I think I Need To Be Ganked...
It dawned on me recently that I had hit a bit of a dead end in Eve. The dead end is ISK. Odd, though true, I have discovered my capacity to earn ISK has now exceeded my ability to spend it. I'm not a big believer in being a hoarder just to boast of my ISKiness, so I went on a spending spree, spending attrocious amounts on Skill Books on a mid-term plan to gain a 3 in every possible skill that doesn't require training for more than a day.
Not sure if this meets the criteria of the all-purpose specialised in nothing character, but I seriously doubt it. The truth is that there are enough skills useful to me as a future PVP pod pilot that I could continue spending ISK like water for a while yet.
It's intriguing to discover making ISK in Eve is not the biggest concern I'll ever have as a player. I think the skills are the problematic party! I'm currently facing up to the prospect that very soon I'll be facing a period of skill prioritisation where the lengthened training time of multiple days starts to slow down my character growth and push me into a specialised path. ISK may yet again become a factor once I purchase and begin outgrowing a Caldari Drake Battlecruiser, but for the moment I've decided to sit down and think hard on where I, as a PVP character, should focus the upcoming long skills.
At the moment I've spent upwards of a week and a half training for ECM skills, spurred on by the CIDEV Frigate Tournament. In turn, the cap eating ECM modules have sparked a new craze in maxing out all those basic skills like Electonics (which I want for another skill to boost ECM strength). Learning skills to increase skill speed and attributes are again biting for attention. I may actually pull up Battlecruiser 4, and then switch to hitting 4 on all learning skills I can possibly buy the skill books for. Then move to the long haul for level 5 skills in Learning.
The other newly emerging factor is that when ISK temporarily ceases to be a problem, you just know Frigates and Cruisers have reached the point of being disposable. You know what happens when you have disposable ships? You feel less inclined to safeguard them! I think it's nearing the time when I will set course for low-sec and get myself killed a few times over to learn from the experience.
On this random tangent, it spurs the idea that this path is effectively equivelant to paying around 5-10 million ISK a pop to gain Lowsec Survival 5 as a skill
. People who lose their ships on risky adventures and cry about it after really must be irritating to experienced players. Here I am predicting the loss of upwards of 50 million just to play chicken with all takers down in lowsec. Weird attitude on my part? I do have implants in my clone's head, and no, I don't yet have a 8.0 standing to use jumpclones. I pretty much assume after Learning skills and I can live without them for a while continually killing or being killed down in lowsec until I have an 8.0 standing with some NPC corporation.
Maybe I'm just insane? I haven't seen much of a push towards PVP in CIDEV other than the Miss Galancia inspired bloodthirty jaunts after the Eve Tournament (I bet the lowsec oldhands just love the post-Tournament period when everyone want a taste of PVP suddenly
).
I'm no Pirate so I will probably ramble around displaying myself as a bumbling idiot player who doesn't understand anything about lowsec survival, and is therefore so in need of being podded as a lesson. The aim is to attract a fight, get killed, and then figure out how to improve my chances for next time.
Maybe if I ask for directions to Jita in Local it will attract a few vultures?
Not sure if this meets the criteria of the all-purpose specialised in nothing character, but I seriously doubt it. The truth is that there are enough skills useful to me as a future PVP pod pilot that I could continue spending ISK like water for a while yet.
It's intriguing to discover making ISK in Eve is not the biggest concern I'll ever have as a player. I think the skills are the problematic party! I'm currently facing up to the prospect that very soon I'll be facing a period of skill prioritisation where the lengthened training time of multiple days starts to slow down my character growth and push me into a specialised path. ISK may yet again become a factor once I purchase and begin outgrowing a Caldari Drake Battlecruiser, but for the moment I've decided to sit down and think hard on where I, as a PVP character, should focus the upcoming long skills.
At the moment I've spent upwards of a week and a half training for ECM skills, spurred on by the CIDEV Frigate Tournament. In turn, the cap eating ECM modules have sparked a new craze in maxing out all those basic skills like Electonics (which I want for another skill to boost ECM strength). Learning skills to increase skill speed and attributes are again biting for attention. I may actually pull up Battlecruiser 4, and then switch to hitting 4 on all learning skills I can possibly buy the skill books for. Then move to the long haul for level 5 skills in Learning.
The other newly emerging factor is that when ISK temporarily ceases to be a problem, you just know Frigates and Cruisers have reached the point of being disposable. You know what happens when you have disposable ships? You feel less inclined to safeguard them! I think it's nearing the time when I will set course for low-sec and get myself killed a few times over to learn from the experience.
On this random tangent, it spurs the idea that this path is effectively equivelant to paying around 5-10 million ISK a pop to gain Lowsec Survival 5 as a skill
. People who lose their ships on risky adventures and cry about it after really must be irritating to experienced players. Here I am predicting the loss of upwards of 50 million just to play chicken with all takers down in lowsec. Weird attitude on my part? I do have implants in my clone's head, and no, I don't yet have a 8.0 standing to use jumpclones. I pretty much assume after Learning skills and I can live without them for a while continually killing or being killed down in lowsec until I have an 8.0 standing with some NPC corporation.Maybe I'm just insane? I haven't seen much of a push towards PVP in CIDEV other than the Miss Galancia inspired bloodthirty jaunts after the Eve Tournament (I bet the lowsec oldhands just love the post-Tournament period when everyone want a taste of PVP suddenly
).I'm no Pirate so I will probably ramble around displaying myself as a bumbling idiot player who doesn't understand anything about lowsec survival, and is therefore so in need of being podded as a lesson. The aim is to attract a fight, get killed, and then figure out how to improve my chances for next time.
Maybe if I ask for directions to Jita in Local it will attract a few vultures?
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Pick up EveMon. It is very useful in setting up specific skill paths to get you to where you want to be. And its free..
I got Evemon installed only to marvel at all the red entries . Appears I need to be careful about managing training times so I know I don't waste hours here and there between logins when asleep/at work.
Very handy tool though, and it goes to show how important those Learning skills are.
. Appears I need to be careful about managing training times so I know I don't waste hours here and there between logins when asleep/at work.Very handy tool though, and it goes to show how important those Learning skills are.
Something else to speed up training times would be at least a +3 learning implant set. They are relativly cheap now. I recently set upon Galante Cruiser 5 without realizing I was not in my learning clone. Once I got back into the implants (+3 and +4) I shaved nearly 10 days off the training time.
Working on those now actually . Plan is to have a full set of +3s this week (that's upwards of 60mil ISK) which I've been saving towards. The flipside is that I now need to delay any lowsec antics until I can install Jumpclones so as not to lose those expensive implants.
I did a quick calculation using Evemon and taking a target of training up to use Mining Barges (specifically the best one listed) dropped from 66 days to 49 days after including +3 implants and some Evemon suggested Learning skills. (This is the calculation for an alt I'm planning to tackle the mining/industry side of the game to keep my experience varied).
17 days is a pretty staggering difference!
. Plan is to have a full set of +3s this week (that's upwards of 60mil ISK) which I've been saving towards. The flipside is that I now need to delay any lowsec antics until I can install Jumpclones so as not to lose those expensive implants.I did a quick calculation using Evemon and taking a target of training up to use Mining Barges (specifically the best one listed) dropped from 66 days to 49 days after including +3 implants and some Evemon suggested Learning skills. (This is the calculation for an alt I'm planning to tackle the mining/industry side of the game to keep my experience varied).
17 days is a pretty staggering difference!
