In this installment of the Core Skills series you will learn everything you need to know about warp mechanics and how you can use them to your advantage. Understanding these …
In this first video on the new Core Skills series you will learn the basics of setting up Safe Spots and Tacticals in EVE Online. These allow you to travel …
After the very successful launch of the new SFI Pro Guide, it’s time to make some changes to EVE Pro Guides so that it can grow a little faster. These …
After MANY months of flying the SFI, Stabber, and Cynabal almost exclusively, I am very excited to bring you the new SFI PRO Guide. This Guide is quite possibly the …
After I released my new PVP Video called Astro Zombies, I got a lot of feedback from people who wanted a Narrated Version. In the past, I have always followed …
The Human Mind craves novelty. It’s addictive and it’s insatiable. BUT it never leads to mastery.
Focus on a single thing for any substantial amount of time leads to a high level of a mastery and understanding. Spend 1 hour a day doing anything and you will become great at it very quickly. This is the key to greatness.
In EVE that means, you should NOT change ships or fits every day or even every week. You should pick one ship, one fitting, and one tactical plan. THEN you should stay with it, refine it, and develop it to a level of mastery.
Come closer. Listen: I’m going to tell you about a Pirate I met early in my EVE Online Career (I forgot his name unfortunately). When I first met him he killed one of my corp members in a static plex, then when we attempted revenge, he killed more of us. Months later I fit out a ship JUST for fighting him, to exploit his ship and…
He beat me with ease!
This Pirate was unique because he only flew one ship… The Rifter. Over the course of thousands of kills he never once flew any other ships. He was the only “purist” I have ever met in EVE. Needless to say this guy was a bad ass in a Rifter. His focus made him great.
For a more personal example, I can tell you from experience that I see this effect every time I create a new PVP Guide. As part of the creation of the PVP Guide I will fly only one type of ship for weeks or even months. This usually amounts to hundreds of fights and individual experiences.
Usually the first few fights go poorly and I make stupid mistakes, then as time goes on I slowly become very good at flying that ship. I get an instinctual “feel” for the way it accelerates, how fast it kills targets, the tank, when I need to run or turn in, etc. By the time I’m done I can almost fly the ship without thinking, because I have done it so many times.
This effect continues to build over time, the more you train in your ship, the better you will get.
So my advice to everyone new or old is to resist the Shiny New Toy Syndrome and dedicate a few weeks to each ship you fly to give your self a chance to see the effects this focus will have, then should you find a ship you love, consider making that your primary ship. Study it’s stats, how it performs against every target you can think of, what the best orbits are for different situations, what damage types to avoid, what implants compliment it the most, which boosters can improve your performance, and on and on.
This focus will lead you to a whole new level of PVP.
An interesting addition to the game that came with Retribution is the new Tracking Function which centers the camera on the object you have selected. And if that object is moving, it will follow it.
At first I really enjoyed turning the tracking on while flying and fighting, but after a few hours it started to irritate me, I found my self fighting it to look at what I wanted and turned it off. While I loved some aspects of it, others were really irritating.
When scanning, it’s helpful to automatically center on the object you’re using your dscan on so you can do a 15 or even 5 degree scan on it. In a fleet fight it can be helpful to click a pilot in the overview and instantly see where he is. In these cases I liked the tracking, but the rest of the time it was taking control out of my hands.
My solution was to use the hot key and train my self to start “toggling” it on and off quickly. When I’m scanning and want to scan a nearby gate I hit “c” to turn on tracking, then wait a second for it to center, then hit “c” again to turn it off. Same thing in fleets or where ever else I quickly want to line up or see an object.
Has anyone else found any cool uses for this feature?
Now that Can Flipping is no longer a viable tactic in EVE Online, I figured it was a good time to hunt down my old Can Flipping Footage and make a quick Video out of it. It’s not Blinged out or anything, but it is a 1 Million SP Character killing much larger ships in a lowly Tech 1 Rifter.
Last night I spent a little time exploring the new Retribution expansion and found a helpful tip I wanted to share. There is a setting you can set on your overview to make pilots with Kill Rights more visible. Watch this quick video to learn more…
In this guide I will explain the new kill rights system and how it has changed, there are many new exciting changes in the kill rights system. I will explain the new changes as in depth as I can, so keep reading and hopefully I can make it easy to understand. Kill rights over all have not really changed, the way you get kill rights and the time limits on kill rights are still the same.
The only way a player will now get kill rights on you is if you destroy their ship in high security space and they were not a legal target to you or you destroy a players pod in low security space. Basically it has to be a criminal act, not just a suspect type act. The old kill rights system would allow a player that you had destroyed a ship or pod to have a legal right to attack you in any level of security.
The new kill rights system still allows the player that has kill rights on another player to legally attack them in any security level space. But there are many new features to what you can do with these kill rights, now you can share the kill rights around with other people. I know you are interested now and I am sure most of you have heard or read something regarding these changes.
I hope to make it all clearer in this article, basically you can now control your kill rights much more to benefit or just punish the pilot that you have kill rights on. You can make the kill rights available to all Eve players; you can sell the kill rights for …Read More…
Abbadon21 says: Your fleet member has to be over 150km from you, then you can warp to him at 100km. If he...
Paul newton says: I tried to warp to fleeted members at 50 k and it did not work only 150 k works
Abbadon21 says: I found a fit for the Cyclone I like better...
[Cyclone, Minute to Win It 2]
Damage Control II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic...
Abbadon21 says: I have used the HAM Cyclone a few times, and I have to say I'm very impressed with it.
Asswdai says: You're not doing anything wrong. I used this setup as a test to try and kill a Serpentis High Admiral...
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The Human Mind craves novelty. It’s addictive and it’s insatiable. BUT it never leads to mastery.
