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Best way to train 2 Active pvp accounts
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Kujoharion
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-09-16 03:10:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Kujoharion
To speed things up im activating two PVP accounts.(Old time player coming back)
But now im at a conflict as to how the best way to go about this would be?

Im interested in training the full skill line of both Amarr, and Gallente. (Sub cap only)


What i want from these characters?

Able to run tech 2/3 frigates and cruisers.
Run cloaky for wormholes.
Run mostly t1 battle-cruisers and battleships. (More disposable, more fun)

I see two options.

Option 1
One character trains exclusive Gallente and the other Amarr.
In cloaky and everything.

Option 2.
Char1-Specialists frigates and cruisers (Both tech 1/2/3) along side cloaky vessels in both amarr and gallente.

Char2- Specialist in both battleships/battle-cruisers in both amarr and gallente.

I know char2 would be done much faster than char 1, but thats alright. As i can use that time to train a third character.
It seems it would be more useful for option 2 as i could have specialized chars in different corps if i desired.
Option 2 would also save alot of time in keeping from retraining basic frigate and cruiser skills to unlock the advanced ships.


Just looking for some general advice, never ran two accounts, cant decide on how best to optimise them if i decide to go through this route.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-09-16 08:16:27 UTC  |  Edited by: J'Poll
Or simple...train 1 character into all 4 races subcapitals. It's not that hard, I have a 2 year old character that can fly near all subcapitals now (only lacks T2 BS skills which she is training for now).



as for 2 characters training. How hard is it, you have 2 choices:

A. 2 accounts
B. Multiple character training


chose and train...

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#3 - 2014-09-16 11:04:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Ralph King-Griffin
go with to accounts imo, you can use one to scout,scan and boost for the other (cloaky scanning linked up t3 ftw!), then have your main in a combat t3/whatever you like to fly, if you have the boosting alt in an npc/neutral corp they are extremely useful if you are under wardec.

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L'ouris
Have Naught Subsidiaries
#4 - 2014-09-16 12:52:04 UTC
It might help you decide how to proceed if you remember that most of he time sink in skilling up PVP characters are in the same exact support skills.

Unless your plan stops at frigates and Dessie's, you will find that both characters need good drone skills, armour, gunnery, rigging, nav, targeting, fitting, etc.

Really the smallest amount of time is spent skilling specific faction skills like gallente cruiser.

In addition, most of the advanced ships simply required the same support skills you would already have on your skill plan as a PVP character anyways with cruiser/frigate V being the big time burn. You'd want that at V for your PVP char anyways again.

TL;DR
Two PVP characters will take a while to skill, both about the same time even if you cross train only one of them.
Toshiro Hasegawa
Blackwater USA Inc.
Deepwater Hooligans
#5 - 2014-09-16 13:39:23 UTC
if i was doing it ,., not that my opinion is worth more than anyone elses.

but i would do a main combat toon .. and a secondary support toon.

toon 2 would be cloaky, hauly, leadership, ew, speed, armour, shields, logi, yada yada - able to scout, rep, salvage, probe, and maybe even bait .. leaving toon 1 for ship types,

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Cara Forelli
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2014-09-16 18:19:16 UTC
L'ouris wrote:
TL;DRTwo PVP characters will take a while to skill, both about the same time even if you cross train only one of them.

This exactly. Your Gallente cruiser pilot will need:

-Armor tank skills
-Gun support skills
-Drone support skills
-Navigation skills
-Fitting skills
-Capacitor skills
-Thermodynamics

Now throw in t2 lasers and Amarr cruiser 5 and you've got a Zealot pilot in about a month.

My TLDR: Don't worry so much about race purity. Train support skills and then fly ships you like that they apply to.

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