Clipped Wings
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Posted - 2004.04.07 07:24:00 -
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So I login before work; I now have about 8 hours before I will back at my home PC so lets say I set a 4 hour train going, that's 4 hours wasted!
I don't suppose there is anyway to queue a skill to train after that? Or some web interface so set a skill? Thanks.
You're new to the game, aren't you?
Don't fret, I can see it in your eyes.
I, too, used to be like you.
Aw, nevermind, the schtick is getting old ;)
When I started playing EVE, I soon found that I began - if not timing, then at least taking into consideration which skills to train when, in particular, as there were many skills to train quickly. Time was lost, but eventually, I learned not to count my daytime in hours until next skill training complete.
AFAIK, I was online some 2-digit amount of hours per day, but let's not get into that ;)
(Hell, our corp even had several EVE-supportgroup meetings, when we realised that several corpmembers shouldn't do well to spend the time online they did :)
As it is now, I am less scared of losing a bit of time. Apart from still, on the odd chance, trying to find some more or less useful skill to train over the night (I want those 5-8 hour skilltraining times for sleep, and 7-9 hour skills for when I'm at work!), I've found it becomes easier with time.
I think the turning point is, when you find that you don't need any given skill to use any given ship/module, only to make it work better, that you start to relax a bit. As it is now, for me, I don't have any immediate skills that would directly affect me (such as learning a new ship to fly, or learning to use a new weapons type)...Eventually, when you hit that spot, you start being able to relax a bit. Also, that is often the time when most all skills are 12+ hours/days.
And I'm by no means an experienced player. There are people out there with 5 times my skillpoints. They, I assume, measure their skilltraining times in weeks, not days. o_O
So, have fun in EVE, and if I should suggest anything, it'd be that you train those skill you want to, instead of those you have to. Believe me, when you come to a certain point, you no longer drool at passing a sun in warp. I used to. Now I, from time to time, feel jaded :/
regards,
-Clipped Wings of LFC
"I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and practical malignity of man."
~William Hazlitt
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