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Afterburner skill training?
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hotbuns69 momimpvping
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-05-08 07:29:08 UTC
So I just received a military mission asking me to scout out a stargate, and the mission reward was an afterburner, but I can't fit it to my ship because I don't have the necessary training. The problem is that I checked my skillbook and couldn't find anyway to train afterburners, am I doing something wrong? Is this a unique skillbook that I have to buy?
dark heartt
#2 - 2013-05-08 08:17:44 UTC
You will need to train the Afterburner skill, which is under Navigation in your skills tab. If you don't have the skill book (you should have gotten it as a reward if I recall correctly), you will need to buy it off the market.

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hotbuns69 momimpvping
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2013-05-08 08:32:02 UTC
dark heartt wrote:
You will need to train the Afterburner skill, which is under Navigation in your skills tab. If you don't have the skill book (you should have gotten it as a reward if I recall correctly), you will need to buy it off the market.



Thanks! I bought it off the market, I guess me not getting it as part of the reward must be some kind of bug.
Oraac Ensor
#4 - 2013-05-08 09:54:04 UTC
I'm fairly sure the skill is not given by the agent and always has to be bought from the market.
Merouk Baas
#5 - 2013-05-08 12:19:02 UTC
The tutorials only give a few skill books, and on purpose will give you some items that require you to buy the skillbooks. Now you've learned that the skills you're missing are on the market, and that you can look at the item to see what skills it requires.

Welcome to EVE. The majority of the skills you will need are on the market, and you need to buy them. Most people have 180+ different skills. The biggest issue you have as a newbie is finding the cash to buy the skills you need. The career missions will help you with that, by giving you plenty of ships you won't really need and can sell, and inflated ISK rewards cause you're a newbie.

It does help, though, if you manage your cash and are careful about what you sell, what you buy, and how much you pay for it. Learn to sort the market by price and figure out if there are any cheap deals for what you need in nearby systems, rather than at the station where you are. Typically, newbie stations have inflated prices; various players trying to take advantage by offering "all you need right here" at inflated prices.
LHA Tarawa
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2013-05-08 16:09:26 UTC
Note to CCP..... stop giving free skill books as part of the tutorials, and have a tutorial that teaches people to buy the skill books from the market, as they'll have to do for every other skill after the tutorials.
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#7 - 2013-05-08 16:19:10 UTC
LHA Tarawa wrote:
Note to CCP..... stop giving free skill books as part of the tutorials, and have a tutorial that teaches people to buy the skill books from the market, as they'll have to do for every other skill after the tutorials.

the tutorial would look as follows:
Aura: to learn new skills, you have to buy the skill books on the market. THE END.

I should buy an Ishtar.
LHA Tarawa
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2013-05-08 17:40:21 UTC  |  Edited by: LHA Tarawa
Daniel Plain wrote:
LHA Tarawa wrote:
Note to CCP..... stop giving free skill books as part of the tutorials, and have a tutorial that teaches people to buy the skill books from the market, as they'll have to do for every other skill after the tutorials.

the tutorial would look as follows:
Aura: to learn new skills, you have to buy the skill books on the market. THE END.



Wrong.

The tutorial could show the skills pane of the character sheet. Configure to show all skills vs. already known. Show info. Prereqs. Find in market.

The tutorial could cover the market window, like sorting on price or distance, that things don't move on their own, the search range, buy order range.

Then cover assets window.

Then cover items hanger.

Then injecting the skill, etc.
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#9 - 2013-05-09 00:20:24 UTC
Merouk Baas wrote:
The tutorials only give a few skill books, and on purpose will give you some items that require you to buy the skillbooks. Now you've learned that the skills you're missing are on the market, and that you can look at the item to see what skills it requires.

Welcome to EVE. The majority of the skills you will need are on the market, and you need to buy them. Most people have 180+ different skills. The biggest issue you have as a newbie is finding the cash to buy the skills you need. The career missions will help you with that, by giving you plenty of ships you won't really need and can sell, and inflated ISK rewards cause you're a newbie.

It does help, though, if you manage your cash and are careful about what you sell, what you buy, and how much you pay for it. Learn to sort the market by price and figure out if there are any cheap deals for what you need in nearby systems, rather than at the station where you are. Typically, newbie stations have inflated prices; various players trying to take advantage by offering "all you need right here" at inflated prices.



Skillbooks don't become particularly expensive until you start getting to the skills with level 5 skills as prereqs.

The Battlecruisers skillbook is 500k IIRC - not very much really even to a new player - that's about 4% of a tech 1 cruiser loss.

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Sakura Nihil
Faded Light
#10 - 2013-05-09 00:40:47 UTC
Here's a tip - once you buy these types of skills, always inject them into your head if possible, instead of hauling them around. That way if you die, at least they'll be in your head, instead of floating in space in their book form.

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