EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi, I wanted to find out what you guys that have been here longer might suggest, I have played enough to get near 6.5 mill skill points, and was working as a miner (which is what I want to do, and If I remember right I have a ORE Hulk on it) but I want to do more combat this round in fact I am play Dust 514 too. And was thinking about changing race, and want to play same in Dust. So should I start over or just bit the bullet and keep the 6.5 mill skills?

oh ok, so does it effect faction in the end? what about what they say about Amarr having better defense and the Gal having better Drones? or is that just to start?

And is there away you can look at my skills and see what I should take for more combat base missions?

Ok and when it comes to corps and say Gal or Amarr factions if i am a Minmatar I can still increase them? and How is the population on the Minmatar side? and like I said I am playing dust so i will be using a Minmatar Merc.

Yes you can run any mission with anyone provided you have the correct standings. Lord here is Amarr but he has level 4 mission standings with Gallente and Minmatar.

Minmatar is relatively popular space, but not nearly as popular as Gallente and Caldari space.

As for your skills from eveboard here are some tips:

Skills wise I would recommend cap skills Energy management and energy systems operation 4 as that will help your cap hold out longer.

Depending on the ship wise, your gunnery skills need work if you plan on going down the Minmatar or Amarr ship line, mostly in their support skills such as trajectory analysis and sharpshooter. I recommend skills to be at 4 for now so you aren't spending a huge amount of time on them and get bored too quickly. Level 5 can come later when you need very highly specialized skills or just need a long skill to train for while on holiday. The thing about turrets though is they go in order, you train small first, then medium, and then larges. Eventually you will want to get T2 turrets, but t1 or named will do fine for now.

Drones can be useful in all of the races, as most ships have at least a small drone bay, but drones have become quite difficult to use in PVE due to ai changes making them "shoot at drone happy".

I like to have both armour and shield skills trained to 4, which is mostly mechanics, hull upgrades, sheild management, sheild upgrades, repair systems, and sheild operation as it allows you to easily switch ships in a race that tank in different ways. Especially if you chose Minmatar ships to specialize in as they tend to both shield tank in some models and armour tank in others. Later on if you so choose you can train the sheild and armour damage compensation skills, as they are useful for passive hardeners.

Missile launcher skills are mostly useful if you plan on getting into a missile based ship. Those are usually Caldari, but other races have missile based ships too, you can tell by looking at their description and seeing what their bonuses are allocated to. Missiles are a different animal as they have their support skills, but the missiles themselves are not dependent on each other, so you can mostly train the different types of systems separately, instead of in order like turrets.

Train navigation skills up, because they are just handy in general, just having navigation 4 and warp drive operation 4 helps cap and your general speed respectively. Having afterburners and microwarpdrive skills also makes it easier to traverse mission sites and are essential later for pvp. So in those you will want afterburner 4, high speed maneuvering 4, evasive maneuvering 4, and acceleration control 4.

Social skills are useful for missions and gaining standings quickly, but aren't essential. So I won't really cover them in this post.

In spaceship command the main useful skills are spacehip command 4, and the specific ship skill to 4, i.e. Minmatar Frigate 4. This is because every ship gets bonuses based on your ship command skill. so the higher it is the better the bonus is.

How is there no crossover to PvP a few months down the road, if its going to take me a few months down the road on a new toon anyways?

Don't start over. There are no skills in game that disadvantage you. Apart from the obvious waste of support skills, you never know if you might want to bash rocks again.

Going through all the new tutorials only takes a couple hours and will give you a good idea of how things have changed. Especially exploration. The "Starter Systems" are not as useful as the "Career Agent" systems, but you could go all the way back to a new player's first minutes in game if you want.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Rookie_Systems

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