EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi all,

Question is: roughly, on average, how many skill points do we train in a year?

Thanks in advance.

It is affected by how your attributes are mapped, as well. Example:

Capacitor Management has intelligence and memory as primary and secondary attributes. So it will train faster with higher levels of these. However gunnery has perception and willpower. so if your mapped for intelligence and memory you will train this slower.


The most efficient way to train for points is to focus on a remap in one area and then train skills related to that remap and then switch at your next remap. But with the upcoming changes that probably wont be necessary anymore

the whole , "having shag all" thing i would imagine.

i agree with you though iv'e seen some jaw dropping things done with shag all sp .

The current maximum skill points per hour that you can train is 2700. I think a character with a balanced re-map and no implants trains at around 1800 skill points per hour. If you do the math that comes out to somewhere between 15.7 and 23.6 Million skill points per year.

Like other's have said I would caution you greatly against focusing on skill points. Skills are not as big of a deal in this game as in other MMOs. You're personal player skill and knowledge is far far greater than any skill points that your character has. Focusing on skills has a tendency to get players blaming skills and not learning when situations turn out less than ideally.

Further focusing on training skills can ruin your character. Some examples are that if you focus on max training you can get into a remap that can seriously hinder your ability to have fun or to effectively make use of your character. Also sitting in a clone with expensive implants can make you risk averse which can get you sitting in high sec afraid to experience the game.

This is a game and as such IMHO fun should be the main metric by which you judge the game. If you focus on skill points it can have a detrimental effect on your enjoyment of the game.

I am a 2013 character who had to take a break of roughly a year and three quarters due to health and other issues. So, I am new in some respects and not new in others. I am simply trying to calculate how much in SP that I lost during that time.

I thank Memphis Bass for the most useful response.

Seeing as you can set up a HELL of a long skill plan... I found the best thing to do is build yourself a plan then forget it. Just play the game to have fun and don't worry about how fast the next guy is getting his.

Ron Popeil that ****... Set it and forget it.

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i c wot u did thar

It's in my nature, can't help it, and no, I am not considering injecting a crapton of SP (before someone accuses me of that); I realize that I have a lot to learn and I prefer to do it slowly.

SP is more important early on in the game. Once you get to 10 mil or so, if you focused on core skills and t1 ships it becomes less important and has less of an impact on your game play when you train up something new.

With multiple character training and pretty soon able to just buy SP, Sp will become less relevant. No more training one alt one skill at a time and waiting. So with enough isk you can make up for lost time.

Not enough.



Because SP does actually matter? Especially to newbies.

Sure, a skilled vet player can take out a day old character and have some pvp successes, but expecting a raw newbie to be able to do the same is, well, kinda obnoxious.

You need SP in order to make ISK, SP for fitting skills, navigation, targeting, prerequisite skills for other skills you want to train. All of these activities require SP to be invested somewhere in the skill tree if you're going to be effective.

Join an alliance and want to participate in fleet operations? Well, you're either going to fly T1 tackle or EWAR forever, or you're going to skill towards the current doctrines.

Which requires SP.

Once you've skilled for the doctrines, the doctrine changes and you're freshly skilled up fleet Harpy has been totally superceded by Svipuls. Start investing SP in the new doctrines.

And, somewhere in there, you need to try and get all your core skills sorted out.

Thankfully I'm glad the 'learning skills' were long gone by the time I started. I've just spent over a year on my core skills alone. Another month and I'll be off Drones and onto Ship and Weapons skills (finally! I'm so sick of frigates).

SP is important. It's not the be-all and end-all of EVE by any means and there are a great many workarounds that lower SP players can make.