much of it as you can.  Make sure you go to the Table view on Price History and check the Orders and Quantity. Often you’ll find items that have great margins, but only a few units move every day, or even less.  You want to find something that you can import and then turn around and sell it rather quickly.

The third thing you want to look for is the current supply on the market.  If the margins are solid and the volume is there, but there’s already a ton of it on the market, then importing will require you to compete with more people, meaning the prices will likely fall between when you buy it and when you eventually sell the last unit.

10b Contract Seeding

Contract seeding is where you import things and put them up on contract.  Usually this means fitted ships for nullsec alliances, packs of BPCs, or other collections of items that are useful to be sold together.  The benefit of this is that you can usually use a higher markup since you’re eliminating some of the hassle for the customer. The downside is you take that hassle on yourself, and it takes a lot longer to fit up dozens of ships and put them on contracts than it does to put the ship/fits on market.  Since contracts are a pain to put up and update, the competition is a lot slower, and usually once people put up a contract at a certain price, they’ll leave it there. One trick to save some time is to use the “Copy Contract” function. Once you set up the first contract, click the 4 lines at the bottom left of the contract window, and choose Copy Contract.  This will open up a new contract, with all the same details automatically filled in. That’ll save you a lot of copy-pasting.

11 FAQ

I heard I should keep my JF docked in the first highsec system and use a freighter for the rest of the highsec jumps?

This is something that I see talked about regularly on /r/eve and other forums.  It’s a bad idea. Freighters don’t have jump drives, so they’re way more gankable in highsec than a JF.  Plus if you’re doing a JF trip, then you aren’t going to be hauling more than the JF can hold anyways. I think this idea was propogated by freighter gankers who wanted to discourage the use of JFs in highsec, and perpetuated by people who don’t know any better yet.

I heard if you get bumped as long as you stay in warp you’ll automatically warp out after 3 minutes?

This is something CCP talked about adding, but they never actually did.  At least as of now (22 Feb 2017) you can be bumped indefinitely.

Which is better money, courier contracts, or market seeding?

This depends on what exactly you’re seeding or your courier rates, but in general market seeding generally makes a higher percentage based on investment.  Courier contracts are going to make a smaller percentage, however you don’t have to wait for things to sell on the market, so the turnaround time is way faster.  You might only make 2% instead of 20%, but you make that 2% in less than an hour where the 20% would take a few days. I personally prefer courier contracts, but if you have tons of money and don’t mind the time it takes, market seeding can make more money.

Hauling is so boring! How do you handle doing something so boring so much?

Boring is subjective.  Lots of people find hauling boring, same as mining.  In my opinion, the best way to make money in eve is to find something you enjoy and then maximize it, because enjoying it will give you the energy to do it enough to actually make solid money from it.  I really enjoy hauling. I like the feeling of being a cog in a vast machine, knowing that my work enabled other people to do whatever else they were doing. It’s also relaxing and relatively low-effort, meaning you can easily do it while watching tv, playing other games, doing other things in eve, etc.  It’s also not as consistently active as things like ratting or mining, where you pretty much want to be at the computer paying attention to it (even on a low level) most of the time. Jump freighting you can do a quick run in ~20min, then walk away from the computer for the rest of the hour.

Why the fuck is this so long?

I don’t really know, I started writing and there ended up being a lot of things I wanted to cover.  I figured it’d be better to have all the information you’d want/need in one place, rather than having to read a whole bunch of different guides to get all this stuff.  If you read the whole thing, I apologize, but hopefully the information was helpful.

Basics

Building

Use

Managment

Capturing:

Defense:

Assets

Miscellaneous Questions

Basics

What is a Citadel? 

It is a rather large upcoming structure that functions as both a Market and Office hub

How are the new structures (Cithadels and others) classed?

Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large

Citadels will be what sizes?

Medium, Large, Extra Large

What will be released first?

Medium and large Citadels will be released first.

Why are there no small Citadels?

Small structures are going to assimilate existing deployables, cargo containers and mobile warp disruptors. Citadels are much larger.

What do the size differences mean for Citadels?

• Medium sized Citadel structures will be around 5-25km in diameter and are tailored for individual or small groups of players. They will be able to fit some appropriate defenses to offer resistance against most kind of assaults including capital ships. Moreover, players can dock inside them with sub-capital ships.

• Large sized Citadel structures will be around 25-50km in diameter and are made for corporations or even small alliances. They will offer more advanced functionality over medium-sized Citadels, mainly in the form of area of effect (AoE) defenses and facilities that are more tailored to support large fleets. While players will be able to dock with sub-capitals, capitals are still up to debate at this point.

• X-Large sized Citadel structures will be around 100km in diameter and are specialized for high-end alliance gameplay. On top of the mechanics listed above, they will have the best defensive options to face against particularly large groups and allow capital ships to be docked (even maybe supercapitals–to be discussed).

What area of space will Citadels be deployed in?

Citadels will be deployed in high sec, low sec, null sec, and wormhole space. That means NO shattered wormhole Citadel. There will be restrictions in usage based upon the area of space the structure is deployed in. But, there will also be bonuses for the same reason.

Where in space can they be deployed?

So far, our plan is to have them in all areas of space, as long as proximity restrictions are respected.

Will they be destructible?

Yes

Building

How will I build my Citadel?

Blueprints will be available on the market

Will I have to launch, move, and anchor modules still?

No. Citadel and all future structures will have module and rig spots like spaceships. They will be fit in a similar and consistent manner.

What are the options available to fit a Citadel?

• High slots: Those structure slots will be dedicated to weapons (turrets, launchers, AoE defense mechanics), remote assistance modules (remote hull, armor and shield boosters) and various warfare linked to disruption (energy neutralizers and nosferatus, for instance).

• Mid slots: Can be fitted with electronic warfare, electronic upgrades and sensor upgrade modules.

• Low slots: May be used for engineering, weapon upgrades or expanded cargoholds.

• Service slots: The new additions to the slot family which will only be available for structures. Some will provide station like functionalities, while most will open totally new gameplay. 

• Rigs: Will work similarly to ship rigs – they cannot be removed without being destroyed once inserted and will provide various benefits. The main difference remains in the magnitude of the given bonuses, which will be quite dramatic here. They will take over the old Outpost upgrade system as a whole, and may be several ten times (or more) more expensive than the structure hull itself. By extension, we want the new structure equivalent of Outposts to be available for high-security space, but providing less bonuses due to the reduced risk this implies. Rigs will be the means to deliver on that vision, either by having different rigs which can only be used in separate security status areas, or by having rigs bonuses change depending on its parent hull location.

What will the slot layout look like?

Our current plan is to have a maximum limit of 8 high, 8 medium, 8 low, 8 service and 3 rig slots. That doesn’t mean all of them will available at once (just like on ships) though.

How much does this all cost?

Currently we are still working on pricing. However an XL should have the same level of commitment as an outpost. However, upgrading a XL Citadelwith rigs is going to cost much more, since they’re going to take over outpost and outpost upgrades / improvements. Building and upgrading smaller structures will require far much less commitment and resources.

Will each empire have their own version?

No, these are made specifically for capsuleers.

Then what sort of ‘racial’/faction flavouring will there be?

Each class of structure (ie Citadel, Drilling Platform, Observatory) will belong to an NPC corporation which technically belong to a faction, but you won’t see the usual Amarr, Minmatar, Caldari, Gallente stylings. We are creating a new style for each which more accurately reflects their purpose.

Use

Can I deploy a Citadel for a corporation?

Yes

Can I deploy a Citadel for an individual?

A citadel can be restricted to one, single user. However, that player must be in a player corporation and the player corporation will be the owner of the structure.

Then what happens to my structure when I leave my corporation?

Your structure will stay with your corporation. 

But that means it is not really mine!

It will be as much yours as it can be. You can restrict access to a structure to only one person.  However, those that change roles will still be able to change that.

How long will it take to deploy my structure?

• Medium – One Hour
• Large – Two Hours
• X-Large – Four hours

Can I control who uses my Citadel?

Yes.

Can I open my Citadel to the public?

Yes.

Can I transfer ownership of my Citadel?

Yes

Can I dock in my Citadel?

Yes.

Can I see outside of my Citadel?

Yes

What can I potentially I dock in my Citadel?

• Medium – Subcapitals
• Large – Subcapitals, capitals (carriers, dreadnoughts, freighters, Bowhead, Orca), and the Rorqual
• X-Large – Everything

Can I run command links while linked to the Citadel?

At the moment anything that gives you a weapon timer will break linking. While command links don’t at the moment this may change.

How do I fuel my structure?

There will be only one type of fuel. But wait, there is more! Structures will only use fuel for running services. The amount of fuel will depend on the fittings you have picked.

Is there a limitation to the distance between two structures and the distance between a sov structure and these new structures ?

Yes. Currently it is about 500k between structures.

Will the office, cloning, and market functions work in WH space?

It depends on which kind of gameplay we want to have in W-space. So far, office and market functions look fine, cloning does not. It is not set in stone at this point.

Which functions are built into the hull, and which functions are provided by fitting modules and rigs?

Storage, security and fitting service will be on the hull. Corp offices, market, industry, clones etc will all be modules that have to be added and fueled.

Can I personalize my structure?

Hopefully. We are planning for them to use the same SKIN system as ships. But this will not be available with the initial release.

What happens when I undock?

There is an invulnerability link that will keep you safe and sound like the old POS shield. However, you will lose this if you engage anyone and you will gain a weapons timer. This will prevent you from docking back up and we hope will help prevent station games.

Are these going to be able to do reactions? or are they essentially just the pos equivalent storage hub?

Ultimately, it will depend on which kind of Service Module you fit on those structures. Want to do reactions? Fit the reactor module. May not be the best use of a Citadel though, since like ships, structures will have bonuses to specific fields and Citadels will have bonuses towards defense, office and markets.

Managment

Will I be able to configure my structures remotely?

Players with sufficient roles would no longer need to travel to individual structures to configure them

I manage a lot of structures. Do I have to keep editing them one by one?

• Preset configuration profiles could be applied to multiple structures at once
• Various assets would show proper states, location and conditions at first glance

Will there be personal hangars?

Yes. All of these structures will get personal hangars.

Must I be docked to access my stuff?

We are going to allow you to access your personal hangar and maybe your corporation hangar when you are close to the structure. This will allow large ships to use structures too small for them to dock at. They will be secured with the invulnerability link at this time.

Capturing: 

How may I attack someone’s Citadel?

Medium, Large and X-Large structures will use a version of the Sovereignty capture mechanic, which means they will only be attacked through the use of the Entosis module.

When can I attack?

During the vulnerability window.

When is a structure vulnerable?

Players owning the structures set the vulnerability time themselves, providing they have enough roles this can be done in advance, before deploying the structure.

How long is it vulnerable for?

The vulnerability timer is a mandatory duration expressed on a weekly basis, whose length varies depending on the structure size, location and role. How players assign vulnerability hours is entirely up to them, as long as they fill the weekly quota. You could assign all hours consecutively if you have enough defensive manpower available, or you could spread them out over multiple days. Hours have to be spent whole however, no weird split minute shenanigans will be allowed.

So, I can just attack anything anytime it is vulnerable?

As usual, attacking a structure in high-security space without a war declaration is a bad idea and thus gives you a criminal flag.

How would you protect a structure that you want to capture, rather than to destroy? 

You would protect a structure by using the Entosis module to prevent the opposing party to attack it during its vulnerability window. Or you would use the defenses fitted to kill them all while laughing like a maniac.

But I wasn’t logged in! Someone attacked my structure!

Structures that are successfully attacked through Entosis links during their vulnerability window go into an invulnerable mode for a specific amount of time, at the end of which another vulnerability window may occur. If it is the last vulnerability window the structure is capable of supporting, then it is immediately destroyed.

Structures go into reinforcement the first time they are successfully Entosised?

Yes

I need to evacuate my stuff, can I?

You can move some of your stuff. A  structure entering its first reinforcement window cannot have its fittings altered – players will still be able to refuel its various bays, fit ammunition to the various defense systems or take items in or out of its hangars, but will unable to add, remove or change fitted structure modules in any way

First timer? There is more?

 A structure entering its second reinforcement window will cause all industry jobs to be paused and services to go offline on top of the previously mentioned penalty. Those penalties will exist until the structure goes back into its normal operation mode (thus until defenders successfully Entosis it).

How much stront (Strontium Clathrates) will I need for each size structure?

Reinforcement will not require Strontium Clathrates to operate, and will be a functionality that’s always available on all structures for free.

How long will reinforcement last?

Unlike existing Starbase reinforcement timers, those reinforcement timers are based on vulnerability hours to operate. This is to ensure the reinforcement timer always ends during a vulnerability window, when defenders are online and (theoretically) committed to defend it.

How does Entosis work with structures?

• A structure that is successfully attacked by an Entosis Link during its vulnerability window goes into reinforcement. If it was being deployed, or if that was the last vulnerability window it was capable of withstanding, the structure is destroyed instead.
• A structure that is partially contested with an Entosis Link will delay the vulnerability or deployment timer indefinitely, until such time where the owner uses his own Entosis Link to remove the contested status, or an attacker chooses to fully attack it. The duration will however count toward the vulnerability or deployment timer – a structure that needs 4 hours to be deployed, but is stuck in a contested state for 5 days can be immediately deployed if the owner removes this particular status with his own Entosis Link

I like to fly around space. How do I know what is going on?

Corporation members with enough roles to do so will have full information on vulnerability, reinforcement, capture timers. Notifications will be sent for those particular states to make sure people can respond and defend their structures in a timely manner.

I currently like to look for timers in progress to do nefarious things. Am I losing that ability?

Any external party to the corporation will only be able to see the timer related to the current state. For example, a scout may learn the structure is in reinforced state 2, with 5 hours left on it by going to the solar system where the structure is located. However the same scout will not be able to guess how the vulnerability window is weekly set, neither can it guess how long the next vulnerability phase is going to be unless it happens. In the same manner, we want to avoid automation for this particular information, which means not displaying it in the API, since we want people to actively scout, or infiltrate spies in the target entity they wish to disrupt instead of relying on external tools to do the job for them.

If structures can be anywhere how do I find them to have glorious Entosis time?

Structure brackets are going to be visible in space and in the overview if:

• The user can interact with the structure in question. A structure set to accept neutral parties will be displayed publicly for such pilots. Another structure set for “alliance use only” will not appear to any neutral pilot at all.
• The structure itself disrupts the user in any way. An Observatory Array having adverse effects on a pilot ability to probe or scan will appear to anyone.
• On top of the points above, all structures, no matter their size or role, will have warpable signatures like cosmic combat anomalies. None of them will need to be probed to be warped to, even if the user doesn’t not have direct access to them. This will ensure pilots can quickly see what’s happening in their surroundings without having to use probes, and thus not having to give their position away to the inhabitants.

How will you avoid accidental killings?

Accidental killings are a tricky business. We may either want to forbid you from locking and shooting neutrals in high-sec (permanent safety mechanic), or, if we can do it, allow you to do so but have CONCORD show up and destroy your structure if you commit an act of aggression. Depends on technical and design difficulties we encounter-it’s too early to say so far. In all cases AoE weapons will not be allowed in high-sec for obvious reasons.

Vulnerability window; how will that work in WH space where we can’t claim SOV to boost our indices to reduce our vulnerability timer.

What we are thinking so far is to have high-sec and W-space have higher indices than null-sec by default. So they will be naturally less vulnerable there. We are also thinking about modules, rigs and gameplay options to affect the vulnerability window, but at a price.

How are small groups going to defend their POS?

Vulnerability windows for structures will not necessarily be everyday, and the time to capture will vary depending on the structure and where it is anchored. We are very aware of the concerns of small groups having fewer people online to defend.

What do I get when it blows up?

The structure will drop fittings, fuel maybe in progress industry jobs etc.

Defense:

What weapons systems are available for a Citadel?

All of them! Single target missiles, AoE missiles, point defense batteries (equivalent to smartbombs), energy neutralizers, drones, doomsday weapons. Note that all structures can fit EW modules in their medium slots on top of those high slot weapons.

Will Citadel weapons be automated?

No.

Will each Citadel need similar size weapons?

Unlike ship weapons, they will not exist in multiple sizes themselves – we’ve investigated that option but felt it was not worth the small variety it brought next to the extensive design, technical and skill training costs.

What will be my weapon options?

• One long range weapon, primarily meant to take down large and slow ships, like battleships or capitals. Can be fitted with ammunition that reduces range but increases damage proportionally.
• One short-medium range weapon, best at taking down smaller threats, but doing considerably less damage. Can be fitted with ammunition that reduces range but increases application proportionally.

Will my old POS defense skills work?

No. They are going to require a new line of skills to operate, but most likely use existing gunnery and / or missile support skills. More details as we get them.

Why not give us the option to simply fit existing weapons to these structures ?

So we can balance them separately, these weapons will have very different stats to existing ship weapons.

 If a player does interact with the defenses will they take standings loss for shooting something like they would if they were in a normal ship?

Unlike existing Starbases, you won’t need multiple guys to operate the weapons. Those structures will be like ships, so you will only need one guy to control them all. The Starbase Defense Management skill will be reworked into something else or refunded when Starbases are removed.

Regarding standings, this would in essence be the same situation than launching a bomb into a pack of friendlies Twisted. Those are AoE weapons, be careful where you shoot them.

Citadel Weapon Systems

Area of Effect Missiles. 

• They can be fitted in L and X-L structures only and be loaded with blast charges aimed to either take down slow and large ships or small and fast ones.

• An extra option is to use energy draining missiles which make them work like targeted bombs.
• This launcher won’t be available for high-security space structures since they make no distinction between friends or foes.

Energy Neutralizers

• Available for M, L and X-L structures.

• Two variations exist:

• The first with a  short cycle and small drain amount, again aimed for sub-capital targets.
• Another with a very long cycle and large drain amount intended to be used against capital ships.

Drone and Fighters

• We are planning for structure to have drones as of one of their available weapon systems. Number and various bonuses given are going to vary depending on the structure type and size – larger ones could be focused towards fighter and fighter-bombers instead of regular drone for instance.

Point Defense Batteries

• This particular module will be similar to a smartbomb – by doing a certain amount of area of effect damage to anything close to the structure. As they are intended to clear drones or small deployable clutter near the structure undock points, they will have a constant damage but low reach.
• This will only be available for large and X-Large structures and cannot be used in high-security space.

Structure Doomsday Weapon

• The Doomsday weapon will only be available on the X-Large structure, and have a similar purpose to the ones installed on Titans. However, it will have extra capabilities next to its ship counterpart to compensate for the single, static nature of the structure on the field.

Assets

Do I have personal hangars?

Yes

Are there corporation hangars?

Yes

What happens when the structure is destroyed? 

• All items fitted on the structures are lost, and can drop as loot (just like ships). To all the clever people out there, remember it is not going to be possible to remove fitted structure modules when the reinforced 1 timer starts.
• All rigs fitted on structure will be lost. While the price for M rigs will not that expensive, X-L rigs will have the same magnitude than outpost improvement and upgrades, so they are not something to be easily dismissed.
• Some of the input materials used in manufacturing or science jobs will drop as loot. This does not include blueprints, which will always be safer from greeding attacking raids, except if it would otherwise be consumed as part of the job (invention for instance). We will add more incoming sources as we are migrating starbase functions. For instance, reaction materials could drop in the future. Market orders will not be available as loot and are going to remain safe from raiding, since they are based on player hangars.
• The structure will turn into a wreck, that will contain a certain percentage of the minerals and components that were needed to build its base hull (not the modules nor rigs).
• Items located on personal or corporation hangars will be impounded and saved.

How will I get my stuff?

There are two different ways of doing so:

• Have items delivered to the closest NPC station. For high-security dwellers, this will be the closest high-security station available. For low and null-security structures, that will be the closest low-security NPC station. Please note the exact destination will be picked automatically to minimize potential for abuse.
• Build another Citadel to replace the one that has been lost in the same system, and deliver the items there. This option will be working the same way for all locations, and will be the only way to recover items out of wormhole space. In case there is more than one structure available to deliver the items to, a selection list will be provided.

Is it free?

There are going to be sinks involved to be able to recover impounded items:

• In case items are delivered to a NPC station, players will need to pay an ISK sink based on a percentage of moved item market value (numbers we are considering are around 10% price fee).
• A minimum recovery time, based on the distance between origin and destination, calculated in light years. There will be a minimum time enforced, even if items are recovered within the same system: current number is 5 days minimum, up to 20 days for the longest distances.

What about people who have unsubbed? 

There will be a journal entry waiting for you to resub. This entry will never expire. There is a recovery timer but that will count down even if you are unsubbed. This way, you will be able to retrieve your items immediately upon restarting your account. You already waited and your stuff misses you.

What about me?

• The player is podded with all normal rules applying for such a case (implants lost) and moved to his or her medical station.
• Player ships are safely impounded and saved, along with all their fittings and rigs. We considered destroyed the active ship as well, but that would only lead to further hassle where players would always have to remember to exit their active ship when docking at one of those new structures.
• As an optional feature, we are investigating having frozen player corpses docked inside the lost structure to appear near the wreck, or be able to be salvaged through the wreck.

What about my stuff?

All items:

• Are automatically delivered as a single package which has to be opened, like courier contract plastic wraps. This is done not to overwhelm, confuse or mix items that are being delivered with ones already in place in the hangar.
• Owners can pick one item at a time to extract from the package if they so wish. In that case, pricing will be calculated on selected items. This done to allow users to get separate items out if they cannot pay the fee for the whole batch if items are delivered to a NPC station.
• Items with exclusive sizes will have restriction on delivery, which mainly includes capital and supercapitals. For example, a titan that was lost inside a Citadel X-L structure cannot be delivered to a NPC station or any other Citadel size than X-L. Furthermore, a capital or supercapital ship cannot be delivered to high-sec.
• When the structure is destroyed all items stay inside containers, but lose password or lock protection.
• Corporation hangar items need proper roles to be delivered. Due to the nature of the recovery it is critical access is properly filtered to avoid thefts.

How will I know what has happened?

• A notification will be sent for each destroyed structure the player (or corporation) had items into.
• A proper tab will be added to personal / corporation asset window when items are impounded and available for delivery.
• Impounded items can also be displayed on the Star Map under the “my asset” filter.

Miscellaneous Questions

Why you want to scrap the force fields?

Forcefields create a lot of problems for players and devs alike. They have those weird behavior at their edges, allow ships to be bumped out in certain circumstances and pollute the field visually with their huge glowing bubble appearance. We want to investigate and find a better way to have a safety zone around structures.

Anchoring restrictions concerning “deep” safes (incursion and mission bookmarks – they still can be more than 15AU off the nearest celestial).

We are considering showing all structures on the on board scanner / sensor overlay allowing you to warp directly to them. No probing required.

Is there any benefit whatsoever from forcing to players to base their ships in one point, transport their mined ore to another to refine, then transport it to a third to build?

We are going to allow you to fit manufacturing lines to citadels and refining to manufacturing structures etc. The base hull however will have bonuses to certain modules, so for industrialist who want to min / max a big operation then yes this is what they will be best to do.

How will the anchoring restrictions work with FW? Will we be able to anchor M or L structures in lowsec systems occupied by the opposing militia?

Currently, yes.

Will they generate killmails?

Yes

Should we expect outpost upgrade reimbursements to be doled out before these hit. If not, would it be close so that outpost funds could be then spent on the new structures?

Really good question, and we would love feedback on exactly how would be best to do this.

Do I receive compensation when my old structures are phased out?

Yes. We are working on what that compensation will be but we are not just taking it without leaving something.

The primary purpose of Black Hand is to penetrate target entities with an agent, or a network of agents. Such agents can either infiltrate the target, or be recruited “in place”.

Handlers are members of Black Hand that manage agents and agent networks.  The senior handlers will oversee the development of junior handlers and their agents.

Sometimes, agent handling is done indirectly, through “primary agents” that serve as proxies for handlers. It is not uncommon, for example, for a handler to manage a number of primary agents, who in turn handle sub-agents, these “networks” are organized in a cellular fashion in order to limit the potential damage when an agent is compromised. Additionally, this allows the primary agent to act as a buffer for the handler, shielding them from direct contact with the agent network. This works well in a situation where you do not want a particular sub-agent to know they are in fact working for us.

As a handler you have 3 primary objectives:

1. Make sure an agent in the field does not burn themselves.

2. Coach the agent to enable them to acquire needed information.

3. Keep the agent motivated and active.

It is extremely important that you do not tell an agent more than they need to know. “Need to Know” is the guiding principle by which we all operate. This minimizes damage to our organization in the event an agent or cell is compromised. Additionally, do not copy and paste conversations with your agent or the agents spy character name directly anywhere, always paraphrase and conceal their identity.

Keeping your Agents Safe

Agents should be aware of the following:

– not to tell anyone their spy character’s name. Even the handler. This keeps any accidental leaks to a minimum

– not to press for Intel (unless told to do so). They are to be passive, picking up only on what they see and hear, otherwise counter Intel types will get suspicious,

– act inline with their SP, if they have 1million SP they should not be taking about how to FC a fleet or how to fit/fly a ship properly,

– the minimum level of activity required to not get kicked from their target entity,

– plex trading, or any kind of trading will show on the API, same goes for transferring assets and ISK

– donating plex now shows on the API and should be avoided

– the only way to safely transfer money is to drop a plex or expensive item in space

– Steam friends, this is often overlooked, do not add people to your Steam account if you have known goons or IMP members on it. Same goes for related groups

– an active agent should try to keep quite on IMP comms in-case a hostile spy recognizes them

– try not to talk like a goon. this is hard. goons say “characters” not “toons”, there is a certain lingo associated with goons, avoid sounding like a goon at all costs (brush up on your pubbie talk)

– avoid being connected to multiple comms at once, this negates making the fatal mistake of keying up on the wrong one and burning

Overall Themes & Goals

1. Make warzone control, winning control, and participating consistently in warzone control fights matter
   
   
2. Focus & drive conflict with more diverse PVP objectives while equitably engaging all TZ’s, preventing timezone gaming or anti-social opportunism
   
   
3. PVP-centric shift in rewards & content richness.  Buff PVP rewards overall and shift most PVE income to PVP while also tying maximal PVE income & opportunities to PVP participation.  Reward wholesome play.
   
   
4. Eliminate opportunities for unlimited passive & anti-social playstyles that encourage botting, farming, opportunist, AFK, and other dilutive forms of play.

Vision 2020 at a Glance

• Much more overall variety in combat plexes and use of combat plex style fighting for objectives that presently invite no PVP such a system upgrades & downgrades.   Checkpoint plexes to periodically limit low-effort system control progress. Multi-timer objective plexes for warzone milestone and endgame challenges. XL & Large plexes to create new apex meta niches.
  
  
• Meaningful dynamics to system & warzone control including access to endgame opportunities to cash out new LP reward accounts.  Warzone control will affect the use of citadels in ways that reward winners and present dilemmas for losers without stifling competitive forward deployments.  Access to new LP sinks will be exclusive to achieving warzone milestones.
  
  
• An unstable, chaotic warzone pendulum that does more than just tick-tock, fueled by rewards that accumulate until one side emerges victorious, requiring them to face risk & reward dynamics in victory while also inviting newcomers with fresh incentives to ensure rebounds back into chaos.  Defenders can expel attackers with meaningful consequences to the attack. Rewards structure encourages come-backs and builds momentum from the smallest victory to diverge anew.
  
  
• An overall feeling that both faction warfare space and its features & content are focused on faction warfare.  This includes limiting unintended neutral citadel interference.  Farmers and cross-plex alts will be much less able to dilute both control mechanics and the LP economy.  This is partly due to a revamped economic model that emphasizes the intersection of PVP & completion of warzone control activities.  The mechanisms themselves will be more resistant to dillutive control influence of bottom feeding farmers. PVP-augmented rewards model will cause third-party fights to benefit faction warfare pilots.

Overall Themes & Goals

Vision 2020 at a Glance

History of this Document

Endorsements

Independent Changes

Low-Hanging Fruit

Less Trivial Mechanic Changes

System Control Checkpoint Plexes

Rolling-Window Participation-Based Rank

Citadels & System Ownership

Rewarding Execution of Broader Strategic Goals

Multi-timer & climactic events

Deferred Rewards

Destruction Augmented Rewards

Deferred Rewards – Generating LP vs Getting Paid LP

Modelling Faction Warfare

Healthy Behavior

Competitive vs Anti-Competitive

Cooperative vs Anti-Social

Diverse vs Repetitive

Aspects of Income & Behavior

Coupled vs Independent Income

Immediate vs Latent Income

Sources of Income by Activity

Status Quo Content Breakdown

Status Quo Estimated Income Distribution By Activity

Vision Plan Content Breakdown

Estimated Vision Plan Income Distribution by Activity

Balancing the Pendulum

Bounding Economics of Loyalty Rewards

How Rewards Can Run Amok

Tools in the Box

Socialization

Competition

Activity Friction

Rate Caps

Visibility

Breaking Conversion

Sublinearity

Robust PVP Valuation Metrics

Changes in Draft

“Boss” Rat Spawn After Plex Capture

Dischord Archives

Loyalty Rewards

Disable Crime Watch In & Around Plexes

Involve Citadel Mechanics in Warzone Control & Tier

LP Accrual

Announce Plex Value Upon Entry

Multi-Timer Events

Checkpoint Plexes

Mechanism to Cause Failure of Enemy PVE

XL Plexes

Intermediate PVP Objectives

DPS Checks on Offense & Defensive Control Objectives

History of this Document

Following a lively & competitive cycle of the GalCal warzone that seems unlikely to be matched for some time in current mechanics, a FW overhaul plan was well received on Reddit.

Later, during the most recent CSM campaign, one of the pro-facwar focus candidates, Matthew Dust organized a FW Discord to receive various proposals.  Many of the original designs in the Reddit thread were represented, iterated, and debated.  Most items in this document were individually presented to the Eve Reddit and linked here.

This document was drafted out of the iterated proposals to create a monolithic, coherent representation and leave no doubt to downstream consumers that the proposals are intended to work together.

While other treatments will be made, this document is decisively pro-PVP, in favor of larger scale objectives, and in favor of doing what it takes to funnel the faction warfare economy through wholesome faction warfare playstyles.

Original contributions within the FW Discord were integrated, some explicitly credited so.  We have mutual interests but are not one entity. Nonetheless, thanks to all.

Endorsements

NanDe YaNen

Independent Changes

Stuff that works with or without changes elsewhere.

Low-Hanging Fruit

1. Bring back “power slide” broken by WCS hotfix
2. No standings loss for in-fleet aggression (smartbombs, scram-chain, ECM bursts etc)
3. Built-in WCS ships or WCS refits cannot cause timer progression
4. LP taxes for corporations
5. Disable crime-watch in & around plexes
6. Default overview includes faction above criminal for displaying color tags
7. Dual-timers for plexes instead of backwards rolling
8. Show plex payout along with timer
9. Variable distance from button to beacon (brawl vs kite plex)
10. Uniform DPS check for both offensive & defensive objectives
11. Split large into large & extra-large plex from Quick Proposals
12. Navy cap booster BPC’s.  BPC’s in general. Remote LP store.
13. Better LP soaks such as XL ammo

Less Trivial Mechanic Changes

System Control Checkpoint Plexes

Similarly posted as Checkpoint Plexes on FW Discord

Voted for on FW Discord:  16 up 4 down

• Limit system contest progress achievable without re-shipping and bringing more people and/or going somewhere else
• Some checkpoints are completely not soloable
• Defensive & offensive
• “Good” rats protecting goals.  In general, we love NPC miner response fleet style rats
• Variety in checkpoints.  Specific checkpoint spawns randomized so that players can’t know up front which hyper-optimized fit to bring because the response fleets have different capabilities
• Upcoming checkpoint generation is discoverable via FW map & agency.  Timer-based goals force confrontation at the appointed time. Sprinkle some timers of consequence into the warzone to attract regular medium-scale fights.

Rolling-Window Participation-Based Rank

Very similar proposal posted on FW Discord as Change of the method by which LP are accruing for FW plexes and missions.

Voted for on FW Discord:  27 up 1 down

• Overhaul rank mechanics to avoid late-comer syndrome.  These people are just vultures who dilute the rewards after others make them available
• Rank math should make consistent participation over time the exclusive and optimum way to achieve & maintain high rank.  Use formula involving recent faction time * LP earned per each week.  Use a ten week window. For example, showing up for the last three weeks of a campaign caps late-comers at 3/10ths maximum rank
• Metrics of activity should include PVP, but as stated later, if LP is more strongly tied to PVP, LP can be used directly as a metric for wholesome activity for the purpose of rank
• With robust rank mechanics in place, reward higher rank more LP and more LP store access

Citadels & System Ownership

X-posted as Involve Citadel Mechanics in System Ownership & Tier

Voted for on FW Discord:  8 up 0 down

• At anchor time all warzone citadels either declare fixed allegiance or dynamic neutrality
• Fixed allegiance allows faction warfare structures exclusive (nullsec level rig?  Fuel consumption?) bonuses when your side owns the system and upgrades it, but exposes you to penalties fuel consumption if the enemy faction holds the system, requiring starbase charters as an extra fuel components.  
• Anchoring a structure in a hostile system and declaring it with the countervailing allegiance, especially according to upgrade levels, costs an extreme amount of fuel & charters etc.  Staging citadels should have a place, but not be spammy.
• Dynamic neutrality means you just want to ignore system ownership, but to do so, your structure always rejects docking from the losing faction.
• Structures that would evade fuel penalty with “low power” either receive “ultra low power” with zero timers or are cleared by a spawn of faction navy

Rewarding Execution of Broader Strategic Goals

The mechanics that follow require coordinated changes to achieve balanced benefits.  These changes must be read and interpreted in the context of each other.

In order to enable climactic event arcs to exist without content hoarding, we need multi-timer events to distribute content equitably over timezones and to inject all TZ’s fingerprint on warzone shifts.

To establish large end-game and milestone rewards without exacerbating late-comer behavior or blowing up the faction warfare economy, we need deferred rewards & the earlier enhanced rank proposal

To weave PVP into incentives more prominently without introducing avenues of unbounded evil, we need good mechanism to scale LP in ways resistant to abuse.  An analysis of how to prevent runaway economics has been drafted and appended.

Deferred rewards is an enabling mechanic to promote much healthier 

broad-spectrum behavior by separating LP generation from LP payout. It deserves considerable focus.  An informal analysis is presented to establish fundamental concepts and vocabulary.

Multi-timer & climactic events

We want to have big fights and big events.  We don’t want content hoarding or TZ gaming.  We don’t want late-comers to show up and eat half of the pie.

Voted for on FW Discord:  9 Up 3 Down

• Influential events are set up by triggering a multi-timer series of fights, clearly discoverable with advance notice
• Triggering climax system causes 5-50(?) countdown timers spawn, distributed over 24 or 48 hours, with generation density weighted according to online player count trends – “eve random”
• At each countdown, Individual timer-goal spawns.  Goals can be some mixture of baby-citadel like mechanics, NPC fleets, combat plexes etc
• Winning majority of timers determines winner of climactic outcome, such as system ownership flip or major upgrade levels
• Defense can “win” instead of just merely delaying the inevitable to the next timezone shift.  (current Ihubs defense is inconsequential and dissuades serious defense fleets). Cooldown on attempts is a must!
• Offensive & defensive incarnations can both be running at the same time, indicating maximum level of competition
• Uniform mechanics (not inherently offensive or defensively favorable and timezone insensitive) that preclude any time advantage being achieved by “cross faction” alts gaming timers and opportunities. 
• Triggering timers costs some ISK & LP (spam prevention).  Use RP candy in the trigger mechanisms. “Anchoring Federal Jurisdiction Outposts” etc.
• Actual end-goal-state events require a significant LP & ISK “wager” to trigger and will generate a significant reward if the goal is won.  Defense can win to earn a significant portion for themselves via deferred rewards.  This behavior enables variation in warzone conclusion & more interesting overall cycles.
• Climaxes.  Important. Lucrative.  Exclusive LP store access gates etc.  Major RP porn. Gold at the end of the rainbow.

Related write-ups:

Deferred Rewards

Written up on faction warfare discord as Loyalty Rewards™ 

Appendix on Preventing Runaway Economy of PVP Activity

Enhanced Payouts for Continuing Activities.  The Deferred rewards system’s biggest trick is decoupling income earning from income payment.  This enables fine-tuning the relationship between income and behavior.  Late-comers will no longer be able to swoop in and grab lucrative rewards.  Single-style play, anti-social play, and anti-competitive play will be unable to achieve maximal income, strongly discouraging them overall.  Overall income can be buffed but while being difficult to game.

• LP rewards are paid out partly up front and partly into a deferred account
• Having a large deferred account balance boosts payouts for future activities.  
• Basic combat plexing should generate lots of LP but deposit most of it into deferred rewards, becoming a massive personal pinata
• “Important” activities such as checkpoint & climactic arc fights have more potential to pay out the deferred account, allowing you to reap more of what you sowed
• Objectives themselves should capture and thereby socialize a fraction of PVP augmentation, allowing sunk-cost recovery
• Consequent objectives should acquire a fraction of the LP of objectives leading into them
• Warzone flip and winning major warzone milestones are the only actions that fully or near-fully pay out the entire deferred account balance, via wager.  All other milestones net more rewards farther down the road.  You need a high rank and lots of successful participation in a climactic event to get a big payday.
• Highly competitive churn builds up latent rewards on both sides, making victory more urgent when fighting is back & forth.
• Decay.  If not enough LP is earned relative to the account balance, it should be decayed into a socialized faction-wide account.  LP that never gets paid out will then be socialized so that players who refuse to participate in broad spectrum activity will end up paying the rest of the faction.
• Upon leaving the faction, fully socialize all remaining LP in the deferred account.  This will help newcomers pick up where other groups moved on from faction warfare.

Related Write-ups:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/98yfmm/fw_tiers_and_tears_why_fw_missions_are_outdated/e4kcalg/?context=3

Destruction Augmented Rewards

ISK destroyed is used as one major factor to calculate rewards payouts.  Bloody plexes, bloody systems, and bloody warzone pushes pay out the most.  Rewards should accumulate on heavily contested goals. Scale LP payout with destruction wrought.

• Destruction should be measured in any space FW pilots must pass through, such as plex gate grids, so that third party harassment just means more ISK for us if we kill / die a lot
• Allow fleets to equally share in kill LP but use the kill share, damage dealt, to determine extra-fleet LP splits.  If you can be in the fleet, it’s assumed you’re considered worthy of sharing.
• Destruction is more robust than activity-driven churn such as pushing all the buttons to flip the warzone without ever fighting or doing it all as uncontested as possible
• Make expensive plexes discoverable at least on slide so we know when the loot pinata has gone critical
• Deferment & socialization is an easy mechanism to avoid price-gaming that has been seen in the past.  Also just use actual robust “value” estimates.  Set flat reward benchmarks for rarely traded, actual expensive stuff like AT frigs.

Related write-ups:

Deferred Rewards – Generating LP vs Getting Paid LP

Modelling Faction Warfare

Informally established fundamentals dynamics to provide a common framework for reasoning & communicating about how mechanics & behavior interact 

Healthy Behavior

First, we establish what behavior we want to make a place for.  
Healthy behavior is cooperative, competitive, and diverse.  Unhealthy behavior is repetitive and anti-social, and anti-competitive.

Competitive vs Anti-Competitive

Fleets of combat interceptors warping past each other for Fozzie sov are 

anti-competitive.  Capturing plexes by warping in and out to avoid the PVP dynamics 

of plex fights is anti-competitive.  Standing down from infrastructure hub bashes to 

re-flip the system instead of winning the fight is anti-competitive.

Most fighting behavior is competitive.  If fighting is not an integral mechanic and 

metric for success, anti-competitive behavior is basically encouraged.

Cooperative vs Anti-Social

If there’s zero benefit to flying in a gang instead of solo, then anti-social behavior can 

emerge. One-vs-one fighting is not anti-social.  Anti-social is when 

you don’t form gangs to do even anti-competitive or PVE activities.

Diverse vs Repetitive

Defensive plexing endlessly is repetitive.  Running L4’s over and over is repetitive. If 

activities bear no relation to each other or have no coupling dynamics that relate them to each other over time, repetitive play styles may emerge.

Aspects of Income & Behavior

Both income and fun drive activity.  Income is one limiting rate parameter for fun that can be had at PVP, so we can study income to learn how PVP is incentivized and enabled or limited.

Coupled vs Independent Income

Coupled income activities are those that require the completion of other activities 

and achievement of certain environment states such as faction tier to generate the 

income-earning opportunities and to maximize the realizable income from those

activities.

Independent income activities are those that require no further interaction with the 

warzone or other activities.  They can be repeated endlessly regardless of warzone 

state.

Coupled income sources are usually rate-limited by the availability of the 

opportunity, which may require social or competitive play to maintain.  Independent 

income vectors often scale without bound and are more prone to becoming 

Unhealthy.

Immediate vs Latent Income

If a player can earn ISK relatively instantly from an activity, the activity is 

independent with respect to how it pays income.  Spinning timers for whichever 

faction pays more using AFK plexing alts who can be lowly alphas is effectively an 

instantaneous form of income.  This is a fair weather, anti-social, anti-competitive 

play style.  The effectively instantaneous access to income (switching faction alts)  

is the enabling financial dynamic.

If a player must engage in other activities to realize the potential income of their 

earlier activities, it is latent income.  Waiting until the warzone flips to cash out LP in 

the less competitive market is a latent income behavior.  Latent income is not 

necessarily more healthy except that it tends to involve more behavior over time, 

enabling other ways to encourage healthy behavior.

Sources of Income by Activity

We can first break down play styles into PVP and PVE activities.  PVE activities can 

then be broken into elective vs coincidental.  PVP activities can be broken into 

focused or diffuse.

Coincidental PVP is a coupled activity that takes place in the course of achieving 

warzone control.  It’s less prone to farming than elective PVE, which can be repeated 

without limit whenever the faction tier is high enough or if one has mission pulling 

alts in multiple factions.  We should definitely favor coincidental PVE over elective 

PVE.

Diffuse PVP today can be thought of as fairly anti-competitive.  This is mainly 

because the majority of “combat” plexes are won by AFK plex spinners in backwater 

systems.  Focused PVP is more likely to be competitive, but in the current system of 

infrastructure hub bashes, is also often won by groups of high DPS blaster ships to 

little fanfare.

Status Quo Content Breakdown

• Elective PVE – Agent missions picked up at faction warfare stations
• Coincidental PVE – Killing rats in combat plexes
• Focused PVP – Ihub bashes and concurrent combat plexes
• Diffuse PVP – Most combat plexes

Status Quo Estimated Income Distribution By Activity

This is the estimated current breakdown of all LP paid out over the course of a warzone flip.  With the current mechanics, there are several glaring problems with this distribution and the behavior that it promotes.

• Elective PVE, L4 mission farming, is very independent, requiring only some plexing alts to gain access to the mission agents to pull missions for you.  You can farm an unlimited amount once set up. The activity is very, very lucrative in terms of ISK per hour.  This activity is completely anti-competitive and anti-social.  Mission farmers don’t cooperate with other players and they avoid confrontation or any activity leading up to the high tier, preferring to just switch their mission pulling alts depending on which faction is currently at high tier.
  
  
• Diffuse PVP is primarily earned from plex-spinning.  This can be highly anti-competitive swarms of disposable AFK plexers who exert enormous influence over the warzone but participate in little of the engaging gameplay.
  
  
• Focused PVP is basically limited to infrastructure hub bashes.  These are never worth it in terms of payout and only occasionally generate good fights.  The greatness of a small fraction of the fights owes no credit to the infrastructure hub mechanics.  Large plexes can be more exciting. Infrastructure hubs are basically anti-climactic. They have strong anti-competitive incentives for the defenders to just re-flip the system instead of defending the ihub, which reverts back to being right at the edge rather than having some meaningful victory.
  
  
• Coincidental PVE, the PVE that occurs in the course of allowing timers to start spinning, is worth virtually nothing.  The tags and bounty are, like infrastructure hubs, negligible in terms of the faction warfare economy.

Vision Plan Content Breakdown

• Elective PVE – Supplemental PVE encounter generation according to plex activity  
• Coincidental PVE – Checkpoint & multi-timer rats necessary to kill to start timers rolling
• Focused PVP – Multi-timer fights, checkpoint fights, end-game fights
• Diffuse PVP – Mostly contested combat plexes

Estimated Vision Plan Income Distribution by Activity

• Elective PVE Missions should be replaced with elective supplemental PVE content that scales more with plex participation, especially in terms of income potential.  Coupling elective PVE content availability to PVP participation ensures that it won’t grow without bound. The elective PVE is a good way to provide ways to supplement income if PVP income alone is causing wallet stress.
  
  
• Diffuse PVP will be shifted to mainly destruction based metrics.  While it will still be possible to earn significant LP from plex spinning, the largest LP stream will be engaging in costly fights and then collecting the resulting deferred income in climactic and milestone events.  Ship spinning alone will no longer encourage the AFK plex bot menace.
  
  
• Focused PVP Where Ihubs now sit, we will instead have checkpoint fights, system flip fights, multi-timer climactic arc fights etc. Ihubs are somewhat anti-competitive, but establishing that defenders can win will lead to more competitive behavior.  The combination of more engaging gameplay and increased incentives will likely lead to more escalations and competitive defenses.
  
  
• Coincidental PVE Much more diverse and challenging PVE via checkpoints and multi-timer DPS check rats.  Much higher rewards too. This income is very coupled to making plexes available. It’s some healthy border content between PVP and PVE players, PVE that happens in activally plexed systems.

Balancing the Pendulum

Arguably the most important design behavior for faction warfare is that it does in fact present clear competitive objectives, motivated by reasonable rewards, resistant to behavior to prioritize the reward over the competition the reward is intended to motivate.

Stability analysis is the field of study that describes how systems will evolve over time with a specific focus on which states are reachable and what the most common patterns of movement will be.

The goal is to construct a system that exhibits more than just a monotonic drum beat, instead taking multiple paths to non-guaranteed edge states and does not get stuck in any one state or oscillate wildly so as to become incoherent and dominated by churning.

We can guarantee this with the following design behaviors:

• All states, including edge states, become more excitable to leave the state the longer that state is occupied
• Effort required to cycle between edge states scales with overall reward being paid out
• All progress promulgates further progress (snowballing)
• Local changes of direction have a larger reward / time invested than local maintenance of direction 
• Edge states have sufficient attraction in terms of motivating rewards and that attraction grows as edge states are not reached

That local changes are chaotic to each fight can be insured by systemic socialization of small portions of rewards and making those rewards available in intermediate-level milestones such as system flip fights.  A loss of many PVP objectives and large overall loss of ISK still should present an opportunity to net benefits through further investment of PVP effort. In short, make the sunk cost fallacy in fact a sunk cost opportunity.

Wager mechanics are intended to be destabilizing to the conclusion of objectives.  Seemingly clear momentum towards a clear end should, through the capability of defenders to steal & destroy the wagers, attract new competition when it is most critical to ensure that snowballing doesn’t lead to stagnation at edge states.

Deferred rewards is exactly a sustaining force designed to encourage snowballing and attraction to edge states that grows over time.

Scaling the number of combat plexes presented by multi-timer objectives according to how much LP is presently in the system and player counts etc would have the effect of increasing activity friction between edge states, properly regulating the frequency of the drum beat and accommodating growth / reduction in participation levels.

Biasing rewards payout towards LP generation when at the lowest point of faction control and biasing towards payout at the highest levels of control will tend to cause fizzling of the pressure to reach edge states and in fact exhaust the winning faction’s incentive to continually occupy that edge state.  A high level of LP generation at low levels of control will build up rewards, which need to be realized by reaching the edge state.

Bounding Economics of Loyalty Rewards

How Rewards Can Run Amok

It’s not simply enough to say that “too much” LP will be accessible through PVP activities.  It is necessary to show that either:

1. ISK and LP in the system can be magnified through feedback, in the absence of significant activity friction or bottlenecks
2. PVP input into the system can result in arbitrarily large payouts or arbitrarily large profits

If there’s just an “unhealthy” amount of LP flowing, we can just dial it back as long as we don’t have a runaway mechanism.

Tools in the Box

Socialization

If players can’t get exclusive access to manipulated prices, it’s still possible to execute a scam, but harder to sustain it unless everyone’s in on it.

Competition

Wager systems where players must front a large amount of their Rewards™ LP and make this vulnerable for other players to capture or capture in part and then destroy the rest, it’s inherently like other risk-reward activities.  We can survive net ISK creation as long as there is significant risk and risk scales with reward.

Activity Friction

If extracting an inflated reward requires an equivalent activity so that it becomes like other high-income, high-APM activities, the incentive will be within reason well enough not to entrain the entire playerbase.

Rate Caps

Limited rate of generating opportunities, via spawn rate or tying rates to PVP activities with significant warzone friction will bottleneck abuse attempts until adjustments can be made.

Visibility

The player base will never declare false negatives about someone getting conspicuously rich.  Expose LP gains via leaderboards.  Make large LP wagers discoverable with advance notice.  Don’t allow silent LP rivers to flow.

Breaking Conversion

Direct conversion of ISK to LP and back is necessary to magnify LP.  The ISK costs of items in the LP store limit the extent to which these ratios can be positive and control the deflation of those items, establishing a floor to further item creation.

Sublinearity

Grow LP amounts lower than linearly.  There are many numbers where sublinear growth has the effect of adding an upper bound to runaway behavior

• Median player LP rewards deposits per month
• Median player LP rewards balance
• Kill LP estimates
• Base LP buff from PVP
• Wager payouts

Robust PVP Valuation Metrics

Ultimately, net creation of more than 1.0 ISK of LP per ISK destroyed is the magic ratio to understand, model, and measure in practice to spot abuse.

• Exclude drops
• Deduct insurance from “destruction”
• Deduct bounty payout
• Exclude non-PVP items
• Use manufacturing cost as a reliable cross-reference
• Use fixed values for rare, replaceable items
• Use metric based on mutaplasmid value, mutation result, and base gear for mutated gear
• Measure total uniqueness of signals, the first moment of pilots involved, locations & quantities of items created & destroyed, systems bought & sold in, strength of those markets
• Ignore market data when uniqueness & cross-references show low coherence, falling back to pessimistic baseline
• If you can’t establish a good price, we can’t either.  Zero is fine.
• Use other tools in the toolbox to add soft upper bounds

Changes in Draft

“Boss” Rat Spawn After Plex Capture

• After plex capture, spawn elective PVE rat that is considerably more capable & powerful than the DPS check rat that gates plex progression.
• Not necessary to capture plexes, but present as a way to generate more LP & tags per plex
• Various capabilities and form (one big, three small, kite, brawl etc) so that the optimum ship for capturing plexes is very different than the optimum for killing the boss rats, strongly favoring cooperative plexing where DPS can be allocated where needed while running multiple timers
• Use PVP relevant capabilities such as scramming, webbing, kiting & requiring a slingshot to kill.  Always at least warp disrupt so that boss rat fighters are served-up pre-tackled
• Occasionally murders AFK plexing meat bots “on accident”

Dischord Archives

To prevent the loss of vote text from the Discord era, all proposals most influential to this document are appended.  Many of these may have been censored in the record on Discord as a result of pro-mission manipulation attempts.

See Quick Proposals for an alternative rendition of the Discord

Loyalty Rewards

Pilot Name: NanDe YaNen

SubCommittee:  lp-store (because facwar economy)

Proposal:  Loyalty Rewards:tm:

* All activities generate some base LP

* All activities pay a fraction of the LP immediately and deposit the rest into a rewards:tm: account

* All activities can pay a boosted reward out of the rewards:tm: account

* Activities that are intended to generate LP will favor depositing LP rewards:tm:

* Activities intended to pay out the rewards:tm: account will buff their base reward from player’s rewards:tm: account

* Completely paying out rewards:tm: account requires completion of advance notice, player discoverable endgame arc challenges where players make vulnerable (stealable / destroyable) wagers, meaning risk & reward

**Destruction Buffed Rewards:tm:**

* Measurable destruction on grid buffs base LP of PVP-centric activities, such as plexes

* PVP kills themselves will pay out LP

    – Rewards deposit vs immediate payment ratio depends on activity

    – Fleets split kill LP evenly

    – Multiple fleets and / or players split based on damage share, then evenly within fleets

* PVE activities, elective or coincidental, only achieve max LP payout from rewards:tm:

* Rewards:tm: decay and socialize from inactivity or dropping faction

Proposal is heavily predicated on introduction of multi-timer events & event arcs, voted on in another proposal

**Preventing Runaway Economics**

Knock yourselves out.

Intended Purpose:  

1. Tie the maximal income to wholesome activity over time

2. Enable sweet endgame content without blowing up the overall economy and attracting massive late-comer syndrome

Who does it affect outside of Faction Warfare:  Farmers

How does it affect them:  Optimal LP lower and harder to achieve

Links:  https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/cf94j6/facwar_deferred_rewards_lp_for_the_working_pvper/

Disable Crime Watch In & Around Plexes

Pilot Name: Mgaati en Daire

SubCommittee: Warzone Mechanics

Proposal: Disable crimewatch inside plexes. 

Intended Purpose: Remove punishment for engaging in pvp in a designated pvp area. It is intended to solve the same problems as suspect timers for neutrals inside a plex, but without punishing neutrals. It would allow more pilots to dip their toes into lowsec and pvp without ruining their ability to live/travel in highsec. 

Who does it affect outside of Faction Warfare: Anyone who enters a plex. 

How does it affect them: Allows them to freely engage anyone and everyone without having to worry about sec status or suspect /criminal timers.

Involve Citadel Mechanics in Warzone Control & Tier

Pilot Name: NanDe YaNen

SubCommittee: Citadels

Proposal: Involve Citadel Mechanics in System Ownership & Tier

Citadels, at anchor time, must declare either a faction allegiance or dynamic neutrality.

Faction allied structures benefit when their faction owns & upgrades a system but suffer penalties when anchored in non-owning space.

Dynamic neutral structures are ACL-locked to not allow the system non-owning faction to dock.

The following benefits & penalties relate to ownership & tier:

* Fuel burn reduction for owning faction

* Fuel penalty to non-owning faction, up to 500% in tier 5 system, payable in starbase charters or fuel blocks

* Rig bonuses that allow owning faction to achieve nullsec bonuses in lowsec space

* Reduced vulnerability windows for owning faction

* Guaranteed docking access if you’re willing to pay

+——————+————+———————-+——————–+————-+

| Declared Faction |    Rigs | Fuel       | Bad People Docking | Vuln Window |

+——————+————+———————-+——————–+————-+

| Good People      | bonuses | charters + bonuses   | not allowed | Shorter |

| Bad People       | no bonuses | charters + penalties | allowed            | Default |

| Neutral          | no bonuses | no penalties         | not allowed | Default |

+——————+————+———————-+——————–+————-+

Intended Purpose: 

* Make system ownership, to a large degree, convey docking access consistent with station docking.  Staging citadels should have a place, but not be spammy

* Reward system owners for upgrades with better citadel bonuses, exclusive to facwar structures and tied to facwar mechanics

Who does it affect outside of Faction Warfare:

Non facwar structure operators

How does it affect them:

Loss of clients or avoidable increased cost of operation

LP Accrual

Pilot Name: МАRСОS GOODMAN

SubCommittee: Warzone Mechanics

Proposal: Change of the method by which LP are accruing for FW plexes and missions. 

Today, fractional wars have evolved from collective PVP events with a long-term interesting goal into boring LP farming without the need to create any serious PVP activity and unite into groups.

In my opinion, this has happened due to flaws in LP accruing system. Since the PVP activity of specific characters is not taken into account during the capture of plexes, hubs and systems, it does not matter who wins. It is always possible to create an alt on the enemy’s side and get the maximum LP in a short time. I even saw examples when newcomers are advised to do so during recruiting to a corporation. Moreover, FW alts on the winning side are created by pirates, highsec-crabs, null alliances, i.e. a lot of Eve pilots benefit from the results of hard labor of a small number of people who for several months did plexes, installed/destroyed the citadels, sieged hubs etc.

As a result, all the players in Eve believe that the FW is not a real WAR of the states, but a boring PVE, where high tier is “a pendulum that swings itself.” And of course, the Lv4 FW missions will seem very “easy” when most people have not put even a bit of effort to this. For a while, everything was held up by enthusiasts who were simply interested in FW-PVP, but then they began to leave, since this system does not imply rewards for work, but rather encourages a parasitic way of playing, when even the title “General …” is awarded for the 4lv missions farm, and not for real PVP efforts. The apotheosis of this for me was the long upholding of a high tier for Minmatar due to the absence of the Amar militia, and the subsequent voluntary surrender of warzones due to boredom in the hope of future good fights in home systems where agents are present (Huola-Kamela). Instead, the new Amar militia, without unnecessary PVP activity pragmatically captured all the quiet systems bavoinding the aforementioned Huol-Kamela and quietly farming the Amar LP on 5th tier. Which means that half of Eve is farming Amarr LP on the 5th tier with the alts. There are many good ideas for improving the FW here, but most of them can be compared to attempts to cure a cancer with the Band-Aid .

My suggestion is to introduction of a coefficient (or index), which will take into account both the value of the current tier (for example, with the weight of 50%) and the amount AND cost of kills of enemy militia by a particular character over the past six months. The second parameter must also be dynamic, so that PVP activity in FW does not occur once or twice a year, but is a constant activity. If this change is hard to implement technically, we will support any solution that at least indicates the movement of the CCP in this direction.

Intended Purpose: Pilots demonstrating maximum PVP activity in capturing systems will consciously and with interest move towards their long-term goal (capture of the entire warzone), spending time and resources. Whereas only they receive the maximum reward for their work. The motivation system itself will unobtrusively hint to pilots that the maximum reward is possible only if there are midscale battles for key systems, and players will have to unite in order to achieve victory for their faction. The system will also encourage newcomers, as the FW-alliances never forbade them to participate in the fight on the noob-frigates. Pre-agreed “pendulums” (swings or whatever they are there) will become disadvantageous, since both parties without PVP activity will receive only 50% of the reward. Each confrontation will be a real event in Eve, and not a dismal LP farm with alts on both sides, since this will be at least two times less profitable. This change IMHO will solve the main problem, but not the rest, such as the lack of new story lines about the opposition of factions. After all, there is a potential here no worse than that of Star Wars or Game of Thrones.(edited)

Who does it affect outside of Faction Warfare: all eve pilots parasitising on the farm of FW LP . 

How does it affect them: Anyone who wants to receive a high LP reward will have to personally participate in battles for plexes, hubs and systems, or find an interesting occupation in other aspects of the game.

Announce Plex Value Upon Entry

Pilot Name: Emily Briscou

SubCommittee: New-Players

Proposal: Announce the remaining time and LP payout of a plex on entry.

Intended Purpose: Help newbros understand what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. Help eliminate the guys d-plexing systems that are already stable. 

A message in local (like the “Your job is done, go home” for missions) saying: “Warning X Militia Pilot! This plex is occupied by Y agents. Completion of this site will take Z minutes. High command will reward you with ??,??? Loyalty Points for its completion” would go a long way towards getting people up to speed. A potential downside is clutter in local chat for people zipping between plexes for fights, so maybe there could be an opt-out.

Who does it affect outside of Faction Warfare: Nobody. Since neutrals can’t receive LP, there’s no need to tell them about it.

How does it affect them: It shouldn’t.

Multi-Timer Events

Pilot Name: NanDe YaNen

SubCommittee: warzone-mechanics

Proposal: Climactic Events & Eve-Randomized Timers

Intended Purpose:  Bigger, better rewards to drive more big fights  but with equitable representation for timezones

Who does it affect outside of Faction Warfare: 3rd parties can expect more large FW fleets, off of structure fights that have been focal points during certain campaigns

How does it affect them: n/a

Links: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/c10tx3/fw_climactic_fights_events/

Checkpoint Plexes

Pilot Name: Wyrlith Ceos

SubCommittee:  Warzone Mechanics

Proposal: Checkpoint Plexes 

At intervals of 10% system control, (i.e. 10%, 20%, 30%), “Fleet” plexes will spawn instead of the normal plex. A fleet plex has the same size and time restraints as an ordinary plex, but instead of the standard punching bag rats, contains a single or series of rats requiring the dps of 2-3 properly combat fit ships. This rat also dishes out fairly beefy dps to avoid gank fit ships soloing the rat. This plex is triggered by both offensive plexing and defensive plexing. (i.e. You must clear these plexes deplexing down through a 10% checkpoint as well as up through it).  This plex would have an LP bonus appropriate for 2-3 people (i.e. 200-300% of current normal plex LP reward)

Intended Purpose:  To increase the need for cooperative action to deplex or oplex a single system large numbers of % over a time period. Because it is possible to fit a ship to run many sizes of plex, it is possible to linger in a single system running plexes as fast as they can respawn.  This would force solo plexers to either move more within the warzone to plex, or to open communications with other solo plexers to complete the fleet plex. Since this plex can be completed easily by 2-3 people, it does not materially affect system sieges in any meaningful way. Because only a fraction of fleet plexes would be present in the warzone at a time, this would offer an objective to small gangs roaming for fights. This proposal is easily compatible with other proposals looking to motivate fights or prevent warpoff.

Who does it affect outside of Faction Warfare: Neutral gangs looking for fights.

How does it affect them: They would have a smaller set of systems and known targets to look for fw targets.

Mechanism to Cause Failure of Enemy PVE

Pilot Name: Matthew Dust

SubCommittee: Missions

Proposal: Put “Standings Based” fleets inside the missions. For Example in a mission. both an Amarr Fleet and a Minmatar Fleet who shoot the player based on standings. Standings hits are received for shooting at the rats. If the runner’s side of the fleet is destroyed, the mission is failed.

Intended Purpose: To add counter play to mission runners, they can still earn heaps of Loyalty Points, but now when chased out of the mission they risk the hunters killing their side and a failed mission with no payout. Currently if they are chased out and the rats are destroyed. their mission is complete (except for a few which require you to loot.)

Who does it affect outside of Faction Warfare: Anyone who hunts Mission Runners

How does it affect them: Standings hits

XL Plexes

Pilot Name: Jordan Bailie

Sub Committee: Warzone Mechanics

Proposal: Rename Large plexes to Extra Large and introduce Large plexs that allow T1 BC and T2 cruisers to acess the plex. Remove T2 cruisers from current Medium Plexes. 

Intended Purpose: Allow for more variety in Fleet compositions and maintain the conistency of ship restrictions from Novice to Extra Large. 

Who does it affect outside of Faction Warfare? Little to no Impact

How does it affext them? Would prevent Recons sitting in Medium plexs while forcing larger fleets options for engaging either within a gated plex or an open field ( Large vs Extra Large)

Intermediate PVP Objectives

Pilot Name: Torvald Uruz

Sub Comittee: Warzone Mechanics

Proposal: Weekly target systems and challenges. (Idea drawn from something Matthew Dust said in the Warzone Mechanics channel) 

Intended Purpose: Create an area of concentrated activity, and rewarding whichever faction completes the objective. One week you’re on offense, the next defense. Secondary objectives could include alternative systems, capturing a certain number of complexes, or being involved in kills (destroy X number of enemy militia frigates). GOOD WAY TO TIE IN FW TO THE AGENCY WINDOW! To get new/old players interested in FW!!!

Who does it affect outside of Faction Warfare: No one, other than providing anyone outside FW with an area that has concentrated activity for content. 

How does it affect them: Gives them an area to go to for more activity

DPS Checks on Offense & Defensive Control Objectives

Pilot Name: Oreb Wing

SubCommittee: warzone mechanics

Proposal: Force both sides to clear FW plex npc to activate ticks.   Npc must not be present for timer to roll, requiring both sides to bring appropriate levels of dps for each size plex.

Intended Purpose: remove viability of unfitted ships from dplexing, a profitable and entirely afk possible action that can be done with the same unfitted frigate in all sized plexes presently.  Also makes ventures slightly less of a problem, as they have poor dps. Plex rats don’t give standing loss, so forcing dplexers to clear them will not affect standings. 

Who does it affect outside of Faction Warfare: anyone looking for gf’s.

How does it affect them:  They might actually get a fight. 

Major update 21.08.2019 check Introduction for details

by Jori McKie and Chainsaw Plankton

Content

Introduction

Pirate Burner

Burner Dramiel – Angel Agent

Burner Succubus – Sansha Agent

Burner Worm – Gurista Agent

Burner Cruor – Blood Agent

Burner Daredevil – Serpentis Agent

Team Burner

All Team Burner

Burner Hawk – Caldari Agent

Burner Vengeance – Amarrian Agent

Burner Enyo – Gallente Agent

Burner Jaguar – Matari Agent

Base Burner

Burner Ashimmu – Blood Base

Burner Talos – Serpentis Base

Burner Escort Dramiel – Angel Base

List of all Burner layouts sorted by Burner Ship

Module Referenz

Thank you

Introduction

• Read the Introduction first, if you are new, can’t stress this enough! Familiar with Burner Mission and just want to check for fits jump here List of all Burner layouts sorted by Burner Ship

Advice and fair warning

• New to Burner Missions and never did them before? Then i strongly recommend to run them on the Testserver (Singularity) first until you are familiar with them.

• Don’t blame anyone when your ship pops it’s usually your fault. Basic Rules tl:dr don’t get cocky when dealing with Burner. Burner missions are not your usual LvL 4 missions they are far more challenging. You’ll need rather good skills, sometimes pimped layouts and over-heating.
• Many of you won’t have all V skills then stick with the more expansive pimped layouts until you know what you do.

Major update 21.08.2019

• Introduction of the Nergal, the one to rule them all (almost). The Nergal is extremely versatile because of its natural resistance and ramp up DPS but the ramp up is also the downside because killing more than one target costs time. In principle the Nergal can do any Frigate class Burner Mission but i will only post layouts in which it is faster than the current option. Bonus it is a unified layout always the same rigs but different setups so you need only one Nergal.
• Nergal usage

Burner Cruor – Blood Agent

Burner Daredevil – Serpentis Agent

Burner Enyo – Gallente Agent

Burner Jaguar – Matari Agent

• Introduction of pimped layouts for a some ships. Pimped layouts offer fastest finishing but are very expansive. Use them at your own risk.

Burner Worm – Gurista Agent

Burner Talos – Serpentis Base

Important Links

• Eve Thread
• Pyfa download

• NPC stats: All Burner
• Damage application
• To get an idea Burner Video Playlist by Anize Oramara and Anize Oramara guide
• Old data but still useful Rudimentary guide how to blitz LvL 4 missions More information
• Cap stable layouts by Zarek Kree and Zekir Shardani

General Notes

• All layouts were made with Pyfa  and an all V character designed for fastest possible finishing the missions. No Implants are needed, no booster or drugs were used.
• The calculated possible incoming damage of Burner is not always the actual damage. The damage of Burner depends on your range, speed, sig etc. That means in some cases you have to perma tank the damage in some not.
• To optimize your kill speed or in case you can’t match the minimum tank use drugs to boost your tank and DPS
• Don’t ask for Drone ship layouts, the AI likes Drones very much and on top of that is more or less erratic.

Downgrading modules and modules comparison

• Be aware that most pimped layouts increase your margin of error a lot and allow for some minor mistakes. Downgrading layouts work most of the time but you also reduce your margin of error. Downgrading is useful in lowsec and nullsec and might be necessary in the face of ganking.
• In pimped layouts with expansive damage mods/rigs you can always switch for cheaper ones. Sometimes you need to fix your CPU then via Implantat or CPU mod/rig.
• This is only for professionals who know exactly how to use EFT:

In pimped layouts with expansive armor tank modules you can most times switch for cheaper ones but in addition you have to replace damage mods with extra tank mods.

In pimped layouts with expansive shield tank mods you can very rarely switch to cheap ones.

Make sure after you switched modules that your tank is sufficient and you still have enough DPS to break the Burner tank. Use EFT to compare the layouts.

Unified Daredevil

• Unified Daredevil is a layout that shares always the same rigs but different modules and can be used vs 4 different Burner including 2 of the Team Burner. The advantage of the Unified Daredevil layout you don’t need resistance rigs with speed penalties, very important as you are under web and need to overheat your AB to get in range.

Pirate Burner

• To optimize your kill speed or in case you can’t match the minimum tank use drugs to boost your tank and DPS
• Overheat your guns always at optimal.

Burner Dramiel – Angel Agent

Burner Dramiel attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 32%  – Thermal 0% – Kinetic 12% – Explosive 56%  
• Incoming possible damage with the above Profile 171 DPS.
• Signature 11m                                                                  
• Warning extrem small signature and high speed. Easy to kill with 2x 90% webs but with 3x 60% webs you will have problems especially in combination with Rockets.

Burner Dramiel – Daredevil

Time to kill: ~45sec

• OH both hardeners while in warp.You may have to OH your repair module.

• DPS: 361 Void+hot ~2:30min
• Tank: vs Dramiel damage profile

138 EHP/s

179 EHP/s ~3:20min Hardener OH

222 EHP/s ~1:12min Full OH

Burner Dramiel – Daredevil Cheap Alternative

Time to kill: <1 min

• OH both explosive hardeners while in warp.You may have to OH all hardeners and your repair module.

• DPS: 294 Void+hot ~2:30min
• Tank: vs Dramiel damage profile

122 EHP/s

146 EHP/s ~3:20min explosive Hardener OH

197 EHP/s ~50s Full OH

Burner Dramiel – Succubus Alternative

Time to kill: < 1min

• On landing align away from the Dramiel, web it and start your AB adjust your speed so that you are always in gun optimal below 7km range.
• DPS: 339 Conflag+hot ~2.19 min
• Tank: vs Dramiel damage profile

115 EHP/s

145 EHP/s ~3:21min Full OH

Burner Succubus – Sansha Agent

Burner Succubus attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 82%  – Thermal 18% – Kinetic 0% – Explosive 0%  
• Incoming possible damage with the above Profile 165 DPS.
• Signature 30m                                                                                                        
• Easy to kill

Burner Succubus – Daredevil

Time to kill: ~1:17min

• You need a web that has 16 km range with OH.
• OH your hardener while in warp. On landing OH your web and OH your AB, close the distance.
• DPS: 432 Void+hot ~2:30min
• Tank: vs Succubus damage profile

168 EHP/s

203 EHP/s ~5:20min Hardener OH

252 EHP/s ~1:36min Full OH

Burner Succubus – Daredevil Cheap Alternative

Time to kill: < 2min

• You need a web that has 16 km range with OH.
• OH both hardeners while in warp. On landing OH your web and OH your AB, while closing in you have to OH your repair module.
• DPS: 361 Void+hot ~2:30min
• Tank: vs Succubus damage profile

152 EHP/s

183 EHP/s ~3:20min Hardener OH

227 EHP/s ~1:00min Full OH

Burner Succubus – Wolf Cap Stable Cheap Alternative

Time to kill: < 2min Credit on fit to Lynsey

• Turn on your rep, warp in, and start shooting
• This fit uses the same rigs and rep as the cap stable wolf fit used vs the Blood Cruor
• DPS: 284 Republic Fleet EMP up to 327 hot
• Tank: vs Succubus damage profile

189 EHP/s

245 EHP/s ~2:00min OH

Burner Worm – Gurista Agent

Burner Worm attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 0%  – Thermal 0% – Kinetic 100% – Explosive 0%  
• Incoming possible damage with the above Profile 228 DPS.
• Signature 70m                        
• Very dangerous because of it’s high alpha (shoot every 10s) and while you approach you may get 2x volleys at once.

Burner Worm – Daredevil pimped

Time to kill: ~1:30min.

• Use this layout only if you know what you are doing otherwise you are dead.

Burner Worm – Daredevil

Time to kill: ~1:58min

• You may use a scram (reduces Burner Worm’s speed to ~???) with more range or use a 60% web to reduce Burner Worm’s speed to ~360m/s.
• OH both hardeners while in warp. On landing align for 2s and then start your MWD, OH your MWD in the 2nd cycle. Be very careful while closing in you have to OH your repair module. Shut down your MWD after the 2nd cycle and scram or web the Burner Worm. After your are in optimal adjust your speed +10% to the Burner Worm and keep at range in optimal.
• DPS: 361 Void+hot ~2:30min
• Tank: vs Worm damage profile

218 EHP/s

378 EHP/s ~3:20min Hardener OH

490 EHP/s ~1:00min Full OH

• Speed: 4641m/s, hot 6683m/s

Burner Worm – Daredevil Cheap Alternative

Time to kill: < 3min

• Warning use this layout at your own risk. You need very good cap and heat management skills. If you don’t like the mixed guns use 2x Light Ion Blaster II.
• You may use a scram (reduces Burner Worm’s speed to ~???) with more range or use a 60% web to reduce Burner Worm’s speed to ~360m/s.
• OH both hardeners while in warp. On landing align for 2s and then start your MWD, OH your MWD in the 2nd cycle. Be very careful while closing in you have to OH your Small Ancillary Armor Repairer and run your repair module. Shut down your MWD after the 2nd cycle and scram or web the Burner Worm. After your are in optimal adjust your speed +10% to the Burner Worm and keep at range in optimal.
• DPS: 285 Void+hot ~2:30min
• Tank: vs Worm damage profile

428 EHP/s OH Small Ancillary Armor Repairer

693 EHP/s ~1:49min Hardener OH + OH Small Ancillary Armor Repairer

217 EHP/s ~2:40min Hardener OH – shutted down Small Ancillary Armor Repairer

• Speed: 4538m/s, hot 6529m/s

Burner Cruor – Blood Agent

Burner Cruor attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 50%  – Thermal 50% – Kinetic 0% – Explosive 0%  
• Incoming possible damage with the above Profile 180 DPS.
• Signature 18m                                                                                                            
• Easy to kill although the Cruor is heavy neuting

Burner Cruor – Nergal pimped

Time to kill: ~1:52min

• Set range to 6000m because better safe than sorry. Drones are very rarely targeted.
• Overheating the Light Entropic Disintegrator II does not change the rate of fire so no faster DPS ramp up

Burner Cruor – Wolf

Time to kill: ~3:15min

• Get rid of the Rocket Launcher II and switch to T2 damage mods and you have a cheap version.
• The time to kill difference between using Fusion or Hail is negligible. Fusion has little more falloff and better tracking. Hail the better DPS
• Slow boat straight away and a webbed Cruor should stay at ~3.7km, best DPS is always in 1/3 of falloff adjust you Ammo/layout to that. OH your repair module while you have cap. You may have to OH your cap booster.
• DPS: 371 Fusion+hot ~1:05min, 414 Hail+hot ~1:05min
• Tank: vs Cruor damage profile while you have cap

265 EHP/s

343 EHP/s ~2:20min Full OH

Burner Cruor – Wolf cap stable Alternative

Time to kill: < 4min.

• The time to kill difference between using Fusion or Hail is negligible. Fusion has little more falloff and better tracking. Hail the better DPS
• Slow boat straight away and a webbed Cruor should stay at ~3.7km, best DPS is always in 1/3 of falloff adjust you Ammo/layout to that
• DPS: 345 Fusion+hot ~1:05min,  383 Hail+hot ~1:05min
• Tank: vs Cruor damage profile while you have cap

189 EHP/s

245 EHP/s ~2:20min Full OH

Burner Daredevil – Serpentis Agent

Burner Daredevil attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 0%  – Thermal 42% – Kinetic 58% – Explosive 0%  
• Incoming possible damage with the above Profile 264 DPS with 12km optimal + 15km falloff.
• Signature 18m                                                                          
• Easy to kill

Burner Daredevil – Nergal pimped

Time to kill: ~0:54min

• Set orbit to 11km, straight forward kill it. Drones are very rarely targeted.
• Overheating the Light Entropic Disintegrator II does not change the rate of fire so no faster DPS ramp up

Burner Daredevil – Hawk

Time to kill: ~1:06min

• After extensive testing a third Caldari Navy Stasis Webifier is completely useless with all relevant skills at lvl 4 you won’t get more DPS but if your skills are subpar you will still need a third web.
• You have to OH your shield booster from time to time and make sure you have at least 11.5km range with your rockets

• You may switch the webs for cheaper 55% or expansive 60% webs but make sure you have enough range 12km without overheat. There is a good reason to use 15km webs as you can orbit at 13-14km and reduce damage.
• Small Warhead Calefaction Catalyst II vs Small Bay Loading Accelerator II, 4 DPS difference is negligible but with a WCC you need less Rockets. You may want to use a mobile depot and switch 1x web for an AB or 2x webs for a MWD to get the loot faster.
• Alternative hawk layout with T2 rockets read this old post and adapt the layout
• DPS: 289 Caldari Navy Scourge Rocket+hot ~54s with 12.75 explo radius and 15.2km range + 13 DPS  250mm Light ‘Scout’ Artillery I

Real DPS on the Burner Daredevil ~115 DPS

• Tank: vs Daredevil damage profile

314 EHP/s

399 EHP/s ~4:30min Full OH

Burner Daredevil – Hawk cap stable Alternative

Time to kill: < 1:30min

• Make sure you have at least 11.5km range with your rockets

• You may switch the webs for cheaper 55% or expansive 60% webs but make sure you have enough range 12km without overheat. There is a good reason to use 15km webs as you can orbit at 13-14km and reduce damage.
• You may want to use a mobile depot and switch 1x web for an AB or 2x webs for a MWD to get the loot faster.
• DPS: 262 Caldari Navy Scourge Rocket+hot ~54s with 15 explo radius and 15.2km range + 13 DPS  250mm Light ‘Scout’ Artillery I

Real DPS on the Burner Daredevil ~110 DPS

• Tank: vs Daredevil damage profile

343 EHP/s

434 EHP/s ~4:06min Full OH

Team Burner

• To optimize your kill speed or in case you can’t match the minimum tank use drugs to boost your tank and DPS
• Overheat your guns always at optimal.

• All Burner warp in at 40km, all Burner Logis and Burner Assault Ships have standard ingame resistance profiles. Always and i mean always kill at least 1x Logi Burner first.
• Using a brawling setup AB+web is mandatory, make sure your webbed+heated AB speed is at least +200 m/s faster than a webbed Burner Logi. In case you can’t match the Burner speed with your AB use a T2 speed rig or an A-Type AB or speed imps like Zor’s Hype
• Using Kiting setup special advise.

Be advised one mistake in range control aka getting webbed (web range is ~13km) by Team Burner Assault Ships = instant death, no escape.

All Team Burner

• This are two layouts for the Unified Garmur. The Garmur is a pure kiting setup and has to be treated as such. Be advised one mistake in range control aka getting webbed (web range is ~13km) by Team Burner Assault Ships = instant death, no escape..

All Team Burner – Garmur

Time to kill: Depends from 1:30min to 2:45min

• Works vs every Team Burner
• Make sure your orbit is at least 20km and vs Burner Jaguar 30km because of the very rare wrecking shots. Use Javelins and switch a MGC for a Sebo for the Jaguar.
• Missile range with standard faction is 29.7km in case you need more use T2 Javelins against Logis or against the Jaguar
• Missile usage:

Mjolnir vs Hawk, Bantam, Burst

Nova vs Enyo, Navitas, Inquisitor

Inferno vs Vengeance

Scourge vs Jaguar

• DPS: 321+hot ~1:11min
• Tank: not available

All Team Burner – Garmur Cheap

Time to kill: not available

• Works vs every Team Burner
• Make sure your orbit is at least 20km and vs Burner Jaguar 30km because of the very rare wrecking shots. Use Javelins and switch a MGC for a Sebo for the Jaguar.
• Missile range with standard faction is 29.7km in case you need more use T2 Javelins against Logis or against the Jaguar
• Missile usage:

Mjolnir vs Hawk, Bantam, Burst

Nova vs Enyo, Navitas, Inquisitor

Inferno vs Vengeance

Scourge vs Jaguar

• DPS: 270+hot ~1:11min
• Tank: not available

All Team Burner – Compact Garmur

Time to kill: not available

• Works vs every Team Burner
• Make sure your orbit is at least 20km and vs Burner Jaguar 30km because of the very rare wrecking shots. Use Javelins and switch a MGC for a Sebo for the Jaguar.
• Missile range with standard faction is 28.1km in case you need more use T2 Javelins against Logis or against the Jaguar
• Antipharmakon Toxot Is also useful for a bit more range
• Missile usage:

Mjolnir vs Hawk, Bantam, Burst

Nova vs Enyo, Navitas, Inquisitor

Inferno vs Vengeance

Scourge vs Jaguar

• DPS: 282+hot ~1:11min
• Tank: not available

Burner Hawk – Caldari Agent

Burner Hawk attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 0%  – Thermal 0% – Kinetic 100% – Explosive 0%  
• Incoming possible damage with the above Profile 247 DPS.
• Signature 48m
• Logi speed: 1016m/s with 60% web = 406m/s; with 90% = 102m/s
• Logi weak resistance = EM/Thermal
• Burner Hawk weak resistance = EM

Burner Hawk – Daredevil

Time to kill: ~3:22min

• On landing no OH needed, log the closest Logi and burn to it with OH AB when in range OH web. Same with the 2nd Logi or kill the Hawk.
• DPS: 361 Void+hot ~2:30min
• Tank: vs Hawk damage profile

348 EHP/s

493 EHP/s ~5:20min 1x Hardener OH

• Speed: 1573m/s, hot 2118m/s; under web 629m/s, hot 847m/s

Burner Vengeance – Amarrian Agent

Burner Vengeance attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 100%  – Thermal 0% – Kinetic 0% – Explosive 0%  
• Incoming possible damage with the above Profile  232 DPS.
• Signature 37m
• Logi speed: 920m/s with 60% web = 368m/s; with 90% = 92m/s
• Logi weak resistance = Explosive/Kinetic
• Burner Hawk weak resistance = Thermal/EM

Burner Vengeance – Daredevil

Time to kill: ~2:20min

• On landing OH 1x Hardener, log the closest Logi and burn to it with OH AB when in range OH web. Kill the Vengeance next no need to kill the 2nd Logi.
• DPS: 432 Void+hot ~2:30min
• Tank: vs Vengeance damage profile

236 EHP/s

335 EHP/s ~5:20min 1x Hardener OH

• Speed: 1573m/s, hot 2118m/s; under web 629m/s, hot 847m/s

Burner Enyo – Gallente Agent

Burner Enyo attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 0%  – Thermal 50% – Kinetic 50% – Explosive 0%  
• Incoming possible damage with the above Profile 294 DPS.
• Signature 37m
• Logi speed: 870m/s with 60% web = 348m/s; with 90% = 87m/s
• Logi weak resistance = Explosive/Kinetic
• Burner Hawk weak resistance = Explosive

Burner Enyo – Nergal pimped

Time to kill: ~1:17 min

• Before using the acceleration gate > Pre OH your AB and web; set Keep at range 6000m; while in warp start your Hardener.
• After landing burn with OH AB using your Keep at range towards the Enyo and most important OH your Hardener and start your Rep (no OH needed). Web the Enyo asap it is in range; Ignore the Logis. After the Enyo is webbed stop OH your AB and web immediately.
• Put DPS on and then launch your Drones; Drones are very rarely targeted.
• Overheating the Light Entropic Disintegrator II does not change the rate of fire so no faster DPS ramp up

Burner Enyo – Enyo

Time to kill: ~3:28min

• On landing no OH needed, log the closest Logi and burn to it with OH AB when in range OH web. Use your Drone. Kill the the 2nd Logi or kill the Enyo.
• DPS: 377 Void+hot ~1:23min
• Tank: vs Enyo damage profile

377 EHP/s

475 EHP/s ~4:40min both Hardener OH

• Speed: 1178m/s, hot 1556m/s; under web 471m/s, hot 622m/s

Burner Jaguar – Matari Agent

Burner Jaguar attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 13%  – Thermal 0% – Kinetic 18% – Explosive 68%  
• Incoming possible damage with the above Profile 268 DPS. Not so Rare wrecking shot with 1683 hp damage. Player reported the occasional wrecking shot from the Jaguar.
• Signature 42m
• Logi speed: 1174m/s with 60% web = 470m/s; with 90% = 117m/s
• Logi weak resistance = EM/Thermal
• Burner Hawk weak resistance = Kinetic/Explosive

Burner Jaguar – Nergal pimped

Time to kill: ~1:35 min

• Before using the acceleration gate > Pre OH your AB and web; set Keep at range 6000m; while in warp start your Hardener.
• After landing burn with OH AB using your Keep at range towards the Jaguar and most important OH your Hardener and start your Rep (no OH needed). Web the Jaguar asap it is in range; Ignore the Logis. After the Jaguar is webbed stop OH your AB and web immediately.
• Put DPS on and then launch your Drones; Drones are very rarely targeted.
• Overheating the Light Entropic Disintegrator II does not change the rate of fire so no faster DPS ramp up

Burner Jaguar – Retribution

Time to kill: < 4min

• DPS: Tank: vs Jaguar damage profile

EHP/s

EHP/s ~min Hardener OH

EHP/s ~min Full OH

• Speed:

Burner Jaguar – Ecm Harpy

Time to kill: Variable depending on ECM chances

• On landing align out away from the burner, lock all three targets and try to jam the logi. Let the Jaguar get within 28km then activate MWD and match speed, once both logi are jammed turn off ECM and start shooting the Jaguar. The fit is far from cap stable so stagger ECM to reduce chances of wasting cap.  Also heat is useful on the ECM, need to watch it so you don’t accidentally burn out your MWD.
• DPS: 225 CN antimatter+hot ~1:11min
• Tank: N/A
• Speed: 2267/s 

Base Burner

General advice

• To optimize your kill speed or in case you can’t match the minimum tank use drugs to boost your tank and DPS
• Overheat your guns always at optimal.

Burner Ashimmu

• CCP changed the Ashimmu it hits now up to +70km and the Sentinels go 4.4000m/s at max, kiting is not possible without the same tank as with brawling, so brawling it is.
• Warp in is at 55km and Drone AI is still weird and erratic.
• Turret ships aren’t an option only for pure masochists because Sentinels use TD.

Burner Talos

• 3x Talos with rails at different ranges between 175km and 200km. Initial DPS after warp in is rather high, it calms down when you have speed. Do not approach any Talos directly, always use a zig-zag course to get close to ~60km then get into orbit.
• Drones will be targeted by all Talos and because of rails you will lose one or two occasionally even light Drones
• Heavy dampening makes it impossible to kite the Talos additional there is a grid of sentries with approximation trigger, just ignore them.
• Low sig and high speed is the best approach to get this done.

Burner Escort Dramiel

• 4x Burner Escort Dramiel are attacking you, initial DPS to tank is ~450 without using sacrificial Drones. Each Dramiel does ~112 DPS after you killed the first one, tanking is easy. Using sacrificial Drones you don’t need tank at all but i won’t recommend that.
• Small Drones will be targeted immediately, you can use TI Drones (Hornets) as sacrifice to lower the DPS on you or Acolyte to do extra DPS. Medium Drones are useless they don’t hit the Dramiel even with 2x 90% webs on them that means a serious low sig.
• Double or triple web with your 90% webs one Dramiel and use keep at range at optimal DPS.

Burner Ashimmu – Blood Base

Burner Ashimmu attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 72% – Thermal 28% – Kinetic 0% – Explosive 0%  
• Incoming possible damage with the above Profile 360 DPS.
• Signature 120m                        

Burner Sentinel attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 0% – Thermal 42% – Kinetic 58% – Explosive 0%  
• Incoming possible damage from 2x Sentinels with the above Profile 330 DPS.
• Signature 50m

• Combined EFT damage profile: EM 38% – Thermal 14% – Kinetic 26% – Explosive 21%
• The tank calculation is tricky because Ashimmu and Sentinel have a different DPS Profile. These are minimum numbers and work only if you kill the Sentinels first and fast.

X-Large ASB + minimum 48k EHP better 52k EHP vs Ashimmu profile  with a large shield buffer

X-Large ASB + minimum 38k EHP better 42k EHP vs Combined Profile with a large shield buffer

 Burner Ashimmu – Gila

Time to kill: ~3:30min

• After warp in align away from the Ashimmu to buy time, kill the Sentinels first. This setup works only because Drones will be targeted and DPS taken away from your Gila. Be warned if the Drone AI changes you might lose this Gila setup because tank isn’t sustainable.
• Best way to deal with the Drone AI : Shot 1x Sentinel with your RLMLs until you have aggro from all ships then launch Drones and/or use a Target Painter instead of Omni Tracking Link. Sometimes it works and Drones won’t be the AI’s primary sometimes not. T1 Drones are sacrificial in this setup so T2 Drones are neither cost nor time efficient. T2 Drones have to be babysit and recalled that costs you micromanagement and DPS. Just use your T1 Drones as fire and forget, if one is killed launch a new one. Put some extra Drones in your cargo and use the mobile depot just in case.
• You may want to use a mobile depot and start with 2x DDA and 1x BCS when you are in reload switch to 3x DDA and if needed fill up your Drone Bay. Switch to a MWD after if you want to loot.
• You don’t have to avoid the NOS/Neut on the Ashimmu as your Omnidirectional Tracking Link II only need 0.1 cap, you can always switch it back on
• Cheap version just switch the damage mods and both EM Ward Amplifier to T2.
• Cargo Bay:

Mobile Depot

1x DDA

Extra Vespa I

1x Target Painter

1x MWD

• DPS:

403 with Vespa I + 229 (with reloads 157) Caldari Navy Inferno Light Missile vs Sentinel

403 with Vespa I + 280 (with reloads 192) Scourge Fury Light Missile vs Ashimmu

• Tank:

64.7k EHP vs Ashimmu DPS

260 EHP/s at peak recharge vs Ashimmu DPS

Tank works only because Drones are targeted

• Speed 244m/s

Burner Ashimmu – Orthrus Alternative

Time to kill: < 4:30min

• After warp in align away from the Ashimmu to buy time, kill the Sentinels first.
• The tank calculation is tricky because Ashimmu and Sentinel have a different DPS Profile. These are minimum numbers and work only if you kill the Sentinels first and fast.

X-Large ASB + minimum 48k EHP better 52k EHP vs Ashimmu profile  with a large shield buffer

X-Large ASB + minimum 38k EHP better 42k EHP  vs Combined Profile with a large shield buffer

If you don’t have these tank numbers with your skills the setup do not work as you won’t survive the ASB reload. Always OH your ASB and make sure your shield is as close to 100% as possible when you used your last ASB charge so you will survive the reload.

• Always kill the Sentinels first and OH your RLML, launch your Drones after you are aggroed by the Ashimmu+Sentinel. Make sure that the 1st Sentinel dies with the 20 charges on your RLML + Drones, if not you won’t survive the reload as the DPS is too high.
• Try to orbit the Ashimmu as good as possible.
• DPS:

466 (with reloads 302) Caldari Navy Inferno Light Missile vs Sentinel + 70 Hornet I

569 (with reloads 369) Scourge Fury Light Missile vs Ashimmu + 70 Hornet I

• Tank:

59.2k EHP vs Ashimmu DPS

37.7k EHP vs Sentinel DPS

45.4k EHP vs combined and 764 EHP/s OH shield boost

• Speed 306m/s

Burner Ashimmu – Cerberus Alternative

Time to kill: < 4:30min

• After warp in align away from the Ashimmu to buy time, kill the Sentinels first.
• The tank calculation is tricky because Ashimmu and Sentinel have a different DPS Profile. These are minimum numbers and work only if you kill the Sentinels first and fast.

X-Large ASB + minimum 48k EHP better 52k EHP vs Ashimmu profile  with a large shield buffer

X-Large ASB + minimum 38k EHP better 42k EHP  vs Combined Profile with a large shield buffer

If you don’t have these tank numbers with your skills the setup do not work as you won’t survive the ASB reload. Always OH your ASB and make sure your shield is as close to 100% as possible when you used your last ASB charge so you will survive the reload.

• Always kill the Sentinels first and OH your RLML, launch your Drones after you are aggroed by the Ashimmu+Sentinel. Make sure that the 1st Sentinel dies with the 20 charges on your RLML + Drones, if not you won’t survive the reload as the DPS is too high.
• Try to orbit the Ashimmu as good as possible.
• Very safe version switch Medium Warhead Rigor Catalyst II to Medium Core Defense Field Extender II
• DPS:

532 (with reloads 309) Caldari Navy Scourge Light Missile with 24 explo radius vs Sentinel + 42 Hornet I

650 (with reloads 378) Scourge Fury Light Missile with 41.4 explo radius vs Ashimmu + 42 Hornet I

• Tank:

56.5k EHP vs Ashimmu DPS

33.1k EHP vs Sentinel DPS

42.9k EHP vs combined and 1045 EHP/s OH shield boost

• Speed 275m/s

Burner Ashimmu – Cerberus Cheap Alternative

Time to kill: < 5:30min

• After warp in align away from the Ashimmu to buy time, kill the Sentinels first.
• The tank calculation is tricky because Ashimmu and Sentinel have a different DPS Profile. These are minimum numbers and work only if you kill the Sentinels first and fast.

X-Large ASB + minimum 48k EHP better 52k EHP vs Ashimmu profile  with a large shield buffer

X-Large ASB + minimum 38k EHP better 42k EHP  vs Combined Profile with a large shield buffer

If you don’t have these tank numbers with your skills the setup do not work as you won’t survive the ASB reload. Always OH your ASB and make sure your shield is as close to 100% as possible when you used your last ASB charge so you will survive the reload.

• Always kill the Sentinels first and OH your RLML, launch your Drones after you are aggroed by the Ashimmu+Sentinel. Make sure that the 1st Sentinel dies with the 20 charges on your RLML + Drones, if not you won’t survive the reload as the DPS is too high.
• Try to orbit the Ashimmu as good as possible.
• DPS:

447 (with reloads 268) Caldari Navy Scourge Light Missile with 30 explo radius vs Sentinel + 42 Hornet I

545 (with reloads 327) Scourge Fury Light Missile with 51.7 explo radius vs Ashimmu + 42 Hornet I

• Tank:

54.9k EHP vs Ashimmu DPS

33.7k EHP vs Sentinel DPS

43.0k EHP vs combined and 1045 EHP/s OH shield boost

• Speed 275m/s

Burner Talos – Serpentis Base

Burner Talos attributes

• EFT damage profile: EM 0% – Thermal 50% – Kinetic 50% – Explosive 0%  
• Theoretical incoming damage 1x Talos with the above Profile 826 DPS. Because of the bad tracking from the Talos and your own speed you will never have to tank 2.4k DPS.
• Signature 125m

Burner Talos – Vagabond pimped

Time to kill: ~5:42min (includes looting)

• Any advice for the usual Vagabond applies to this layout. This layout is way more safer due to the upgraded tank on the downside it is a little slower. It seems the Talos get way more often wrecking shots so the tank was upgraded.

Burner Talos – Vagabond

Time to kill: ~5:22min (includes looting)

• Do not approach any Talos directly, always use a zig-zag course to get close to ~60km then get into orbit. Never shut down your repair module while approaching, shut it down when you are in orbit.
• Cap management is most important make sure you inject your charges in time.
• The pimped Vagabond works very well but be aware that you have to actively manage your tank and cap. That makes the rep, OH and cap management more stressful. The Vagabond has less DPS than the Deimos but way better speed, you need less time to close the range but more time to kill the Talos. In the end you gain ~1min.
• The most difficult thing is to get into orbit, shut down your MWD early enough, use Ctrl+Spacebar to set speed to 0. Try to avoid overshooting with your ship, you will get a feeling for that, it is just trial and error. To get close use orbit 5km and immediately switch to keep at range 5km, align to and slowboat to 1.5km. Only heat your 425mm when you are aligned and if you don’t have to repair your MWD. The close range makes looting more easier too. Put some nanite paste in your cargo, OH your MWD/AB while approaching and repair while in orbit killing the Talos. Do the same with guns just vice versa.
• Cheap Version just switch damage mods, the Kinetic Deflection Field, the Overdrive Injector  and the MWD to T2
• DPS:

623 Hail + 99 Hobgoblin II

696 Hail hot ~1:05min + 99 Hobgoblin II

• Tank:

17.6k EHP

792 EHP/s perma vs Spike L

• Speed 2759m/s hot 3931m/s

Burner Talos – Deimos cap stable Alternative

Time to kill: ~6:38min (includes looting)

• Do not approach any Talos directly, always use a zig-zag course to get close to ~60km then get into orbit. Never shut down your repair module while approaching, shut it down when you are in orbit.
• The most difficult thing is to get into orbit, shut down your MWD early enough, use Ctrl+Spacebar to set speed to 0. Try to avoid overshooting with your ship, you will get a feeling for that, it is just trial and error. To get close use orbit 5km and immediately switch to keep at range 5km, align to and slowboat to 1.5km. Only heat your Blaster when you are aligned and if you don’t have to repair your MWD. The close range makes looting more easier too. Put some nanite paste in your cargo, OH your MWD/AB while approaching and repair while in orbit killing the Talos. Do the same with guns just vice versa.
• DPS:

904 Void + 129 Valkyrie II

1021 Void hot ~1:15min + 129 Valkyrie II

• Tank:

35k EHP

923 EHP/s cap stable vs Spike L

• Speed 1977m/s hot 2822m/s

Burner Talos – Deimos Cheap Alternative

Time to kill: < 7min (includes looting)

• Do not approach any Talos directly, always use a zig-zag course to get close to ~60km then get into orbit. Never shut down your repair module while approaching, shut it down when you are in orbit.
• Cap management is most important make sure you inject your charges in time.
• The most difficult thing is to get into orbit, shut down your MWD early enough, use Ctrl+Spacebar to set speed to 0. Try to avoid overshooting with your ship, you will get a feeling for that, it is just trial and error. To get close use orbit 5km and immediately switch to keep at range 5km, align to and slowboat to 1.5km. Only heat your Blaster when you are aligned and if you don’t have to repair your MWD. The close range makes looting more easier too. Put some nanite paste in your cargo, OH your MWD/AB while approaching and repair while in orbit killing the Talos. Do the same with guns just vice versa.
• DPS:

862 Void + 129 Valkyrie II

972 Void hot ~1:15min + 129 Valkyrie II

• Tank:

34.1k EHP

643 EHP/s perma vs Spike L

• Speed 1941m/s hot 2768m/s

Burner Talos – Vexor Navy Issue Alternative

Time to kill: < 8min (includes looting)

• Do not approach any Talos directly, always use a zig-zag course to get close to ~60km then get into orbit. Never shut down your repair module while approaching, shut it down when you are in orbit.
• Cap management is most important make sure you inject your charges in time. The Vexor Navy Issue works very well but be aware that you have to actively manage your tank and cap. That makes the rep, OH and cap management more stressful.
• The most difficult thing is to get into orbit, stop overheating your AB early enough, don’t shut it down. Try to avoid overshooting with your ship, you will get a feeling for that, it is just trial and error. The combination of low sig and high speed from your AB avoid hits. You may try to shut down your AB while in orbit to repair with nanite paste but that can result in hard hits be aware of that. Use orbit at 5-15km, the closer you are the easier your Drone management is, try to recall damaged Drones early to avoid losses.
• DPS:

645 Berserker + 52 Antimatter

• Tank:

21.8k EHP

458 EHP/s for 2:24 min vs Spike L

• Speed 1732m/s hot 2435m/s

Burner Escort Dramiel – Angel Base

Burner Escort Dramiel attributes

• EFT damage profile:  

Burner Escort Dramiel – Vigilant

Time to kill ~2:35min

• This setup is based on not using Drones at all. The Acolyte will do extra DPS and are sacrificial Drones if you want to use them.
• 4x Burner Escort Dramiel are attacking you, initial DPS to tank is ~450 without using sacrificial Drones. Each Dramiel does ~112 DPS after you killed the first one, tanking is easy.
• Double or triple web with your 90% webs one Dramiel and use keep at range at optimal DPS.
• Use a mobile depot and start with 3x T2 webs after you finished the Dramiels switch 1x web for a MWD.
• DPS:

762 + 66 Acolyte I

877 Void hot ~1:20min + 66 Acolyte I

• Tank:

27.3k EHP

484 EHP/s perma vs Escort Dramiel

Burner Escort Dramiel – Vigilant Cheap Alternative

Time to kill: < 3min

• This setup is based on using sacrificial Drones. This full T2 setup requires to overheat all hardener and both repair modules at the start while Drones are targeted otherwise your tank will be not sufficient. 4x Burner Escort Dramiel are attacking you, initial DPS: to tank is ~450 without using sacrificial Drones. Each Dramiel does ~112 DPS after you killed the first one, tanking is easy.
• Double or triple web with your 90% webs one Dramiel and use keep at range at optimal DPS.
• Use a mobile depot and start with 3x T2 webs after you finished the Dramiels switch 1x web for a MWD.
• DPS:

730 + 70 Hornet I

840 Void hot ~1:20min +  70 Hornet I

• Tank:

25k EHP

266 EHP/s perma vs Escort Dramiel

List of all Burner layouts sorted by Burner Ship

Burner Dramiel – Daredevil

Burner Dramiel – Daredevil Cheap Alternative

Burner Dramiel – Succubus Alternative

Burner Succubus – Daredevil

Burner Succubus – Daredevil Cheap Alternative

Burner Succubus – Wolf Cap Stable

Burner Worm – Daredevil pimped

Burner Worm – Daredevil

Burner Worm – Daredevil Cheap Alternative

Burner Cruor – Nergal pimped

Burner Cruor – Wolf

Burner Cruor – Wolf cap stable Alternative

Burner Daredevil – Nergal pimped

Burner Daredevil – Hawk

Burner Daredevil – Hawk cap stable Alternative

All Team Burner – Garmur

All Team Burner – Garmur Cheap

All Team Burner – Compact Garmur

Burner Hawk – Daredevil

Burner Vengeance – Daredevil

Burner Enyo – Nergal Pimped

Burner Enyo – Enyo

Burner Jaguar – Nergal Pimped

Burner Jaguar – Retribution

Burner Jaguar – ECM Harpy

Burner Ashimmu – Gila

Burner Ashimmu – Orthrus Alternative

Burner Ashimmu – Cerberus Alternative

Burner Ashimmu – Cerberus Cheap Alternative

Burner Talos – Vagabond pimped

Burner Talos – Vagabond

Burner Talos – Deimos cap stable Alternative

Burner Talos – Deimos Cheap Alternative

Burner Talos – Vexor Navy Issue Alternative

Burner Escort Dramiel – Vigilant

Burner Escort Dramiel – Vigilant Cheap Alternative

Module Reference

• Make sure you have the correct webs after the changes Stasis Webifier Tiericide
• All armor hardeners in the same group and class have the same stats

Shadow Serpentis = True Sansha = Dark Blood

C-Type Core = C-Type Centus = C-Type Corpus

etc.

• Armor repair modules are divided between two different group sets but this follows every class.

Centii C-Type Small Armor Repairer  = Corpii C-Type Small Armor Repairer

Coreli C-Type Small Armor Repairer, slightly less rep but also less cap needed

etc.

Centum C-Type Medium Armor Repairer  = Corpum C-Type Medium Armor Repairer

Corelum C-Type Medium Armor Repairer, slightly less rep but also less cap needed

etc.

Thank you

Ploing idea and development:

• All Team Burner – Garmur
• All Team Burner – Garmur Cheap
• Burner Dramiel – Succubus Alternative

Chainsaw Plankton idea and development:

• Burner Talos – Deimos cap stable Alternative

Anize Oramara idea and development:

• Burner Ashimmu – Orthrus Alternative

Archetype 66 idea:

• Burner Cruor – Wolf

Lugalzagezi666 idea:

• Burner Daredevil – Hawk

Special thanks to Ploing and Chainsaw Plankton for their help and Anize Oramara for her vids and guide.