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Roenok Baalnorn
Baalnorn Heavy Industries
#21 - 2016-09-04 00:08:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Roenok Baalnorn
The gap in SP between new players and vets and the assumption that you cannot compete with vets is a misconception. In eve only X amount of SP applies to any given thing your doing at one time.

For example i have new alt that has about 5 mil SP now but has flown a gila since 3.5 mil SP. He is as proficient with that ship as my older alts with 10s of million SP in most cases more proficient. If you take my main and start stripping away SP he has that he doesnt use flying a gila... you have Heavy drones, logi drones, capital ship SP as well as all the trains for the various things for capitals such as jump skills, fighters, etc. Then you take away all of his indy skills, his gunnery skills, his amarr and minmatar skills, His social skills, scanning skills, trading skills, his T2 and t3 ship skills, most of his rig skills, his cruise and torp skills, his neural skills, most of his armor skills, any mining skills, etc. etc. You just removed over 100 mil SP from him that is in no way relevant to flying a Gila.

So now the difference between my main and my low sp alt in SP might be a few months if that mostly in secondary skills like navigation, all drone skill to 5 instead of only about half and the rest at 4, Racial cruisers to 4 instead of 5 on my main, and a few other minor skills. So the advantage of being vet is actually quite small and can be offset but actual player skills.
Twizted Wun
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2016-09-04 01:46:31 UTC
Roenok Baalnorn wrote:
The gap in SP between new players and vets and the assumption that you cannot compete with vets is a misconception. In eve only X amount of SP applies to any given thing your doing at one time.

For example i have new alt that has about 5 mil SP now but has flown a gila since 3.5 mil SP. He is as proficient with that ship as my older alts with 10s of million SP in most cases more proficient. If you take my main and start stripping away SP he has that he doesnt use flying a gila... you have Heavy drones, logi drones, capital ship SP as well as all the trains for the various things for capitals such as jump skills, fighters, etc. Then you take away all of his indy skills, his gunnery skills, his amarr and minmatar skills, His social skills, scanning skills, trading skills, his T2 and t3 ship skills, most of his rig skills, his cruise and torp skills, his neural skills, most of his armor skills, any mining skills, etc. etc. You just removed over 100 mil SP from him that is in no way relevant to flying a Gila.

So now the difference between my main and my low sp alt in SP might be a few months if that mostly in secondary skills like navigation, all drone skill to 5 instead of only about half and the rest at 4, Racial cruisers to 4 instead of 5 on my main, and a few other minor skills. So the advantage of being vet is actually quite small and can be offset but actual player skills.


As a relatively new player I agree that the gap isn't so bad, I mean I can't fly any T2 ships yet but that's because I mostly played solo and didn't focus on any one ship specifically up until recently; even when i joined corps i wasn't really active in the start because Eve is full of angry sociopath types and there were alot of personality clashes as I there's a high possibility i could be one of them; despite that I can fly 98 ships of various types at the moment and in fleets I've rarely seen people fly anything bigger than a battleship as the majority will fly T1 cruisers, battlecruisers and battleships because they're easy to replace ofcourse there are the T2 variants for specific roles within the fleet but majority are in the cheaper option as even if you're space rich you don't wanna have to spend more than you need to. Occasionally I've seen a dreadnaught tag along but if you're looking for a fight i've noticed in my short time in nullsec that people tend to run away from those types of fleets unless they have a dreadnaught of their own to put on the table lol.. I'm not claiming to know much about anything, i'm just speaking from personal experiences so far. The Gap in skillpoints is intimidating for the new player but once you wrap your head around Eve and learn to play better it's not that scary. Actual player skills are scarier than SP now that the rich kids can buy their skills it just means there's more shiny sh!t in space to shoot at.. these injectors made it easier to pop shiny things :) imo.. I don't have the skills in pvp to actually pop these shiny things yet, usually its them popping me but a fight's a fight one day I'll win one haha.. its all funtimes to me. Pirate
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