EVE General Discussion

As the title says, how much difference is actually made to skill training times, got 400k loyalty points and considering spending them all on buying improved versions of all the attribute enhancers. However I'm not sure quite how much difference this will make as if it will only decrease the time for a 30 day skill to train by a day or something then I'll probably give it a miss and spend it elsewhere.

depending on what your training you could prolly save a couple months on training a year

It won't make much of a difference over 30 days, nothing to justify their costs. But, over 6mos to a year or more, you're looking at shaving half a month to a month off training. It's cumulative for longer plans and effective. Remaps help as well.

Best advice is to make a training plan and stick to it. The worst thing you can do is have one character and try to do everything with it like train for fighting skills AND industry. They're diametrically opposed in terms of attributes. If you're wanting to do more than pve/pvp then it might be advantageous to get an alt. You can always pay one account with a subscription and the other with plex. It's basically what I do. It's not difficult to accomplish. When they both become effective characters in the areas that they're trained it's also not hard to plex both accounts and still maintain positive growth in your wallet.

If you want to do it all with one character then my suggestion is to set all your attributes equal and go for it, remap when they're available.

+5 = 2,700 SP/hour (3.45% better than +4, 7.14% better than +3)
+4 = 2,610 SP/hour (3.57% better than +3)
+3 = 2,520 SP hour

this assumes highest primary and next highest secondary attribute. overall, attribute mapping has more effect on training than difference between +3 and +5.

for example, lowest attributes have 1,980 SP/hour even with +5.

edit -- more succinctly by people above me...

with a focused remap, you're training about 20% faster with the +5s... in other words, a 30d skill (720 hours), will get knocked down about a week (you'll complete it in about 24 days).

yeah, this might not look like a lot for a single skill... but my current skill plan (sans implants) is something in the neighbourhood of 450 days. I can shave off just about 90 days by flying with +5s in my head.

Thanks for the advice, truth be told until I started messed around on evemon I had no idea how long some skills took to train, guess I'll be looking at the 30 day skills more kindly from now on.

At the very least go for +3s. Doesn't need a high cybernetics, and are pretty cheap. (get jump clones too (jump frog are handy here), and split the implants between them. an int+mem one and a perception+willpower one. If you get podded it cuts down your loss by a non insignificant amount.)

They don't need to be equal. Even if you want to do multiple things, you'll still find that some attributes will be more used than others. The answer is still EVEmon. Throw a years worth of skills that you want to train in there, and listen to what EVEmon tells you. Even if you don't stick to it 100%, as long as it's roughly representative of how you're going to train, you'll come out better off than setting all attributes equal.

And if you've got multiple remaps available, you focus time on specific areas. Get 3 or 6 months of Industry skills out of the way, then remap, focus on PVP for a while. That effort requires a set plan that you follow and spare remaps, but it's still better than setting all of your attributes equal

As I live in nullsec and I am fully remapped into only 2 attributes I fly around with two +4's and thats all. Keeps dying cheap.

With my +4's it shaves off a couple of days on two or three week long skills.

If all you really have are short skills (aka less than a week) then attribute implants won't do much for you. If however you've been playing this game for a while and all you have left are long skills then the implants are worth it.