Sethcrantwo
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Posted - 2009.05.16 04:23:00 -
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I'd like to offer a response to this, that I think goes against the mainstream.
I am still fairly new to eve. While my account has been around for quite some time as I have tried the game before, I have only recently gotten really into it. I currently have 2.8 mil skill points, and I have been living in null sec, with 2 constant war decs in high sec, for over a month. I can fly battleships, and I think it's one of the best decisions I've made. Here is why:
It's first important to understand, that for PvP, everything that everyone has said above, holds true entirely. You do not want to be flying a battleship for pvp with low skill points. You are just going to be losing a lot of money. It is much better to fly a better fit smaller ship in pretty much any pvp case.
However, your group is interested in making money running plexes. As a group, they will probably be able to output more dps flying cruisers and battlecruisers, so if they intend to run as a group, I would encourage them to follow the advice given above in this thread. However, if you decide to solo, there is only so much that you can do in a cruiser or a bc. Of course if you are in a t2 variety of some ship, there is far less of a problem, but training for a battleship, strictly the flying skills, is much faster than learning to fly t2 cruisers. Go drone boats as I have, and you can fly it fairly effectively ( for PvE, not PvP ). Strictly because of the fact that I chose to train battleships ( I now fly a Dominix, and run T2 Warriors, T2 Hammerheads, and T1 Ogres ), I am now able to solo 6/10 plexes. Within a matter of about 2 weeks, my skills should be high enough to solo the 8/10 plexes as well ( from the calculations I've done by trying them and comparing it with EFT ). Because of this, I have, and can continue to make, 100's of millions of isk in a given day just by scanning and soloing plexes, all because I am in a ship that I probably shouldn't be in given my skill points.
So, I personally think that training battleships is fine, for solo plexing or otherwise PvEing. PvE in this game is easy. Like... WAY easy. Easier than WoW easy. If that is what they intend to do, then battleships are a fine choice, even for low skills, in my humble opinion. If they intend to PvP in these however, this choice needs to be corrected immediately while they still have time to spend the skill points on more useful skills. I'd advise, if this is the case, to point them to this thread, showing just why it is a bad idea. Worst comes to worst, then when they run out of money from losing too many battleships in pvp, they will understand.
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