EVE New Citizens Q&A

As a real fresh out the cloning vat newbie:

Not immediatly, as it ties up skill time you can use for core skills or to try other things out.


As a player eventually:

HELL YEAH. As it opens up T2 Gallente frigates (covert ops, stealth bombers, interceptors, assault frigates)

Yes it is, and if you're worried about a 6 day queue, just wait until they need over a month for one lvl 5 skill

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Ask Paul Otichoda.

I'll just leave this here, it's a great plan to follow when starting out, I've been following it pretty closely up until now and am only just starting to branch out now that I have a better idea of what I want to do. I suggest following it, it gives you a great base to work from.

I'll be getting Gallente frigate V sometime in the next month I think, I really want that juicy repair bonus on the Incursus .

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

Yes, yes it is OP.

I trained Gallente Frigate V in my first couple months and I'm quite happy I did.

Gives you access to a variety of ships that are useful for newbies. Covert Ops exploration ships, Stealth Bomber for some sneaky PVP, assault frigs for the L2s and L3s.

Reroll to Amarr....is not to late....2 days

OP, you should probably stick to this. You're much better off to get a whole bunch of skill to lvl 2-3 and perhaps 4 than to get one to lvl 5 for now. Also, don't make T2 ships your main focus, they can be really good but it's not like they're always better for every use. On top of that T1 is just fine, don't be that guy who goes "unless it's T2, faction or really expensive it's ****".

Worth it, yes. Worth it RIGHT NOW, well that depends.

In general, support skills are more important than ship skills. Support skills affect every ship you fly, while ship skills give you more ships to fly (or fly them slightly better at each level). Early on, ships are pretty generous on CPU and PG, but as you move into larger and more advanced ships, fitting becomes very tight indeed, so many fits you see posted will simply assume an 'all V' character. Every fitting module you require gimps the overall fitting. So Engineering is a critical tree to train up.

Also, skills like the Nav tree are critical. There is little point in flying fast, nimble ships if your skills leave you flying it like a brick. A Ceptor pilot, for example, benefits more from having max Nav skills, than choosing this or that Ceptor to fly.
Tanking skills also fall into this category. All the shiny hull and fancy guns in New Eden won't help you if you are floating in a pile of wreckage.

While V in a racial hull skill will give some bonus- the real reason for training to V is to access T2 hulls. T2 hulls are meant to do very specific roles, usually within a fleet context. They are expensive compared to T1's, and unless you are specifically looking to expand on a given role, rather limiting in doing anything else.

As a new player, you are probably doing a bunch of PvE....this can really hurt a new player actually. You will move up in PvE content much faster than in skills. So very quickly you will need a large ship like a battleship, to keep up with the pace of PvE advancement. This leads many players to spend all their time training ever larger ship skills and ignoring the support skills. Because PvE is so easy, you can 'win' at it flying a ship your toon can barely undock.
This becomes a huge shock to the player when their shiny battleship is melted by a couple scruffy pirates in T1 frigates.

Until you 1) have the proper support skills to make use of the niche roles of T2 ships...and...2) have an actual use for T2 hulls, you should concentrate on skills that improve everything you fly first.