EVE New Citizens Q&A

are you an alpha clone or omega?

I do a ton of exploration, so here is my thought process on this:

• You really don't start making any isk until you are able to use Tech 2 Relic and Data Analyzers.
• However, in order to make good money with those, you have to operate in Null and Wormhole space.
• In order to quickly get in and out of such space with your loot, you need to be able to cloak and move while cloaked, which means you need to be able to use a covert ops cloak.
• There are few ships that can effectively fit a covert ops cloak AND exploration tools, this requires that you train up for tech 2 frigates (for racial covert ops ships, i.e. Anathema, Cheetah, etc) or train two racial frigates for the Astero.

I don't know if you are planning on doing much PVP, but by training through frigates 5, you not only open up Covert Ops frigates, but also Assault Frigs, Stealth Bombers, Interceptors, and EAFs, which will allow you to be a more useful corp member.

Keep in mind that EVE has many skills (200+) that each give you a 2% - 5% bonus to something, and the bonuses eventually multiply into a huge combined performance boost.

So train the skills suggested above (the skills in the Probing category, and then Cloaking to 4 (for the covert ops cloak), the prerequisite skills for flying the T2 covert ops frigates (open the Ship Browser in-game and right-click the ships for each race to look at their stats and required skills) or the Astero frigate (same thing, Ship Browser, show info, look at required skills)).

But also, training more of the "support" skills in Engineering, Armor, Shields, Navigation, Targeting categories won't hurt; these make all your ships fly better. You don't need to go crazy and train to 5, 3 is good for now, 4 when you have the time. That way, any other ships that you decide to unlock will perform that much better when you unlock them.

Even though the in game tools have been upgrade I still feel that Evemon is pretty useful especially for new players.

Regardless of how you do it I would figure out what it is that you want to use or fly and fit the prerequisites for that in a skill queue and then organize by length and train shortest first. Add onto that the support skills that you will need. Keep in mind that as you go your priorities WILL change so don't feel like you are committing to anything for ever. Put a queue together and know that you will probably change stuff up a bit again and again.

I know this is not advice on what to train but I just like to point out the above because I came to this game feeling like training something was a commitment. It came from playing other games where you had to commit to a class or role and were stuck with that unless you wanted to level another class. You don't need to get too uptight about what you train in Eve. If you decide later that you want to train something else then do that.

The key early on is gaining experience and learning the game. With that will come the development of your personal playstyle and then you won't need to ask anyone else what to train as you will know what you need.

I am now Omega

The good thing about skills in Eve is you don't have to worry about gimping your character. Any skill trained has no detrimental effects.

Even if you don't join Signal Cartel, joining their public channel can be a good idea. They are very friendly and can answer exploration questions pretty quickly and helpfully.

Regardless of what you do in Eve, it is always worth it to invest in core skills. These affect every ship you undock, and often it's those little 3% here or there stats that make the difference between having an optimal fit or being gimped somehow. Among Omegas, the standard when suggesting a fitting is 'all V' character skills.

It's not as sexy spending 10 days training for another 4% align time bonus as it is training for that next bigger shinier ship, but you will find a point of diminishing returns flying bigger or more advanced ships without very good skills to play to their various fleet roles or hull bonuses.

One of my first goals was to max out my Nav tree (except the bridging skills which I didn't use) and Engineering tree. After that I filled in skills for what specific things I was doing at the time....guns, EWAR, repair, hauling...