EVE New Citizens Q&A

As a new player, your best bet is to focus on one or two things for a while before branching out. Jack of all trades is master of none and so on.

I'd suggest sticking with Gallente stuff for a while. For combat, that'd be drone and gunnery skills (hybrid gunnery in particular). When you have a solid set of core support skills, then branching out into other races becomes a viable option.

Of course, with your character being only 11 days old, switching to another race and sticking with it wouldn't be much of a problem. Just remember to focus on one or two things at a time and not spread yourself thin, and you should be good.

I myself am I dedicated Gallente pilot. I will never cross train until I totally run out of valid things to raise to 5. Works great for me as I am strong in any ship I jump into. If your really focused you can outclass people with way more SP than yourself, while still affording yourself some versatility. Due to the fact that 20m SP they have over you is spread out making them diluted.

Agreed. After a point there isn't anything wrong with cross training. The point is there is no reason to train up to just the basics for a gallente battleship then turn around and do just the basics for amarr so on and so forth. Focus on getting good skills in one before branching out to others. Exception would be a pirate faction ship that uses same defense and weapons. Like Sepentis (Gallente, Minmater) for a Gallente pilot.

I was simply stating that my personal choice is to stick to just Gallente ships until I have them all maxed out. Then I will start looking at other, but that will be a long way down the road. I like it that way, and haven't suffered from my choice. Advantages and disadvantages both ways.

To answer the question: Yes. You most definitely will want to be able to access several race's ships.

My general advice: As a new player, pick a race, get cruisers to 4, BCs to 3, and the medium weapon system core skill to 4 (so, in the case of Gallente: medium hybrid turrets IV). Then bump up your racial secondary weapon to its full usefulness (Gallente: Drones V, scout drone operation III or so) and the supporting skills for both primary and secondary weapon systems to III or IV.

At this point, you have basic functionality for your first race. At this point, you have a choice based on how much you enjoy this particular race:

(1) "Hey, this race is hours of quality entertainment":
(a) Get your weapon system skills up to T2, start speccing T2 small/medium ships.
(b) Grab the Battleship skills for your race and go forth to smite them NPCs

(2) "Eh, this is kinda boring/too hard/too easy/not enough variety":
(a) Repeat the process above with another race. Each new race you expand into will be faster due to shared weapon systems and secondary skills.
(b) Consider a more specific role that allows you to do things that aren't necessarily anchored to race-- exploration, manufacturing, etc. Give those a go.

So... there it is, generally speaking. Note that I've left some stuff out since this post focuses on racial specs specifically-- basic fitting skills, social skills, fleet skills, finding a corp, etc should all be matters of moderate to high priority over the first few months as well. This is just a general rubric for how you should handle the racial ship lines themselves, i.e. how far you should take the specialization before you think about branching.

Good points all, I appreciate everyone help. This is the first game that I have played (and I played many) where people are newb friendly.

As Breezly suggested and I was thinking the same, is that I can skill up on minmatar Frigate real quick and fly a rifter around picking up my piddly stuff just incase I find someone who doesn’t like me. I only lose a day and I think everyone has good points about waiting until I have techII skills before I play around.


I am kind of liking the Amarr ships more because they have lasers (and can use them without drying up their capacitor (I learned that the hard way 20Mil ISK later), and I really hate reloading my rails :) too lazy.

I would change characters to Amarr but already skilled pretty well and don't want to redo all that work.

Its just gallente ships are just so ugly the very first frigate I flown looked like a pregnant guppy.

yes, that is what I am saying, sorry. I don't want to change but rather skill up on other race ships.