EVE General Discussion

I fly a Nightmare as my money making ship but it took me almost a 15 months to perfect it and that means

Elite core skills
Perfect turret skills
5/5 Battleship skills
perfect light/mid drone skills

Apart from some time wasted training for a hulk i dont fly any T2 ships which is about to change but


1. Do you specialise in a few ships or
2. Do you cross train a lot of ships but not take any of the skills to V


One nullsec alliance said there only reqs were minny Battleship to 1 and large projectiles to 1 for drake busting fleets.


Next set of questions


1. Do perfect skills matter when you are in a big group or
2. Does perfection only matter when you are solo or in very small groups.


training for perfection can be painful as you are limited in versatility on which ships you can fly and it takes a LONG time and if those ships are not what you thought they would be you have wasted a lot of time.

But you can fly everything but not very will then you are only good for large fleet work.


Your very valuable answers please

I'm a generalist, because flying the same stuff all day every day is far too boring for me.

Both, really - specialise first, then broaden. I.e. get the support skills and one race maxed out with all the ship classes you want to fly - once that is done, start the next race.
(e.g. if you started with Amarr and maxed that out, cap, drone, navigation armor and shield tanking as well as gunnery support and medium launchers will be perfect - training any other race from there is pretty quick... - applicable to any race one started with, really).




I guess it's less important in a blob - especially in ****** alliances that solely rely on numbers. Personally, I'd refuse to fly any ship I can't fly maxed out, but then again, I consider blobwarfare to be extremely boring, so it's probably me.

My story is

I started to play back in the days and i want to fly rifter hull nothing more, That changed and i went further up rupture, stabber, cyclone, hurricane and finished with my love fleet tempest. Then i went to guristas null sec. and found out non of the minmatar ship cant hold the candle to drake, tengu /attention sanctum whoring/ so i X trained have to admit drake was sad until i get heavy missile spec and use furies. My pimped drake made about the same isk as my HAM tengu doing same stuff .. Guristas sanctums.

Then i went back to empire with some retirement money and trained for machariel aka gallante ships up to gallante battleship IV.

Then i went back to roots i allways liked sleipnir so i trained that too. And in null sec in meantime i trained everything for zealot for possible Armor hacs roams/gangs/fleets never get chance to use it actually but thats probably problem on my part rather then on anyone elses.

Thats about that..

Dreams are nice but ISK reality is hard one.

This after getting stuck in a Drake for a year after specializing too much

Currently I have 4 active accounts with six characters in use. These characters are as specialized as I can get them. Some of the older ones have some non useful SP due to the way the starting skills were set up then, but any less than a year or so old have essentially zero SP not dedicated to the role I have chosen for them.




Perfect skills are always an asset. It might not seem like much for the training time involve to go from level four to level five, but that little extra range on your weapon, that little bit less cycle time on your repper, that little bit extra maneuverability or top end speed can make all difference in a battle. Large or small.

Mr Epeen

This is me, really. I can fly any T1 sub-battleship hull (except haulers and miners...I only need one of those), most of them effectively, and I'm working to get up to T2 weapons on the ones I actually do fly.

I used to be a generalist. Lately I've been focusing on improving the skills I have rather than training for new things. We'll see how long it lasts, the Loki is calling to me.....

That's my main at least. My alt is specialized for fleet command ships, and can barely fly anything else. I'm starting to branch out with him now since I can fly 3 out of 4 of the fleet commands, and have little desire at the moment to train for the astarte. I'm slowly crosstraining to some utility ships, in lieu of bringing the other specialization skills to level 5. I do want them, but don't want to spend the time right now.

I can fly every single one of my faction's ships, except titans. I can fit every single one of my faction's ships properly, including titans (except a skillbook or two.) I'm only missing a handful of T2 modules. When in a small alliance with limited resources, being able to fill any role gives a tactical advantage. I.E., the alliance who's one and only logi pilot can't log on today will have a much harder time competing against the alliance who has several logi pilots who can step up if needed, even if they aren't maxed (I'm maxed with logi because it's a prereq for being able to fit every carrier module.) And, when you get down to it, most of my PVP is on an alliance/corp vs alliance/corp or blue vs blue level, not on a 1v1 or equal vs equal level.

I specialized into covering all covops (bombers), ewar frigates, amarr, caldari, minmatar recons and the Widow.