An Eve Blog: Eve Online Strategy

Whatever race you choose in Eve Online you can train other races ships so you are never stuck to one race. The races are actually reasonably balanced. The only exception to this is Caldari who are the best pve race but the worst pvp race.

The most important thing when creating a new character to think about is your attributes as these affect your training time: Perception is generally regarded as the most important attribute as it directly relates to your ability to train skills to fly different types of ships. Intelligence is in my opinion the second most important attribute. Memory and Willpower are reasonably important and Charisma is pretty useless.

If your looking to do a lot of pvp I would advise not starting the name of your character with either A,B or C. The reason for this is that in larger fights targets are usually sorted alphabetically and then killed from A down.

To plan character development an excellent tool is EVEMon

Most players in Eve don’t know how to fit their ships, learning how to fit yours will give you an advantage over most players. The best way to learn how to fit your ships is follow what other good players are doing. You can do this by looking at killboards of good players. A killboard keeps track of kills and losses with many alliances and corporations have their own killboards. Google to find their killboards and check their losses to find good fits. Pandemic Legion’s killboard is a decent start for fits.

A great tool for fitting ships is Eve Fitting Tool or EFT. It can be downloaded here. EFT allows you to see what a ship can do with your skills and with what you can fit.

So what is the best race? Is there a best race?

For PvE in my opinion there is easily a best race: Caldari. The Tengu, Drake, Raven and Golem are all excellent PvE ships due to the easy ability to change damage types.

What about the best PvP race? That is not so clear cut. For each ship class (which matter) I will list the best ships in my opinion for that class. I will not include faction ships.

Frigates: Rifter

Interceptors: Taranis, Stiletto,

Electronic Attack Ships: None

Assualt Ships: Ishkur, Wolf, Jaguar

Stealth Bombers: All

Destroyers: Thrasher

Interdictors: Sabre

Cruisers: Thorax, Rupture

Recon Ships: Curse, Rapier

Heavy Assualt Ships: Zealot, Ishtar, Vagabond, Muninn

Strategic Cruisers: All

Heavy Interdictors: All

Battlecruisers: Harbinger, Drake, Myrmidon, Hurricane

Command Ships: Absoultion, Damnation, Vulture, Astarte, Claymore, Sleipnir

Battleships: Armageddon, Apocalypse, Abaddon, Scorpion, Dominix, Megathron, Hyperion, Typhoon, Tempest, Maelstrom.

Black Ops: Redeemer

Marauders: None

Carriers: Archon, Aeon, Thanatos, Nyx

Dreadnoughts: Revelation, Moros

Titans: All

Logistics: Guardian, Basilisk, Scimitar

Totals:

Amarr: 11

Caldari: 3

Gallente: 10

Minmatar: 17

So therefore Minmatar are the best race? This is true for non capital ships. For capital ships I would reccomend Amarr. If you are just starting the game and want to PvP I would definitely recommend Minmatar. It is key to remember though that when starting a character you want to focus on the primarily character’s attributes as you can always train any race.