EVE New Citizens Q&A

30-50b is quite alot ISK for a newer player.
I would say injecting a few skill injectors now and then if when you have some ISK to spare.
If you buy a toon with alot of skill points, you might also pay for alot you don't want to train or don't need.

If you only look to compare price.
It depends on the toon total SP.
50 bill / 600mill = 83 skill injectors = something over * 33 mill SP.
A toon worth 50 bill should be at least 35 mill SP from my point of veiw.
Remember skill injectors are 500K SP under a total SP limit.
When limit is reached, a skill injector decrees to 400K.

You don't need a 35mill SP character to enjoy the game. It's like climbing a ladder.
My toon is only 40, and there is tons of ships I cannot fly. So if you have that feeling "if only I had 30 mill more SP I could do lot's of ****"
Forget that. Go on, do stuff while training, yield and DPS will be lower, but measure it in fun.

This is why I've never given any serious thought to buying a character. It's never going to be my character. I'd much rather buy the injectors, even at a higher cost.

Of course, if you can find a high SP character for cheap (perhaps they have a poor selection of skills), you can drain them of SP by using skill extractors, and then injecting them into your main toon. Run the numbers, and see if it works out cheaper that way.

Might be easer to low ball a bid on a toon than on SP

Since CCP introduced injectors, the price of toons in the Character Bazaar has increased to match their injector value. BUT, the toon price matches the RAW injector value, because most of the toons are bought by character resellers who just strip them of skillpoints and sell the injectors.

So a 100 million SP toon costs the equivalent of 200 injectors, +/- a few billion ISK profit for the seller.

So if you pay for a toon you get the toon with 100M skillpoints.

If you pay for 200 injectors you get 200 injectors. And then you have to inject them, with diminishing returns. Your 200 injectors will result in a 74 million SP toon, injected from scratch.

yeah agree with this, ive bought a lot of characters and ended up selling because i didnt like the activity they were focused on, i always enjoyed pvp from the start of the game so once i decided i liked the game and enjoyed pvp i decided to buy a char with good core skills and some nice pvp/pve ships available, allbeit when i bought mine that price was half and the money wasnt really an issue.

imo if you are going to buy a character think of the wider situation, i went for a pvp pilot which had the right skills to be able to make money through pve aswell (excellent core skills, fly machs and other popular pve ships and standings with pirate lvl 4 agents etc while also being black ops capable and the common pvp doctrine ships).

standings is another thing you dont get with injectors, it didnt make me any better at the game it just gave me more options and opened more doors to what i could do in the game in turn making it a lot more fun

obviously not splurging on skill injectors just to get a T2 ship sitter, if i do get an injector im using it on skills like rapid firing V or energy grid upgrade V. tbh it feels more of a QOL upgrade then anything else.

That's a fair comment and i came in a little blunt perhaps. I had you pegged as yet another "I don't wan't to wait to fly massive ships so i'm going to buy my way to the top" people :). These people invariably end up padding a frigate killmail with their brutal 8Bil faction BS loss and are laughed at for ever more. They tend to become disillusioned when their high tech gear still gets wasted by a single t1 frigate or cruiser and it's hard to convince these people that SP has less to do with success than actual player skills learned in game.

My suggestion is that you do as you say, use injectors for core skills and make sure you still spend time in t1 frigates, cruisers, BC etc before rushing straight into the larger hulls. The lessons you will learn flying cheaper more disposable ships are what will keep you alive in a battleship later on, not so much having the SP to fit a big tank or loads of DPS.