Blog Banter 57 - Understanding

Welcome to the continuing monthly EVE Blog Banters and our 57th edition! For more details about what the blog banters are visit the Blog Banter page.

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“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein

Drackarn pointed this killmail to me recently and proposed the following for a blog banter:

Obviously that is a not just a bad fit, its horrific. But the guy might not know any better. We get these all the time circulating social media and corp/alliance chat. How do we educate players on fitting? This guy has been playing four months and can fly a BC, but has no idea how to fit one. What could be done to help bro's like this?

Furthermore, what (if any) responsibility do veterans players have in finding these players and instructing them on the finer arts of ship fitting? If it exists, does it extend beyond them into teaching PvP skills, ISK making skills, market skills, social skills, life skills...

And another question you can think about is this: do purposely wrong fits, aka comedy fits or experimental fits or off-meta fits, offend you or your corp? Would you, like Rixx Javix when he was in Tuskers, face expulsion for fitting your ships differently than the accepted standard?

"Its the difference between streaking and getting caught with your pants down." - Kirith Kodach

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Participants:
Eveoganda - A Fit is a terrible thing to waste
Sand, Cider, and Spaceships - Fitin Skilz, I Haz Dem
Karen 162 - What the F...it?
Pilgrim In Exile - Learning to Fit Ships
BadWrongFun - The Wrong Question?
BadWrongFun - Four Little Things
Deep in EVE - Fitting is Good Complexity
Across The Threshold - Gotta catch 'em all
Art Hornbie - Fitting
Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah - Strangle Them In Their Sleep
Low Sec Wonderer - My EYES!!!!
Killmail Archivist - Understanding How To Fit
Morphisat's Blog - A perfect fit
Plowshares to Lasers - Understanding how to fit
Evehermit - The Mountain or a Molehill
BadWrongFun - Arenas!
Stabbed Up - Survival of the fittest
EVE Altoholic - The Right Fit
Pod Pilot's Perspective - LOL Noob!
Dog's Breath - Bell Curves