Skill Discussions

I am considering paying for a second, and possibly third, sub and developing an alt(s) and then transferring that alt to my main account when done, in order to develop specialized toons that are focused on making isk and equipment, as opposed to Aldo, who is built for fun, combat, and trying everything.

I am giving myself 180 days to do this in order to not spend too much RL money (in addition to 21 day free trials through my main account invite). Aldo will be paying for all the in-game training. I have built plans with blank characters in Evemon for Trade (which can be maxed in less than 200 days!), a Miner/Industrialist, and am about to build a test for a Producer/Engineer. I haven't decided whether to do one toon for six months, or two toons for three months. You can accomplish quite a bit in 90 days when specializing, and a ton in one 180 day plan.

What occupation would be most beneficial given the time frame? Should I specialize one for six months or two for three months? Given an ideal occupation, what would be the most efficient skills to focus on? What ship should I include in training? Is this a bad idea? I appreciate any responses and advice, thanks!

Fair enough, I am a pretty new character. However, I am looking to train up specialized characters while still being able to train my main one. I want to try trade, mining, industry, planetary interaction and exploring with some good skill levels, not to mention being able to support my corp with multiple good skill sets. If you were to specialize one character, what would you choose to do, and how?

Well, my shadow follows me around.

* Salvaging (Noctis)
* Hacking & Archeology (exploration)
* Booster (Orca & Rorqual so far)
* Hauler (Crane, Bustard, Charon, and Rhea)
* Science & Industry (minor role, as I have other alts that specialize in that)
* PI

I have 5 accounts, so a good number of other alts, but this one is the least specialized.

My least skilled alts are my cyno alts with less than 900,000 skill points.

Thanks, Tau. I like that, "shadow." Do you think a maxed-out salvager might be worthwhile?

Yeah, that's a good point, an alt wouldn't be able to salvage my wrecks. I am curious about salvaging for its own sake, though. I suppose a manufacturer with good salvage skills and the ability to fly a bit would be valuable for finding the parts needed for production. But, they'd have to be able to kill something first. Salvaging in a fleet would be pretty effective, though. Hmmmm...

I trained one for salvaging my L4 missions, and was about to sell it because it wasn't all that great. Depends heavily on where you do missions though, but if you are mainly fighting Guristas and Angels, it's not worth it. Armor-tanking NPCs tend to give much better salvage.
But then I moved to WH and there it started to shine.

If you want to train for a trader, my advice would be to carefully plan what kind of trading you want to do. Station-trading in hubs, buying in a place to sell in another, etc.
Depending on that, you will see that all trading skills will not be necessary. If you want to cut down training time, forget the skills where rank 5 extends the range (for placing buy order for exemple) to the whole region. With level 4 your range is 20 jumps around you, and few regions are actually larger than that. Again, beforehand knowledge is gold.

Science and Industry, unless you have something very specialized in mind, are fields that require way more than 180 days to train for properly.
Planetary interaction, on the other hand, can be somewhat profitable even with very few skills.

if you want both you're alt's transfered to you're main account i would suggest PI as already suggested, using research agents to accumulate data cores for selling and researching blueprint original's for selling at a profit through contracts

all of these are passive income's leaving you're main free to mission or hit the nullsec belts..and ofc pvp

Thanks! I did notice that a PI alt can be at lvl 5 for every needed skill in about 175 days, which is amazing. I did elect to incorporate good trade skills into one alt, combined with good manufacturing and research skills. I think this will complement Aldo nicely.

I agree. I suspect Aldo will one day become a lawless PVP scoundrel, so one of my alts will definitely be training up the research skills. My CEO is encouraging the move to nullsec, and I think a PVP'er plus two main account alts with good isk making skills will be very marketable.

First, glad my input had some value. I try. 8)

I would argue that only Interplanetary Consolidation and Command Center Upgrades are worth training to 5. Remote Sensing is nice, but you can rescan a planet with a CC from anywhere. The other skills to be honest, I don’t really see what they do. My main has them to 5, my alt does not even have them, and I don’t see the big deal.

One trade alt is enough. Again, being able to jump clone to snag a great deal is handy. Jita doesn’t always have the best prices.

If you are going to be out in low/null sec, then definitely get a cyno alt. I would argue that it is a necessity. Light scanning skills would come in handy too. This way you can take a look around before you make a move.