Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II. I do a ton of work when I'm able to work, but it comes with overheating and I burn out very easily.

The Charity Cup being run by Jin'taan is happening soon with signups closing at the end of the month. Full rules and more can be found here: discord.gg/vCC3QAHqaV

The schedule looks to have the main tournament taking place at the end of March/early April with prelims at the beginning of March.

The ruleset is quite simple when compared to the Alliance Tournament and also will take palce on Thunderdome so requires no investment from teams outside of the entry cost. There are still several teams looking for players and many other possible ways to enter since teams can be as small as 6 individual pilots.

Definitely something I would suggest taking a part in if you have time.

That there is a Nestor.

I'm shocked it's already beeen half a year since the Equinox patch dropped. The Merc dens were fun for a short while but feel like just another thing for null sec empires to handle while small gangs and solo players get to pick up some scraps from them.

As a primarily tournament and lowsec solo/small gang player, I haven't felt many of the changees personally as they were focused toward the empires. Honestly the patch held next to nothing of substance for my gameplay and I haven't found myself interacting with anything in the update recently.

So you want to participate in the AT and need skills. Here's a quick rundown of key skills needed and groups of skills.

Armor: All subcapital skills excluding remote hull repairs, get those compensations to V

Drones: Everything excluding fighters, mining, and mutated drones (some argument given the lack of t2 damage drones in the rules that specs arent needed)

Electronic Systems: If you want to be a control pilot then anything related to strength must be V and capacitor is secondary at V.

Engineering: Everything! Thermo V is mandatory

Fleet Support: Commands and Specialists including Fleet Command to V if you want to run any links.

Gunnery: This will be a ton of SP, get all subcapital weaponry to minimum Spec IV and start working on spec V's for weapon systems you'll commonly use.

Missiles: Same as gunnery.

Navigation: All non-jump related skills V, micro jump drive operation can be important

Neural Enhancement: Cybernetics II for x03 implants. Cybernetics V if you run links for mindlinks. Jump Clone skills to allow multiple clones

Rigging: Everything other than Jury Rigging itself to V. Many fits require maxed rig skills and the drawback reductions are significant.

Shields: See armor

Spaceship Command: Make sure all of your t1 and t2 ship skills are maxed to V for any ships you'll be looking to fly.

Subsystems: Get all these to V

Targeting: Everything to V except Advanced Target Management to III.

My favorite ingame item would be my Gold Medal from ATXIII when PL finished first (NO ASTERIX)

We practiced for so many hours and our execution was top notch. To be honest, should have one for XIV as well, however there were serious technical issues with EVE in the grand finals that year that cost us our third match win and the series win and led to a failure to close out the series that year.

One of the few times I've made a fair amount quickly was before a patch where an item (I forget at this point which one) was going to be significantly more valuable due to its use in generating a new item from said update. I went around to all the regions and bought out all of said item then relisted for 10x the initial amount. I made a few dozen billion off this in a couple days.

From all of my interactions, local is strictly an intel tool with some use for chat almost entirely relegated to the two letters G and F. It's use as an intel tool has shaped most of the entirety of the existence of EVE particularly around PVE and changing the mechanic ala Blackout had some knockon effects that were painful.

I personally would love to see the power of instant local nerfed to at least allow hunters time to get their bearings in a new system before appearing, showing up after either the timer or action has removed the gate cloak timer.

Since this is super open ended, I'll look at the four main factions regarding their tournament capabilities across various roles.

Logistics - Amarr, the Guardian, Deacon, and Augoror are all essentially BiS ships with few downsides.

Tackle - Minmatar, range bonused webs are incredibly powerful in the meta and Minmatar has all of them, enough said.

Control - Gallente, I give the slight nod here to damps over disruption due to the overall utility across any enemy ship.

Damage - Amarr, it's hard to argue with the wide variety and power of many of the Amarr options, from their beam based BCs and cruisers, to the Mega Pulse Laser II battleships, and even their drone and rapid heavy platform in the Armageddon Navy Issue, it's hard to argue that Amarr doesn't have the edge.

Utility - Minmatar, overall they just have more spare slots than the other races allowing for more useful utility modules, though they lack the bonused neuts of the Amarr, they do have better strength paints and more midslots on armor fits than the other races.

Overall - Amarr, if I had to go single race for a whole tournament I would go with Amarr, unless I knew what race every other team was also flying in advance, then obviously I'd need to side Caldari and just stack racial ewar to match.

I would love more frequent balance conversations particularly with regard to PVP. Perhaps pick a ship class like Combat Battlecruisers and allow players to provide their feedback regarding balance changes to each of the ships.