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Starting skills with a new character?
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Bloody Bogan
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-02-13 18:56:59 UTC
Hi there,

When you start a brand new character, do their starting skills change depending on 1. What race you choose, and 2. What sub races you choose?

~David
Merouk Baas
#2 - 2013-02-13 19:02:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Merouk Baas
A new character gets a very few skills to be able to fly the frigate of their race. I don't think sub-race affects anything; the school you pick may affect a skill. But you get very few skills, about 0.1 mil skillpoints, which, considering that the average training time is 1.2 - 1.6 million skillpoints / month, it's at most a couple days difference.

CCP has changed the startup to give very few skills, and then the tutorial agents literally shower you with skillbooks and ships.
Silus Morde
#3 - 2013-02-13 19:33:54 UTC
Agree with previous post. You basically can start with a frigate and mostly nothing else OR you can do the Tutorials and get ships and skills and some isk. If you are truly new - do every tutorial you can. Then you might want to do the Sisters of Eve missions. If this is an alt, you probably have a good idea of what to do and isk to give your new alt to buy skills and ships. The choice is yours.

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Jacob Rider
Perkone
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-02-13 20:12:21 UTC
Bloody Bogan wrote:
Hi there,

When you start a brand new character, do their starting skills change depending on 1. What race you choose, and 2. What sub races you choose?

~David

No. There is no difference now.

It used to though. When I first started playing EVE the race, sub-race and school you chose did make a difference. You would have different attributes depending on your choices. You also started with about 800,000 skill points, spread out dependent on the choices you made. You could actually start with a few skills at level 5 right away.

Now everybody starts with the same attributes and the same skillset. Gotta love the dumbing-down of EVE...
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-02-13 21:00:16 UTC
Bloody Bogan wrote:
Hi there,

When you start a brand new character, do their starting skills change depending on 1. What race you choose, and 2. What sub races you choose?

~David


In the past, when I was a young capsuleer, it did matter which race/bloodline/school you choose for which skills you received and how your attribute map was.

Then CCP said, it isn't fair that everybody wants to be Caldari (cause they had the best starting options). So they changed it.
Every new pilot starts with same attribute mapping.
As for skills, your race does matter in a very very minor way. Your race determines which frigate skill you get from the start and which type of gun you can fire from the start.
As for location, this is based on which school you choose to start with. Hence why every faction has 3 New Player systems.

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MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#6 - 2013-02-13 21:22:07 UTC
As the others have said, it doesn't really matter. A couple of my alts I made were of different races, it takes about a day of training to make up the differences in skills. So if you know what you want to do and know what you want to look like, and the role-playing part doesn't bother you,m pick any body style and accept a one-day loss of training skills to fly what you want and look like you want. (you will have to find different tutorial trainers though if you start right off the bat)

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Salpad
Carebears with Attitude
#7 - 2013-02-17 18:52:20 UTC
Merouk Baas wrote:
A new character gets a very few skills to be able to fly the frigate of their race. I don't think sub-race affects anything; the school you pick may affect a skill. But you get very few skills, about 0.1 mil skillpoints, which, considering that the average training time is 1.2 - 1.6 million skillpoints / month, it's at most a couple days difference.

CCP has changed the startup to give very few skills, and then the tutorial agents literally shower you with skillbooks and ships.


It used to be you were born with 800k Skill Points so that starting race and sub-race made a large difference, but that got changed several years ago.

Back then, early on, you also had to spend a lot of time training something called Learning skillz, which sucked totally. They got removed some time ago too, replaced with an automatic benefit as if you had trained all of them to 5.

Ao now, as you say, starting race makes only a tiny difference.
Kahega Amielden
Rifterlings
#8 - 2013-02-17 19:01:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Kahega Amielden
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It used to though. When I first started playing EVE the race, sub-race and school you chose did make a difference. You would have different attributes depending on your choices. You also started with about 800,000 skill points, spread out dependent on the choices you made. You could actually start with a few skills at level 5 right away.

Now everybody starts with the same attributes and the same skillset. Gotta love the dumbing-down of EVE...


I too miss the days where every new character was Caldari Achura.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#9 - 2013-02-17 19:28:26 UTC
Kahega Amielden wrote:
Quote:
It used to though. When I first started playing EVE the race, sub-race and school you chose did make a difference. You would have different attributes depending on your choices. You also started with about 800,000 skill points, spread out dependent on the choices you made. You could actually start with a few skills at level 5 right away.

Now everybody starts with the same attributes and the same skillset. Gotta love the dumbing-down of EVE...


I too miss the days where every new character was Caldari Achura.


Indeed. The old system totally didn't affect my choice of making my main being an Achura....

Yeah...those first month or so training nothing but learning skill were very exiting.

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