Skill Discussions

Something about 37 years.

Maths.

The approximate number of potential SP in the game is 450 Million. The max training rate is around 2770 (I'm currently not into specifics, too drunk for that). Assuming you, from day one, plugged in a set of +5 implants, and remapped to perfectly train all categories of skills; it would take 22.5 years without losing time due to podding or forgetting to put skills into the queue.

You need them to V to fly a titan (if you're not a scrub), so if you're a titan pilot you want at least one of them to V

Well, let's see…

Corporaton Management — 29 ranks → 7,424,000 SP
Drones — 83 ranks → 21,248,000 SP
Electronics — 71 ranks → 18,176,000 SP
Engineering — 61 ranks → 15,616,000 SP
Gunnery — 178 ranks → 45,568,000 SP
Industry — 95 ranks → 24,320,000 SP
Leadership — 62 ranks → 15,872,000 SP
Mechanics — 137 ranks → 35,072,000 SP
Missiles — 94 ranks → 24,064,000 SP
Navigation — 38 ranks → 9,728,000 SP
Planetary Management — 17 ranks → 4,352,000 SP
Science — 267 ranks → 68,352,000 SP
Social — 20 ranks → 5,120,000 SP
Spaceship Command — 458 ranks → 117,248,000 SP
Subsystems — 20 ranks → 5,120,000 SP
Trade — 35 ranks → 8,960,000 SP

∑ 426,240,000 SP

Trainable at a max rate of 2700 SP/h → 18 years, 7 days, 18 hours, and 40 minutes, at the very least assuming you have perfectly timed (and adequately numbered) remaps.

Of course, over that period of time, we have 4 or 5 leap years (or even just 3, if you could magically start as early as 1899 or if the game survive in its current form until after 2100 AD), depending on which year you start, so if you're checking the calendar for when you'll be finished, reduce the number of days by 4 or 5 as appropriate.

If/when the new ship skill changes goes through, it will add 27 ranks (6,912,000 SP) to Spaceship Command, which will extend the training time by 106 days and 16 hours for a total of 18y, 114d, 10h, 40min.


edit: Oops… remembered the century-leap year rule backwards.

how did you get 27 ranks?

The current Destroyer and BC skills are removed (-3 and -6 ranks) and are replaced by four new Destroyer and BC skills (4× rank 3 and rank 6), for a net total of 3× 9 new ranks = 27.

Of course you do. This is about all skills to V, not all useful skills to useful V:s.

Also, Multitasking V is needed if you fit signal amps or auto-targeters on your Marauder, Logi, Combat Recon, or other ship that takes 10 targets natively.

No, you're quite right.

I've just got the numbers mixed up from all the “onoz, poor newbies/crosstrainers” whines in the feedback thread.
It's only 24 more ranks (3× rank 2 and rank 6).

edit: That's 6,144,000 SP or another 94 days, 19 hours, 33 minutes and 20 seconds worth of training at max speed.

According to my evemon, remapping every year with +5's I will be done in 2037

They've said they will be.

You got it a bit wrong.

They want you to work together with other players since this is an MMO.