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EveMON, Skill Pre-Req spamming.

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Mel Kallestad
#1 - 2015-04-30 15:27:59 UTC
So i've found myself (With the light of a ton of ISK) spamming around and hunting down skillbooks that I have met the Pre-Req's for in EveMON, and have begun training all these skills (I went from like 20 something skills to 87 and still hunting.) with them all to level 1, and plan on getting them all to level 2.

I'm a skill junkie, I don't go striving for the gold V's but I love having lots of skills, lots of minor usefulness in every sector. Is this a good habit, as a very indecisive newbie, is it worth the time to be skillbook hunting so heavily with no proper idea in mind?

I feel as if i need a mentor all of a sudden, to teach me what I need to do.
RavenPaine
RaVeN Alliance
#2 - 2015-04-30 16:35:00 UTC  |  Edited by: RavenPaine
First off: It's your game, so whatever is FUN FOR YOU is always the most important.

That said,
You could find yourself spending a lot of time, training skills to 1, 2, 3. Skills that you really don't need, and later you may actually wish those skills weren't clogging up your skill sheet.
Many PvP pilots strive to train what they consider to be a "Focused" pilot. PvP skills only, Sub-Cap skills only, Guns only, etc. etc.

In your first few months, I think it is more important to focus on your main activity, and the ships that do that, and the corresponding skills specific to that activity.
I think you'll find, when you do get focused, that you'll want those hours back that you pumped into un-needed skills.
To this day, when I am prioritizing my next skill, what I'm really doing is prioritizing my hours spent training them. And I still count down the hours till completion.
(I have to admit, you get a lot more completions at level 1, 2, and 3.) And of course, the quickest bang for your buck is 1 through 3.

Think about it. Those skills aren't going any where. You don't HAVE to buy them now, They will still be there later.
Mel Kallestad
#3 - 2015-04-30 17:39:34 UTC
When it comes to ISK, I have unlimited possiblities when I buy skillbooks,

I don't feel like i'm too much of a 'in-depth' player when it comes to dealing with skills, I guess, I like to have all the skills, all the little nooks and crannies cleared out (I do everything, whether terribly bad, or not.) and being able to skill up these skills from to 1 to 3 is usually fun, I like seeing numbers go up. Its pretty much how I do things.

But in the end, I understand that I should specialize, i'm a miner, but I'd like to do things on the side, and as a newbie, and a ever-thoughtful idiot, I want to DO EVERYTHING on the side. Which is the reasoning for my skillbook hunting.

At least i'm not skilling them all to 5, i'd go insane doing that... The time, the stalling of numbers. That can not happen :(
Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#4 - 2015-05-01 18:14:09 UTC
If you're only training them to 1 or 2 you aren't wasting much time in the long run. Most skills are available in the same station so you shouldn't have to spend much time hunting for them (Getting lots of BPO's is a different story). For skills you are actually using you should probably get them to at least 3 or 4.

Have you experimented with the ship Mastery system? It can give you another way to focus your training.

Mel Kallestad
#5 - 2015-05-01 20:39:19 UTC
Shiloh Templeton wrote:
If you're only training them to 1 or 2 you aren't wasting much time in the long run. Most skills are available in the same station so you shouldn't have to spend much time hunting for them (Getting lots of BPO's is a different story). For skills you are actually using you should probably get them to at least 3 or 4.

Have you experimented with the ship Mastery system? It can give you another way to focus your training.


I feel as if I get my first taste of whatever i'm doing, i'll decide. I'm still very open to being manipulated as long as i'm given a smile and a gentle hand, but in the end. Ship Mastery is something I don't try to follow, since again, i'm that type that loves to watch numbers go up, but once im done with the basics, i'll look around and see what i want to master.
March rabbit
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2015-05-01 23:31:47 UTC
Well. After year of something about it i found myself do the same: collecting all the skillbooks i can find and train.
Never regretted it.

The Mittani: "the inappropriate drunked joke"
Caldari 5
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. S.A.S
Affirmative.
#7 - 2015-05-02 00:26:31 UTC
My 2c worth of advise, Train all skills in the the Race/Weapon System/Tank Type and Drones of your choice, and then branch out in to the others.

Personally I started out with Amarr/Lasers/Armor and Drones(drones are always useful across all races) being able to fly all T1 and then all T2 in Amarrian ships before branching out into the others.

That being said I also bought every skill book and trained it to 2 that I could in the first 3 weeks of my character it does give a pretty good base to start from.