EVE Online | Academy - Fitting your ship

Picking and fitting your ship for purpose is the most important way to ensure your success in an upcoming Security mission. Generally, progression from level 1 to level 4 missions will involve stepping from a Tech 1 (T1) frigate to a T1 destroyer for level 2 missions. Level 3 missions can be completed in a cruiser or battlecruiser depending on skills and fit, and level 4 typically requires a well-prepared battleship.

The progression path of any faction's ships can be seen in the in-game ship tree. You can increase your chances of success by ensuring that you fit armor or shield tank modules which improve your resists against the damage types of the specific enemy you are fighting. This information can be found in the Show Info tab of most hostile NPCs. Additionally, PvE in EVE commonly requires that you stay and fight for an extended period of time. This means that fits for missions are better suited to fitting active shield or armor repair modules - Shield Boosters and Armor Repairers.

[senjiukanuba]

Unpopular opinion: I think this video gets the basics across pretty well. I would still add that as a new player it's a good idea to run a fit by a more experienced player and ask for improvements but for people that are too overwhelmed by the whole fitting system and don't know where to start I think this video provides a good explanation.

[eventon]

Great video and start to explaining the very complex mechanic of ship fitting to newbros! I think mentioning 'Range' in one of the PvE pillars is important, (could even attached it the mobility pillar since they are intertwined) could easily have newbros with rails/arty shooting/missing frigates at 500m and not understand whats going on. Other than that, its a great video to get a baseline understanding of fitting though getting fitting advice from multiple vets is the better way to do it.

[SheikYoboddi]

Excellent video showing new players the basics. I think all the people complaining are missing the point. The video isn't about how to fit a rifter. It's about what you need to think about when fitting any ship. Getting the balance right is a skill that takes practice. Sure you can ask in corp for a fit or use doctrines but if you never really understand the process then you're missing a huge part of the game.

No one is saying this is a perfect fit. They're saying, here's how to play around with the fitting tool. Here's some modules to consider. Try some things out, get blown up, work out what you need to change to do better next time.

[BjornBee]

Fantastic vid CCP. I'm glad our newbros have this kind of introduction to some of the basics.

[gnjbby]

learned all this the hard way ...then they make a tutorial in 2021

[AidaramaTwitchs]

New player tutorials are what EVE needs! Well in lads T2 mods ftw.

[paxsovetica]

Не прошло и двадцати лет как появились официальные обучающие видео. Браво!!! :harold:

[levelgnollwarlock]

I love these videos and they make me want to re-activate again. eve has aged very well, except for the fact that we will never get the old aura back ;(

[Velimirius]

Fantastic video, really lays out the basics well.

[varagvarag]

good video and another addition to the academy. I wonder if we will be getting these videos in game as there were older tutorial videos in the help section of the neo com that were removed some time ago?

[bradleymayer]

thank you for this i really learned alot of what i was needing to know so many fittings and different ship mods made it so confusing as a new player you really made it easy to understand !

[SteveConsGaming]

first! hehehe thank you for sharing this! :D by the way i also have a lot of specific fitting guides in a lot of ships incase new players want to check it out.
Thank you eve online for sharing this awesome video!

[BogDustForBreakfast]

great video although i also learnt the hard way its great to see a video like this was made . .great job EVE

[Vict_OR]

I would have liked to show the Variation of the Tech2 modules for the Gyrostab to compact and Damge control IFFA throug the Variation instead of naming it directly to help our newbro

[davidalangay]

Wow, the holofit is great. Much better than pyfa and you can try ship modules before you buy. As a new player, I was very confused about what low-power weapon upgrades go with what turret weapons and bought a heat sink for a hybrid. 😞

[MoltenUprisingMK]

This was definitely what I was hoping for.

[EaglefireflyGaming]

Great video guys! An awesome place for new player tutorials!

[JoshuaPritt]

Having played eve as an alpha for 1.5 years now I can say min/maxing all the many combinations of fittings is very tedious. For those of us that don't have time to spend going through all that there should be several ready made, tried and true fittings that show in the hulls n fits section. I've never seen any of those show up there but there should be.

[ThatGamerPilot]

welp. time to devote my life to this game

[drrandom]

I would recommend any newbros to talk to the veterans in their corp before fitting a ship, they usually have much better fits than those you make yourself.