All About EVE Online

“Aye Capt’n, she’s jury rigged like a Christmas tree, but a chimpanzee and three trainees could run her…” A great quote from Montgomery Scott (“Scotty”) from Star Trek.

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If you ever looked in your ship Fitting window (and if you have added or removed equipment from a ship you have), you would have see the high, medium, and low slots. There are also those broken boxes with the round corners, the Rig Slots. This is where you will install rigs for your ship. This is called (and uses the skill) Jury Rigging.

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Jury rigging allows you to make tweaks (yea, I know I’m using one of those technical terms) to your ship. You can think of them as implants for your ship. You can add rigs to improve certain features of your ships setup. These improvements can make you faster, harder hitting, faster, Improve drones, etc… Rigs are now in three sizes (Small, Medium, and Large) instead of a one size fits all (which are now Large). This means that for smaller ships the price, or the materials needed to make them, has been reduced. The bonuses are not bad, and can really do wonders for a ship with a specific function. The skills need to build and install the rigs are not hard to get or to train and training up in levels also reduces the drawback on a few of them (if not all). This reduction in the drawback is on average 10% per level of the skill trained.

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With that said I need to warn you of a few other draw backs before you invest time and ISK to this. First you cannot remove a rig once it is put on the ship without destroying it, so it cannot be moved to another ship. On smaller ships this may not be an issue because you can just make or buy another rig. This is where you make a ship for a purpose and fit it for that purpose. You cannot repackage a ship without removing the rigs. This means that it will be hard to transport the ship from one system to another if you move, other than flying it there. There is hopes and rumor that a future upgrade will fix this problem. You need to train for different rigs sets (Armor rigs, Drone rigs, Shield rigs, etc…). Most rigs have a drawback with them, these drawbacks can be anything from using more CPU or Power grid, to lower shields, or slower maneuverability.

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Over all rigs can be a good thing, but I would suggest waiting awhile until you have a good idea of what you want to do, and what roll your ships will play before you start playing with rigs. There is a saying in EVE Online, “Don’t fly anything you are not willing to lose”.

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Hope that helped you understand a bit more about Jury Rigging. If you have any questions or comments feel free to post them. Remember to subscribe to the site to get notices of future articles.

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Until next time, Fly Safe

Reggi Mental