Skill Discussions

I'm looking for some skill plan advice to get more isk out of this character that I eventually plan to sell on the character bazaar.

I decided to take advantage of the power of 2 offer to create a character that I will sell once the subscription time of the new account is about to end. I started by training my cybernetics skill to IV to get +4 implants, after which I made a per/will remap with the goal to get Destroyers V and Battlecruisers V (because of the future changes to the specific skills and ship classes).

I've now got Destroyers V, Battlecruisers soon to be V and all racial frigate and cruiser skills at IV to (hopefully) get all the racial destroyer and battlecruiser skills to V when the changes kick in. Having said that, now I feel a bit clueless about what I should train in order to get as much isk per lp out of this character as possible.

My first thought was to create a sleipnir character, but it takes too much time to get all the required skills to fly a command ship, let alone get all the support skills to fly one competently. Not to mention that based on the information I've been able to find on past sales, they don't sell for particularly much compared to some other characters.

So, now I'm asking if I'm better off simply training the support skills used by every race, and leaving the choice of specialization to the buyer, or if I'm better off making this a loki pilot for instance, and making the racial choice for the buyer, but at the same time make a character that is ready to be used the moment the trade is made?

I've been playing EVE on and off for a few years, so I don't really expect anyone to give me a direct answer. Having said that, I'm new to the character bazaar and I figured I might as well try to ask in case someone is feeling friendly. Any help would be appreciated!

Unfortunately I don't know how to do that. Still, I think I mentioned all the relevant skills in my first post, the character is less than 2 months old atm.

dont cross train it.
your best bet is training a boosting toon that can fly a loki, has cyber 5 and can boost skirmish and shield.

other things that sell well are pure tengu pilots, capital ship holders and covops probers.

the rule with selling character is that the more specialized it is the better.
hence, generic combat toons are not worth training up specifically to sell.

Thank you for all the replies.



What you say about specialized characters selling better makes sense, but at the same time if I follow your first suggestion I'd either have to add several months more training time, or I'll end up with a character missing most of it's support skills. Also, if I would prolong the account subscription by 3 months and do this to get better support skills, I'd still have a fairly un-specialized character, wouldn't I? Would I then be better off trying to max most of the leaderships skills and get the bare minimum skills to pilot a loki, or what would you suggest?

Lastly, since I made the seemingly stupid decision to train destroyers V and battlecruisers V, I'd really prefer it if these skills wouldn't be a complete waste, but they really don't seem to add much of anything for a t3 pilot. Is there any way to salvage the situation and make a skill plan that would support these skills with the results of actually raising the characters value? The main problem I see is that if I decide to go for weak support skills, then the aforementioned skills would be even more useless, right?