Skill Discussions

The best use of the 'time saved' is to apply the SP{ to skills you are not mapped for. So rather than training something at 1890 for 30 days, you could be training something else at 2700 or 2610 for less days.
And yes, training long skills sucks, and I knocked off some big skills with my skill point reserves.
Something else I did, was allocate HALF to some long skills. So, for instance, Fighters only took 15 days to train. Caldari Carrier only took 15 days, etc.



Edit to add:
You are correct to not use them, training skill levels 1 through 4. Use them where they have a bigger impact of saving time.
But also, don't save them for some mystical skill that's 2 years down the road. I think you could reasonably save a couple million as a bank, but getting something you want maxed out, has much more value now.

I think its a mental thing, mentally its nice to come back a day later and have a bunch of training complete notifications.

Point in case, RavenPaine adding 50% SP into 2 lvl5s. If you complete 1 of those lvl5s using unallocated SP you could gain it now and then wait 30 days for the next rather than waiting 15 days for skill 1 and then another 15 (total of 30 anyway) for skill 2.

That being said I total agree with RavenPaine's point about using the SP for skills you are not mapped for.

I recently spent a 2.4 million SP refund (FAX) on a variety of mostly charisma skills I couldn't be bothered to remap and train, but that I wanted to train eventually. I also trained a few off-map skills to level 3 and 4.

Example: Connections 5, Diplomacy 5, etc.

The skills were of various levels. I just considered which skills were most likely to benefit my gameplay the most.

Think about it this way. Assuming its a completely new skill to you, say...Rocket Specialization. You could spend ~110k SP to get 8% boost to rocket damage (using t2 ammo) or you could get light missile spec from 4 to 5, spending ~520k, for a 2% boost.

So, for the 520k SP, you could get a little over 3 brand new weapon specs (for example) from 1 to 4, increasing your overall effectiveness and fitting options.

Of course this fails to address what direction a character wants to go, so personal priorities will skew things...but this is probably the point he was trying to make.

If I had 11mil SP on me, and I wasnt already a 10year old character, my course of action would probably be get core fitting skills maxed if not already, get ship types to 5 up to BS in an additional race or two, and then spend the rest getting weapon specs/support skills to 4, starting with whatever weapon type was most different from my current.