The Rookie's Guide to Fleet Ops: Difference between revisions

*<FONT COLOR="#461B7E">'''FC'''</FONT>: Fleet Commander  

*<FONT COLOR="#2B3856">'''WC'''</FONT>: Wing Commander  

*<FONT COLOR="#437C17">'''SC'''</FONT>: Squad Commander

 

 

<li>'''Make sure your medical clone is up to date.'''<br> Having your medical clone set to Aldrat can be helpful during war.</li> <br/>

<li>'''Get ready to be podded.''' <br> If you have [[Implants]], either make sure you can afford to lose them, or get into a jump clone. <br/><br/> We have enough standing for [[Jump_Clone#E-UNI.27s_Jump_Clone_Stations|Jump Clones]] with one of the Caldari corporations, Wiyrkomi Peace Corps, to access Jump Clones. <FONT COLOR="#CA226B">'''Do not start a conversation with any agents for Wiyrkomi Peace Corps as we will lose these facilities.'''</FONT><br><br>

* Khanid / Nohshayess / Khanid Prime / Khanid Prime V - Moon 1 - Khanid Innovation Factory - '''this station is currently unavailable until a few Eve Uni members can grind their standings up.'''<br/><br/></li>

<li>'''Get into a ship you can fly well in PVP, and can afford to lose.''' <br> If you're a rookie, that is probably a frigate. You can fly a frigate and still contribute significantly if you have the skills and modules necessary to tackle or EW. Even if you're young and don't have the skills yet, don't worry about it and come along in a cheap frigate for the experience. Tacklers and EW frigates are effective with cheap tech 1 modules fitted. Destroyers can be used in specialized fleets, but in most Uni fleets a frigate tackler or EW would be preferable if you can't handle a DD cruiser yet. Take note that flying a Damage Dealer ship for PVP requires more skills than for PVE. Flying a DD cruiser well means having the cruiser skill at 4, and the relevant gunnery or missile support skills at 3 or 4. EW cruisers have lower skill requirements than DD cruisers.<br/><br/></li>

<li>'''Make sure your ship is insured.'''<br/><br/></li>

*[[EWar_101_Guide|Electronic Warfare 101 guide]]

<li>'''Rename your ship.'''<br> The default ship names are "Player's Name Ship Type", for example "Flay's Incursus". This will make it easier for enemies to find you when scanning, so you should rename it to something that will not be able to associate the ship to your name. <br/><br/></li>

<li> '''Get on [[Teamspeak]], and move to the Combat Lounge.''' <br> It is absolutely essential, in fact a requirement, for you to be on Teamspeak for fleet operations. If you're not on Teamspeak, you cannot join or follow the fleet. The Fleet Commander (FC) does not have time to type everything out or issue broadcasts. <br><br> Once you are in a fleet, you are to move yourself to the appropriate wing channel in order to hear communications with your fleet. Stay silent until the operation is over and the Fleet Commander declares open mic. Small gangs are often less strict about voice comm discipline; however in large fleets it is impractical for everyone to have authorization to speak. Make sure your Teamspeak settings are set up correctly. This mostly means you have a '''push-to-talk button''' (PTT) and not voice-activated. <br/><br/> Also, make sure your push-to-talk button is not "Ctrl", or any other button you would use for anything else. And remember Alt is often used to Alt-tab out or Alt-Enter for windowed mode. Shift is used for caps so it is another bad choice. The F9 key is not used for anything in the Eve Client, nor for most other software you might operate, so it is a good choice until you can figure out which key would be best. We don't want to have to hear you breathing. We don't want to hear the clicking of your keyboard when you type an email either. '''Set your push-to-talk key correctly.'''<br/><br/> Disable Teamspeak sound notifications. Settings menu > Options > Sound Notifications > check the 'Disable All sounds' box. Sound notifications can be loud and prevent you from hearing the FC, especially with a lot of people in Teamspeak connecting and disconnecting. Also an occasional griefer may be spamming the Docking Bay.<br/><br/> If you have not properly set up your Teamspeak, please refer to the [[Teamspeak|Teamspeak Guide]]. [[VoiceOverlay]] can be used if you want to see who's talking on your game screen. Not to be confused with Teamspeak Overlay, which doesn't work well with Vista.<br/><br/>'''Do not talk on Teamspeak unless you have authorization during a fleet op.''' <br> Unless you were given authorization by the FC, you probably don't have it. If you wish to ask for authorization to talk on Teamspeak, type your request in the fleet channel, although it will be ignored if the FC is too busy. <br/><br/></li>

<li> '''Your overview needs to be set up properly.'''<br>

*[[Varius Arcturus's Overview Guide]]<br/>

<li>'''If you have questions, ask in Chat.EUNI, not the Alliance channel.''' <br> Questions specifically about fleet formation go in Corp chat.<br/><br/> </li>

<li>'''Disable Auto Lock.''' <br> Press the Escape key to go into the game's configuration panel > general settings > inflight section > Auto target back: select 0 targets.</li>