EVE General Discussion

With an alpha clone i was in a destroyer in about 2-3 days, cruiser in under 2 weeks that's with tech 1 guns and tank, eve is not the game where you can get end game in a week, you will have to work at the game, master each class, understand how each one works and yes you will need to plan what your doing months down the line.

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I think most T1-Combat ships up to atleast Battlecruisers can be trained to a adequate level in under a month if one focus on training only the crucial skills. It should be noted that this is usually a terrible idea since the new player really should focus on training Core Skills that are useful when flying any type of ship.

I'd personally recommend starting with Engineering, Navigation and Shield skills and as a Caldari I'd imagine you need some Missile training right away unless you choose to fly their Hybrid Turret ships.

Also note that the two ships you looked at are both very specialized T2-ships that quite frankly are not a good idea to fly until you have a good understanding of the game due to the heavy ISK cost of buying both the Ships and all T2-modules (which in turn requires additional traning of skills) that should be fitted on them.

You know what they say, "getting old ain't for p....ies"

eve is serious business. big ships are serious business.
saying you don't have months and years ahead of you to planning a strat or what you want to do.... is just... not eve.
just stick to frigates and destroyers then.

.... or that is what used to be....

now just check skill injectors, plex and char bazar and you are ready to undock.
oh... btw... obviously it has a cost. as everything in real life.

are you ready to pay?

Asking for answers & fire off stuff like "fire more brain cells then the next guy" ...Geez , hehe

Something about this is extremely wrong.

I'm just an alpha, and I just completed Cash Flow for Capsuleers, from a Career Agent.

I have two Merlins, that were given to me in doing Cash Flow. I also have to frigate mining ships that were also given during the training process. I haven't relied on my corp for assistance yet. They're making me do it all on my own.

I'm picking out the skills that will suit me best at this time. The training time is 1/2 Omegas, terribly slow.

I can train now for Destroyers, and in the Advanced Military training, I will get a Destroyer.

As for some of my other Alpha friends, they were in Cruisers in a few days. There was no rush, and I'm in no rush.

For Alphas, we cannot fly our race's battlecruisers, but we can get into a Gnosis. So, eventually I will get into one too for L3s.

Dude, I don't know what you are doing, but there are other ships you can fly. In Cruisers, you have: Caracal, Moa, Blackbird, and the Osprey, and the Navy versions of a couple of them. There are two destroyers, and all the frigates. What do you want to do in EVE?

So two things, either you really don't have a clue, but I will give you the benefit of a doubt, otherwise you're trolling us.

-Viv

Alphas can't fly the astero/stratios due to dual faction frig/cruiser requirements (Gallente Frig and Amarr Frig/Cruiser).

I know. They also can't use cloaks, nor fly the prospect & buzzard that the OP talks about. Which is why I assume he's not an alpha, and get straight into an SOE explorer to make expensive explosions in his first month of play.

Wait till you have to train half a year for one skill to lvl 5 (I totally made these figures up), but by then you should have 100mill+ skill points so meh. That is the hook that is EvE, you do not want to leave because you invest so much time.

I can be wrong here but i thought that the minimum lifespan today is like 65 years for men?
In any case until you have something special you have like 20 years to plan ahead!