Posted - 2005.03.10 14:51:00 - [2]

 

Unlike most mmorpg's out there, there are no 'classes' in eve. My suggestion is that you read through the Eve New Citizens Q&A forum.

Posted - 2005.03.10 15:30:00 - [4]

 

baiscally create a custom class and make sure you have high intel and memory and low charisma.

That way you'll be better suited to training the science skills, That said in eve you can alter your profession as you go along, the starting character only effects what skills you get given for free, you can buy more as time progresses.

Posted - 2005.03.11 14:42:00 - [6]

 

The starter charachter also affects your starting stats which are inportant for a science charachter.
You need high Mem and Int for the Science tree and the Industry tree.

In terms of what a pure science charachter can do, I would not recomend it for your main or first charachter until you have experienced a bit of what eve is like, say about a month.

Pure Science builds tend to spend a lot of time in stations as their skills for R&D, Science and Industry take up a lot of training time (look at Dr Caymus)and their main interests do not revolve around combat. The other main downside of playing a Science charachter at the moment is lab costs. If you can even find a free lab slot, you need to be generating about 2.5 mil per lab slot every 5 days to cover the rent. And that 2.5 mil is increasing by 5% a week (i think it is 5% a week).
For established charachters this is not a problem, but for new charachters it is a huge cash drain.

Posted - 2005.03.14 13:18:00 - [8]

 

If you want to maximize your training, it's probably best to make a character with a high perception and a slightly lower intelligence. From there on mem and will are equally important (unimportant) and charisma is pretty much useless even if you specialize in trading and social.

No matter your chosen career path, except maybe for the pure builder/scientist (which is only a good idea on second characters or for people who are in since day 1 and are really well established), perception will be the tree you'll be training the most points in.

For combat characters this is obvious, but for miners do't forget both the barge and the industrial skills have perception as primary and the freighther will probably also have that. Perception is also secondary on Nav and drones.

Perception = god. I still regret my base perception of 4...

Intelligence will be next, since it's primary on every support skill out there and secondary on industry. Heck, it's even primary on Science (wtf?).

So if you're under 2 weeks old and have not got a really high perception and a really good intelligence, just make a new charcacter. You'll win out in no time. (Go Caldari Civire with 3 int and 2 per).

Alternatively there is the balanced attribute route, which can be done with either Minmatar brutor and vanilla Gallente. You start with all stats equal, except charisma which is one point lower. It's a good build for all-rounders, I guess.

Posted - 2005.03.23 21:04:00 - [10]

 

Edited by: Quanteeri on 23/03/2005 21:20:18
Edited by: Quanteeri on 23/03/2005 21:05:58
I pretty much totally agree with what Shayla said, with the exception of priority of Perception and Intelligence. The only thing Perception will help speed is your ship handling and weaponry skills, whilst very important, as a Scientist, high intelligence is paramount. At some point, you will also move into industry, it's inevitable. A great majority of these skills depend upon Int and Mem. Also, the Electronics and Engineering skill sets depend on Int. So far that I have found, once a scientist gets bored with research, the best secondary professions are mining and/or EW pvp.

Oh, and pray hard for some CCP/Gallente lovin.

Edit: It is true, there are a great number more skill points that can be earned through percection than Intelligence, but most people will only train a faction of those, as most tend to be specialization skills. Such as say the Battleships skills, its a rare occasion that someone will train multiple BS skills to lvl5, same with weaponry, chances are, someone will train solely in laser specializations and never touch hybrids at all, for example. Where as with the Intelligence based skills, you will pretty much want ALL of them sooner than you will ever want ALL of the Perc based skills. They are, in general, handier across the board.

Posted - 2005.03.29 11:21:00 - [12]

 

Edited by: Bluewizard on 29/03/2005 11:30:13
Edited by: Bluewizard on 29/03/2005 11:24:24
"For established charachters this is not a problem, but for new charachters it is a huge cash drain"

If this is the case, which it is, why bother with making the research facilities so outragiously priced? You end up with the exact same result as before, The original players are the only ones who end up with the labs.

Just a question I've been wondering for the last 4 or so weeks now.