EVE New Citizens Q&A

In the beginning, yes. It's better to be good at one thing than bad at four. Say you fly amarr and caldari ships. One uses missiles/hybrids and shields. The other uses lasers/drones and armor. If you train both at once your skills for each one will only be half as high as they could be. Get good at one thing before moving on to the next. And ship size really depends on what you want to do. There are things where big ships are a terrible idea and things where big ships are mandatory.


They changed a bunch of skill names since I've been gone so I have no idea what they're called now, but the exceptions are capacitor capacity, capacitor recharge, power grid, CPU and drones. You want those at 5 ASAP. Other than those I'd focus on getting the relevant skills to level 3 unless you need them higher for skill book requirements or T2 or something.


Last time I played it was all about winmatar and drakes, and gallente was considered gimpy. It doesn't really matter what's OP at the moment. By the time you're done training it it'll be nerfed anyway.

I disagree with this.

The only circumstance where final results (in terms of damage, tank, capacitor, etc) for a broad-but-shallow skillset are half as good as a deep, specialized skillset is when the metric you're looking at has many compounding trained modifiers. And getting all those compounding bonuses represents a lot of training, such as with gunnery, so this represents a prime example of diminishing returns.

And in a simpler comparison, the difference between one skill at rank 2 and a skill at rank 5 is usually something like a 15% raw difference. But gaining that extra 15% will be something like 5 days of training. This is not a good time-per-bonus value. Bad trade, if you have other, shorter-training choices.

More realistically, In most circumstances, there is no simple, master metric to judge one's capability by. Rather, it's an array of circumstantial factors, most of which you can influence beforehand and throughout. Generally, you wont find yourself forced into a situation where it's (for example)purely a DPS race with no other recourse or modulating factors. Setup and decisions beforehand, skirmish maneuvering, meta-game factors, etc etc all end up playing in so as to reduce the importance of SP's impact greatly. Especially relative to other games.

A more practical metric is whether you're able to adapt to changing situations. By avoiding the most challenging/strongest factors, and by leveraging against a weak point. Versatility and awareness are very powerful, and versatility trains very quickly.

This isn't even accounting for the fun factor, or the ability to change what you're doing entirely. Suppose you've trained one thing for days, or weeks, but now you want to do something else. Or suppose you suddenly become interested in a particular ship other than what you've got now. Specialization has not helped you in these common circumstances.

Train everything to 2 or 3. This is the best, most practical real-world potency-per-time ratio, and the most likely to keep Eve from getting boring, too.

For the case you do not wnat to dig through the walls of text here:
PvP for newbee means frigates. Cause they are chip and you will lose them a lot.
PvE means Battleships, cause being able to run L4 in Batttlecruiser or T2 cruiser does not mean you should - it will take longer so your ISK/hour ratio will drop.

Stick with Gallente - drones will let your Dominix do selectable damage (read eve-survival.org to find out what drones to use in what mission) and gallente frigates are ok in PVP. That means focus on drones, small hybrids, armor and core skills. Later on you can start skilling shields, missiles, other races etc...