EVE New Citizens Q&A

Your maths are correct and quite a few people are using alts to farm SP for extraction and selling.

https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/207605005-Skill-Extractors-and-Skill-Injectors?flash_digest=d135d3fae0e8bdc012bd15ba9040be2c53bae07b

Your starting numbers are a little off though. You need a minimum of 5.5 million sp in order to extract.

There are no minimum limits for when you can re-configure your attributes for maximum gain (mem int and train an industry skill, for example). You don't have to wait 500k points.

There is only one limit for inserting implants to achieve the 2700 / hr number: you need +5 implants, and they require Cybernetics V. +3 implants, on the other hand, only require Cybernetics 1. In any case, training Cybernetics to 5 will take a week or so.

You have to have 5.5 million points before you can start extracting 500k. That takes 3-4 months, but if you're willing to invest now to reap the profits faster, you can buy 10 injectors and achieve 5 million SP almost instantly. In any case, this minimum requirement of 5.5 million SP means you have to have 5 million points that will never be extracted, so you might as well put them to good use: 5.5 m SP can make a good trading+transport+PI alt, or a mining+scout+cyno alt, or other useful combinations.

You can extract all skills, but in reverse order of prerequisites. So for example, let's say you can fly the Caracal. The primary skill for it is Caldari Cruiser, and that skill has the following prerequisites:

Caldari Destroyer III
Caldari Frigate III
Spaceship Command II

If you have these prerequisites at 4 or 5, you can extract points from them until they reach level 3 (and 2 respectively), but no more. You have to reduce the dependent skill, Caldari Cruiser, all the way to 0, before you can extract Destroyer, Frigate, and SSCMD past level 3 (2).

The interface will gray out the skills that have dependents, and you can show info to figure out which skills you have to remove first before they can be un-grayed.

hmmm so I havent done PI at all really

what are the minimum skills to do it well? in otherwords do you think I can make an alt that can fly a cloaky hauler as Id guess its needed, do PI, and if possible cyno as well?

FYI: Citadels don't defend themselves like POSs do. Someone has to be online and at the "helm" in much the same way they pilot a ship.

So if a small wormhole group comes across your citadel during its vulnerability period... and you are not online... it can be torn down pretty easily.

Even if you do have someone manning the defenses (or you do it yourself) it won't really do you very much good. Citadels provide combat support more than anything else. You will need a small troop of people taking point on the station's defense in their own ships.



On the plus side... citadels don't use fuel unless you fit them out with defenses and such.

Citadels, like everything else in this game, is for those who can defend them.

There is one thing i fail to understand : you pay real money to run an alt to then sell its SP for ISK, right ?
Wouldn't it be more simple/effective to buy a PLEX and sell it for ISK ?