Skill Discussions

I'm not really thinking of doing this, just trying to understand the game mechanic. I'm a fairly new player, 1.8M skillpoints. I use EveMon and have played around with long skill plans (long in my case being 60-90 days). It seems the neural remap only cuts 3 days, 5%, off training time. Am i missing something here? I have all +3 implants if that makes a difference. I guess I'm wondering what is the value of the remap since you only get 1 a year, plus the two that new players get. Thanks.

I had the same mapping for about 3 years. I didn't remap until I found I'd be training skills that rely on the same attributes, for about another year.

To continue on about what Raven was saying, after you get up to the 10m sp range, look at what each skill category uses what attributes and map for those. For example, the Electronics, Engineering, Mechanics, Planet Management, Science, and most of the Subsystem skills all use Intelligence as the primary, and Memory as secondary. Also, Navigation uses Intelligence as a primary attribute, so if you ever remap to a Int/Mem attribute map, use that time to train the Navigation skills as well, as you don't want to remap for a single set of skills (ie: Drones, Navigation, etc...) as that is a waste of a remap, IMHO.
So, once you have a good base set of skills, then remap to Perception and Willpower to train Gunnery, Missiles, and Spaceship Command. You also have to remember that the primary attribute should have MORE points in it than the secondary. Don't put an equal amount in the primary and secondary. For my attributes, and having +5's in my skill train clone, my attributes are mapped for Int/Mem, with Intelligence at 32 and Memory at 26. You can use Evemon to optimize your attributes so you can see how many points you need in each attribute.

Also depends on how many remaps you have. For example I have been playing slightly over a year. I did one remap when i started playing. Then I got bonus remaps for the end of year thing. Then I got my one year remap. So I had a bunch. Last month I remapped for support skills which I put about 200 days of skills in. Then I will go back to something else (plan is to get all the support skills and then get all my ships from BC down, and then go back and flesh out battlships/large weapons).

ah to be young...
my skill plans these days are completely based on yearly remap cycles.

the VERY FIRST thing you should do in eve when starting a new character (actually a new char, not an alt) is remap to per/int.
it gets you the best average training speeds overall for combat focused characters.

once you get a reasonably rounded base, eg can use T2 med guns, t2 tank and have your support skills to 4s, probably around the 10mil SP mark, maybe earlier if you know what you want to specialize in, remap again to per/wil and train up all your gunnery/missile and ship command skills to 5.
once youre done with that, go int/mem and polish off your support skills.

It's worth it from the start if you know what you're doing and have a specific training path planned out. Ie, when you are training an alt.

New players cannot see the bigger picture yet and are more busy trying to get the hang of how the skill system actually affects your gameplay than specifically setting up efficient training paths. As a result, new players are (and should be!) always training skills all over the place, mostly between Engineering, Gunnery, Missiles, Space Ship Command, Electronics, Industry and Navigation, with the occasional drone skill thrown in.

As a result, the best advice for new players is to map a generic remap that supports such training behaviour the best. In my opinion the best generic all over the place remap is 24 in 24 per and 17 in everything else.

Once you get the hang of the system and have a good idea where you want to take your character, it's time to remap.