EVE New Citizens Q&A

Training to battlecruisers 5 is probably overkill at first, usually 2-3 is sufficient for starting out on level 3's. Some people will just skip battlecruisers entirely and jump straight to battleships since they are much easier to equip and will be useful on level 4's right away too.

BC's have tons of CPU and Grid available. You shouldn't be running short unless you are mixing your tanking slots (i.e., both a shield and armor repair mod), or you have neglected your core skills.

Post what ships you were interested in flying and maybe we can point you towards the typical PVE fittings people use.

I Googled "eve online brutix mission" and came up with:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1283047#post1283047

Sounds to me like your support skills need a fair bit of improving.

Check this old guide out, the information is still pretty much spot on.

http://www.kylania.com/eve/skills.php

Hope it helps!

Try replacing T2 stuff with meta 4 (or even meta 2-3). It is often very expensive to do so, but you can usually make the same fit work.

Your first priority should be in fitting T2 defenses. T2 weapons can wait.

Even a poorly fit BC can manage level 3 missions.

Get EFT, import your character(s) via a Customizable API Key (CAK) (name it "Full Access" and don't share this API key with anybody, and don't use it with any website!), and play around with fitting your own ships. Get EVEmon for skill planning while you are at it, as they complement each other nicely (you can use the "Full Access" API key with it too).

With a name like that you should look a little happier.

As a general point if you work through the tutorials you end up being given a destroyer which is plenty good enough to cruise through level 1 missions with basic skills. My advice at that point is, while you're grinding those L1s, use the time to skill up on cruiser sized skills along with basic fitting skills to at least IV. That way when you've amassed sufficient standing you will be able to jump straight into level 2 missions. Similarly while you're doing level 2s (which is straightforward in a cruiser) start on the BC size skills and continue with the fitting skill improvements. By the time you're good to go for level 3 your skills will allow you to fly your BC of choice fairly adequately. Bear in mind if you've fallen a little behind with the fitting skills then as long as you have the money you can substitute meta 4 modules for T2 fittings until you have the skills. Once you're flying the missions adequately start on the BS skills.

Working your progression this way means you avoid the hiatus of having to pause while skilling up for the next level. It also means you are likely to be starting out with better than basic skills for the level. PVE is a little like PVP in that respect. It is far better to batter the missions with a better ship than approach them with tools that are barely sufficient. You gain nothing from scraping through a mission. Better to crash right through, collect tthe ISK and standing, and move onto the next. It's all about ISK per hour to fund the next level of development.

Telling a new player to train BC and destroyer to V is very bad advice. You spend 45+ days training 2 skills for just a very small advantage. Don't get me wrong, when you are experienced you will want them to V anyway but as you are a new player you can do just fine with level 3 or 4.

In those 45+ days you trained 2 skills you could have trained A LOT of support skills to level 3 or 4.

To all the other new players: Don't train anything to lv5 in your first 3 months untill you are really sure you need it.

Unfortunately as stated many times, whoever told you to train the Level 5's for BC's and Dessies was talking out of their arse and its them who should feel like an idiot and not yourself.

The Core certificates will help a lot and there are a lot of skills you will learn that you didnt even know existed that will help you in many different ways. (I.e. more target locks, quicker lock times, better shield usage and better capacitor usage).

From my own noobish experience, make sure you have Engineering IV and Mechanics IV early on. This will avoid upsets with not being able to apply recommended fits due to the powerplant and CPU (or lack of). These 2 directly increase these.

One thing to state the obvious, before you warp out to your first mission, make sure you have the ISK to pay for another couple of BC's plus a few more for when you lose them!

I'm not saying you shouldn't fly a battlecruiser in your first three months. I'm just saying that a new player can fly the thing with the skill at 3 or 4 just fine.

You are correct in your understanding. You have those skills to 5 and that's where they will stay. I'm sure that the reason you were told to train those up was because of the impending (or so it sounded at that time) splitting of the destroyer and battlecruiser skills into racially-specific skills. But it might have been better for your adviser to tell you to get them to 4 ASAP instead of 5. But what is done is done.

Remaps just change your attributes to affect training speed on the next skills.

A lot of good advice has been given, but I wonder if it has been clear/specific enough. We vets know what we mean by "support skills", but newer players might not. You said you were working on advanced weapon upgrades now. That's good, but I strongly advise you to train it to 3 or 4 only, for now. NOT 5. Instead, make sure to train the other support skills to 3 or 4. Things in the Mechanic or Engineering skill groups, for example. I didn't look at that skill plan that was linked, but I bet it has a bunch of those in it. Skills like Energy Grid Upgrades, Energy Systems Operations, Energy Management, etc will help you fit your ship and also keep it running much more effectively.

In most cases, you are better off training "wide" instead of "deep" early in your career. Getting 5 relevant skills to level 4 will take approximately the same amount of time as getting 1 skill to level 5 (depending on attributes and training multipliers, of course), and it will be much more effective for you. Get the useful skills to 3 or 4, then start to go deeper (level 5).

edit: Take a look at this thread that has some very good advice on training:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=77549