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Mallus said:
Installing now. Is there anyone around that could give me a hand?
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I'm at work :(

oh, and the servers are down for 1 hour from noon... every day... so you may want to wait until this afternoon to log in ;)

Join channel OcUK, there should be someone there to chat to.

oh, and do all the training missions!
 
Playing now and my god it is confusing. Kind of got the hang of it but 90% of the time is spent travelling from station A to B. Not sure if I am fighitng right, seems a bit clunky.
 
Mallus said:
Playing now and my god it is confusing. Kind of got the hang of it but 90% of the time is spent travelling from station A to B. Not sure if I am fighitng right, seems a bit clunky.
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just make sure you do the tutorial completly, its really long but does an amazing job at teaching most of the basics.
 
Done the whole tutorial. Going to start another character with my bro. We have always been very pvp orientated and was wondering if any of you could suggest a good duo race and attribute wise and what to spec in for the first few days/weeks. Really want to get up to speed so we can go do some pvping! Will prob play this game for a long time as it seems excellent already so would be looking for a build which will benefit in the long term.

Cheers!

PS Done loads of reading on the official forums and will continue to do so but would just like some starting advice to get the ball rolling
 
Mallus said:
Really want to get up to speed so we can go do some pvping! Will prob play this game for a long time as it seems excellent already so would be looking for a build which will benefit in the long term.
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when a skill says its gonna take 3 weeks to train...they mean three weeks. a lot of people (myself included) wanna rush in but things take time, all i can suggest is get mining train your skills and get a frigate and do missions etc and get yourself into a corp. and they will most likely guide you better from there :)
 
Mallus said:
Done the whole tutorial. Going to start another character with my bro. We have always been very pvp orientated and was wondering if any of you could suggest a good duo race and attribute wise and what to spec in for the first few days/weeks.
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The most important attribute for PVP is perception second most is willpower, then intelligence, memory and charisma. There is no best in eve and any race can compete in combat as equally as others. A caldari acura with 3 in charisma and 9 in all the other attributes is very good balance.

A loose summary below

Amarr use lasers as a primary weapon, these require no continual ammo use which is an advantage, they favour strong armor tanks.

Caldari tend to fire missiles with hybrid guns as a secondary, their ships can compete with fewer skillpoints, they like electronic warfare but dont boast the fastest ships.

Gallente use drones and favour close combat with blasters, although they have good range too, they often fare better with higher skillpoints dedicated to their ships.

The minimatar are great at fast paced hit and run combat, their ships boast speed and ability and favour large alpha strikes (high hits in 1 shot, lower damage over time) Very versatile ships, in the long run with lots of skillpoints they can be very deadly.

Pick a character you like the look of and the name is important too, if you play the game a long time that sort of thing is the last thing you want to regret. Remeber you can pick a character from one race with higher perception base and then focus entirely on another race ships.
 
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Alright, I need some help and tips on using the scanner. I know its possible to track people down with it and figure out around where they are, but I am absolutely terrible with it. I can find people and things at 180 degrees, but beyond there i'm useless.

Does anybody have to time to explain it, or have any good websites explaining it?
 
Basically because you can narrow the angle of the scan range, you can use it to find the relative location of a ship or other item in space.

I can't hold your hand through the whole thing but here's one exampe.

You're hunting down a battleship but don't know where he went.

Firstly you do a 360 degree scan at max range. (max the range out by entering as many numbers are you can on the range, it will default to the max afterward)

So you pick up various items, make sure you have a PVP overview setting to filter our NPC crap and space junk.

And you get a positive, Ship Name: "Ravens are for noobs" , Ship Type: "Raven"

Ok that's the target, but you don't know where he is..

So you drop to 180 degrees, and scan again. NB: the scanner works like a gun sight, it needs two points. Your camera is one point and your ship is the other.

SO, now you've got him down on a 180 scan, so drop to 90, scan again, drop to 60 scan again, if you do it right, you can get it to 5 Degrees.

If you really want to be UBER, you can start reducing the range to get his distance too.

So there you have it, you pretty much a good idea where he is. Let's say it's a moon, you can see them in space. Warp to it, bang, dead.

If he's in a SS, you need scan probes. However the scanner helps you work out which probes you can use, therefore reducing the detection time.
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The scanner is a scout tool used to find people in space.





Scouting

While moving around the Fleet Commander will need eyes up ahead finding targets. If you are in an interceptor you may be asked to do this job. If this happens you need to be able to find those targets or you won’t be very popular! So this is how you do it:
When you enter a system 1-2 jumps ahead of your fleet check local. If you see a person there, then open scanner (which should be minimized ALWAYS when scouting) and do a 360' degree max-range scan. If you see a suitable target i.e. an Apoc then drop down to 60-90 degree scan and start scanning planet clusters. if you got him towards planet 5, 6, 7, 8 then drop down to 30' degree and find the right planet.
If the cluster is so close you can’t see which planet then warp to one of the planets and narrow the search to a single planet using 5-15'degree scan. Warp to the target planet and use 30'degree scanning the belts (belts are these D in-space), locate the approx belt and do a 5'degree scan towards the belt to verify.
Call the FC about the location belt and if you don’t have scramblers then call in the fleet to the target belt.
If you see a person in local, but no targets on scanner then warp to the sun and do a 360'degree scan, if you see an appropriate target then narrow to the planet and then to belt as explained above.
If he’s not near the sun, then open wordpad (or just remember) which planet/-s are further away then 15 AU which your scanner cannot reach and warp to those planets in order and do a 360'degree scan and narrow down.
NB: Using the scanner u need to place the camera behind your ship towards the object u want to scan.

Time for one of the silly questions that no one wants to ask: “How do I use the scanner?”

Open up the scanner and you will see a plan view of the system, with the location of your ship shown. To get a maximum range scan press “9999999… etc” in the distance box and click on scan. It will default to 2,147,483,647 (or 15AU). You will get a list of everything in that range. To make the list shorter check “use over view settings” and just those things that would show up in the overview are shown.

Useful as this is it won’t help you pin point anyone! The trick is to narrow down the scan angle so you are only seeing what is in front of you. By spinning the camera around in space you can look at specific locations and scan. If you are trying to scan a gate and you don’t get the gate on the list you are out of range and need to move nearer.

By gradually bringing down the range and tightening the angle you can get a pretty good idea of where someone is. Get a mate to hide in a system and spend half an hour trying to find him.


I wrote that awhile back.

If u are solo and engaging a BS in ** BS and u know there is hostiles in system u can keep ** scanner open and refresh it every 10 sec or so to see if there is anyone warping in to help ** target.

But most used it is to find people in systems, hostile people which the summary of Joram McGrory`s PvP guide and one of it`s content which i wrote for it.
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Hopefully the events in EC-P8R will show everyone just how boring POS wars are, and CCP will make them interesting in some way.
 
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