EVE New Citizens Q&A

Thermodynamics (for overheating)

Astrometrics (for scanning)

Drone skills (for almost every damn ship in the game)

Thers the core skills which are anything capacitor or fitting related, generally in the engineering tab

train to 4, only bother going to 5 when you know you need it.I.e. it's a prerequisite or you've made the conscious decision to specialise.

Wait till tau or Shah show up, the both have extensive knowledge on what you will likely benefit from.

Oh okay, salvaging for now.

Ooooh just thought of another, cloaking to 4 , with this you can use a covert ops cloaking device and get an astero.

If you go straight for it you can be sitting in one in a little over a week.
it will be garbage till you actually train all it's support skills but it's the fastest way into the scout role.

Don't do this though because it's an expensive frigate and you could easily loose it.

I can give some hints if you are interested in ship piloting which most new player are. First off there are some newbie skill plans out there that have been linked here in the NC Q&A many times. Either google it or go through the history in this section and read up.

Aside from that there are very basic ship skills that are for fitting (power grid and CPU) and capacitor that are needed on almost any ship that you would fly. Beyond that there are basic skills that can help pretty much any ship and are of great need on most like shield and armor skills. After that you have things like drones which are used on most ships but some are focused in them and missiles are similar in that regard but to a slightly lesser extent then you have things like turrets which have generic gunnery skills and race specific skills. Of course mining is it's own thing and those skills are specific to that profession.

Mining you can read up on and learn about but as far as general combat I'll recommend that you stay general meaning try out different ships and different races and weapon types and skill up what you currently enjoy using keeping in mind that if you specialize in combat you'll likely be training up all races.

What you can forget about is any kind of "best" or skill plan formula that works for everyone. This game is very specific to your likes and play style and maxing stuff out or focusing in this game are generally bad ideas especially early on. Evemon and EFT ( Eve Fitting Tool ) are 2 out of game apps that can be helpful in this regard. Also the most important thing is make friends in this game so that you have vets to ask specific question in a real time chat.

Or read through this section of the forum's history to see some of the excellent posts that they've made in the past to similar questions on skill training.

If you are only salvaging right now I suggest you skill up to fly some frigates and either try basic PvE or PvP. The salvaging can be good isk for a new player but you will get bored of it fast and if you don't have something to spend it on then it will become pointless as soon as you own a T2 fit noctis.

OP I am sorry I was leaving the house and in a hurry.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=414222&find=unread

I thought that there was a lot more recent posts on this topic. Either they are hidden in names of threads that don't relate or my memory of them is skewed. either way that is one post I've found so far with a few links and it's about core skills.

Thank you comrade

I can't recall if this was covered in one of the threads so I'll post or repost it here:
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Category:Skills

That is a link to the Eveuni page under the skills category I'd pay special attention to recommended skills link and core skills link. EveUni wiki is an excellent source of information and should probably be your first step for any eve related investigation.

Anyway that should be enough for now. Let us know if you have specific questions once you get the basics down.

I've been grateful for the skill when doing missions in my Vargur:

"Ugh! ASB reload needs more time to complete..." ::overheats hardeners::

I've also "zoned-out" while doing a mission, only to recover and find myself in a bad state:

"OMGWTFBBQ! SCOTTY, BEAM ME UP NAO!!" ::overheat hardeners & afterburner::