EVE New Citizens Q&A

A good starting point will be to use the certificates as a rough guide, they can be found on your character sheet under skills. The Core and Defence certificates are good ones to look at to get your ships up to scratch, they include skills for improving power grid, cpu, capacitor, armor, shields, agility and speed, which are good for all the ships you'll fly.

With EVEmon you can open a plan and use the ship and items browser to look at ships and modules that you may wish to use. From the description window you can add the skills required to use them to the plan you have open, allowing you to tailor the plan for particular ships or setups.

Another handy tool to use in conjunction with EVEmon is EVE Fitting Tool which you can use to test fittings before you fly it in the game. EFT can export fits into EVEmon from which you can create skill plans.

It might be worth checking out EveHQ which is EVEmon and EFT combined and then some, so it makes it easier to build a skill plan from the ships and fittings that you want to use.

You can also show info on a given ship. Then look at the suggested certificates for that ship.
If you want to haul looking at your racial industrial core skills would be a good bet. Using EvEmon you can look at all the trade skills.

I would also suggest a corp, they can give more personal advice and make they game more fun as you have people to fly with.

Hello Spetznak Sokarad,

I would recommend looking at the different Certificates that you can find in your Character Sheet. There are a lot of certificates for specific ships. If you click on a specific certificate it tells you what kind of ship(s) that it would apply to. Now remember that Certificates are only guides in what skills you should have. See http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Certificates for more information on certificates.

Fly safe o/

Core Skills for all Pilots
Engineering 5 - maximize power grid
Electronics 5 - maximize CPU
Energy Management 5 - maximize capacitor
Energy Systems Operation 5 - maximize capacitor recharge rate
Energy Grid Upgrades 5 - reduce CPU needed to use power modules
Mechanic 5 - maximize hull strength.
Shield Management 5 - maximize shield strength
Weapon upgrades 5 makes it easier to fit turrets or missile bays
advanced weapon upgrades 5 same

The basic things you're looking for are things that effect your ships speed, agility, armor, shields, capacitor, CPU and Power Grid. These will be things that are useful no matter what ship you are flying.

How much you train them and when you do it are up to you. While these skills effect how good a ship you fly - they don't actually have a direct impact on what you are doing to make money, they just give you a better ship to do it with.

In addition to those mentioned above, a few more:


Ship Integrity:

Mechanic - Increases your Structures hit points
Hull Upgrades - Increases your Armor Hit Points
Shield Management - increases strength of your shield
Shield Operation - increases the recharge rate of your shield


All four of these skills give you a stronger ship, before using modules or rigs. Each of them increses the effectiveness of it's area by 5% per level - which means - an increase of 20-25% depending on whehter or not you train them to IV or V. An increase like that - that takes up no slots or used on Cap, CPU or PG is well worth having.

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Also check out your Navigation skills - most of these either save Cap Directly - or - reduce the amount of cap you need to use to do something by doing it faster.



Weapons Upgrades - allows you to use less CPU to fit weapons
Advanced Weapons Upgrades - allows you to use less PG to fit weapons