Weapons [ edit ]

Missiles

Caldari race and ships cater more for missile weapons, often sacrificing drone support for missile launcher mounts.  Consider this well before choosing new character race or when choosing ships to buy or build. 

Auto Target vs Standard - Unless you are planning operations in low or null security space, avoid auto targeting missiles.  They operate sort of like smart bomb radiation weapons, in that they indiscriminately damage the nearest object other than yourself.  Indeed auto target missiles are often referred to as Friend or Foe (FOF) class weapons because of this.  If used recklessly in high security space, they can damage a non-combatant and trigger police or Concorde justice response (typically unsurvivable).  Auto targeted missiles may have one advantage, they don't require a target lock prior to firing to be able to hit something.

Stacking Ship Modules

Generally point based modules stack predictably, while percentage effect modules abide by a more muted stacking formula.  Warp scramblers and warp stabilizers use point based stacking.  At least one ship, Venture, has +2 warp stabilizer built into its hull.  Most lowsec/nullsec gankers will fit +3 warp scramblers, so plan accordingly.

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Player Owned Structures

Mobile Depots - A Personal Deployable Structure that allows many ships to re-fit modules and provide more reliable storage away from dock. 

PI - short for Planetary Interaction.  Certain manufacturing processes require planetary bases.  Only certain ships have Planetary Commodities Holds, which may be needed to transport products.

Jargon

des/dessie - short for Destroyer class ship.  Often this class of ship is cheap enough to obtain and fit with weapons for suicide ganking.  As such wary players will armor their ships to survive a surprise "dessie attack".  In chat sessions, dessie initial attack points sometimes is used as a unit of power, (i.e. I tanked the mining barge to survive a 3 dessie attack).  Such conversations typically refer to surprise attacks in high security space (hisec), where police enforcement will arrive rapdily to punish/destroy the attacker.  In such cases the target ship need only survive the initial rounds of attack until police arrive.