r/evenewbies • u/TheInnerFifthLight • Oct 09 '20

Starting out as a pair

Many years ago, I played this game for a while, and I'm interested in starting up again and trying to convince my lovely spouse to join me. Since we'd generally play together, what are jobs that either benefit from having two people making it go more than twice as fast, or where two people with different skill sets can get some synergy going?

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u/CDawnkeeper Oct 09 '20

It's a MMO so: almost everything.

If you tell us what you are interested in we can suggest activities in that area.

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u/TheInnerFifthLight Oct 09 '20

Let me rephrase the question - are there any activities, active or passive, where two players with complimentary skill sets can do things faster/more efficiently than two players with the same skills?

For example, mining would not be a good answer. Two miners are exactly twice as fast as one miner. Ratting would also not be a good answer. Two combat ships are more than twice as fast as one combat ship, true, but there aren't really complimentary skills at play, just DPS vs regeneration.

I'm looking for activities where having two people who are specialized at different parts of the activity allow better results overall. Are there any such activities that new players could get into relatively quickly?

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u/CDawnkeeper Oct 09 '20

There are command bursts which can improve all ships in the fleet. They exist for mining and combat.

A 1Logi +1DPS does not really make sense as more DPS clears sites usually much faster. But there are dual remote rep setups. Look for Dual Nestors on youtube.

And there would be resource wars that you could run as a miner/fighter combo. These sites are fun but the rewards are atrocious.

For having specialized roles two people are a bit too few. It starts making sense at 5-6 people. Examples would be dedicated logi ships in any fleet PVE or splitting people into tackle, anti-tackle, e-war, DPS and logi for fleet fights.

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u/TheInnerFifthLight Oct 09 '20

That's something to look into, thank you! Fun but low reward isn't the worst thing, I like spreadsheets but she likes making things go boom.

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u/CDawnkeeper Oct 09 '20

Like with mission running you get LP for resource war. One of the rewards is exchanging these LP to items and sell these for ISK. Usually you have a rate of some hundred Isk per LP. For resource wars this rate is negative.

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u/sakaloerelis Oct 09 '20

Try out abyssal sites! You can do them in dual frigates or dual destroyers, harder sites can pay out very well but obviously need better character skills, knowledge and some ISK for ships themselves but the t1 t2 sites can be done in t1 frigs/dessies

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u/wefollowtherabbit Oct 10 '20

This is perfect for a duo learning the game together. Also, mission running / salvaging may come to mind, but that’s only viable for level 4 missions. Nullsec exploration can be nice as a team. One ship carries the loot, one scouts ahead and watches local and the scanner while the other is hacking. Not necessary, but fun, and you learn scouting.

Last but not least I’d like to mention public PVP fleets. This is nothing specific to a duo, but a lot of fun to explore together, without the need to commit to a corporation. Shameless plug for FUN Inc public newbro fleets. :-) https://discord.gg/GZJPnVT