EVE New Citizens Q&A

cerebral accelerator ?

Is this not it or something ?


Can't find definitive info !!!

Ok so tied to the 1st new character on each account, so i couldn't make a new char for dual training and get the boost then ?

There are a few things here you may be getting confused:

Once, every new character started with about 900,000SP. You used to pick a specialization and it would give you a suite of skills related to that field. If you picked minmatar special ops, for example, you might start with minmatar frigate 3 and propulsion jamming 2, plus a handful of gun and shield skills, basically letting you fit up a tackle-rifter from the get go.

CCP changed this several years ago, I'm not sure why. When they changed it, they compensated by making all characters with less then 900,000SP get a training speed bonus until they hit 900,000SP. Something like double, I think.

I'm not sure if this is still in effect.

In addition, there have been several promotions for new accounts, often when buying off steam, amazon or a boxed copy, where when you use the purchased key to create a new account, you get an item called a cerebral accelerator.

The cerebral accelerator multiplies the training speed of the character by a specific amount, double in the case of the basic one IIRC, for the first 30 days of your account age.

If you buy a cerebral accelerator for a 40 day old account and try to put it on a 2 day old character it will not work.

With this cleared up, if you meet the eligibility criteria for using a cerebral accelerator, you can buy one from the market, as they are not account bound and many people choose to sell them instead.

It's not something every new account gets by default. They're included in some special offers.



They're not implants. They're classified boosters, so you can plug them in at the same time as your normal implants

I got Cerebral accelerator with an account created via Eve-website. At the time of upgrading the new acc, in the eve web site u will see an option named "Special offer", u should choose that special offer and accept one of the packs, named as "Ammar starter pack", "Caldari starter pack" and etc. Inside that packs u can get cerebral accelarator + a lot of other newbie things. If u will upgrade your account by not using that special offer, u r not going to get ANYTHING. So, seems u didn't use that special offer, that's why u didn't get anything. I got everything for two of my accs, which were upgraded using one of the starter packs.

Hope it helps u.

Ref: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=eve+online+sp+per+hour

While you can indeed specialize your skill training from the start with a notched remap and shiny implants stuffed up your skull, I find it constraining.

Implants and remaps really pay off on long skills, those dreaded level 5s on rank 5 or 6 that take the better part of a month to complete.

As a new player, the skills to train are so varied, between tanking, drones, weaponry and various hull sizes, spending buckets of ISK and wasting a remap is quite pointless.

It's is fruitful for someone developping an alt with a very specific aim and that will sit on it until the training is complete. I did so for my PI alts, but with the toon I use daily, I'd rather skill a tiny itty bitty slower but broaden my range of skills to not shut myself from various activities just because "can't skill now, doesn't fit my remap".

Don't be so focused on highest SP/h, it means nothing in the end, once you have a skill at 5, it can't go further. Instead, with a head worth 100mil, how likely are you to try venturing in low, null or WHs? Then you want JC, but "oh bummer, if I JC into my zero-implant clone I lose XXXSP, let's wait for that skill to finish first".

There's tons of fun things to do in EVE and in the first 6 months, for a new player, a vanilla remap and a set of +3s at best, is worth it. It's probably much more compelling to lightheartedly go on about all sorts of shenanigans without being too worried of losing a pod. When your med clone without implants starts costing more than a fitted frigate, I think it deters quite some people from having simple fun times.

After a year, the "skill training completed" jingle becomes so unusual, it really doesn't matter much anymore how fast the skills train.

By the way, I want to point out what a terrible, terrible plan the 30 day expiration is and how the devs should change it.

You get a LOT of stuff if you sign up for a new subscription, but EVE is unlike many MMOs where it is de rigueur to make a few characters early on to test things out. And there is almost no googlable guidance about this point. It's one tiny, insanely valuable object in a list of dozens of inexplicable things.

I have gotten much less than a month of training out of mine because I wanted to try both starting in Gallente and Minmatar before choosing. I know EVE is about living with consequences, but this seems profoundly unfair. I suppose I could petition it, but I suspect no one will care and tell me I was dumb for not claiming a boatload of junk on day one that would have saved me money. It was dumb, but I had no real way of knowing that.

Even more crazy is that there is no indication that the cerebral enhancer is a kind of "super" implant that cannot be lost by dying. No one I've talked to knew this. I only learned it because I died and 2 days later noticed I still had it when i went to put in another implant.

Mine is about to run out and I barely have 900,000 SP.

You're starting the game and want to see content. Game designers call this "Setting the hook". Shaving 12 days off that initial content discovery may not seem like much to people who have millions of skillpoints, but the difference in feel between a 900,000 SP character and a 1.8m SP character is pretty big. Just unlocking a few ship types is huge.