Fitting ships: Difference between revisions

Generally, the more tasks you want a fit to do the worse it performs at each particular task. Some ships have very specific uses: a Venture mining frigate is not very helpful in either PvE or PvP combat.

*Engagement Range:

** Brawling (<15km)

** Skirmishing (30-100km)

** Sniper (100km+)

=== Don't mix tanks ===

Most of the time a tank takes up a substantial proportion of your powergrid, your CPU and either your midslots (for a shield tank) or your lowslots (armor tank). If you fit a shield tank, you can put useful things (damage modules, speed and agility modules &c) in your lowslots, and if you armor tank you can put useful things (tackling modules, electronic warfare modules, propulsion modules &c) in your midslots. Both types of tank at once leave you with little space for other useful modules.

=== Bigger guns are not necessarily better ===

So, for example, there are three kinds of medium-sized autocannon: Dual 180mm, 220mm, and 425mm. The 425mm autocannons do a bit more damage, but the 220mm autocannons have much more forgiving fitting requirements (especially if your fitting skills -- see [[#Train fitting skills|below]] -- need more training). On some ships it may be that fitting a rack of 425s would use up so much powergrid and CPU that you wouldn't be able to fit a tank. In that situation, fitting 220s would be better because, even though you would do a little less damage per second, your ship would survive longer and so would probably apply more total damage.

Eve includes a limited fit simulation tool, but you can also use more powerful third-party tools to try fits outside the game.

Fit simulations are theory, of course, and don't always work out exactly as planned in practice: autocannon, for example, almost never deal their on-paper Pyfa DPS, because they are almost always operating in falloff range. For any especially high-stakes or experimental fits, consider gathering a few friends to help and trying them out on the test server, [[Singularity]].

* {{sk|Mining Upgrades}}: 5% less CPU need for mining upgrade modules (useful for miners)

Tip: The benefits of CPU Management and Power Grid Management apply to the whole ship. Skill point for skill point, they provide significantly more fitting benefit than the module-specific skills. You can't go wrong training these two skills to level V as soon as practical.

Finally, armor-tanking turret-using ships with lots of mid-slots should consider a Tracking Computer in one or perhaps two of them.  

Most PvP ships should give a single mid slot to a tackle module of some type. For [[skirmishers]] (specialised scouts), primary damage, and screen ships this should nearly always be a long point, a Warp Disruptor module of some kind. Ships in a tackle role should usually fit a Warp Scrambler module of some kind. Some types of scout and initial tackle might want to try fitting both a point and a scram. Ships in other roles in larger fleets can forgo tackle modules. In a small gang it is sometimes desirable to have a tackle module on almost every ship. Space permitting, a web is desirable on close-range damage dealers. Stasis Webifiers do not hold the target on grid as points and scrams do, but they slow the target down, hampering kiters and helping your tracking and missile hits.

=== Tank ===

A free low slot should be given to an additional damage module, an additional Tracking Enhancer, or (if you're running short of CPU), a Nanofiber Internal Structure. An additional mid slot should be given to an additional tackle mod (usually a Stasis Webifier), a Capacitor Booster, or some form of utility electronic warfare, usually a Sensor Dampener.

Finally, modules that passively regenerate some aspect of your ship's operation should almost never be used in PvP. These include Cap Rechargers, Cap Power Relays, Shield Rechargers, and Shield Power Relays. While these modules are fine for PvE, the incoming damage or capacitor costs in PvP will generally be too strong for these modules to have much if any effect.