EVE General Discussion

Hi All,

I am playing eve for 2 months nows now and I want to start an Alt for support. Primarily goal: missions, and in the future exploration (wormholes maybe) and incursions. My main character has drake for now and within 30 days a Tengu. What is the smartest thing to do with my alt: train it the same way (Caldari / Missiles) or would it be smart to train it different?

This is what I did with my first alt.

Train up haulers, Orca, some trade skills, later on go for leadership skills so you can get fleet boosts (actually may not be a good idea if off-grid boosting becomes no longer a Thing), logi skills are especially cool for WH living (even outside of combat), probe skills, whatever. Usually you train what the "main" isn't training.

****, my hauling alt eventually got trained to fly an Oracle so we'd have an extra "body" for POS bashes.

Its honestly up to you and what you feel like doing Just got my third alt a month ago and training up marketing,research,mining,industry,salvaging and exploring.

Its up to you and what you feel like doing, Caldari are good starter ships and probably the best for mission running altho Minny do come close if not on par.

I started off with me and started as a jack of all trades, but soon decided I wanted to go more for the industry side of the game.
So I set up a 2nd account for a mission runner (caldari missile lobbing grunt)
Then a 3rd account for a hauler.
Then a 4th account for bonus.
Then a 5th account..... 6th account and then I stopped


My hauler ended up as a maxed out Amarr Carrier / Dread pilot (well he had the jump drive skills for jump freighters)

My mission runner is still pretty much that, only industry he can do is copying (can never have too many copy slots available)

Bonus alt is now maxed leadership, rorqual, orca

5th account is still an odd one, not used a lot, but freighter pilot and a trader alt


So no-matter how you plan, things evolve.

If you're meaning a 2nd account so you can multibox, then a salvager (noctis) is always a good start for mission support, logi support is a grey area, not sure how much they would be used. Also worth training a trading character up a bit to sell your stuff.

If you want to get into incursions, the quickest and cheapest way is flying Logistics, but you've got to have lots of maxed skills still. You can't just rely on the plain logistics skills, you still need a bit of tank etc.


Try and decide what your main is missing and aim to fill that hole, drones etc if you want a combat alt to start with.

If you are on about a 2nd char on your account so only 1 will be online at a time, then freighter / trader char would be useful, I wouldn't be tempted to learn a whole new set of guns etc for a mission runner, missiles are fairly versatile and it seems like a waste of training time lost off your main char for that.

This for sure. If you want an alt you should train it in something that will synergize well or cover an inherent lack in some skill areas your main has.

Just be aware that the mission rats will now switch targets so they may see your DPS ship as a bigger threat than the Drake and try to kill it instead.

I'm going to take the rare step here of giving you actual advice. Your alt is everything your main is not. Keep his/her sec status over 0.0. You should train your alt into a jump freighter immediately, and get your market skills up there while you're at it. This will give your main the lateral to evolve without thought to consequences. -10.0 sec? no problem. Your alt moves your **** and sells your loot. Getting an alt is the most liberating thing you can do for your main. When your main is plundering in null or gatecamping in lowsec, your alt can move the loot and provide resupply wherever you need it. Transport ships help. At some point your alt will need to fly a cloaky nullified T3. That's perfect logistics. A Cloaky nulled T3 can go anywhere it wants to. No fear of camps or bubbles if you aren't retar***. Then, once those things are trained, go for exploration skills and logistics, so your alt can scout out sites and actually provide active support for your main. I mean, WTF do i know about eve, but this is definitely the way to go with alt #1 in my view. Your alt is your ultimate bi*** and you need to train him/her to that end.

Just my 2 ISK....

Ark/Archon

As others have said, train up a salvage alt if you are focusing on missions for now. Get it into a Noctis. It is invaluable, and it makes it's money back in no time with the salvage and loot you get. It's what I did. Once that is out of the way, figure out something else you want to try, and train it for that.

I have a second alt I'm working on that is primarily going to be an out of corp charon/rhea pilot. Maybe throw in some trade skills, can't hurt.