Caldari Basic Ship and Skill Overview: Difference between revisions

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The Caldari State is one of the four playable factions and has a unique and distinct line of ships.

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*[[Missile_Launchers|Missile Launchers]] can be categorized into two categories: short range launchers and long range launchers.  Short range launchers sacrifice the range of the long range launchers for a higher rate of fire.

:There is a delay between shooting a missile and the missile reaching a target, which can lead to problems in PvP. This can be at least partially counteracted by using short range missiles.

:Missiles do the same damage at all ranges, but are heavily impacted by a targets speed and signature size. Missiles can do any damage type allowing the pilot to select the proper ammunition on a situational basis, making missile ships especially capable mission running ships. Caldari ships often have bonuses for kinetic missile damage, making the damage done with kinetic missiles particularly formidable. Missiles use no capacitor to fire.

Caldari Ships generally have a relatively small drone bay.

The Caldari State favors the Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) as their method of Electronic Warfare, and several Caldari ships receive ECM bonuses. ECMs are an incredibly strong form of electronic warfare, forcing an enemy ship to break its target lock for the duration of the cycle time.  

Every pilot should think about which skills they want to train in order to reach their goals. The following only touches on basic and essential skills and should only serve as a guideline.

In order to fly a ship, pilots must train the appropriate skill for that ship. For Caldari these include:

In order to fit Caldari ships in particular, but also other ships, effectively and efficiently, certain skills should be trained:

While Caldari ships don’t generally depend on capacitor as much as other races, capacitor is still important for active shield tanking and propulsion modules. Certain skills can be trained in order to achieve an optimal size, recharge rate and efficiency for a ships capacitor.

Mobility skills increase the agility and speed of a ship, which can be a lifesaver, even for the most cumbersome of ships.

Caldari ships are generally designed as shield tanks. This means that it is necessary to achieve a certain level of proficiency for shield support skills, including eventually being able to fit a T2 shield tanking module. To do this, following skills can be trained:

In order to use a missile launcher, it is necessary to train the following skill:

In order to put missiles in your missile launcher, you have to additionally train the appropriate missile skills. For example:

The missile skills are partially based on each other, meaning that in order to train a higher skill, you may need to train a lower skill.

Each additional level of the appropriate missile type brings a 5% bonus to missile damage for that missile type.

Furthermore there are various support skills, which make missiles more effective:

Caldari Pilots who choose to use hybrid turrets require a completely different skillset from their missile using counterparts.

To maximize the effectiveness of turrets, pilots can train:

Bigger Caldari ships can generally fit drones. Pilots planning to do this should train the appropriate skills.

Most ships can fit rigs, these need to be trained appropriately.

Here are the Caldari T1 ships.  Please follow the links to the specific pages of the ship database for more details and particular fits.

The corvette is the first ship you start with. If you are Caldari, it will be an Ibis. A new corvette is given whenever you dock in your pod at a station where you do not have any ships.  

Frigates are small fast ships, used mostly for level 1 missions or for tackling and electronic warfare roles in PvP.  

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Destroyers are ships slightly larger than frigates. They use the same sized modules as frigates, but have more high slots. They are often used in PvE for level 1 missions. They are rarely used in PvP, as their DPS is not impressive without high skills, although they can sometimes fill the role of anti-interceptor.  

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Cruisers are Eve's medium-sized ships.  

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The Caracal is also very popular for PvP, for example as dedicated frigate-hunter as its Rapid Light Missile Launchers can deal a huge amount of DPS to frigates. With higher fitting skills it is also possible to equip it with a full rack of Heavy Missile Launchers and achieve ranges in excess of 130km.

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Battlecruisers are sometimes considered a more powerful version of Destroyer class ships.  They fit the same sized weapons as Cruisers except for the Attack Battlecruisers which fit Battleship sized weapons, and are more widely used as a damage dealing ship than Destroyers.  

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The Drake is an incredibly strong PvE ship due to its shield resistance which gives it an impressive tank. Unfortunately it also features slow speed and relatively low dps for a battlecruiser. Although it was at some time one of the most popular ships for PvP, due to ship balancing it is now only occasionally used PvP, typically as bait.  

It is however still very effective in PvE because of its tank and range and its ease of use especially with a passive tank.

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Battleships are the biggest combat ships in the game before Capital-class ships. Battleships usually mount large sized weaponry and mostly used as a damage dealing combat ship in Eve, although there are several Battleships that have different role, such as the Scorpion.  

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The Raven is possibly the most used PvE ship for Level 4 missions as it has good range when fitted with Cruise Launchers (in addition to the usual effectiveness of selectable damage type from missiles) and can sport a good active shield tank (either cap-stable with a Large Shield Booster or a X-Large Shield Booster for non-cap-stable 'pulsing'). Its drawbacks are a small drone bay, usually filled with one flight of  

light drones and one flight of medium drones. In addition it is a very slow ship, as most Caldari boats are.

For PvP it can be fitted with Torpedo Launchers to get good close range DPS or with Cruise missile Launchers for sniping distances.  

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