EVE New Citizens Q&A

Edit: I guess I was last.

Each account can only train one character.

EvE did add a feature to allow you to bypass this buy purchasing plex. You can pay $20 bucks for one of those for about $630 million ISK off of the eve market.

Don't freak out, you really don't need a second character at your stage. You can also buy characters off of other accounts and transfer them to your account in the character bazaar.

I think the implied collective thought is stopping your training que on your main character is a poor decision.

So yes, you can train many characters, one at a time. Please don't. You may as well just train the skill on your main capsuleer.

1) It might have come with your account. There are special offers from time to time, especially on third-party vendors like Amazon.
2) If it was not included in your starter pack, you can search for it in Contracts.

From one newb to another, after trawling through many skill guides, I have found the one in the link attached to be the most useful.

http://blog.beyondreality.se/Newbie-skill-plan-2

It focuses on training to pilot Frigates and Destroyers. From the advice I've received, the Frigates are a great class of ship which can be inexpensively fitted, flown and ultimately, destroyed.

The guide breaks down skills to learn that align with SP limits. From my infantile understanding of the skill system, the SP limit issue is quite relevant. Breaking the learning guide down this way supposedly provides most value for the skill tiers.

Best of luck.

A very big heads up:

If you can sit in a ship, doesn't mean you can use it.

*would also make it font size 99 if possible*


In 4 days, you LACK all the needed core skills and support skills to even use a cruiser efficiently, let alone a battleship.


Ooh and in case you didn't noticed: Bigger isn't always better in EVE.

Will contact you in a couple of years again. Likely you changed your mind by then


Another tip:

Ships are tools, each excel in a situation they are build for, while sucking at other situations that require a different type of tool.

Yes you can hammer a screw in with a sledgehammer, but it's better to pick a screwdriver.

I'm saying that I will speak to you again, as many new players go bigger and bigger and as they turn vets they find out that those frigates are actually pretty fun to fly.


But from the looks (incl the trying to buy a BS character on 2nd day in EVE), going to expect that you will find out a good amount of EVE lessons the harder way.

Well the last of each of those paths can't enter highsec, so not really. (and Machariel isn't a Gallente ship)

The bigger ships are slow, cumbersome and not all that much fun. Ships are tools, bigger is not better (and didn't we have one of these threads this week already?)

Yes it is, But I highly agree with using the remap process.

Go get Evemon, set up your API key.

Once you have that set up, start a new skill plan under your character. Go add the ships and modules you will want for the next year (your best guess). Optimize for best mapping. Now make another skill plan, for maybe six months, notice the similarities in your one year plan in regards to attributes for the skills. Move skills that best fit into the six month plan to train the fastest under similar attributes (evemon will show stats). Now make a 90day plan, fit your necessary skills you will need even if mixed. Make as many plans as you wish to experiment with, it's fun to make plans imo.

Once you play with it a bit, arranging training orders and remap intervals between the three plans, begin the 90 day plan. Generally this will be your most mixed plan, giving you frigate training or cruiser training, basic core skills. This will also include modules and rigs, weapons. Enough to get you up and running with say lvl1-lvl2 missions or whatever. Probably no need to remap at this point, just whatever you have already with your attributes settings.

Starting in on the six month plan (or for however long that best fits compared within the one year plan), may be heavy into ship and weapons training, which may be heavy into Perception and willpower (e.g my perception is at 30 atm). Then when you finish that, start in on the remaining plan, which may be more heavy into int and memory.

But the first few months it's not as important, mixed skills are fine as the training timer multipliers usually go really quick early on. Don't feel pressured to make a perfect one year plan, just in the direction of your general interest. By the time you get to your second plan after your first, you will have a much better understanding of the game to better modify your remaining two plans to best take advantage of training time. You will understand better what I'm saying as you play around with evemon. Breaking up your one year plan into three parts to optimize your attributes for the first year. See, if you split up your one year plan into three parts, you get a more exact idea of training time as you adjust your attributes during the year.

oh and basic +3's are just fine to start with, or even stick to during your time with EVE. The remapping is going to be the biggest factor. To go greater with implants are imo more important later if you get into the more high-end skill hardwiring. Training for IV or V for just implants imo is a waste as that also takes quite a bit of training time to factor in.

Anyway, is that your career path, high-sec missioning? For that all you need is:
" Caracall -> Drake -> Raven -> CNR"
Golem is not needed and Phoenix is not really for mission running, not even allowed in high sec.

As I'm sure has been said already, ships are tools. Bigger isn't better etc. Although, DPS is king against rats, but bigger ships don't always do well against rats. BS's will run lvl4's, and cruisers will do it too. And for kicks, assault frigs can do lvl4's as well.

Now, if you WANT to train Golem and/or Phoenix, you need to figure out what they are used for. Though that is backwards thinking, as you should rather be looking for what you want to do, then find out which tools (ships) are best for that particular activity. Since you are new, you probably don't know all your options there, so maybe this will help. From that, you study the activities that best interest you, find out what best works, then plan out how to get there.



And to add, for lvl4 missions in high sec, you don't even need to train a BS/Raven. A HAC (heavy assault Cruiser) or strategic cruiser will do the job, or a BC. In fact if you want to blitz missions, those are better choices than a slow running BS. I've even been blitzing some lvl4's with a frigate. I only trained BS primarily for the Scorpion and the Widow, and only run a CNR now to kill everything and salvage since I skilled up a Noctis, but until then I mainly used Tengu and Drake, and still use those - and especially in J-space, low or null. Keep your pimped mission running BS out of low sec. Not only are there various activities, but different ways and ships to approach such activities. It's not like other games where you pick up a legendary great sword and just hack away at everything, far from it. And there is no real one size fits all progression path, this isn't a progression theme park game.