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Switching or Cross-train?

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Radensca Zateki
Lima Bravo
#1 - 2012-09-07 12:51:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Radensca Zateki
Greetings,

I'm kinda stuck at this point:
I'm playing Amarr for roughly a month now, first liked it but now it gets me a bit bored and dont seem to like it as much as in the beginning..
Now i always felt something for Minmatar cause of the fast paced ships and attacking style (hit and run?).
I'm that type of player who plays always the fast, dodging type of player (rogue, ranger, etc) so thats why my heart feels like it belongs to them.

Now the advise i could use:
Should i sell the stuff on this char and make an new char, send the isk to him and get rid of this one?
Or should i cross-train him? (Note: got +3 and one +4 implant and i don't really feel like cross training)

Is it a waste of almost a month to sudden change into a new char or doesn't that realy matter since it's only a month now?

Also: is Minmatar more of a pvp or pve race to play? (playing as pve bounty hunter and salvaging)

Could use some advise so i can look what i'm going to do, thank for the help (and atleast for reading this)

o/
Robert De'Arneth
#2 - 2012-09-07 13:00:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Robert De'Arneth
I would just train mim ships, no reason to start over imho. I am working towards flying every Frig in the game, and that takes a little cross trainging. You are just going to have more options on ships to fly, and of course you will need to train weapsons for all those ships.


But at the end of the day, if you want to be a mim, sell everything and transfer.

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Davith en Divalone
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-09-07 13:17:37 UTC
I vote for cross-train. About half of the time costs to get into the more advanced ship classes are support skills and cross-faction defense skills. For example, all of the frigate Assault Ships require Mechanic V and Engineering V. That's ~12 days (rounding off) without implants. Racial Frigate V is another ~12 days.
ISD Athechu
ISD STAR
ISD Alliance
#4 - 2012-09-07 13:45:53 UTC
Hello,

My vote is to do something that will challenge you and make it exciting for you :)

Don't forget that you can train any skill that you want just because you started off with Amarr and your bloodline is along those lines doesn't mean that you can't train other skills and become well versed with many thing. If you don't like it well then you can just stop and start going back to training for other things.

At some point though you might think "Darn X ship that I use to fly would have been good in this situation." Assuming if you just start a new character. Just something to think about.

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Milena Chang
Tafiy
#5 - 2012-09-07 18:34:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Milena Chang
Minmatar if FOTM for PvP and will be for the foreseeable future. All races can field fairly good ships for PvE, depending on where you run missions, etc. My advice would be to cross-train; no need to re-train all of those support skills. if you're training energy turrets switch to projectiles, and if your training armor switch to training shield (your armor skills will come in handy for Minmatar too). You can leave missiles alone for now, the vast majority of Minmatar ships use projectiles exclusively.
highonpop
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#6 - 2012-09-07 18:40:23 UTC
Radensca Zateki wrote:
Greetings,

I'm kinda stuck at this point:
I'm playing Amarr for roughly a month now, first liked it but now it gets me a bit bored and dont seem to like it as much as in the beginning..
Now i always felt something for Minmatar cause of the fast paced ships and attacking style (hit and run?).
I'm that type of player who plays always the fast, dodging type of player (rogue, ranger, etc) so thats why my heart feels like it belongs to them.

Now the advise i could use:
Should i sell the stuff on this char and make an new char, send the isk to him and get rid of this one?
Or should i cross-train him? (Note: got +3 and one +4 implant and i don't really feel like cross training)

Is it a waste of almost a month to sudden change into a new char or doesn't that realy matter since it's only a month now?

Also: is Minmatar more of a pvp or pve race to play? (playing as pve bounty hunter and salvaging)

Could use some advise so i can look what i'm going to do, thank for the help (and atleast for reading this)

o/



It would be a waste of time, even if you were a week old. You can train any skill on any character. Just start training for Minmatar. The starter skills arent really enough to justify throwing out a month of training.

FC, what do?
Oraac Ensor
#7 - 2012-09-07 19:29:13 UTC
Many of the skills you have already trained will be useful whatever ships you fly. If you start again you will have to waste time training all those skills again.

Just cross-train for whatever else you fancy trying.
MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#8 - 2012-09-07 20:53:39 UTC
Cross train. I did it with my Amarr toon when I decided I just didn't like lasers. One of my favorite small ships to fly is actually a Punisher with autocannons while I was converting.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-09-08 01:50:51 UTC
If you move out to 0.0 you'll end up training for everything P

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Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny
Dirty Wizard
Doomheim
#10 - 2012-09-08 01:57:38 UTC
You should definitely cross train.

Eventually when you play long enough, you'll be able to fly it all. Your choice of race may take a little time to completely cross train, but eventually you'll revisit the ships you used to be able to fly and you will still be able to fly them.

My main character is Caldari, but she can fly ALL race ships of all kinds (below capital class ships). She can use all weapon types effectively and can shield tank and armor tank equally well.

Was it necessary to train all that? No, but I like options and flavor-of-the-month ship types. I like having the ability to enjoy flying Minmatar one day and Amarr the next.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2012-09-08 02:08:46 UTC
Dirty Wizard wrote:
You should definitely cross train.

Eventually when you play long enough, you'll be able to fly it all. Your choice of race may take a little time to completely cross train, but eventually you'll revisit the ships you used to be able to fly and you will still be able to fly them.

My main character is Caldari, but she can fly ALL race ships of all kinds (below capital class ships). She can use all weapon types effectively and can shield tank and armor tank equally well.

Was it necessary to train all that? No, but I like options and flavor-of-the-month ship types. I like having the ability to enjoy flying Minmatar one day and Amarr the next.


Capital ships are fun, also gives you something to train when you hit that point where you're just training something to train.

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny