Training 101
Training has gotten a lot easier in the latest update on EVE Online. Before you would start training a skill and when it ended start the next one, if you where online to do that. Otherwise when the training ended your character did nothing until you came back. And if EVE happened to be doing a update at the time that took longer than expected, well you just had to wait. Or if you where smart you changed training for one that would take a few days then either switched back when you got on next or just let it run. You don’t lose anything for interrupting skill training so its not a problem switching back and forth between skills.
Now we have the ‘Queue’. That means that if we have a bunch of small skills running from a few minutes to a few hours we can queue them up, as long as they will start in the next 24 hours. The last one can end well beyond 24 hours. And if I need to train something real quick I can just add it to the front of the queue. All praise the Queue.
While I am taking about training, for those that are new to EVE, I want to share a little tip with you. Open up you character sheet, and in the skill area select the ‘settings’ tab. Then select the following settings:
‘Only show my current skills’ – this only shows those skills that you have trained or started training, not all of the skills available or just the ones you have finished.
‘Highlight partially trained skills’ – this will turn those skills that have been interrupted yellow and you can find then easier when you want to restart them.
‘Only toggle on skill group at a time’ – well this one is up to you but I like this one because it just less confusing when going through my skills list.
And finally back in the ‘Skills’ tab, click ‘Open Training Queue’ select ‘My Skills’ from the drop down menu and uncheck the ‘Skills that Fit Within Queue’s Timeframe” box.
One last thing, a reminder to all, at the time of this post we are just a day out from an extended downtime. This is for a small patch that comes out from time to time so it’s a good idea to set up you skill queue for a few days worth of training. Time to set up those level 4 and 5 skills just in case.
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Until next time, Fly Safe
Reggi Mental
