Just thought since I was doing the whole introductory thing today, I’d also talk about my current Skill Plans while I’m logged in and posting.
Lord Helghast (my main), is pretty much the jack of all trades character currently, he can fly mainly galante ships and can easily solo most L4 missions (actually just moved from a highsec-L4 area (Jel) to another highsec-L4 area, that’s not near lowsec, as in Jel I kept getting damn lowsec L4’s and it was driving me insane no way I’m risking 100+M ISK of Megathron and Fittings because the damn agent keeps sending me into lowsec with it. So far so good in the new Fed Navy L4 spot no lowsec missions.
Lord’s currently training for Mining Barge V, as I said hes a jack of all trades and well during the week I mostly do Veld mining with Nakiti as I’m normally only on 2 hours a day and L4’s can tend to take 2-3 hrs.
After Mining Barge V, I plan to get Exhumers IV so that I can move from my retriever over to a Mackinaw and a Hulk, as I do ice mine in my retriever when Naki and Doc are Ice Mining but its just too damn slow, so the Mack will be nice so i can participate in more corp-mining ops, especially now that we have some Orca’s in the group. The hulk, well the hulk will just mean finally breaking the 4M ISK/hr barrier i seem to be hitting currently on my Retriever with Veld mining, which will be nice.
After i get into the hulk, Lord will be going on a top-up skilling run, basically training all the generic skills from 2 and 3 up to 4, Electronics, Armor Rep, Hull HP etc, as right now i have a few to 3 and a few to 4 but i want to get things up to a nice even setting. And as 4’s for pretty much all skills are relatively short (1 day each) I figure getting everything to L4 atleast will give me a nice boost to my skills and won’t take inherintly long. After that I want to skill up my drone and hybrid gunnery skills (finally want to get T2 hybrid ammo, and Sentry Drones)
Lord FunkyMunky is a bit different as hes just starting (1 week old), he probably has the most defined skill plan to date of either character, hes training straight for a hulk, and then an orca, and the necessary fittings for both (basically added the #1 battleclinic fit for both and did optimize in EveMon).
As it turns out the learning skills recommended by evemon take Funky right up to the end of the 1.6m SP 100% boost. So as he finishes the learning skills, i’ll have the learning skills to finish boosting the regular training, in all within 1 mth i should be in a hulk with both of my characters.
In reality I actually cheated a little on LFM’s skill training i slipped in a few basic skills to finish the tutorial, and also I trained 1 day, to get a Bestower so that while hes busy training for the hulk, he can atleast haul my ore for me during my weeknights of mining on the main. It’s working out quite nicely. For those that know me LFM started as a caldari, so why the crosstrain to a bestower? It’s a better looking ship than the caldari hauler, but thats not the real reason, the real reason is after some forum research it turns out the best L3 Industrial is the bestower for hauling amount, and as i said i didnt want to burn a lot of time out of my skillplan on the hauler, so I only wanted to go to L3. The nice surprise about this is that while the Amarr have the best T1 L3 hauler, it turns out their T2 Transport is also the biggest of all races, which is eventually where i want him to go (transports).
For those going for an alt just thought i’d give you a heads up, on my skill path the books were bought up front at lowest price possible, and totalled around 45M ISK, on top of that I also got him +3 Impants for all except charisma (charismas useless on my alt) and those ran me 10M a piece so in total around 90M investment in my Alt not to mention eventually the hulk and fittings but after that he should be pretty much self dependant. And will definitly pay for himself eventually, as well as be a big help after i eventually get him trained into a remote repper to help on the harder L4 missions.
phantam