EVE General Discussion

After coming back to Eve Online (from a 12 month hiatus) I've been looking, as you normally do, at my character's trained skills and new skill plans and it made me realise that there are a fair number of skill points wasted on things I'm probably not going to be using in a long long time. So my question is: if you had to restart Eve from scratch (no alts etc.) how would you progress ship wise and what skills would you stop yourself from investing in?

Personally I'd have purely stuck with missiles (and T2 Light/Medium drones) and focused towards a Tengu. Mistakes? stop trying to multitask and do everything in Eve at once.

You don't gain anything my restarting, you just lose everything you've trained already!

Don't worry about skills you are not using right now, you'll eventually use them.

And as much as I dislike it, Tengu is a really, really good ship for many kinds of things.

I've restarted many times in EVE (I'm a terrible altoholic), this time I kinda guessed that Amarr would do well in the, then, upcoming rebalance so i went full Amarr. Trained up my drones, lasers and now fly a Legion for when I want to so some exploration, if I can be bothered. Amarr is and will become more and more powerful for solo/small gang pvp, which is what I'm looking for. And if ofcourse great at fleet PVP.

Would I have to choose again I'd pick either Amarr or Gallente.

In restarting from scratch you gain the opportunity to apply the lessons you learned in your earlier characters' mistakes. Your first may have many divergences or simply be all over the place with excessive redundancies. These skills may take you years if not decades to get the absolute most from. (note- i'm not referring to all V, - but simply all races ships & skills to V's & spec-IV's with solid universal competencies).

In contrast if you keep yourself focused down one race's set of ships / toolbox, you'll gain vertical (ship roles within one race), flexibility, in contrast to traditional horizontal (2 or more races yet same role) cross training. In a fraction of the time of attempting to be universally skilled.

Each provide adaptability vs. time invested skilling options, strengths and weaknesses depending on how you wish to interact with New Eden.

if i had to restart i would no longer play

While not restarting EvE, this toon is starting at the beginning, I have trained skills for her to fly a BC, and the rest is going to the core skills
she has genos and basic implants + the cereb accel booster for her first 35 days so she trains at > +5 implant speed.
she has the most basic of industry skills so she could do the career missions and everything else has gone into cores, her bc and compensations.

If I had to restart my main, I wouldn't train all those worthless mining and refining skills, and I probably wouldn't bother with any of the social skills except for Fast Talk. With the coming skill changes I'd probably specialize into Gallente and Caldari, wait for good core skills to cross to Amarr, and completely ignore Minmatar.

Nonense, all you CCP folks do is mine and die to ganks and can flippers.




Probably ice miners too.

I'd roll Amarr of Khanid instead of Achura, but I am still hoping that CCP will someday allow us to change bloodlines.

Being orientated both toward invention/manufacture and combat made for a pretty slow and difficult start for me, jack of all trades and master of none. But right now, after several years, I think it is awesome for me to fund my pewpew via t2 sales- and of course keep some of those ships and modules for myself to make it even cheaper to lose my ships

One thing I would change is not wasting so much time in lame highsec indy corps but go for some more interesting lowsec or WH corps much earlier.

Skill-wise: I have rank 5 in astrogeology and mining, some former CEO was about to force me into a Hulk, but luckily I resisted and left the corp. These are the only skills I consider wasted on this character.

I would not restart. The opportunities of today are extremely limited and it would be truly impossible even to attain the meager sums that I am fortunate enough to have gathered.