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Raven

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Sooo Im coming back to eve, not sure if Im gonna join TW or not (since I'll be a newb for a while and be playing casually until school ends), but before I do, I want to know...I want to roll a smuggler type...someone who is incredibly hard to catch and fast as hell. They dont need to loaded with guns or able to mine tons of shit or anything, I just want to be able to run missions and get the fuck out, most of the time.

I want to be fast as HELL.

That being said, I'd also prefer to be Caldari.

What initial spec should I go, what ship should I shoot for, what modules, and what skills am I looking at getting first?
 
I'm sure there are better answers...but..

Since I just did a mission where I really burned rubber, here's a potential setup

Ship: Caldari frigate, Condor
hi slot: whatever weapon
mid: good after burner, plus another item of your choice
lo: probably hull modifier, I used PDS to boost my power rating so my Condor has 2 standard missile launchers.

With just 2 Nav, 2 AB skills, I was able to reach about 800 km speed. I know if you have hull upgrade and other mechanical and navigation skills, you can hit about 1000km.

My total skill point is only about 200K so you can get to that speed easily and more since I didn't train up my nav & AB skills too much as I need to fight as well.
 
I think minmatar are the speed demon race. That being said, you can train up your nav skills for any race and still be fast. I have also found that when comparing mods you will find quite a bit of difference between base mods and named mods. So with named mods and good nav skills, you will be pleasantly surprised when you want to put the pedal to the metal.

The interceptor class ship is the fastest ship available iirc. Just remember that without guns you are only good for scouting or transporting and this game is about killing, so even though you train for speed you should have a weapon specialty unless you were gonna do something like stealth bomber.

Imo dont limit yourself like you are suggesting because there is a good chance you will regret it later in your career.
 
BEAST420 said:
I think minmatar are the speed demon race. That being said, you can train up your nav skills for any race and still be fast. I have also found that when comparing mods you will find quite a bit of difference between base mods and named mods. So with named mods and good nav skills, you will be pleasantly surprised when you want to put the pedal to the metal.

The interceptor class ship is the fastest ship available iirc. Just remember that without guns you are only good for scouting or transporting and this game is about killing, so even though you train for speed you should have a weapon specialty unless you were gonna do something like stealth bomber.

Imo dont limit yourself like you are suggesting because there is a good chance you will regret it later in your career.
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Well Im figuring I'll have alts and shit if I want to fight, but I hear theres a decent courier market, but you need to be fast because lots of courier missions are just setups, so Im looking to become a serious courier whos hard as shit to catch, thats what excites me about EVE. If this doesnt really occur in eve, lemme know.

What other setups?
 
Well the training time involved really prevents effective use of alts until you get one character well trained, unless you run multiple accounts. Otherwise, you just end up with multiple gimped characters for some time.
 
So does this thing Im looking for (a smuggling endgame) not exist?


Im just looking for some direction I guess, which attributes should I go for when I roll a character..what skills are definite need first skills.
 
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Ya there's not a whole lot in terms of smuggling. There are illegal items but most folks tend to ignore them mostly. They're hard to move and acquire and not enough to use them for. As for the missions, most of the well paying courier missions (player and npc) will require a lot of cargo space that you need a good hauler for (which tend to be a bit slow, but can be rigged to go a semi-decent speed, unless you're in the biggest haulers that can't use anything).

The only real speed based "job" would be scouting more than anything, and even then going for a covert ops ship would end up being better with cloaks and such (so speed is less an issue unless you get found).

So unless someone starts a regular race circuit, there's just not that much to fit the smuggler idea you're going for.
 
Kore said:
Ya there's not a whole lot in terms of smuggling. There are illegal items but most folks tend to ignore them mostly. They're hard to move and acquire and not enough to use them for. As for the missions, most of the well paying courier missions (player and npc) will require a lot of cargo space that you need a good hauler for (which tend to be a bit slow, but can be rigged to go a semi-decent speed, unless you're in the biggest haulers that can't use anything).

The only real speed based "job" would be scouting more than anything, and even then going for a covert ops ship would end up being better with cloaks and such (so speed is less an issue unless you get found).

So unless someone starts a regular race circuit, there's just not that much to fit the smuggler idea you're going for.
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thanks for makin it clear

hmmmm
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its pretty easy answer really:

go caldari, train the asian bloodline, forget CHA based training skills, do the learning skills (base at least to 4, I would recommend base to 5, advanced to 4) train up missle skills, micro ward drives, some shield skills, engineering skills, and interceptors and get yourself a crow.

as for smuggling, as others said, yea you can do it, but there is not a real demand for it as they have no real purpose for the illegal loots, at least in the year and a half or so Ive been playing, I have never had a need to have someone, or myself transport "illegal" goods.
 
Shadow13 said:
its pretty easy answer really:

go caldari, train the asian bloodline, forget CHA based training skills, do the learning skills (base at least to 4, I would recommend base to 5, advanced to 4) train up missle skills, micro ward drives, some shield skills, engineering skills, and interceptors and get yourself a crow.

as for smuggling, as others said, yea you can do it, but there is not a real demand for it as they have no real purpose for the illegal loots, at least in the year and a half or so Ive been playing, I have never had a need to have someone, or myself transport "illegal" goods.
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it's not its
warp not ward
I've not Ive
 
Im not trying to impress anyone. If you can be the grammar police when it's not really necessary other than to be a cock then I can too. You have to admit the irony of correcting my grammar and then posting what you posted. Like I really care in the first place.
 
BEAST420 said:
Im not trying to impress anyone. If you can be the grammar police when it's not really necessary other than to be a cock then I can too. You have to admit the irony of correcting my grammar and then posting what you posted. Like I really care in the first place.
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for people who don't care, you and vlasic like to slurp the nuts enough. If you didnt care you wouldnt post, so in essance, you care enough to make sure you try and get the last word in? And to make it clear for you, in the other thread you made reference to how joining ASCN isntead of your little asshat corp was like going from the smart kids to the short bus.

So I was making corrections based on the fact that if you guys are the "smart" kids, then you should at least make sure the grammer of the attack post is at least correct before looking like a tool


I mean if we are going to play kiddy games, at least lets turn it into word wars, ill start:

loser.
 
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Vlasic said:
yeah no shit. He corrects you and that's fine. You correct him and you're "all over his nuts"

What a fucking fruitcake.
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its like I said before, KEEP IT TO ONE THREAD. I didnt say shit to you or him in this thread, I was trying to help out the OP.

I can sit here all day and talk shit back and forth no problem for me either way, at least keep it to the current "shit" thread and quit laying your panty waste of spewage from crapping up every fucking thread in this forum. thnx.
 

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