Role Specialization

How to help your organization and not get primaried by the FC

Kismeteer - Bat Country - Pandemic Legion

Who is Kismeteer? A terrible pilot

Learn from your failures!

Who is Kismeteer?

• Part of Bat Country, in Pandemic Legion
• Can fly every ship and use every module
• Know it all who thinks he knows about every subject
• Runs an overview pack in Kismeteer’s Bio, mostly for newbies
• Was a Logistics full Director in Goons for 6 years
• Flown under a lot of FCs, almost all Goons and PL
• Mr Vee, Laz, Vily, Shadoo, Elo Knight, Hedliner, Doomchinchilla
• Dresses like a character from the Big Lebowski at Eve Vegas
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• All Killmails are a story, and this is the story of how bad I am.

Thanks

• Akasha Mayan with ideas on this presentation

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• All my FCs for making me a better pilot

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• To CCP for wasting literally 13 years of my life.

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• All the people in my life who put up with my stupid nonsense.

Can anyone switch?

• Alliances need pilots
• Those Pilots need guidance from a Fleet Commander (FC)
• Those FCs need roles filled
• DPS
• Logi
• Tackle
• Support
• Try to pick two roles to specialize in!

Why do I need to specialize?

• It takes far less time to train it

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• You do the job a lot better

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• You can be counted on doing it regularly

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• Nearly every single group in the game needs these jobs

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What can be generalized?

There are a few things everyone should be able to do:

• Light Tackle - If you need tackle in a hurry, you HAVE to know how to.
• FC - Yes, I’m serious.
• PVE/Industry - Only so you can make a little money.

Once you have these done, get these done:

• DPS - Always have to do some damage, right?
• Bombers - Bombers get their strength in numbers.
• Logistics - At least try it to level 4.
• Capitals - To at least move your crap around.

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Role list

PVE

PVP Soloers

FC

Doctrine planner

Builder

Recon Scout

Combat Scout

Probing Scout

Command Bursts

Booshers

Logistics

Heavy Tackle

Light Tackle

Dictors

Bombers

Blops

Capital Reps

DPS

Leadership

CEO and friends

Fleet Command (1)

One person in charge

Support

Gets people ready

Builders

Sources & moves stuff

Doctrine Planners

(1 or 2)

Logi Anchor (1)

At least one

Tackle (5%)

Light tackle in here

Command Bursts (3)

Usually need all 3

Logistics (10-15%)

Space Priest FTW

Heavy Tackle (1 or 2)

Can skip

DPS (70%)

Bulk of your fleet

Interdictors (2)

Can skip

Recon Scout

Enemy activity

Probing Scout

Get you to the fight

Combat Scout

Warp to 0 on hostiles

PVE

Passive income

Capitals

Escalation time

FAX

Capital size reps

PVP Group

PVP Group

FC

Doctrine Planner

Builder

Recon Scout

Combat Scout

Probing Scout

PVE

FC

Light Tackle

Logistics

DPS

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Dictors

Bombers

Capitals

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PVP Soloers

Command Bursts

Heavy Tackle

Blops

Capital Reps

Booshers

Role: Player vs. Environment (PVE)

Role: Player vs. Environment (PVE)

Who:

• Anyone who wants to make isk and learn to fly at the same time.

Personal traits:

• Mindless tasks make me happy?

Starting Ships:

• Exploration, Vexor Navy Issue (VNI), missions ( 1 month training )

Later Ships:

• Carriers, Rorqual (mining), Supers, Titans.

Role: Light Tackle

Role: Light Tackle

Who:

• Everyone. Everyone MUST know how to do this. Two per fleet.

Personal traits:

• Okay with dying. A lot. And reshipping. And catching up.

Starting Ships:

• Frigates. (<1 month or a year, Hi Meta Nova!)

Later Ships:

• Inties, assault frigates, ask Mr Rive for fits.

Role: DPS

Role: DPS

Who:

• Everyone. Always need DPS. Gotta get them kill mails.

Personal traits:

• “Okay, I have everything I need, everyone else get in (DPS) ships.”

Starting Ships:

• Cruisers, BattleCruisers, Battleships, ask your leadership. (3 months)

Later Ships:

• Every one of these ships, every weapon system, maxed DPS skills.

Role: PVP Soloers

Role: PVP Soloers

Who:

• No friends, streamers, and anti-social people in a social game.

Personal traits:

• Great at eve, maybe the hardest role.

Starting Ships:

• Frigates, later cruisers. (1 month training)

Later Ships:

• Everything. Solo titans, anyone?

Role: FC

Role: FC

Who:

• Anyone. Everyone. PLEASE TRY IT!

Personal traits:

• Multitaskers, high organizational skill, spatial skills, good with people.

Starting Ships:

• Tackle, your fleet will be garbage at predicting who to tackle. (1 month)

Later Ships:

• Command Ships, the Monitor, Recons.

Role: Recon Scout

Role: Recon Scout

Who:

• Anyone with a set of eyes and a mic

Personal traits:

• Patience, time, knowledge of politics, and good prediction skills

Starting Ships:

• Interceptor (Inty) with a cloak (3 month training)

Later Ships:

• T3 cruisers, Recons, Covops

Role: Combat Scout

Role: Combat Scout

Who:

• Usually secondary FCs, good at multitasking, One per large fleet

Personal traits:

• Able to watch two things at the same time, and find the right ships.

Starting Ships:

• Interceptor with expanded probe launcher (3 months)

Later Ships:

• Covops, T3 Cruisers

Role: Probing Scout

Role: Probing Scout

Who:

• Anyone with tons of time for finding wormholes.

Personal traits:

• Patience, persistence, no life beyond probing.

Starting Ships:

• Probe frigates

Later Ships:

• Covops, astero, T3 Cruisers, Recons

Role: Command Bursts

Role: Command Bursts

Who:

• People with SP to spare, one per set of links, so three per fleet usually.

Personal traits:

• Always online, willing to miss out on killmails, good at getting the pod out

Starting Ships:

• Command Destroyers, or even Battlecruisers (8 months)

Later Ships:

• Command ships, T3 Cruisers, with mindlinks.

Role: Logistics

Role: Logistics

Who:

• Everyone should at least try it. Space priest is important! 15% of fleet

Personal traits:

• Chaos, Multitasking, telepathy at predicting who gets shot next.

Starting Ships:

• T1 Logistics Cruisers (Osprey?), Logi 4 for logistics ships ( 6 months)

Later Ships:

• Logi 5, accept no substitutes.

Role: Dictors

Role: Dictors

Who:

• Anyone with an independent streak, 2 per fleet in null sec.

Personal traits:

• Spatial awareness, self direction, advanced intel feeds, running away.

Starting Ships:

• None. Sorry. Straight to Sabre. (5 months training or something crazy)

Later Ships:

• Sabre. Heretic. Flycatcher. Eris. Survive, armor reps, DPS, who knows.

Role: Heavy Tackle

Role: Heavy Tackle

Who:

• People with balls of steel. One per large fleet, common in small fleets

Personal traits:

• Spatial awareness, handles getting shot, knows when to broadcast.

Starting Ships:

• Assault frigates, Battlecruisers/Cruisers (4 months)

Later Ships:

• Heavy Interdictors, Force Recons

Role: Booshers

Role: Booshers (Command Destroyers)

Who:

• Damn good pilots, or just lucky pilots.

Personal traits:

• Great spatial positioning, control, and the trust of your FC

Starting Ships:

• Start and end is the same, Bifrost or Pontifex. (5 months)

Later Ships:

• Links on them, which is a major, major haul, like 8 months.

Role: Doctrine Planner

Role: Doctrine Planner

Who:

• Everyone to an extent, but the professionals are just good at it.

Personal traits:

• I have no idea what makes them good at it, but persistence helps.

Starting Ships:

• Pyfa, EFT (at least 1 year training)

Later Ships:

• Every new ship that comes in, to see how it feels.

Role: Builder

Role: Builder

Who:

• Industrial types, lazy people, traders who are bored with too much isk.

Personal traits:

• Spreadsheets, monotony, patience, resources, and tons of JF chars.

Starting Ships:

• Large wallets. (1 month training)

Later Ships:

• Jump freighters, rorquals to mine.

Role: Bombers

Role: Bombers

Who:

• Everyone to inflict maximum damage. 7-8 per squad.

Personal traits:

• Align. Land. Align. Decloak. Bomb. Warp out. Don’t deviate.

Starting Ships:

• Any bomber, Ask your FC or Nova Valentis with Bombers Bar (3 months)

Later Ships:

• Covert Ops 5. Huge damage increases due to it.

Role: Blops

Role: Blops

Who:

• Assholes. No really, cloaky campers who like making people life hell.

Personal traits:

• Patience. Patience. Patience. Knowing when to warp out.

Starting Ships:

• Bombers (3 months)

Later Ships:

• Black Ops Battleships, Marshall, T3 cruisers, speedy capitals

Role: Capitals

Role: Capitals

Who:

• Eventually, everyone, mostly to move your crap.

Personal traits:

• Okay losing large amounts of isk, planning, paying attention to your ship

Starting Ships:

• Carrier or dread or Apostle, pick one and go for JUST that. (1.5 years)

Later Ships:

• Use the other two, Rorqual, Super, Titan, Titans.

Role: Capital Reps

Role: Capital Reps

Who:

• Everyone eventually

Personal traits:

• 3 billion isk. A lot of SP. Save your capitals.

Starting Ships:

• Any fax that is recommended by your group. (1 year)

Later Ships:

• Combat and Emergency FAX.

Training time

• Training all these roles, without specialization: 68 months (5.5 years)
• Training all the ‘everyone’ skills: 15 months ( 1.25 years)
• Training all the ‘everyone’ skills + capital: 33 months (2.75 years)
• Training one general + one specialization: 6 months (0.5 years)��� Specialization saves you time!

Leadership

CEO and friends

Fleet Command (1)

One person in charge

Support

Gets people ready

Builders

Sources & moves stuff

Doctrine Planners

(1 or 2)

Logi Anchor (1)

At least one

Tackle (5%)

Light tackle in here

Command Bursts (3)

Usually need all 3

Logistics (10-15%)

Space Priest FTW

Heavy Tackle (1 or 2)

Can skip

DPS (70%)

Bulk of your fleet

Interdictors (2)

Can skip

Recon Scout

Enemy activity

Probing Scout

Get you to the fight

Combat Scout

Warp to 0 on hostiles

PVE

Passive income

Capitals

Escalation time

FAX

Capital size reps

PVP Group

PVP Group

Doctrine Planner

Builder

Recon Scout

Combat Scout

Probing Scout

PVE

FC

Light Tackle

Logistics

DPS

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Dictors

Bombers

Capitals

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PVP Soloers

Command Bursts

Heavy Tackle

Blops

Capital Reps

Booshers

Questions?

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