Stupid game

[sobrique]

OK, well, Monday again.
Not so bad today. Half term means clear roads and empty car parks.

Saturday ehrine made me play EVE. I'm rather afraid that I'm going to have to kill him for that. Repeatedly. Well, once I've got my skills up and bought a titan.

(dammnit).

Think elite, with all the good bits from the later versions (missions, mining etc.) a few more things besides, a little less joystick, a little more point and click, and multiplayer online.
With skills. That train in real time, rather than game time. Which does mean I'm going to have to log on at about lunchtime to set a new skill training. The good news is that it does (just) work over VNC, so I can :)

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[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Ah yeah. That seems to be the trick
Train level 1/2 and maybe 3 whilst online (although 3 seems to take just about long enough that you can't really leave it overnight, but just a bit too long to do in an evening), and the leave 4/5 for when you log off... After all, it probably won't finish until tomorrow anyway.

[girl-working.livejournal.com]

Also, you can stop training & switch between skills without losing SPs, so I had to leave for work with 4hrs left to train on a 3->4 learning skill... So I switched to a 1 day skill and'll finish the learning skill tonight... Well, once I've done the skills needed for combat in my Moa...

And skill rank (not level, but rank) affects training time, as do learning skills, and it's all very complex... :P I just look at the training times...

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Skill training is easy.
You earn your primary stat + 1/2 your secondary stat skill points per minute. Well + the 'learning' bonus.

That's why the standard advice on training is get memory up, then int, then learning, and then the other stats.

[ehrine.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think the best trick is to alternate mem and int (level 1 mem, level 1 int, level 2 mem, etc) as that way you train the pair faster overall (as all the basic learning skills have mem primary and int secondary). Would need to test that theory at some point I guess.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think mathematically, alternating int and mem till about 3, then learning to 3, And then alternating the 3 mem/int/learn up till 5.

I might try running it through a calculator at some point, but exponential curves with rate differences are just a pain. I think it actually depends on what your basics are beforehand - if you've got a carp memory, then train that really hard first etc.