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Derran
Minmatar
Khumatari Holdings
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2007.06.03 02:00:00 -
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So I was pretty bored today and I added up all the skill points wasted as CCP changed the current flavor of the month for ships, weapons, etc. Currently I am sitting at 63,184,559 skill points.
The breakdown (I started from the bottom and worked up):
Spaceship command: 6,615,623 wasted out of 20,980,765
Missile: 1,144,000 wasted out of 6,967,618
Gunnery: 1,785,068 wasted out of 10,119,569
Engineering: 1,213,439 wasted out of 2,983,134
Electronics: 199,765 wasted out of 4,174,443.
Grand Total: 10,957,895 points wasted.
I'd be curious to know how many others compare to that. Oh, and anyone else have a skill that has more points in it than the maximum allowed?
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fullmetalpwn
DEATH'S LEGION
Chaos Incarnate.
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Posted - 2007.06.03 03:02:00 -
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Skill points are never wasted. If you hadn't trained those skills when they were FoTM, do you think you'd be where you are now?
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 Originally by: "Alumion"
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adriaans
Amarr
Interstellar StarShipWrights
Hedonistic Imperative
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Posted - 2007.06.03 12:33:00 -
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Edited by: adriaans on 03/06/2007 12:32:46
Originally by: Derran
Oh, and anyone else have a skill that has more points in it than the maximum allowed?
yes, i do Biology lvl 1 with 252 skill points 
edit: that was from training it from lvl 0 to 1 btw :P
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Derran
Minmatar
Khumatari Holdings
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2007.06.03 12:58:00 -
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Originally by: fullmetalpwn
Skill points are never wasted. If you hadn't trained those skills when they were FoTM, do you think you'd be where you are now?
Yes, because some skills I trained, used for maybe an hour and then never used it again because I either didn't like the module or the ship.
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Washell Olivaw
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Posted - 2007.06.03 14:45:00 -
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So it wasn't wasted. Cause now you know you don't like it. 
Quote:
Everybody has a photographic memory, some people just don't have film.
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Big Al
The League of Legitimate Nigerian Businessmen
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Posted - 2007.06.03 16:51:00 -
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Adding them up was too depressing.
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JoeT
Amarr
Short Attention Span
Nex Eternus
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Posted - 2007.06.03 21:31:00 -
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none :)
i trained what i wanted. screw this FoTM. 32m sp of amarr (and a little caldari, for those npcing needs :P)
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Derran
Minmatar
Khumatari Holdings
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2007.06.03 23:46:00 -
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Originally by: Washell Olivaw
So it wasn't wasted. Cause now you know you don't like it.
So speaks the 1 year old character. One of the many flaws in EVE is being unable to try it like on the test server.
Dating back to a time when specialization was not an option, there must be many others who have similar dead end skills.
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Heikki
Gallente
Wreckless Abandon
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2007.06.04 11:41:00 -
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Originally by: Derran
wasted as CCP changed .. because I either didn't like
So which one you are asking for? Wasted because of changes, or wasted because your taste/plans changed? Would think those yield totally different results.
Lets see:
Corporation - 100% in use (Anchoring)
Drones - 100% Gallente use
Electronics - 99% in use (although some only occasionally)
Engineering - 100% in use
Gunnery - 99% in use (no use for small laser/projectile lv1)
Industry - 0% in use (but all used on some point)
Leadership - 100% in use (enough to be wing commander)
Learning - 100%
Mechanic - 99% used (most rig lv1 skills useless)
Missiles - 0% (now there are wasted 500k, due my own lack of faith in guns..)
Navigation - 100% used
Science - 98% used (once upon time needed some mining skills too..)
Social - 30% used (gave up missioning long ago)
Spaceship command - 90% used (only 'regret' is training for a HAC..)
Trade - 90% used
In summary, almost all my skills get use within say 1 month period (some 1.9M wasted now perhaps, of which 1.2M or so due HAC step). None of them are obsolote due some CCP changes; always due change in my playstyle or plans.
-Lasse
who chose not to follow FOTM path
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Vasiliyan
Dutch T2 Production
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Posted - 2007.06.04 11:58:00 -
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Can I have your wasted skillpoints? [;)]
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Niccolado Starwalker
Shadow Templars
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Posted - 2007.06.04 15:43:00 -
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Originally by: Derran
So I was pretty bored today and I added up all the skill points wasted as CCP changed the current flavor of the month for ships, weapons, etc. Currently I am sitting at 63,184,559 skill points.
The breakdown (I started from the bottom and worked up):
Spaceship command: 6,615,623 wasted out of 20,980,765
Missile: 1,144,000 wasted out of 6,967,618
Gunnery: 1,785,068 wasted out of 10,119,569
Engineering: 1,213,439 wasted out of 2,983,134
Electronics: 199,765 wasted out of 4,174,443.
Grand Total: 10,957,895 points wasted.
I'd be curious to know how many others compare to that. Oh, and anyone else have a skill that has more points in it than the maximum allowed?
There is nothing like wasted skills. If you ont need it today, then maybe tomorrow!
Do you think that peoplpe with 60 mill SP are using everything on daily-or-close-to-it basis? I got skills too I have yet to utilize. But I see their useness. And I know I will use em.
Also balancing always take place. So train skills you feel comfortable with, and see a use for, no matter what the flavor of the month tells you. Because at the end of the day, its still a game!
Have fun! And dont think too much about skills! They are important, but only as a tool!
Originally by: Eldo Davip
PORTRAITS OMFG WOOT.
WE R GONIG FOR MROE BREEE!!!!11
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Corwain
Gallente
Zero Team
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Posted - 2007.06.05 00:54:00 -
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If you feel one of your skills is being wasted, use it! Like before I started PvPing I fancied myself an industialist so I trained for a Mark V. A few months back I saw the skill was going to waste so I fitted out a Mark V for PvP and took it to losec. Killed some ospreys and barges. Better yet some of them attacked first thinking I was after their ore and saved me the sec hit (since I'm not a _real_ pirate.) 
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RedClaws
Amarr
Dragon's Rage
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2007.06.05 10:56:00 -
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A friend of mine trained salvaging 5... thats not just waste of skillpoints but a waste of a perfectly good brain aswell
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Riho
Gallente
Magnificent Beavers
Exquisite Malevolence
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Posted - 2007.06.05 22:01:00 -
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Electronics - 750 sp (target painters... never use em :P
Gunnery - 8750 (small energy turret 3 and med 1)
industry - 20743 (all the damn skills)
Spaceship command - 2929 (amarr frig 2)
i currently have 20,043,988 SP
so not much :) and this is my first char
my first alt has no wasted SP exept one skill... caldari frig from 3-4 (dont need it... should have left it at 3 couse only needed the industrial skill :) she has 11,7mil sp
third alt has quite alot of skills i dont need... but thats due to me buying the char :P
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Anehra
X-Fire
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Posted - 2007.06.06 06:26:00 -
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* My very first character; stopped playing because my ore thieving got me war decked and camped in a station - 100% wasted.
My second/main character;
* Corporation Management 3p (just bought/learned 2 books, 1+2p)
* Electronics 45p (6% done Target Painters 1, he's Amarr)
* Engineering - some points trained in skills just so I can use/train certain ships/modules, but I never use the skill in itself. :(
* Industry 750p (Industry/Refining/Mining 1)
* Leadership 529.543p (Leadership 5, Warfare Link Specialist 4, Wing Command 1 and five Warfare-books with a total of 13p on them) - just to be able to drive Command Ships
* Science 48.177p - to be able to use implants and to use salvager as well as tractor beam.. which I basicly never use on him, rather on Anehra. He PvP's.
* Social 33.919p - no missionrunner.
* Spaceship Command 2.048.000p - Amarr BS 5, total waste. 2.829p for lv2 Destroyers, wasted. Covert Ops (trained before Recons existed), wasted when Recons came, 181.020p.
Nothing wasted on Anehra yet, she's still too young and I'm just training stuff she really need. It'll probably be a couple of months more before she start wasting points on stuff she never will use, just to get access to other things she will use..
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Hakar Kerarmor
Gallente
Arctic Productions
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Posted - 2007.06.06 19:44:00 -
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Missile Launcher Operation - 250 points. That's about it for me. :P
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Mr Friendly
That it Should Come to This
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Posted - 2007.06.07 06:16:00 -
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I'm a Domi pilot... I trained t2 heavies missles, t2 passive shield stuff and Caldari ship skills ONLY for the Drake. I never would have touched that stuff otherwise. I'm sure it'll come in handy *sometime* in the future, though I'm not sure when. There went 2 months and a bunch of isk ( I bought before invention brought the prices down-oops) I should have used for getting a Thanatos instead....
The morale? just do what you want and ignore the FOTM... it'll just get nerfed.
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Draaken
Caldari
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.06.07 13:37:00 -
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4.6m/42.9m (10.7%; roughly 3 months training time) wasted because I hardly ever/never use the modules/ships anymore.
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Originally by: t20
So Let us play and enjoy the game you and I both love on the same level.
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Lucius Cornelius
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Posted - 2007.06.07 14:00:00 -
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No skillpoints are ever waisted.
Every time I or one of my nice comrades in arms pods Mr terrorist Derran his new clone will cost just a little bit more
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xtremecutie
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Posted - 2007.06.08 11:10:00 -
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Get a mothership then tell me no skillpoints are wasted.
14m in spaceship command unused
5m in gunnery unused
4m in missiles unused
4m in various industrial/r&d unused
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Angus Torg
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Posted - 2007.06.08 13:10:00 -
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28 points in Charisma - long term waste?
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Miriyana
Gallente
Galactic Savings and Investments
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Posted - 2007.06.08 17:24:00 -
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I regret not specialising and training learning skills at the start with my main, but that is not to say that any SP are wasted as I do fly the ships I trained for
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Lynal
Gallente
Peregrin Avionics
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Posted - 2007.06.11 00:09:00 -
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Originally by: JoeT
none :)
i trained what i wanted. screw this FoTM. 32m sp of amarr (and a little caldari, for those npcing needs :P)
exactly... fotm... there's a reason it only lasts a month... in a month it won't be so good... short term thinking at its worst.
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digitalwanderer
Gallente
The Nest
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Posted - 2007.06.11 01:36:00 -
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Originally by: xtremecutie
Get a mothership then tell me no skillpoints are wasted.
14m in spaceship command unused
5m in gunnery unused
4m in missiles unused
4m in various industrial/r&d unused
I got it far worse if i hopped on a mothership,since i'm just a little over 2 months away from the 70 million sp mark,and way more than half that total would be trashed,since you can't dock a mothership anywhere,wich means living in it 23/7.
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Cmd Criton
Caldari
Zooner Corp
G.U.A.R.D.
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Posted - 2007.06.11 22:36:00 -
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Id say the only true skillpoint wastage is wanting to climb into a BS asap and not even bothering with training any of those learning skills. I have 3 chars the last 1 i started 3.5 months ago and the first thing she did was get 7 of the 11 learning skills to lvl 5 and the other 4 to lvl 4. It took me exactly 3 months to aquire that as it cost me 3.5M skillpoints apart from getting cybernetics to 4 so that i could use the +4 implants.
Now that she is 3.5 months old she can hardly fly a caracal let alone anything bigger but at least i can train the spaceship command, gunnery and missile skills at 2310 skillpoints the hour. Im averaging an allover hourly skillpoint ratio of more than 2100. Bottomline is that she will have caught up with those "hurry up wanna climb into a Raven" mission runners within about 9 months, and will be close to 20M skillpoints at her first birthday.
I worked out that she will overtake my 2.5 year char within about 2 years. Therefore i suggest never underestimate the power of the learning skills. OK she is my third char, so i planned the primary attribute settings very carefully and also made sure that i chose a race that i would profit most from.
My main char has about 5M SP that i wouldnt say are wasted but that i hardly ever use. Cyno theory is an example of such, its a skill used perhaps 1x a month but then the corp is allways glad that there is someone around that can open them a cyno field.
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