EVE General Discussion

So. I've decided to re-activate my old account from 2006, and I remember....absolutely nothing!

I've got a 2.5m SP character, apparently flying a Hoarder in the Heimatar system. I've also got roughly 700k SP that I can distribute, probably because it looks like some old skills are non-existent nowadays? Finally, I've got 3 respecs for my attributes, if that's even remotely important in 2012.

Would you fine people advise me to continue playing this toon, or do new characters have boons that outweigh the above?

Thanks!

Keep this character for sure.

Nothing a new character doesn't get you except having to retrain your core skills. Remaps are still valuable and the SP you can Allocate comes from the removal of Learning Skills. Those attributes have been folded in so you train faster now.

W/B

and unless hes skilled horror bad in regards to what u whant to do in EVE, i cant se why not to continue on this toon.
and yes ur right, the "learning skills" have been removed, and u have been given the xp back.

Welcome back!

awww, how cute,
ur first day back, and u alrdy got falcon-punched <3

All new players should head directly into pvp, even if they don't plan to actually seek combat often, because it will build up a proper mentality that will ensure that they'll become long-term players. It's much more difficult to demoralize a player who was exposed to the sense of loss early on, than a player who wasn't, and spent a long time accumulating a modest wealth, only to lose it all to a single ganker/scammer/ninja salvager etc.

Everyone needs money, but money should be a means to an end, not the end itself. Just because I recommend that he should train pvp stuff right away doesn't mean he's always going to be a pauper. Skills useful for pvp overlap with skils useful for NPC combat content, like the missions you mentioned.

What a terrible thing to say about Soundwave and Greyscale.

Yeah the missisons I mentioned, well at least they are now not as mind numbing.

Missions now with 25% less mind numbing

But I preferred my way I did industry got rich enough then did PvP and saw how those poor destitute people lived.

They had to worry about loosing a few hundred mills worth of ships and I didnt have to care. Nor was i hiding behind a SRP

Hey dude, welcome back.

Thanks everyone.

I'll do some reading today and check out my skill planning tonight.

First priority is finding a nice Corp, and I'll do some mining to re-learn the UI and mechanics (safest way I presume). Probably need to insure my Hoarder, as I don't have that much ISK to fiddle around with and I noticed that it's not insured ;)

With regards to my skills: it's the basic stuff after quickly looking yesterday evening. Gunnery, Frigate (so I could fly a Hoarder/Mammoth), Shields, etc.