Asking carrier questions in New Citizen's Q & A. It's such a strange thing to do it makes people wonder if you are trolling.

To be fair... in my opinion... if you buy a lot of skillpoints or an older character so that you can fly big honking fleet level ships you give up any pretense of being a newbie and are essentially saying, "nah, I don't need to go through that learning process first... I got this!"
And that means...

1. This question should be in Ships and Modules.
2. You will be treated the same way every other veteran who asks these kinds of questions will be (see: if you have to ask such basic questions about capitals, you should not fly them).


Now, if you are as capable with sub-capital ships as you say you are, then fitting up a carrier to kill NPCs should be trivial.
And you should already have a firm grasp on how to look up ship requirements and how to get the most out of any ship you want to fly.
And you should also quickly see why carrier ratting is VERY RISKY and can easily be done by a much cheaper sub-capital.

Could you please add more detail to this statement?

My experience of Eve is the exact opposite of what you are saying here.

At my first reading of that statement, my knee jerk reaction was that you've totally got the wrong idea of Eve and are imposing concepts learned in other MMOs onto Eve. I'm willing to consider that maybe I've missed something but I am very curious what makes you say this.

thats not really encouraging GÇ£newbie carrier pilotsGÇ¥, any other mmo you can simply just rmt your way to the top stuff, ccp try to cut out rmt by offering the stuff themselves, so you are saying while other mmo's dont offer buying stuff from the company for real money they are essentially encouraging rmt?

Capitals REQUIRE experience in-game to be used with any degree of safety. If someone does not have this experience it can be assumed they bought the skills / character and SHOULD NOT be encouraged.

Oh ok now I understand what you are saying. I totally see your point with the exception of you putting the blame on CCP and vets looking for easy KMs. I'll explain... But first I want to say that I think that us vets and CCP out of our way to try and explain it but new players just don't believe us because it goes against everything they learned in other games.

Yes Eve is different in many ways. First off there is no end game in Eve so your comment about not having to grind raid bosses for end game gear is at best a moot point and more likely just completely mis-guided. No ship in Eve is any better than any other ship. Each ship has it's uses and everything in Eve is situational.

In other games a level 90 character doesn't even have a chance against a level 100 character and a character with a gearscore a couple hundred points higher has exponential factors of power over a lower geared player. In Eve a carrier is not better than a BS or even a cruiser or a frig it's just different. In Eve people don't fly cruisers because they can't afford battleships they fly cruisers to do stuff that cruisers do well and fly battleships for stuff that battleships do well. A very new player in a very small cheap ship can get under the guns of a very high skill point character in a very expensively fit Battleship and pwn him. You will never see a level 10 beating a level 100 in WoW.

I think that there are a few more points about Eve that you are missing...

You can always offer to be a Personal Capital Training Instructor for the small sum of, say, five billion isk per month, and help redistribute their wealth a bit :) And besides, exploding Carriers make the economy go 'round!