Originally by: Rodge

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Edited by: Rodge on 31/05/2005 14:53:08

Originally by: Delacho

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doesn't take 1.5 year for 1 skill, takes about 3 months for one.
i trained (advanced) perception to 5 right away, and after training for BS5, large laser specialisation and some more skills with perception its already payed back

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3 months?

Not even close, my friend

Going to level 3 in any advanced path will pay off reasonably quickly.
Getting to level 4 will pay itself off in a matter of a few months more.
Getting from 4 to 5 takes a while, I'll explain why.

Level 4 advanced learning in perception (say) takes 135,000 skillpoints (give or take)
To get to level 5, you need 768,000, so that's an extra 633,000 skillpoints to get an extra +1 to your perc.

Now, it doesn't matter how long it takes you to train this extra level, it's the +1 that matters.

This +1 to perc, to pay for itself, must personally train 633,000 skillpoints itself (as you could have got those 633,000 skillpoints into another perc based skill, so you could already have a frigate 5 skill from scratch, with skillpoints to spare).

Now, assuming you train only perc primary skills, the +1 to perc will be adding 1 skillpoint/minute to your total.

So in order to pay for itself (633,000 skillpoints for the +1) it needs 633,000 minutes = 10,550 hours = 439 days.

Now, if you have learning level 5, this comes down slightly, as you gain a +1.1 for the extra point of perc.

633,000 skillpoints takes 575,454 minutes = 9,590 hours = 399 days to break even on the skill training for any one advanced learning skill from 4 to 5, assuming you train skills every day of that time with that the associated attribute as primary.


edit - btw. I did all this maths a little while ago. I decided that chances are, I will be still playing Eve in a year and a half, and I am training clarity 5 now on both my characters. Though that's the only one I'm doing....

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