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Little more than slower, armed shuttles, corvettes (formerly known as "rookie ships" or "noobships") are the basic frigates that new pilots start with. You can acquire a new corvette (together with a civilian weapon, a civilian mining laser and one unit of Tritanium) for free by docking your pod in a station where you don't already have any ships. On their own these are not much use for anything other than basic errand-running. EVE University has, however, been known to field fleets composed entirely of corvettes, more for their comedy value than for their effectiveness in battle.
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Little more than slower, armed shuttles, corvettes (formerly known as "rookie ships" or "noobships") are the basic ships that new pilots start with. You can acquire your faction's corvette by clicking the "Board my Corvette" button whenever you are docked. It will be fitted with a civilian weapon, a civilian mining laser, and a civilian afterburner. If you already have a corvette in that structure, you will board that one and its fit will be the fit before you entered it.
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While corvettes aren't suited for serious combat, people field fleets composed entirely of corvettes, more for their comedy value than for their effectiveness in battle.
  
 
* Corvettes can be used to move around - they are better than flying just in a pod.
 
* Corvettes can be used to move around - they are better than flying just in a pod.
 
* There are only a few other ships that have only a role bonus and no bonus based on a skill. You can fly them with minimum skills.
 
* There are only a few other ships that have only a role bonus and no bonus based on a skill. You can fly them with minimum skills.
 
* They are good only for the beginning of the tutorial - you should use other ships immediate when you get them and do not look back to the corvettes.
 
* They are good only for the beginning of the tutorial - you should use other ships immediate when you get them and do not look back to the corvettes.
* Later on, when you are experienced and working together with people who fly capital ships, you can use corvettes as cheap [[Cyno]] ships and fit a Cyno Field Generator I on it, together with an afterburner. But you may need to fit powergrid or cpu enhancement modules as well to have enough power and cpu grid to support both modules.
 
  
 
All four corvettes can carry at least one light drone in their dronebay. The Gallente Velator can carry two.
 
All four corvettes can carry at least one light drone in their dronebay. The Gallente Velator can carry two.
 
 
* {{icon|isis amarr|22}}[[Impairor]]
 
* {{icon|isis amarr|22}}[[Impairor]]
 
* {{icon|isis caldari|22}}[[Ibis]]
 
* {{icon|isis caldari|22}}[[Ibis]]
 
* {{icon|isis gallente|22}}[[Velator]]
 
* {{icon|isis gallente|22}}[[Velator]]
 
* {{icon|isis minmatar|22}}[[Reaper]]
 
* {{icon|isis minmatar|22}}[[Reaper]]
 
  
 
There are also five Special Edition corvettes (quite expensive, but a little bit better and with better role bonus than the other corvettes):
 
There are also five Special Edition corvettes (quite expensive, but a little bit better and with better role bonus than the other corvettes):
 
 
* {{icon|isis blood|22}}[[Hematos]]
 
* {{icon|isis blood|22}}[[Hematos]]
 
* {{icon|isis sansha|22}}[[Immolator]]
 
* {{icon|isis sansha|22}}[[Immolator]]
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* {{icon|isis serpentis|22}}[[Violator]]
 
* {{icon|isis serpentis|22}}[[Violator]]
  
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{{expansion past|
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September 2019 Release - 2019-09-10
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* Cynos can now only be fitted to Force Recon Ships and Black Ops Battleships. Before that corvettes were commonly used as disposable cyno ships.
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Invasion 1.0 released on Tuesday, May 28th 2019
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* The "Board my Corvette" button was added.
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[[Category:Ships]]
 
[[Category:Ships]]

Revision as of 13:10, 19 September 2019

Little more than slower, armed shuttles, corvettes (formerly known as "rookie ships" or "noobships") are the basic ships that new pilots start with. You can acquire your faction's corvette by clicking the "Board my Corvette" button whenever you are docked. It will be fitted with a civilian weapon, a civilian mining laser, and a civilian afterburner. If you already have a corvette in that structure, you will board that one and its fit will be the fit before you entered it. While corvettes aren't suited for serious combat, people field fleets composed entirely of corvettes, more for their comedy value than for their effectiveness in battle.

  • Corvettes can be used to move around - they are better than flying just in a pod.
  • There are only a few other ships that have only a role bonus and no bonus based on a skill. You can fly them with minimum skills.
  • They are good only for the beginning of the tutorial - you should use other ships immediate when you get them and do not look back to the corvettes.

All four corvettes can carry at least one light drone in their dronebay. The Gallente Velator can carry two.

There are also five Special Edition corvettes (quite expensive, but a little bit better and with better role bonus than the other corvettes):