EVE General Discussion

Bear in mind that most everything counts in SP / hour .... so it's just easier to do SP_Gain = (Primary * 60) + (Secondary * 30).

Always bear in mind that EVE is not "mini-SP game online" . It would take nearly 20 years to even come close to learning all current skills. If you are intending to play EVE for a fair while get use to waiting for weeks/months before things train. If you just want huge SP and lack patience you can get that quicker by buying a character on the character bazaar ready trained.

General points:

Before investing too heavily in implants get a solid plan for the first 12 months (and "I want a big battleship to run lvl 4s and play for free" does not count as a skill plan) .

Do not build a "jack of all trades" character. Focus. Use alt characters (you have two free ones on your account) to do other random stuff not your main.

Remember in EVE its player knowledge and what friends you make that count the most not SP.

Also remember skills only need two abilities. If you limit your training to particular areas you can get away with two good implants (say INT and Perception) and some lesser ones and add more later.


ADVANTAGES OF EXPENSIVE ATTRIBUTE IMPLANTS
- you train quicker so if your impatient get access to stuff quicker
- if you are plexing it currently costs almost 30 mill a day to plex an account, so you only need to save 3 days training to pay for a 100 mill implant

DISADVANTAGES OF EXPENSIVE ATTRIBUTE IMPLANTS
- they are expensive and take up ISK that may be better early on used for ships or trading capital
- if your implants are too shiney and you die there is a risk you may get "watchlisted" and stalked
- expensive implants will make you nervous of PvP or entering losec/nullsec
- in the end over a longish period of training - who cares you train fast enough

More fun math...

The number of skillpoints required for a particular level of a skill is equal to the square root of 32 multiplied by the skillpoints required by the previous level. That's approximately 5.657. That means each level of a skill takes 4.657 times longer to train than the last one, assuming your attributes stay the same.

Some fun trivia... the highest ranked skill that one can acquire in the game are the various Titan skills at x16. These take a good long time to train. The highest ranked skill in the database is Omnipotent at x42, but this skill cannot be acquired by players. It's a GM skill which requires the Polaris skill. The Polaris skill requires the Polaris skill, so no one can actually get it without having their character edited.

EVEMON is a critical component of EVE Offline.

You guys are both right. I see it as a balancing act. I pew a lot, so my pod is at risk. I gauge the appropriate implant level and remap by experience and the skills I intend to train the next year. That being said, I have played for quite a while and already have a ton of prereqs, allowing me to properly focus. I would say beginners are better off focussing on mechanics instead of their SP/hr. You will require skills all over the place to be effective in any kind of ship anyway, I'd even recommend a balanced remap for your first 6 months.

I disgree somewhat with the "jack-of-all-trades" comment, at least where skills related to attributes are concerned in your first few months. I think you should put a slight of SP in pretty much everything you want to try, excluding only what doesn't appeal to you at all. The game is broad as well as it is deep.

I do agree you should at some point focus training to become really good in your favourite field. If that takes weeks to decide that's great, if it takes a year that's also fine. Example: I have trained some mission-related skills at the beginning of my Eve carreer. While I no longer run missions for income, these skills still help when obtaining the LP for a specific item I like to fit on a certain PVP ship nowadays. Real life example: I work in IT but I know how to make a specific local delicacy from a pig's head. Is that relevant? No. Does that help me when a solar flare kills all the worlds electronics? Highly likely.