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The modules fitted to a ship to bolster its defences are often called its '''tank'''. '''Tanking''' means fitting a ship with modules in order to improve its defensive capabilities to resist, absorb, or mitigate incoming damage, thus preventing or delaying the ship's destruction.

Tanking is a core part of most ship combat in ~~Eve~~ Online, important to both PvP and PvE activities—though the two types of combat require broadly different tank approaches. Understanding how your ship and other ships avoid or deal with damage is an important part of successful play for anyone involved in combat, and new players usually learn about tanking gradually as they settle into the game. This page details the main approaches to tanking; if you're new, don't be daunted by the details! You don't have to learn it all at once. [[~~Eve~~ University]] members should feel encouraged to ask more experienced corpmates questions about tanking in game or in the #fitting-chat channel on the University discord.

Tanking is a core part of most ship combat in EVE Online, important to both PvP and PvE activities—though the two types of combat require broadly different tank approaches. Understanding how your ship and other ships avoid or deal with damage is an important part of successful play for anyone involved in combat, and new players usually learn about tanking gradually as they settle into the game. This page details the main approaches to tanking; if you're new, don't be daunted by the details! You don't have to learn it all at once. [[EVE University]] members should feel encouraged to ask more experienced corpmates questions about tanking in game or in the #fitting-chat channel on the University discord.

Fittings and styles of piloting which avoid damage are sometimes called tanking: pilots might refer, for instance, to "speed tanking" and "signature tanking". It is worth growing to understand these techniques, but this page focuses on dealing with damage which has affected your ship's hitpoints, rather than avoiding damage altogether.

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 The modules fitted to a ship to bolster its defences are often called its '''tank'''. '''Tanking''' means fitting a ship with modules in order to improve its defensive capabilities to resist, absorb, or mitigate incoming damage, thus preventing or delaying the ship's destruction.
-Tanking is a core part of most ship combat in Eve Online, important to both PvP and PvE activities—though the two types of combat require broadly different tank approaches. Understanding how your ship and other ships avoid or deal with damage is an important part of successful play for anyone involved in combat, and new players usually learn about tanking gradually as they settle into the game. This page details the main approaches to tanking; if you're new, don't be daunted by the details! You don't have to learn it all at once. [[Eve University]] members should feel encouraged to ask more experienced corpmates questions about tanking in game or in the #fitting-chat channel on the University discord.
+Tanking is a core part of most ship combat in EVE Online, important to both PvP and PvE activities—though the two types of combat require broadly different tank approaches. Understanding how your ship and other ships avoid or deal with damage is an important part of successful play for anyone involved in combat, and new players usually learn about tanking gradually as they settle into the game. This page details the main approaches to tanking; if you're new, don't be daunted by the details! You don't have to learn it all at once. [[EVE University]] members should feel encouraged to ask more experienced corpmates questions about tanking in game or in the #fitting-chat channel on the University discord.
 Fittings and styles of piloting which avoid damage are sometimes called tanking: pilots might refer, for instance, to "speed tanking" and "signature tanking". It is worth growing to understand these techniques, but this page focuses on dealing with damage which has affected your ship's hitpoints, rather than avoiding damage altogether.