EVE New Citizens Q&A

Really enjoying EVE, but the one aspect that is overwhelming is the skill system. Not because I don't understand it, or don't understand how to read what the skills do or the prerequisites needed to train various ones.

It's overwhelming because I have no context for the skills. Sure, X skill sounds good, but is it actually useful in the EVE universe?

I have had older players try and guide me to a few skills, but it's always a rush of jargon I can't grasp yet as a new player.

I am willing to do anything in PVP. Logistics, EWAR, Tackling, anything. Just want to get started. So I can begin learning the game, and developing muscle memory.

I am a Gallente Pilot with Gallente Frigate III, but will have the other frigates at II today, Destroyer I and then tomorrow all other Frigates at III. I have some basic core skills also training, and have kind of been following TEST's 30 day plan, but don't know if it's outdated.

Does anyone have suggestions what I should aim for in the first month? I picked up EVE on Dominion, and I remember way more guides back then, and tons of ship fittings all over. Now when I look for ship fittings it's mainly ships way higher up in the skill chain, and not many are added. It also seems like most skill plans are done by Corps and only given to their members.

Any information, help, reading material, videos would be awesome.

I have a plan someone gave me to go into EVEMON. It's a 104 day plan. However when I put it in, it's not organized in any specific way. It's just lists all the skills in the plan by category.

Can EVEmon organize pre-made skill plans at all?

post #13 in this thread : https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2112891#post2112891

has a link to Tippia 's New Player Skill Plan and in the thread in general there are some good tips. I'd read back in this sub-forum a few pages, your question gets asked quite alot.

In your position I would look at a some ship fits that you like, then train all the relevant skills.

Sticking to a given factions ships and weapon systems at an early stage will allow you to avoid spreading your skillpoints out and give you a better return for the time invested.

Apart from your racial ship and weapons type you need to look at basic skills that apply to all ships. The certicates that you can access in your character sheet will give you some guidance. I would look at getting all the core certificates to a basic level and mix those in with your ship and weapons.

Don't worry too much about wasting skillpoints / time when you are new to the game, you need to explore different things and see what you like.

Without seeing that 104 day plan it's not really possible to say whether it's a good idea or not but I would definately check out Tippia 's plan.

Apart from that Evelopedia has plenty of info for new players and IskTheGuide 2.0 (free 400 page pdf) covers all areas of the game in enough detail for most new players.

Damn it beaten to the punch by Mara :)

Lots of good advice so far, so I'll just add a couple of my personal opinions....

Don't rush into training any skill to V, unless you REALLY need a skill for which another skill at V is a pre-requisite. You can train a shipload of skills to 3 in the time it takes to get one things to V.

Don't rush into new hulls too quickly. It's easy to fall into the trap of rushing to be able to fly a Battlecruiser, for example, bit if you can only use small hybrid turrets, and the small versions of various modules, you simply won't be able to fly the ship in any sort of effective way. So get to fly a frigate well, before training up a bigger hull, and then train the support skills to fly that hull well before moving on.

Don't ignore the social skill group, and some of the other less combat-focused stuff. ,All these little bonusues add up, and it doesn't take long to train a couple of skill levels in most things.

It's always handy to have something like a PI planet or two to play with while you're waiting for some pew pew action, if only to relieve the tedium of waiting around for other pilots to get online, or sitting at a gate for 3 hours waiting for your next "client" to jump through.

The 30 day and the 104 day skillplans are both pretty good for beginners. They put you in alot of useful things and have most of the core skills included.

Also to your question about the the 30 day skillplan, it just got recently (2 or 3 months ago) updated.

Like most said, use EVEmon to select the ship you want to fly. Then what I did was add the Recomended Certificates to the training queue. Then I trained up everything to about level 3 which takes like a day or 2 pending on how big of a ship you started with. Then start picking and choosing what you need to fit your ships. I like the certs becuase as i was learning how to fit the ships I found most of the skills needed for equipment had been trained to level 3 so very little if any training is require to start pew pewing.

Do a forum search for Louis's epic skill guide.

I believe it is linked in this forum's resource sticky, which also should be read.