EVE New Citizens Q&A

You have to buy the skill book for the associated skill and inject the skill so you can train it.

Most books are pretty easy to come across on the markets.

Do note that the NPC seeded skillbooks are listed with a ~365 day expiry date and not the 90day max we players have. Inject the skillbooks in station as soon as you buy them as well, so if ever some random ganker outside blows you up, they're already safed up in your noggin.

The first few subcategories are really good to train up cause they round up your character's traits and is felt from ship to ship.

engineering , drones , shield/armour , gunnery/missiles.

we call them core skills

As above, you buy skill books from the market (skills are typically sold by NPC vendors, though some players also sell some of the skills that are only available through the mission-runner reward LP stores). Most of the basic and core skill books cost 20k-500k ISK, so you can definitely get almost the entire set for about 10-40 million ISK, enough to have you training for at least a year.

We typically group skills into several categories:

- Ship skills (under Spaceship Command - first group in your character sheet) - you train the skills that unlock the ships that you want.

- Weapon skills (Gunnery, Missiles, Drones) - train only the weapons that are used by the ships you've unlocked

- Support / Core skills (Engineering, Navigation, Armor, Shields, Targeting, Rigging, Electronics) - these give you 5-25% bonuses to each of your ship stats (speed, hitpoints, etc.), and these bonuses accumulate to make ALL your ships fly much better, so definitely train these skills. Typically frigates function ok with these skills trained to about 2 (squares), cruisers to 3 (3 also unlocks the better T2 defense modules), battleships or advanced T2 ships to 4 (and some to 5 because they are prerequisites for unlocking other things).

- Miscellaneous skills (Trade, Industry, Reprocessing, Science, Social, Corporation, Neural, etc.) - train these depending on your interests, if you want to be a trader or manufacturer or whatnot. Although everybody can benefit from lower market taxes or the ability to install a mining laser and get some ore in a pinch. Some of these skills may cost 20M - 50m each, so they're an investment.

Anyway, open the Ship Chart in-game and look see what you'd like to fly (you're no longer restricted to a single race's ships), and look at the prerequisites / go from there.

You will also see this if the prerequisite skills are in your training queue, even if they haven't started yet. Obviously, you will only be able to add the new skill below the pre-req.

Wow, they updated that, looks pretty good; in the future I'll link to it rather than type my walls-o-text. Good job EVE-U people!

This is true, but in this sense, the skill book is counted as a prerequisite so the gray dots show on one you have the skill requirements for but not the book for.

It really depends on what you want to fly and what you want to do.

Categories that you will need to train skills from regardless of career choice are: Armor/Shields, Engineering and Navigation.

If you want to be able to shoot people in the face you will need: Gunnery (unless you choose to go for a missile ship), Drones, Missiles (not if you stick with Gallente ships) and Targeting.

I went full Explorer and thus Scanning skills became "Core" for me but much less so for a Player with other plans for his character.