🎯 EVE Online: Starter Skill Plan (Alpha & Omega Friendly)
✅ Trains fast
✅ Opens up multiple career paths
✅ Builds core ship-flying and fitting capability
🧠 Core Support Skills (All Characters Should Train)
These improve every ship and role you’ll play:
| Skill | Goal Level | Why It’s Important |
|---|
| CPU Management | V | Enables more fitting options |
| Power Grid Management | V | Increases powergrid for modules |
| Capacitor Management | IV | Extends capacitor life |
| Capacitor Systems Operation | IV | Faster recharge |
| Mechanics | IV | Improves structure HP |
| Hull Upgrades | IV | Enables better armor tanking |
| Shield Management | III–IV | Increases shield HP |
| Navigation | IV | Improves speed |
| Evasive Maneuvering | III | Improves agility and align time |
| Warp Drive Operation | III | Lowers capacitor use while warping |
⚔️ Combat Skills (PvE & Basic PvP)
| Skill | Goal Level | Purpose |
|---|
| Spaceship Command | IV | Required for most ships |
| Racial Frigate (e.g., Caldari Frigate) | IV | Core ship type for your faction |
| Weapon Systems (your race) | III–IV | e.g., Small Hybrid Turret, Small Projectile |
| Gunnery / Missile Launcher Operation | III–IV | General combat damage bonus |
| Targeting | III | Lock targets faster |
| Long Range Targeting | III | Lock farther away |
| Afterburner | III | Improves propulsion modules |
| Thermodynamics | I | Overheat modules (advanced use) |
⛏️ Mining Skills (Optional, Recommended)
| Skill | Goal Level | Why |
|---|
| Mining | IV | Allows T1 mining lasers |
| Mining Upgrades | III | Fit mining yield modules |
| Astrogeology | III | Boosts yield |
| Science | III | Required for Astrogeology |
| Industry | III | Speeds up production, useful later |
| Drones | III | For defense and mining drones |
🛠️ Fitting & Utility
| Skill | Goal Level | Why |
|---|
| Weapon Upgrades | IV | Reduces weapon CPU use |
| Advanced Weapon Upgrades | III | Reduces weapon powergrid use |
| Repair Systems | III | Enables armor repairers |
| Shield Operation | III | Enables shield boosters |
| Electronics Upgrades | III | For modules like cloaks or sensor boosters |
🚀 Early Spaceships to Aim For
| Role | Ship |
|---|
| PvE | Destroyer (e.g., Catalyst, Cormorant) |
| Mining | Venture (free from career agents) |
| Exploration | Imicus, Heron, Probe, Magnate |
| Hauling | Bestower, Badger, etc. (T1 industrials) |
📅 Training Time Estimate
- Alpha Clones: ~10–14 days for most of this
- Omega Clones: ~5–8 days with +3 implants