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Lysit Kaune Minmatar Brutor tribe	Posted - 2007.01.16 12:37:00 - [31] I choose minmatar because I liked the back story, though as of the last few weeks I dropped my Cyclone for a drake and haven't looked back (Though might get a myrrdion or however its spelt as well).
Freaky Bare Minmatar Blueprint Haus	Posted - 2007.01.16 12:45:00 - [32] I guess I just don't see Eve as a min/max kind of game. I chose Minnie's after several trial runs (with trial accts) because they are FUN to fly! I loved the look of a Rifter. It looks exactly like it flys. I now fly a Cyclone and a Jaguar for PVP. Both awesome ships that look great as well. Minnie's have a certain design philosophy. If you think you would like them - use them. I don't think they are the 'best' ships to fly in most situations, but they are rarely the 'worst' either. I am not an Alt, I am punctuation.
Freaky Bare Minmatar Blueprint Haus	Posted - 2007.01.16 12:45:00 - [33] I guess I just don't see Eve as a min/max kind of game. I chose Minnie's after several trial runs (with trial accts) because they are FUN to fly! I loved the look of a Rifter. It looks exactly like it flys. I now fly a Cyclone and a Jaguar for PVP. Both awesome ships that look great as well. Minnie's have a certain design philosophy. If you think you would like them - use them. I don't think they are the 'best' ships to fly in most situations, but they are rarely the 'worst' either. I am not an Alt, I am punctuation.
Snake Jankins Minmatar Veritas Immortalis	Posted - 2007.01.16 12:51:00 - [34] Edited by: Snake Jankins on 16/01/2007 12:47:24 Originally by: Freaky Bare I guess I just don't see Eve as a min/max kind of game. I chose Minnie's after several trial runs (with trial accts) because they are FUN to fly! I loved the look of a Rifter. It looks exactly like it flys. I now fly a Cyclone and a Jaguar for PVP. Both awesome ships that look great as well. Minnie's have a certain design philosophy. If you think you would like them - use them. I don't think they are the 'best' ships to fly in most situations, but they are rarely the 'worst' either. Yes, agree, picked that race in my first trial, loved already the rifter and when I came back to eve I wanted that again. Then I've got another minnie and then I made a female minnie for a change. ___________ 'Only ships can be assembled, this is a Frigate.'
Archbishop Amarr PIE Inc.	Posted - 2007.01.16 12:51:00 - [35] There are two reasons actually. First since you're "born" with certain racial ship piloting skills Caldari are the majority. But who wants to be a slave? Thus so few Minnie ships. Secondly and perhaps most critical its supply and demand. Not for ships but for duct tape. A shortage of duct tape has caused the decline in Minnie ship numbers! Archie PIE WEBSITE & FORUMS PIE INFORMATION CENTER
Snake Jankins Minmatar Veritas Immortalis	Posted - 2007.01.16 12:51:00 - [36] Edited by: Snake Jankins on 16/01/2007 12:47:24 Originally by: Freaky Bare I guess I just don't see Eve as a min/max kind of game. I chose Minnie's after several trial runs (with trial accts) because they are FUN to fly! I loved the look of a Rifter. It looks exactly like it flys. I now fly a Cyclone and a Jaguar for PVP. Both awesome ships that look great as well. Minnie's have a certain design philosophy. If you think you would like them - use them. I don't think they are the 'best' ships to fly in most situations, but they are rarely the 'worst' either. Yes, agree, picked that race in my first trial, loved already the rifter and when I came back to eve I wanted that again. Then I've got another minnie and then I made a female minnie for a change. ___________ 'Only ships can be assembled, this is a Frigate.'
Archbishop Amarr PIE Inc.	Posted - 2007.01.16 12:51:00 - [37] There are two reasons actually. First since you're "born" with certain racial ship piloting skills Caldari are the majority. But who wants to be a slave? Thus so few Minnie ships. Secondly and perhaps most critical its supply and demand. Not for ships but for duct tape. A shortage of duct tape has caused the decline in Minnie ship numbers! Archie PIE WEBSITE & FORUMS PIE INFORMATION CENTER
Kagura Nikon Minmatar MASS HOMICIDE FREGE Alliance	Posted - 2007.01.16 12:54:00 - [38] There are more Gallente and Minmatar because the girls in teh pictures on race selection are HOTTER! Just because of that! If brute force doesn't solve your problem.. then you are not using enough!!
Kagura Nikon Minmatar MASS HOMICIDE FREGE Alliance	Posted - 2007.01.16 12:54:00 - [39] There are more Gallente and Minmatar because the girls in teh pictures on race selection are HOTTER! Just because of that! If brute force doesn't solve your problem.. then you are not using enough!!
Fullerton Minmatar	Posted - 2007.01.16 13:04:00 - [40] Originally by: Amiable Quinn Minimatar are very skill intensive because of the diversity of ship types and even within ship types. To really fly all Minimatar ships effectively you need: Armor Tanking skills Shield Tanking skills Gunnery skills (especially high AWU) Missile skills Drone skills Miscellaneous e-war skills To fly Caldari effectively you need: Shield tanking skills Missile skills When you trian Minimatar there is a great temptation to cross train another race because you can hop into their ships with our skills and be effective quicker. Very true Minimatar are more speced to train, and if you look at the old pvpers Minimatar wins all the way, instead of lock and loading being a calderi care bare mission runner. It's great being Minmatar, ain't it?

Fullerton Minmatar	Posted - 2007.01.16 13:04:00 - [41] Originally by: Amiable Quinn Minimatar are very skill intensive because of the diversity of ship types and even within ship types. To really fly all Minimatar ships effectively you need: Armor Tanking skills Shield Tanking skills Gunnery skills (especially high AWU) Missile skills Drone skills Miscellaneous e-war skills To fly Caldari effectively you need: Shield tanking skills Missile skills When you trian Minimatar there is a great temptation to cross train another race because you can hop into their ships with our skills and be effective quicker. Very true Minimatar are more speced to train, and if you look at the old pvpers Minimatar wins all the way, instead of lock and loading being a calderi care bare mission runner. It's great being Minmatar, ain't it?
Linda Lips	Posted - 2007.01.17 03:31:00 - [42] Nice to know there are more Minmatar out there than i first suspected Ive been in empire too long. I see what people mean about needing a large cross section of skills..... I still have a long ways to go to be proficient with all the ships.
Letouk Mernel	Posted - 2007.01.17 03:57:00 - [43] Well, for PVP'ers or people who come to the game just to shoot things up, all races are equal if you're a newbie and don't really know much about the game. However, if you're looking for an elite-style trading and industry type of game (and you're a newbie and don't know much about the game), I don't know how many would want to bother with the whole Minmatar-Amarr thing, so I guess the neutral-sounding Caldari and Gallente get picked. Suppose you're minding your own business when suddenly someone you don't know opens a chat window and calls you a slave; clearly they want to RP, and you don't want to break their immersion or whatever, but how can you take up arms if you're a mining, newbie char? I guess most people who are looking to PVP will pick a Minmatar, but look at the Empire population vs. the lowsec or 0.0 population... just how many people are looking to PVP in this game? Most would rather avoid it, and that includes not picking a race where you can be taunted / goaded into PVP by roleplayed remarks.
Patch86 Di-Tron Heavy Industries Freelancer Alliance	Posted - 2007.01.17 04:08:00 - [44] Originally by: Voculus Originally by: Sovy Kurosei Gallente has almost as many turret and armor tanking ships as Amarr. I don't know how they are the easier race to play. The Dominix comes to mind. Dominix is rubbish at PvE- drone shipps struggle with all missions, as Drones don't agro sensibly. some missions are just impossible in a drone ship. They have their moments in PvP (Nos domi comes to mind) but they can't do everything (one of the worst sniping ships in the game). While its true Nos domis are a bit of a corker, I'd hardly call it playing on easy mode. -----------------------------------------------
Lydisa Ekmar Amarr	Posted - 2007.01.17 07:08:00 - [45] Many of the Minmater are still enslaved I personally don't like the design of the Minmatar ships. Steering a junk pile into battle was not my idea of a good time. But, that is just me. I personally chose the Amarr for RP elements and those wicked armored monsters w/ laser vision.
hotgirl933	Posted - 2007.01.17 07:12:00 - [46] the jove are coming the jove are coming ( one day anyway)
Lydisa Ekmar Amarr	Posted - 2007.01.17 07:15:00 - [47] ^^^ Yah which will ruin their mysterious Uberness IMO.
Hilabana Minmatar Sebiestor tribe	Posted - 2007.01.17 08:10:00 - [48] Originally by: Ivan Kirilenkov You see less Minmatar than others because The Caldari State(TM) is marching against it's victory! I do not think that is true . Its just that many of us minmatar are hermits and try to keep to our self. we are all over eve doing all type of things.
hotgirl933	Posted - 2007.01.17 08:11:00 - [49] Originally by: Hilabana Originally by: Ivan Kirilenkov You see less Minmatar than others because The Caldari State(TM) is marching against it's victory! I do not think that is true . Its just that many of us minmatar are hermits and try to keep to our self. we are all over eve doing all type of things. good point
Hilabana Minmatar Sebiestor tribe	Posted - 2007.01.17 08:12:00 - [50] Originally by: Linda Lips Ive been playing for nearly a year now and i rarely see any Minmatar ships flying around. I must have seen less than 25 overall. Are there really so few of us? If so, why?!?!! log in to the minmatar empire chat we like our minmatar sisters and brothers to drop in and chat.

Hilabana Minmatar Sebiestor tribe	Posted - 2007.01.17 08:16:00 - [51] Originally by: Archbishop There are two reasons actually. First since you're "born" with certain racial ship piloting skills Caldari are the majority. But who wants to be a slave? Thus so few Minnie ships. Secondly and perhaps most critical its supply and demand. Not for ships but for duct tape. A shortage of duct tape has caused the decline in Minnie ship numbers! Archie Watch it you silly Amarr PIE Inc. Do not forget how a group of people Rob your belts and got your PIE Inc. smack talking other corps and fighting for your corp to find out in the end it was Hilabana that had your Belts rob and got you so up set lol
Toramp	Posted - 2007.01.17 08:18:00 - [52] Me minny :) just started this char main I cald though 3 years old I chose Cald after reading all the backstorys they sounded so cool :)
Teinyhr Minmatar United Systems Navy	Posted - 2007.01.17 09:29:00 - [53] Another Matar reporting for duty o/ I've been playing Minmatar for roughly about a year now, and partly because of it I'm a jack-of-all-trades.. For now. I chose the race because I liked the feeling of being an "underdog of the galaxy", because I figured, if Matar is as crappy as it sounds, I'd be more respected if I was good with it. And yes it's true, Minmatar doesn't sound very appealing in the character creation screen. But in Minmatar space (For example regions Heimatar, Molden Heath, Metropolis) there are lots of Minnies around - not all fly Minnie ships all the time. But looking at the local chat window, ah, it feels so like home with a few ugly Amarrians here and there chanting pages of Pax Amarria. ------------------- Originally by: Smagd Besides, specialization is for insects.
RuleoftheBone Minmatar UK Corp Lotka Volterra	Posted - 2007.01.17 10:16:00 - [54] Brutor and proud baby--hear me ROAR Seriously though-it takes time to really get a Minmatar to shine. At over 5 months in-game the versatility is really starting to pay excellent dividends in terms of surviving and sheer fun And being thought of as an underdog is kinda cool too. As for the OP: Not sure where you have been flying to only see 25 Minmatar ships in a year. Flavors of the month come and go...maybe you need to travel a bit more
Venkul Mul Gallente	Posted - 2007.01.17 10:25:00 - [55] Edited by: Venkul Mul on 17/01/2007 10:27:11 Originally by: Voculus Originally by: Sovy Kurosei Gallente has almost as many turret and armor tanking ships as Amarr. I don't know how they are the easier race to play. The Dominix comes to mind. You have a vague idea of the million Sp in bugged drones you need to make a Dominix perform? As a character choice: first one Gallente, as they are the democratic one (general description, a bid of dubt after the election ) second: Achur (Caldari), liked the look third: Minmatar (I needed a specific R&D corporation) So I think that at first the choice is based on background and look, lather on play mechanics. It would be interesting to know the ratio of character retention, i.e. how much of the first character used in play then become the main or one of the main character used, and how many are substituted by more play effective characters.
Arthe Xavier	Posted - 2007.01.17 10:38:00 - [56] Another Minmatar enters the thread I chose the race due to its harsh past - I like the idea that my character has had a really rough time. He is coming to terms with his past actions, and is starting life from a fresh plate in a newly-bought Rifter. And yes, brothers and sisters, in a way we are the underdogs of the galaxy, and that is a big plus as far as I am concerned. We haven't been spoon-fed, you know. ;)
Jim McGregor	Posted - 2007.01.17 10:39:00 - [57] Edited by: Jim McGregor on 17/01/2007 10:37:06 I still think minnie is exactly what everybody told me when I first started playing: a real challenge where player skill is more important than the ship itself. I used to obsess about dps numbers compared to the other races, but eventually you realize that it doesnt matter. If you dont get hit, tanking doesnt matter, and if you hit them, their tanking will fail in the end. --- Eve Wiki \| Eve Tribune
Radioactive Babe	Posted - 2007.01.17 11:01:00 - [58] OP playing in Kisogo or somewhere? My main is Gallente and after a while used some Caldari ships to npc in ... and now I find with just a few days training ship and gun skills I can hop into a minnie ship and be decent enough. One of the main attractions of this is that a lot of Minnie ships are cheep cheep cheep (not Jag/Vaga ofc) ...
Luke Pubcrawler	Posted - 2007.01.17 12:57:00 - [59] Although Gallente my main ships these days are Minmatar. I fly the odd Amarr and run Empire missions in Caldari when I have to, but my day to day ships are all Minny. My character started as Gallente as that was what my friends were and not really understanding how the universe worked we stuck together. However I never really cared for the goody goody backstory, the lumpy, ugly green ships, or in my early mission running days for Blasters. so I started experimenting with other races. Caldari were a no brainer for missioning, but Minmatar and Amarr where more fun. Now I rat happily in my Typhoon and have my Hurricane sitting ready for PvP. In 0.0 minny ships are far from rare - in drone country where I am at the minute they are maybe the single most common race.
Iyanah Minmatar Mining Munitions and Mayhem	Posted - 2007.01.17 13:13:00 - [60] Originally by: Dao 2 if u live in empire ull see fewer if u live in .0 ull see a fair number ;p theyre not awesome pve ships because they have crap for tank but theyre fair pvp ;) i dunno about that, they cyclone can tank for ages. not as good as the drake, mind you. there's an abundance of minmatar ships in the minmatar regions of empire. ships of choice tend to be: mammoth Cyclone Tempest Rifter and the tech 2 variants where applicable. the rest of the minmatar ships are about, thrasher is reasonably popular, for example, but those 4 are the most frequently seen. ========================================== Iy



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