Too Kind
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Posted - 2006.06.12 02:57:00 -
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Edited by: Too Kind on 12/06/2006 02:59:55
I agree to a few points:
The learning skills are a timesink and especially early in the game, when you want to advance and people tell you to concentrate on learning skills for weeks.
I also agree that specialising right from the beginning is usually not, what a newbie wants. A newbie, who specialises on elite frigs and t2 guns for pvp right from the beginning is imho rather untypical.Usually 2nd and 3rd chars specialise from the beginning, but not a new player.
I think most newbies want to try out different things like missions and mining, starting with frig, industrial, destroyer, cruiser, battlecruiser, battleship and then maybe interceptors and t2 small guns or covert ops and more t2 stuff.
Or he goes the industrial route, indis, mining cruiser, mining barge, more mining stuff.
Maybe I'd generally speed up learning a bit, like 25-30% faster, but not more. There are so many skills. EVE will shut down long before I don't know what to skill anymore.
But ...
the good thing is that you don't need new skills each week to have fun later.
After being able to fly a few ship types that you need for your daily work, I think you learn to accept the long training times.
I mean you can kill rats or pvp with frigs, cruisers and BS regardless, if you have uber-skills or not, you can mine efficiently without a t2 barge etc.
You don't need to fly dread, interdictor etc. yourself, it's just nice, if you can. E.g. I've trained for an interdictor, a sabre. I have her fully fitted for 2 weeks, but not used in combat until now.
What I really use a lot, is a BS for pvp and making money, an interceptor, an industrial to move stuff and maybe an alt in a covert ops.
At the moment I train for a dread. Takes months. When I'm done, I'll probably use it less than once a week due to lack of opportunity and still mostly fly battleships or interceptors. Then I train months for the next toy that's nice in a certain situation or for the team, but that I don't really need to compete and have fun, maybe a carrier or command ship.
P.S.: And yes, you can buy a char for isk. I've bought one, too, same age of my original main, but better trained and more SP.
Somehow I'm happy that I didn't have the isk for an uber char at that time. I've trained this char from about 12.5 mil SP to 23 mil SP now myself and he has really become my main through that. He was just an alrounder and I've trained for elite frigs, done all the t2 gunnery specialisation, trained battleship to V etc. So he's my child, maybe I wouldn't feel the same, if he had been already a super char with 40 mil SP.
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