Blue Medusa
Caldari
State War Academy
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Posted - 2007.06.28 00:20:00 -
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Edited by: Blue Medusa on 28/06/2007 00:20:44
 Originally by: Ramjam Giles
Just get all your missile, shield, energy and long-range targeting skills to lvl 4. Cruiser lvl 5 is nice as it gives you around 100km range with your heavy missiles.
I rerolled my 1st character just to specifically play the game with Caracal/Cerberus long term.
I totally agree with your suggestions on which skills are essential, the problem is that people want to pewpew it up in their caracal as soon as possible, but end up getting popped due to lack of support skills.
Assuming a newbie is caldari with military+spec forces training, they can sc*****by and get into a caracal very quickly just by training Caldari Cruiser 1+2. However, flying a caracal at this point is silly because its just an expensive kestrel. You are just asking to get popped anywhere below .5 sec space by someone skilled in a Frigate using electronic warfare - its not pretty.
I'd really recommend just flying a Kestrel for the first 6 days (training the stuff listed below at a minimum before you try use a caracal in lowsec/0.0). After about a week you will have a modest spread of skills that will allow your Caracal to have some bite (against belt rats and low rank missions at least). Don't buy your first caracal until you can fully insure and refit your next one should the first one get popped due to lag or inexperience.
Here's a rough skillplan i'm following for my new character that will give me a comfortable spread of skills within the 1st week.
1. Science III (9 hours, 46 minutes, 53 seconds)
2. Cybernetics I (1 hour, 6 minutes, 50 seconds; 75,000 ISK)
3. Learning II (1 hour, 54 minutes, 12 seconds)
4. Instant Recall I (24 minutes, 2 seconds; 50,000 ISK)
5. Analytical Mind I (21 minutes, 51 seconds; 50,000 ISK)
6. Instant Recall II (1 hour, 37 minutes, 24 seconds)
7. Analytical Mind II (1 hour, 29 minutes, 36 seconds)
8. Electronics IV (1 day, 18 hours, 38 minutes, 43 seconds)
9. Navigation I (14 minutes, 8 seconds; 20,000 ISK)
10. Afterburner I (14 minutes, 8 seconds; 22,500 ISK)
11. Standard Missiles II (1 hour, 46 minutes, 38 seconds)
12. Long Range Targeting I (34 minutes, 20 seconds; 88,000 ISK)
13. Missile Projection I (45 minutes, 47 seconds; 100,000 ISK)
14. Afterburner II (1 hour, 5 minutes, 53 seconds)
15. Navigation II (1 hour, 5 minutes, 53 seconds)
16. Navigation III (6 hours, 12 minutes, 27 seconds)
17. Acceleration Control I (56 minutes, 33 seconds; 40,000 ISK)
18. Evasive Maneuvering I (28 minutes, 16 seconds; 25,000 ISK)
19. Targeting I (17 minutes, 10 seconds; 100,000 ISK)
20. Rapid Launch I (22 minutes, 53 seconds; 40,000 ISK)
21. Target Navigation Prediction I (22 minutes, 53 seconds; 60,000 ISK)
22. Rapid Launch II (1 hour, 46 minutes, 38 seconds)
23. Target Navigation Prediction II (1 hour, 46 minutes, 38 seconds)
24. Evasive Maneuvering II (2 hours, 11 minutes, 43 seconds)
25. Long Range Targeting II (2 hours, 39 minutes, 57 seconds)
26. Missile Projection II (3 hours, 33 minutes, 13 seconds)
27. Caldari Cruiser I (57 minutes, 14 seconds; 500,000 ISK)
28. Caldari Cruiser II (4 hours, 26 minutes, 34 seconds)
29. Acceleration Control II (4 hours, 23 minutes, 24 seconds)
30. Standard Missiles III (10 hours, 3 minutes, 4 seconds)
31. Heavy Missiles I (34 minutes, 20 seconds; 100,000 ISK)
32. Heavy Missiles II (2 hours, 39 minutes, 56 seconds)
33. Long Range Targeting III (15 hours, 4 minutes, 36 seconds)
34. Electronic Warfare III (15 hours, 4 minutes, 36 seconds)
35. Long Distance Jamming I (1 hour, 8 minutes, 40 seconds; 200,000 ISK)
36. Long Distance Jamming II (5 hours, 19 minutes, 50 seconds)
37. Targeting II (1 hour, 20 minutes)
37 skills; Total time: 6 days, 2 hours, 47 minutes, 11 seconds; Cost: [b]1,470,500 ISK[/b
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