Skill Discussions

Well actually, (except for PvP; i.e: Fighter), andy one of those professions by itself is boring as hell. I have to do more than one thing to keep me interested. I can't afford to PvP all the time either, so I need other things to do and often enough corpmates or whatever need someone to do other things too.

Here's a bit of my logic; some of it should be fairly obvious:

~ Anchoring 5 and Starbase Defense Management 5 - fairly simple: Bubbles, POS defense, bonus of being a prereq for some other skills.

~ Drones - Always useful and plan on training more now I'm spec'd for it. Respec was a week ago about.

~ Electronics - Most of these should be fairly obvious as Core skills. Electronic Warfare to 5 because it is prereq. for some drones and a good skill, other EWARs decent for basic spec and particularly target painitng because it is always useful. Long Range Targeting and Signature Analyisis because they are good skills and Prereq for Logi. Actually not big on flying Logi, but you never know, might be useful.

~ Engineering - Again, mostly self-explanatory Core skills. Energy Emission Systems because they're awesome; Cap stuff because I could, so I plugged them in.

~ Refining and Production Efficiency because they are always useful and Prereq. for some other skills. Mining stuff is just basic stuff, (not big on it but it might allow for some alternative stuff). Also, I have BPOs and can manufacture and sell to raise ISK here and there.

~ Leadership - This is as high as it's going and was my first Respec I trained because it was something I know is always handy to have. Every Fleet needs it, and there is more than just the FC boosting. Could train it up to max. if someone thought it was a good idea, but too much time for maybe. Also: Prereqs.

~ Mechanics - Some self-explanatory, plus overload skills, one I'll likely never need but plugged in because I could and would like to someday, basic rigging, good armor tanking base, etc...

~ Missile Launcher - Probably not going to use the much and only interested in Missile Bombardment to 4 and req. skills for when I do fit that extra launcher or actually hop in that sort of ship.

~ Navigation - Need MOAR! :) Obvious and I plan on training up req. for Black Ops.

~ Planetary Management - I barely use this. Since the changes occured, I find it less interesting, and often I forget to update my stuff. Also, tedious and boring making PI products so I just have Basic Production and haven't yet filled my hangars to bother taking to market, let alone bother picking it up. If it was more profitable maybe, but it's Highsec and I'm used to Wormholes. I can't even see the Commodities on a 0.5 planet without sliding the thing all the way left almost, but then I go for the Felsic Magma types.

~ Science - Some explanatory, like Thermodynamics, Boosters, Jump Clones, Implants, etc.. Also basic Research(BPOs), basic Exploration skills, (Something else I find somewhat lacking), and of course scanning is started with Astrometrics to 5 as a Prereq. for Jump skill(s), and Science as a Preq. for I don't remember what.

~ Social - As much as I imagine I'll ever need. Not sure whay I trained it as.. oh yeah, that was mostly for LP and Faction Rep., plus making mission advan. marginally faster. Not much, and less as I can't be bothered to do Level 1 or even level 2 missions for all the dulldrum they bring. I was spoiled with Level 4s right from the start through friends.

~ Subs - Because I could and had no idea what I wanted to fly then either.

~ Trade - I actually use these. Nothing like trying to throw up 30 random items on market and not being able to put the orders up without spreading them over weeks. Pain in the arse, so I trained them. Also: Saves ISK.

...I guess that's it.


Right, so I was planning on training up the Gunnery supports as I know i'm going to use those. Good advice there; thanks Yumike. Also, Drones until I know for sure what ships I want.

Definitely will be training for BC, Black Ops, Cov Ops, Bomber, and maybe Assault ships, Interceptors, Interdictors. Some of those are fun, and I think I already covered most of the Prereqs for them. Of course, as mentioned, I will be focusing for a bit on the Nav skills. At least enough to give me Tech 2 ABs and MWDs for now.

Still need to figure out what Faction I want, but I suppose I'm partially leaning toward Minmatar again. Maybe Gallente. Not sure about Amarr, but I'll get a better feel for it on my Alt.

Speaking of which, my alts remapped until next year and I doubt he'll be training up many skills against that as it's going to be dreadfully slow with everything in Perception and-mostly-Willpower. I will likely train up some Nav skills on him and of course Engineering to 5 when I get a chance. Don't recall if that opens anything up. Prereq. for AF IIRC.

Thanks for the advice and criticism, (not in a negative way.).

holy cripes, that's the worst skillsheet I have ever seen.

But as you say, no need to be able to actually fly a spaceship in a spaceship game..

cripes.

It's funny and quite sad I think you beat everyone in that regard if this is your primary character. If you can't decide on a route to take, train all frigs to IV and all frig weapons to IV and support skills (didnt check if you did for that I just remember the bad spaceship skills) and than go out and actually fly your ship and see what weapon system you like than train that and that races ships.

Yes because it is totally utterly impossible to get CCP to change your account names... (all it takes is a petition).