EVE New Citizens Q&A

Options:

1. Continue with your character. 20 million skillpoints is about 1 year of training, and if you start over you'll lose that time. Check your skills, and if you've got the points into support skills and relatively decently trained, there's no reason not to continue.

2. Extract and inject skill points. At 20 million you're in the range where you extract 500k and they become 400k when re-injected; you'll lose some skillpoints but you can re-distribute your points if you absolutely hate what you've trained in the past. The downside is that it costs either ISK or PLEX/Aur to get the skill extractors to start the process.

3. Sell your character or sell your points. Character Bazaar prices are governed by the value of skills (as reflected by the prices of filled-up skill injectors); you could have a great / very desirable set of skills but the character traders will only offer you a price that will make THEM a profit if they strip your character and sell the points. So basically it's better to strip the character yourself and sell the full skill injectors yourself.

Personally I'd pick 1, with maybe a bit of 2 if you have some rough edges to smooth over. It takes a whole year to get support skills (shields, armor, navigation, targeting, etc. etc) to 4, so if you start over you'll basically lose that time.

EDIT: Writing a blog may do it for you, not sure. If you really want to stay in the game, find a corporation to join; there's a war going on right now, and all sides are recruiting / accepting active pilots. There are corporations designed as public fleets (Pandemic Horde, Karmafleet, etc.), or you can apply for a regular corporation in one of the alliances currently at war. Get a couple PLEXes and sell them for ISK so you're set for ship replacements for a while, and go shoot some ships. It's what the game was designed for.

Reddit has a synopsis of the war, and you can get more details at the various news sites (evenews24, themittani, etc.)

This is a character I started to learn about the game. Hence the odd name.

I was going to start a new character when I knew what was going on.

That was over 7 years ago.

Given the riches of certain shady characters, this is a terrible option. Getting a clean slate on known thieves, gankers, awoxers, and the like, will play hell with Intel and the general Eve player base.

If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times, character renaming is a terrible idea.

On topic, keep the initial char, and you can include the isk making process as part of your blog. It will even give your blog a twist that most others don't have.

Last post I forgot to mention, you could sell some of the SP to make up some time on the isk grind, skill injectors go for 600 mil or so and the extractor is pretty cheap.

Could you please explain this to me?

Of all the skills in my current library all are Level 4. It's almost disgusting when I think about it.

All I know is clones no longer are a thing - its a shame I think this was one of the most unique aspects of EVE.

Buy skill extractor for ~200 mil , use to inject 500k of your skill points into it and turn it into skill injector, sell for 600 mil. Basically 800 mil isk profit per 1'000'000 of your skill points.

Exactly what I was going to write.

This character was my starter, and I have - as Tau Calabander notes - tried pretty much everything and have a fairly scattered skill set. The great thing about Eve is there's no skill total limit so it matters not a whit if I retain skills I don't use. Skyweir has developed as an industry character and this is now the focus. (Note that I'm primarily an RPer, so like to have a certain consistency in why my character is doing things. Most people couldn't care less).

However, I've wanted to get more PvP experience in combat. (I enjoy the cat-and-mouse PvP that a hauler/miner has to do, but it's not the same as being an aggressor or in fleets). So I have stared a new character for that purpose. Though I have about eight months previous Eve experience (not much, but enough to fool myself I have the occasional clue) starting a brand new character focussed on the skills for PvP and joining a corp skilled in that aim has been a revelation. I've enjoyed myself hugely as a low-skilled character, learning what to do, the limitations I have, and the camaraderie of the damned. Dying, dying, dying, with no concern at all (much less the case when you're trying to get fat isk to market!)

And Skyweir is still around for industry and trade etc. Best of all worlds.

1.5m-2m sp/month which equates to 3 , maybe 4 injectors. You have to have over 5m SP to extract skill points into extractor though.