EVE General Discussion

Higher multipliers make skills take longer to train.

The smaller that number, the better.

And as for your stats, if I recall correctly, the primary stat gives about twice as much benefit towards training time as the secondary. But the answer is "yes" that having the respective stats will decrease your total time spent training.

yes but not as much as you think, a set of +3 learning implants will reduce training to level 4 by several hours (5-8) but a long skill is still going to take a long time.


the training multiplier number is how longer it takes to train more advanced skilled based off the training time for the basic skills

As above, the primary skill is the one to boost. The equation for the calculation of minutes to training is along the lines of:

(Needed SP - Current SP) / (Primary Attribute + (Secondary Attribute / 2))

So the primary attribute contributes twice the benefit of the secondary attribute.

I'm no expert on the underlying equations though, so Tippia or someone may be along to point out errors.

ah I think I am getting this,I think...

So lets say we have the retail skill and I want to train it to level 5,would it work like this.
Level 1 takes 20 minutes x1 (would take 20 minutes)
Level 2 takes 40 Minutes x2 (would take 80 minutes because of the x2)
Level 3 takes 60 minutes ...ect x3
Level 4 takes 80 minutes ...ect x4
Level 5 times 100 minutes ...ect x5 (this would take 5 times longer because its a higher lvl that the previous.So it would take 500 minutes =/ ? )

According to my retail training que it says "x 2" so if i increased the willpower attribute this time might be reduced?Jeez I hope I am on the right track here,might be to early for my brain to handle this ;)

it does look fun :)

There's no need to buy such high-grade implants for learning time. The pirate / faction implants are primarily for bonus effects, they just offer learning benefits as a side-benefit.

For +3 effects you want things such as Cybernetic Subprocessor - Basic, or for +4 you want Cybernetic Subprocessor - Standard. The basic costs 10m and the standard costs 20m.

If you have a character you only want to train for trading, you should train up Cybernetics IV.

Then buy and plug in the following:
* Social Adaptation Chip - Standard
* Memory Augmentation - Standard

Then immediately remap your character to have as many points as possible in Charisma, and then all the rest in Memory. Leave no optional points in anything else.

If you want to max contracting skills then you can also plug in a +3 willpower implant (Neural Boost - Basic)

No, not quite.

The way to understand the training multiplier is to look at different skills and see that the points needed to reach each level are affected by the training multiplier.

So a x1 multiplier:

level 1 - 250
level 2 - 1414
level 3 - 8000
level 4 - 45255
level 5 - 256000

With a x2 multiplier, those values double, so they become

level 1 - 500
level 2 - 2828
level 3 - 16000
level 4 - 90509
level 5 - 512000

The net result is that the multiplier for a skill makes the points needed to reach each level, higher - it takes longer.

How long it takes depends on your attributes.

The higher the primary and secondary attribute, the shorter the training time.

Reading the wiki might help:

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

posting in a stealth "ccp lower training times" thread

Lol you're fun, you have a cool name and it's (supposedly) your birthday. I'll send you a gift when I log on.