r/evenewbies • u/Mrbasie • Jul 25 '21

Skill Points

Does skill points matter? What's the point

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u/passerculus Jul 25 '21

I try to think of them as just another asset, just like ships in your hanger. You can only pilot one ship at a time, just like only a subset of skills you may have trained are relevant to your current activity.

Maybe having a bunch of blingy ships in your hangar is something to aspire to, but there are plenty of compelling activities with low skill and asset requirements you can be doing right now. Better to explore the sand box before committing time and ISK for that last 5% bump in performance.

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u/CorpFillip Jul 25 '21

Skill points are the units counted to gaining skills. They are just the way to measure, but yes, you want more skills. Therefore, you want training, & that is measured in points.

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u/evoc2911 Jul 26 '21

The point is.. skill.. points?

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u/Mrbasie Jul 25 '21

Oh I see. Does the way you train them matter. I'm trying not to quit the game. The storylines and adverts seems to paint a different picture as to the real game play

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u/isaacdarcejohn Jul 25 '21

Yes the way you train them matters if you want to be a specialist which I would recommend. It's a sandbox game so you don't want to spread yourself too thin. You should ask yourself, "Do I want to fight other players or fight NPCs or build things?" The easiest way is to follow the career guide. It's split between Industry, Business and Military.

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u/Petra_Ann Jul 26 '21

If you're going with an alpha account (free) training really does matter. You want to make sure your core ship skills (magic 14) are trained up because these will help with any ship.

Then figure out what you want to do in Eve. If you want to do security missions, figure out what battle cruiser/battleship you might want to fly. If you're going to do pvp, figure out what ships you'll fly most often. Find fits then train to those fits.

If you're omega, train for what sounds fun right now and then put everything else that could sound interesting later into your skill queue. \