EVE New Citizens Q&A

Attitude doesn't grant more CPU or better cap recharge.

The OP seems to me like a reasonable person that's aware they will lose ships in the beginning and already has a proper attitude. I can't see why he has to spend 6+ months to get support skills. He can join many of the new player friendly groups and corps with a character that has the actual skills to fit properly a t1 frigate.

In the end it's up to you OP, you'll have to learn the exact same things in both cases. And if you were able to make 5b I don't think losing a few hundred t1 frigates with t2 fits will be that much worse than losing the same number of frigates with meta 4 modules.

Ignore the naysayers.

Yes, its true that you want to get good at flying basic ships before you start throwing money around. But as you will quickly learn after you join a pvp corp (say, Brave Newbies), being weeks and even months behind the doctrine fits means you can't even participate in the kind of fleets that would allow you to learn to fly the ship in the first place.

There are relatively few corps that use t1 frigates on any kind of regular basis and the ones that do tend to blob them. You'll learn just as effectively with a 20m skillpoint character as a 2mil skillpoint character but you won't be smacking your forehead against the screen every time you realize it's 2 more days to train a skill before you can fit the next module.

While I would advise against throwing money away, its also worth noting that flying a better ship gives you more of a margin for error while you're learning. 60 extra seconds of fighting might be the 60 extra seconds for you to figure out "ooooooohhh, i fit close range weapons THAT's why he's kiting me" rather than dying in 10 seconds before you can even figure out which buttons to mash frantically.

Go for it. Worst case scenario, you resell the character with more skillpoints for more than you bought it for. Win-Win.

edit: Also, Brave Newbies doesn't care about your history. Put in an app and start blowing stuff up ASAP.

As several have posted, if your reason for buying a character is to be able to rush into PVP with success, skipping the learning curve by short-cutting the training time, the answer is it will not accomplish what you seek.

On the other hand, as Qalix pointed out in post #26, if you use it wisely you can learn quicker, gain experience faster and depending on how fast you learn, have more success faster, by doing it.

Other than PVP, it can enable you to do much the game has to offer at a higher and more profitable level in PVE.

I personally think it is a good move if you have the ISK, know you will stay with the game, and can discipline yourself to use it wisely until you get the experience to go with it.

Ain't dat the got'danm truth?

I remember bustin' mah hump, runnin' all around with no support skills and readin' about fits mofukin FC was wantin' me to fly. Couldn't do none of em for 5 weeks. So like, there I be, month and a half jus flyin my skank-fit frigate into them suicide tackles. Sho'nuff liked to do it, but man it get old like hurry-up, you heard me?

Ain't never goin back to that skillpoint jail man. You gun hafta kill me.

I'm more puzzled why a forum alt has AWU 5 trained.

From experiance, no It will not cause you issues. Just remember to point out you recently purchased the toon and they can check the forums to confirm if your telling the truth or not.

Should you purchase a toon? in short, yes. Just be careful, Jumping a few years of training is amazing, so long as your ready to be able to use the skills :)