Skill Discussions

Hello, I used to play this a long time ago, but all I ever really did was train skills and stare at the screen. Today I've decided to come back. I don't really know what I should train. As it is now, I don't really want to pvp, not until I get a little more experienced and build up enough isk so that I don't mind losing a few ships. What I really want to do is mine, but from what I've heard, it doesn't make much isk compared to other methods. I just want to train the right skills to start making a lot of isk with very little risk.

If anybody could steer me in the right direction and help me decide what skills to train, and what ship I should go for with those skills, I would be very grateful.

Make a skill plan and spend them on skills that you don't have the stats for. For most people that means dumping them into a charisma skill.

this is good advice. you may want to add salvage drone operation on top of that but that's a bonus.

other than that, you should first decide what you intend to do. there are lots of ways to make isk including but not limited to missions, exploration, industry and trade. all of the above require different skills, in fact trade does not necessarily require any spaceship related skills at all.

also, do not become a slave of your wallet. there is nothing more pathetic than seeing people burn out on mining or running missions.

I never minded training short skills, But I hate long skills.
So I put my points towards long training times.
BS V
Fighters V
etc.

I even did half and halfs on some long skills, to cut them down to bearable time frames.
Half of Large Hybrids V for instance.

I kept a few for reserve and eventually used them on T3 re-skilling

I've just sat on my unallocated points. Perhaps some day CCP will add new skills like they did when PI came out. If that day comes I'll have the option to dump my points on it and be highly skilled in something new from day one. The other scenario where I'd spend them would be if I wanted to work with a corp who had an immediate demand for me to be more specialized in something. I imagine the temptation to spend them could overwhelm me at some point but they just seem too versatile to throw away just to get a little ahead on my ordinary day-to-day training.

Just something to consider anyways.

When I got my reimbursed skill points from the learning skills, my attributes were mapped perception/willpower. I still had over half a year before I could remap again. I spent all my reimbursed skill points on needed Intelligence/memory skills, mainly support (electronics, engineering, mechanics).

Keep the green SP. It is nice for trying out new ships in SiSi when they are introduced or for trying out things in there you think that might be nice to train.

If you don't have battlecruisers 5 I would seriously consider dumping into that.
Of course making sure that you already have all racial cruisers to 3.

You are in effect taking 1.5M SP and turning it into 6M SP.

See battle cruiser skill changes dev blog if you don't know wtf I'm talking about.

Agreeing with Malcanis here. Drone skills are always useful and can be a pain to train due to the whole memory SP build which is only really used elsewhere for industry related skills.