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Fitting Your Ship

Basic fitting "do's and don't" for new players

Basics

Tanking

Is basically "way to keep you ship alive under fire" my numerous ways like increasing your shield/armour resists to reduce incoming damage, increasing armour/shield points to make u take more damage before blowing up, repairing taken damage, or avoiding it by flying faster than enemy's cannons can track.

Armor tank

Depends on resistance modules, plates or repairers to keep your ship alive. Comes in two verieties, buffer and active armor tank. Buffer tank relies on increasing EHP by using modules and rigs increasing resistance and total armor HP. Used mostly in PVP (where incoming damage is much higher than active tank can repair and you want to survive long enougth so you gang will eliminate targets, or enougth time to run away) and in WH ops, when you rely on your gangmates to repair you. Pros:

• uses mostly low slots, so you have mid slots free for utility mods and/or cap rechargers
• active tank is overall more efficient

Cons:

• no natural armor regen
• plates and armor rigs reduce ship's maximal speed
• less space for damage/tracking mods

More here: Armour Tanking

Shield tank

Depends on your shield as primary defence. Comes in threee varieties, active, passive, and buffer. Active relies on boosting your shield resists and repairing incoming damage, buffer on increasing EHP and passive relies on boosting your shield total regen rate Pros:

• shield naturaly regenerates
• no speed penalty
• free lowslots for dmg mods

Cons:

• ln case of passive/buffer tank, huge signature radius penalty, easier to hit
• less space for utility modules

More here Shield Tanking

"Suitcase tank"

Uses Damage Control as only "tanking" module. Mostly used on PVP frigates, Damage control provides biggest "EHP boost per slot" from all tanking modules, and it don't have stacking penalties with any other resistance mod. Often used on ships because it's only ship that provides hull resists, whch give a little bit more time to run away when your tank is "broken" (more damage incoming than you can rep).

So what to do when u are planning fit for your new ship. First, you should specify

Purpurose

of your fit. What is primary and secondary purpurose of ship you wanna fly? What are things u need and what are things u would like your ship would do. Trying to build ship that does everything, usually ends in ship doing everything bad.

PVE

This is quite simple, first thing you want is enougth tank to keep you alive, after that most DPS u can get. For PVE passive or active tank, because rats have steady damage over long time. Whether u want shield of armor tank depends on ship you wanna fly, more low slots work better with armor tank, more mid slots work better with shield tank, though some ships can do both (like passive shield tanked Hurricane or Myrmidon). After fitting tank, weapons, and (most of the time) propulsion mod like afterburner. What weapons you fit depend on ship but in general, shorter range, more DPS dmg weapons like blasters and autocannons work best on fast, agile ship (if u can't get to enemy, tons of blaster DPS won't help), while long range low DPS (beam lasers, railguns, artillery) let's u have more freedom with range, but cant hit anything on short range. Pulse lasers are medium range with good tracking, so they are usually good choice.

Also in general when u're closer to NPC u tend to get more dmg, so when u can't tank and have to warp off often, switching to long range weapons can help.

WH (PVE)

For BC, you want as much tank as possible, while having at least some buffer (so u have time to warp off). Passive tank on ships like Drake, Myrmidon or Hurricane tends to work well. Even in c2 sleepers hit quite hard (more than l3 missions). You want long range weapons most of the time because cruisers tend to orbit >15km but then killing frigs can be a problem, esp. that if u dont use any ECM or RR they aggro drones, so fitting one ECM module for that can be beneficial.

For BS, u want as much resistance as possible, and healthy buffer (100k EHP is a good target), most of BS in C3 are rr (remote repair) gangs, which means when u get primairied by sleepers, other gang member will use remote armor/shield repair modules to rep u. Pref. all gang members should be same type, either armor or shield tanked. After that light/medium drones for dealing with sleeper frigates and long range guns as sleeper BS can spawn more than 75 km away.

With RR u usually dont need propulsion mod, as RR range is only about 10km max, so you will be standing still most of the time, instead mount cap recharger or another hardener. Tracking enhancers/computers on "non laser" weapons help too

PVP

Buffer tank 90% of time, sometimes for frig you will use what's called "speed tank", which means fit with speed/agility mods like nanofiber which enables u to orbit target fast so u can avoid getting hit. As for rest, depends on your role in fleet, most of the time you will want MWD instead of AB for closing distance or getting out of enemy range. Remember that 40% more tank is better than 20% more dps, coz it let's u live longer to do damage