is the Tristan ship good

[Fat Murica]

im a newbie and that is my name :)

[Shotgun]

All ships have their own purposes and niches; no single ship is "good" or "bad" per se. The Tristan is a drone frigate, so whether or not you can make use of it depends on your drone skills more than other things.

[wingchunstudent]

This site may be a bit dated, but it gives you a nice overview of each ship.

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Category:Ship_Database

Here is a direct link to the Tristan.

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Tristan

[Skühll]

All ships are goods but all have a different role

[Coffee]

I've found the tristan to be a very good frigate. It can have a decent tank, good dps and with good drone skills you can apply great damage at range. =)

[76561197993764546]

Thanks for the link wingchunstudent, I'm finding it very useful.

[BaNe A.I.]

I´ve seen him but i preffer a lighter fighter ship since it is more faster to avoid shots. Btw. it has a good health and deffense if i am not wrong.

[Baneken]

Tristan as a frigate has good armour and good shield hp and a long targetting range (40km).
You can fit it with a flight of ECM drones and some to spare. Like old tristan this new version also works best when shield tanked.
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Tristan is a solid fit and is meant to take benefit of the Tristans long targetting range, preferably while someone else is tackling the target.

[Shotgun]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Baneken:

You can fit it with a flight of ECM drones and some to spare. Like old tristan this new version also works best when shield tanked.

Unless you're talking about some kind of convoluted form of pve (not that anything that can be done in a T1 frigate would need much thought as to fittings), this is a bad idea. A frigate without tackling mods completely defeats the purpose of flying a small ship.

[Baneken]

I said preferably, not leave without a warp disruptor.

[76561197993764546]

Baneken, I tried fitting the Tristan out according to that link you provided but it ends up draining the capacitor in only a few seconds. Are there any more stable fitting configs out there I could look at for the Tristan?

[Baneken]

Well the essential idea is obviously to cyckle the modules but you could allways swap for meta weapons to accomodate for "a candy dispencer" that is to say cap batteries.
You're not supposed to run with your MWD on except to cycle it once for approach, if you do get drained by just rails then you need more capacitor skills and badly as hybrids are almost on par with lasers for eating capacitor (and cap is life anyway).
Do note that controlled bursts (in weapons skills gategory) also significantly reduces capacitor consumption, especially with blasters.

If you have EFT you can swap skills on it until your fit is cap stable with distrupter and weapons on, then it's just a matter seeing what skills you lack on what levels and to act accordingly.
That being said i've never personally used Tristan that much as the old iteration had mixed weapons of missiles and hybrids, instead I've used mainly Ishkur as my ship of choice in frigate combat and I absolutely loved my little "jousting snowmobile".

[76561197993764546]

Thanks, that's good advice :)

I think the problem is that my capacitor skills ♥♥♥♥, I didnt even consider that because I'm a newbie and have basically no idea what I'm doing. I'll try to raise them a bit and see where it gets me.

Would it be better to go for an afterburner rather than a MWD or are they about the same in terms of power consumption?

Thanks for pointing out EFT as well. Didnt even know it existed, so I'll take a look.

[Shotgun]

Considering he's not yet doing pvp, he doesn't need the warp disruptor at all. And when he starts pvp, I would recommend staying away from the Tristan for a while because there are more things to keep track of than for example with an all-out gun ship like the Incursus.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Doom:

Would it be better to go for an afterburner rather than a MWD or are they about the same in terms of power consumption?

Remember to do the show info thing.

To answer your question though: mwds make you much faster, but drain more capacitor, and blow up your signature radius as a result. They also have a built-in capacitor penalty. Check the attributes tab.

[76561197993764546]

No, no PVP yet, still working through the tutorials :) I'm Inquiring about the Tristan because I actually have one at the moment as my *only* combat ship. I dont have an Incursus, but I'll take a look and see if I can afford one.

Edit: lol, just discovered the attributes tab....... thanks :)

[Shotgun]

No, it's fine, drones are convenient for pve. Drones 5 should be the third skill you take to 5 anyway (right after CPU and PG Management), and one of the first skills you take to 4 if you're going to be using them a lot.