EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello All,

I played eve a few years ago but it blew my head off, I am back and enjoying the new revamped tutorials.

I understanding that in game you will never catch up with the people with 200mill sp, but that there are only so many skills for a particular job and so if you focus on fewer skills you will be able to catch up in that area much faster.

With this is mind I think I will specialise in Mining and Refining, for economics and then a missile based skill set for a bit of combat.


So my questions are:

Would this be too broad to catch up, should I literally be picking one job, as in just mining?

Are missiles interesting later in the game?
Right now the effects are cool, but I am just that wears off after a few months. But once I get myself into nice big ships in a few months (years) time, will it still just be target, click missiles, kite target, eat sandwich, oh look target destroyed, and repeat? Or does it get a lot more complicated and interesting. Because if it is just kiting then I may have a look at rail guns, which seem to be the other main option people talk about in reference to missiles and seems like it will give a more spacey, dog fighting feel to the game.


Thank you kindly for any responses!

Ultimately, it's up to you, and that's the beauty of eve. If you put most of your skillpoints into spaceship command, just to be able to engage in diverse activities, and plan to sell the character later, it probably won't be worth much; however, this doesn't make you a "better" or "worse" eve player than someone else. Someone purely focused in PVP may be able to beat you in a direct dual, but they won't be able to out mine you. Spend your skill points based upon what you want to do. Even a 2 week old player can be a valuable asset to a corporation. Your individuality is always more important than your skillpoints. Without a tackle pilot, for example, a fleet of two-dozen 200mil SP pilots is going to have a much harder time killing anything than they would with a week old tackle pilot added to their fleet.

Onto your second question:

Missiles aren't the AFK weapon for missioners... that would be drones... though missiles are a close second, as you don't have to move very often to deliver decent damage with them, as you do with gunnery-based-weapons. They are also feasible in battlecruiser pvp fleets, particular heavy missiles and assault missiles.

I started out training nothing but industrial skills, for mining and ship building, but then decided I wanted to start running missions, so I had to go back and train up the core skills and some basic gunnery.

Then I heard that the Drake was the best PvE boat for level 3s, so I cross trained into Caldari and missiles.

Then I wanted to start doing level 4s, which take forever in a Drake, so I trained up Amarr battleships and more gunnery.

In the end, if I had to to it again, I would focus on core skills first. Get the core certificate up to standard at least, and then specialize afterwards.

Specialisation doesnt always mean or need a skill at level V.

Level 3 is a workable minimum for most things.
Level 4 is a good allrounder level.
That just leaves [skillname] 5 for things that NEED level 5 as a prerequisite.

Training a skill to L3/4 is more of the 'jack of all trades' approach, but it's fast, and lets you reach a reasonable level of ability in an area easily and quickly, but it does mean you are not as capable as the 'specialist'.

The specialist miner will outmine you.
The specialist mission runner will out tank/dps you.
Neither will be as good as you in the "other" role.

In a way this is one of the great features of eve, you can generalise, you can specialise, you can diversify laterally (other racial ships & weapons), all you need is a little patience and some time and you can do all of it if thats what you want to.