Haoibuni
Blue Republic
RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2012.07.20 10:39:00 -
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The proposal by Malcanis to stop training at a certain amount of SP and train up an alt is deeply flawed as there is no mechanism in place to unlearn skills and reduce your amount of sp.
If we go on the premise that we want to optimally fly our ships, it requires that a day 1 noob:
has to decide what will be the maximum clone cost that he will be prepared to pay when he eventually get there (lets say it will be the approx 90mill clone that takes 4 years to get)
specialise. So he has to have an EFT plan in place that takes him up to that limit as optimally as possible
not spend SP on anything else for those 4 years. If he does spend SP on anything else it means he has to go over his clone limit to optimally fly the ships that are on his plan or change the plan
So day 1 noob creats a Caldari toon. 1st mistake, because in 4 years he is going to be an Amarr titan pro so he has 8000 sp in Caldari frigate whereas that should have been in Amarr frigate (a prereq for the titan) and the 8000 wasted sp could theoretically push him over the clone limit.
Week 1 noob is enjoying frigaes and wants to get tech 2 guns. He can't, not needed for the titan and pushes him over his limit. Same for PI, mining, destroyers, stealth bombers etc
Day 1 noob is clued up and knows about his optimal titan path. Great, for the next 4 years he is going to have crappy frig skills, no dessie skills, no stealth bomber skills etc
Day 1 n00b is clued up and has decided to scrap the titan plan and be a small ship specialist. Now he can't make any decent money as the best bucks come from ratting in a battleship
Now these are all choices. You can train whatever you want but Malcanis's suggestion was to stop training and train up an alt. That only works if you don't make a single mistake. If you do you are flying a sub-optimal toon.
Look at your skills, Malcanis. You have Mining 4 and a load of crap in Social. Mine much? Lvl4 mission much? No, you don't. So those sp would have been better placed in other skillS that improves the ship /modules that you can fly. Therefore, your toon is sub-optimal as you are not prepared to train those better skills as you have imposed a training ban upon yourself.
Have fun flying your sub-optimal toon. Urgh.
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