EVE New Citizens Q&A

Stat modifying implants can be installed in slots 1-5, each slot hold one implant of a certain type so you can't have 2 perception enhancing implants for instance. If you check skill descriptions it will show which attribute is required to train. Gunnery skills and spaceship command depend upon perception and willpower for example. If you have a focused skill plan you technically need only the two implants that boost the needed attributes. The other implants will not boost training times unless you alter onto another line of training. The implants have 5 levels of boost,+1,+2,...+5 and each level is much more expensive. +4 are roughly 20m isk while the +5 implants are over 120m isk but they can be purchased with loyalty points for much cheaper.

By t1 and t2 I assume you mean mods. T1 mods are no higher than meta level 4, level 0 is garbage, t2 is meta level 5. These levels roughly indicate effectiveness. Meta level 4 mods cannot be manufactured and only drop from rats whereas t2 can be made with the skills, blueprints and whatnot. There are also t1 and t2 and even t3 ships but as far as tiers go within respective ship classes, that was done away with some time ago.

If you buy a plex in account management it will get you about 540 m or so but be careful trading it and DO NOT move it in a ship or you will probably be ganked. As long as you place a correct sell order on the market there is no risk though it may take a few days for it to sell. If in a hurry you can sell it directly to a buy order but just be sure the market prices look right. Do not ever trade items via direct station trades as it is usually a scam where the buyer deletes a zero or two just before you complete the transfer.

If your ship gets blown up some items such as mods will drop and there is a chance anything in cargo will drop too. If a player blew you up it is unlikely you will get anything back as the attacker will loot anything valuable. If an NPC blows you up you can try to retriieve the items but you risk getting blown up once again.

As far as career paths go that depends best on what you want to do rather than chasing isk. Some say exploration others say mining and indy is a good start. Trading is fairly skill intensive and requires capital and has risks. You should avoid doing something just for the isk if you don't find it enjoyable or you will get bored.

Welcome Thanos,

Implants and boosters are different things. Implants are attribute modifiers, they add points to your character's attributes and have the basic effect of speeding up a bit the skill learning process. Each skill is governed by two attributes and raising those two attributes, will speed up the learning of all skills relying on those two attributes. All gunnery, missile launcher and spaceship command skills for example, are governed by perception and willpower. Some implants can come with other added bonuses like an increase in your ship's velocity and some work in full sets, where you need all five implants to get the real benefits. Implants are plugged into your clone's head and can't be removed, they can only be destroyed either manually, through replacement with better ones or when podded as your clone lies frozen into space.

Boosters is the name for drugs, they can have effects on your ship as well, like increasing your turrets tracking speed, but they wear off after an hour and are illegal in Empire space (or high-sec? someone correct that). They don't provide any boost in skill learning as far as I'm aware of and if you get some in a mission and try to jump through a gate in high-sec, you will be stopped on the other side by the police and will have to pay a fine or lose the ship.

There's another set of implants, that are called hardwiring, that can bring bonuses to your guns, ship, propulsion mods, etc. but don't affect skill learning. Those too, are plugged once and then destroyed if you remove them or get podded.

Implants and hardwiring, can't be salvaged and are linked to the current clone you're using. Boosters are carried in the cargohold like ammos. There are five slots for attributes implants and five slots for hardwirings, meaning you can get a total of 10 implants in your head. As a rookie, you will have a lot of varied skills to train and since the effect of implants is more prevalent the longer the skill takes to complete (you can shave off a day of training on a rank 6 skill), you won't get much benefit from a snake set and a focused remap, instead, a simple set of +2 or +3 basic implants with a balanced remap, will probable help you if you can afford it.

Now, regarding T1 and T2, that applies for a great deal of modules and items in game (implants, guns, tanking mods, ammos, etc.). T1 is the very basic model, starts with a meta modifier of 0, it's the base of the serie and has average performance and fitting capability. The T1 range extends up to Meta 4, also called named modules. These named modules are usually improvements over the basic one, with an easier fitting, but they also come in at a higher price and can't be manufactured, they're dropped by NPC rats you kill.
T2 mods on the other hand, are the improved version of T1 modules, only available when you meet the skill prerequisites and providing a very good performance while way cheaper than T1 modules of meta level 4 for example, but they're also harder to fit sometimes, as they're a bit hungrier in ship ressources.
Then, there is a whole lot of faction, deadspace, officer, storyline modules, that varry in performance and get close if not better than some T2 modules, but they're expensive. To fit a ship and maximize its effectiveness, it's common to make use of those pricey mods, to get that 1% extra DPS that can get make you survive a fight or save up the 5 CPU units you need to fit all the mods on your ship. Some of these mods are really better than their T2 equivalent, some just way easier to fit, it's a subtle balance, much like cooking.

Then, on to your PLEX question. A PLEX is an in-game item, that can be traded for ISK, or used to extend your gametime. Given their sheer value, around 550mil at the time, don't ever undock with one in your cargohold, or you will likely get shot or followed by a horde who would like nothing more than kiss your hull with their guns. It's worth losing a ship to concord if the PLEX drops and can be looted. When you buy a PLEX, you're prompted with the option of redeeming it after the login screen, but you can also do that later on by pressing ESC, where you'll get a preferences window with a redeem button. If you want to sell it on the market, travel to a market hub first, then redeem, if you want to extend your game time, redeem it and use the PLEX in station. You can get "robbed" somehow, if you have a PLEX and accept a dodgy contract or try trading it through direct trade with another player.

Well, quite the wall of text, but on to the ship loss part. When you lose a fight and your ship blows, each module fitted or present in your cargo hold, has a 50% chance of dropping, your wreck will hold those that dropped and can be looted to recover some of them, if no one did it before. Anything else is lost, save for salvage materials that can be extracted from the wreck.

Quite the lengthy post, but I hope it answers some of your questions.

You guys are awesome! Thanks for all of the insight. I'm still unclear on one thing though, what exactly is a remap? I've read a little bit about them and for the most part people say to save them for later in my career. If I remember correctly they say I only have three and there is no way to get more.
I also have a question regarding the gold exclamation mark that appears in the corner of my screen from time to time. I have been doing some of the military missions where they send me out to destroy Gurista Pirates. After some of the battles that exclamation mark appears with a countdown. What exactly is this? What are the can and cannot do's during this countdown?

When you create a character, you get one neural remap per year and 2 bonus remaps. A remap allow you to adjust the attributes related to skills and thus help you speed up learning them. The first time you remap, your countdown will start and you can use your bonus in the meantime, but when you've used those 3, you're stuck until a year has passed.

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Neural_remapping

Hover on the symbol to find out, it's part of the crimewatch system.

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Crimewatch

You can invite anybody to partake in a duel, which is classified as a legal and limited engagement. They don't have to accept but if they do, it can be to the death.

And I will add that you can engage anyone even without duelling, but unless it's a criminal or unless you have a kill right on that person, CONCORD - space police - will come and destroy your ship (not your pod, no NPC will ever shoot your pod). Since there is a delay between attack and CONCORD reaction, some people use cheap ships with high alpha / volley / dps to destroy their victims before CONCORD arrives. This is the reason why you should never undock in a PLEX with your cargo, or haul something really expensive through chokepoints like Uedama, Niarja, Perimeter or trade hubs like Jita, Dodixie, Rens, Hek, Amarr.

Welcome to EVE :)

Or autopilot in a rookie ship with 2bil worth of implants in the skull, there's also plenty of those and plenty of people throwing thrashers at them.