Skill Discussions

Hey,

I looking for a little advice on how I should proceed with my characters.

My characters

Main 1.2 Mill SP
With this character I want to focus on PVP and all skills that would benefit PVP. I'm focusing on Minmatar ships and I'm looking to do most type of PVP, possibly not the SOV warfare at present though. [Pilot currently only flies T1 frigs/dessies].

Secondary 800k SP
With this character I'm currently levelling my mining skills, I'd like to get it to a point where it can mine as efficiently as possible. Once it's finished training in mining I'm considering production/inventing.

Third character?
As it stands this character is still only a debate inside my head, I'm not sure if I need it or if it's overkill. I was thinking of training it purely as a logi support pilot, then possibly into relic/data sites [I've never tried these but they look interesting] with some cloaky skills.
I'll probably stop training this character after I have these roles filled with it.


As you you can see from SP levels I am a very new player but I like learning and exploring Eve. I only want to have 2 accounts running at once as managing 3 toons in game at once would be far too much for me.

So with all this in mind what would be the most efficient way for me to meet my goals in Eve?
Are the skill areas I've assigned to each character good or should I change the roles of the characters?
Is the third character necessary to reach these goals without taking to much time from my primary and secondary character's goals?

Thanks for reading
Luna

This is a tough question to really answer for anyone else. There have been plenty of answers over the years with people explaining why they have the alts they have and it very much varies person to person.

I'd say that in general you have the right idea: train characters to do different things. Whether that's a booster alt for you main "solo" pvp character, a falcon alt for same, a mining and industry alt, a faction warfare farming alt, whatever your main does your alt should do something different.

It's also worth noting that some activities (mining and industry, mostly) scale much better when you throw multiple characters at it at once. For mining that more or less means multiboxing a few barges with an Orca for support. For any invention or production operation you have a hard-capped number of lines any single character can run and in order to make things like a high sec POS work you almost have to have multiple characters doing the same basic things.

In my case I have -- odd to admit this -- seven characters in play right now. This is just a forum alt that I keep around because I've been using her for this purpose for a very long time. She hasn't logged in to the game in six months. The account wraps out with my 140m SP main who can pull off just about anything sub-capital related with a heavy emphasis on exploration and a trade alt that sits in a market hub constantly buying and selling both for quick market iskies but also to support my industrial operation.

The second account has one copy character that can do T2 production and fly a Noctis in case I ever need that (I don't) along with some basic off-hub trading, one invention/T2 and capital production/PI character, and one invention/T2 and capital production character that can also fly BRs and freighters. I'd train them all into PI but PI makes me a little insane at times.

The seventh character is just training right now and sitting at 25m SP. She'll -- probably -- go up for sale at some point when I'm happy with her skills.

So yeah. Needs vary and the "right" alts come along with your needs. But for now I think the two you outlined are in good shape. Whether you need/want a third can only be determined down the line.