It has been some time since I wrote certainly one of these talent level milestone posts. Again on the final one, 10 million talent factors in the past, I indicated that I used to be probably going to focus my coaching queue on the alts on my essential account quite than simply pile on extra esoteric talent factors on Wilhelm.
The present state of talent factors
Wil has about all of the talent factors he must fly in any subcap doctrine that’s prone to come up together with supporting abilities for issues like Planetary Business. He can even fly some capital ships, the dreadnoughts and carriers of three of the 4 empires, ought to that ever be wanted.
However I usually solely fly a pressure auxiliary, after which often simply to haul subcaps off to a deployment, just like the latest one to Catch. I’ve at the least realized the lesson of flying out in a subcap, shopping for the ships I would like, then having to get all of that house as soon as we’re performed.
So my alts acquired some love. Final time round Escher Alias… a personality I made as a joke as one thing of an anti-Asher Elias, together with being within the reverse Reavers pose… was previous 41 million talent factors. Now he’s on the 70 million mark and has fairly a bit extra utility worth.
Likewise, Percy Dovetonsils, who I rolled up again in 2007 to see how alts labored, acquired a bit of coaching time, bumping him up from 11 million to 17.5 million talent factors. He’s in one other corp, so can’t do Imperium issues, in contrast to Escher, who’s in KarmaFleet with me, and as such tends to be my car for poking round in excessive sec.
Whereas they have been taking on coaching time I used to be attempting to see how far Wil may get on simply talent level hand outs from CCP for numerous rewards and occasions. About 6 of the final 10 million talent factors for him have been “unearned” within the outdated view of the world, in that they weren’t spent with the coaching queue lively.
I did pull the talent queue again to Wil when some new stuff confirmed up with the final couple of expansions. Have to sustain on all of the contemporary abilities.
One may argue that this milestone is definitely for greater than 40 million talent factors, for a complete of 357 million talent factors throughout the three whole. However I don’t have an 18 12 months historical past of monitoring alts, simply my essential.
The story up to now of those 10 million talent level milestones:
This time round, greater than a 12 months and a half down the highway I needed to do the accounting of talent factors in a considerably extra guide method.
As I wrote about again in June, the varied apps I used to make use of for doing this kind of publish have been decaying from neglect and ongoing updates to EVE On-line. So for many of the final 18 years it has simply been a matter of opening up EVEMon to determine these items out. Now although… EVEMon simply hasn’t been up to date.
My talent queue in EVEMon
It mainly reductions any talent it hasn’t been advised about. So I had to enter EVE On-line and do it the quaint manner.
Now, fortuitously, the in-game show of abilities has gotten higher over time. It nonetheless doesn’t give me all the information in helpful chunks. For instance, whereas I admire that every talent has 5 ranges to it, giving me the sum whole of all the degrees beneath a particular class just isn’t all that helpful. However I used to be nonetheless in a position to patch collectively the totals.
Spaceship Cmd 84,324,675 (77 of 88)* Gunnery 36,431,609 (50 of 64)* Drones 20,618,433 (23 of 28) Fleet Assist 15,872,000 (14 of 18) Missiles 12,252,872 (22 of 26) Navigation 16,096,000 (15 of 15)* Digital Sys 10,874,904 (15 of 15)* Engineering 8,939,855 (15 of 15) Armor 8,238,600 (13 of 13)* Scanning 7,168,000 (7 of seven) Neural Enhancements 6,882,275 (8 of 9) Shields 6,074,039 (12 of 13) Science 5,714,282 (21 of 43) Resc Processing 5,639,072 (10 of 31) Commerce 4,626,275 (11 of 15) Planet Mgmt 4,352,000 (5 of 5) Subsystems 4,096,000 (16 of 16) Focusing on 3,207,765 (8 of 8) Rigging 2,576,865 (10 of 10) Sequencing 2,058,211 (10 of 14)* Construction Mgmt 1,446,824 (6 of 6) Manufacturing 1,157,986 (5 of 13) Social 1,340,785 (5 of 9) Corp Mgmt 24,000 (2 of 5) Complete ~270,013,327
As earlier than, classes that adjustments are marked with an asterisk.
Spaceship Command remained manner out in entrance, even when it gained fewer than 2 million talent factors this time round.
Navigation acquired 4 million talent factors added, largely as a result of new capital micro soar and conduit soar choices for carriers that got here in with Equinox. I felt I needed to practice these… simply in case.
Then there’s a complete new class this time round, Sequencing, which went from 0 to 2 million talent factors, arguably all a waste. I imply, I spent greater than a billion ISK on abilities, and never even all of them, and couldn’t even break even on promoting SKINs on the Paragon Hub. CCP had so as to add a talent to cut back the usury stage of taxation on the entire thing, however the market simply isn’t there for the worth.
A few different classes noticed some small motion, however the above three account for 8 of the ten million.
One factor the EVE On-line in-game UI gained’t do for me is get away my abilities by stage educated. I may, theoretically, go to the UI and rely out manually what number of of my now 380 educated abilities are on the numerous ranges… however I gained’t. It isn’t that attention-grabbing. I had 268 at stage V final time round. It’s in all probability greater than that now. However how far more I couldn’t say and am not engaged sufficient to search out out.
In the meantime, on different fronts, my essential alt on my second account, which may spend months unsubscribed when not a lot is happening in New Eden, additionally managed to hit a milestone, touchdown at 200 million talent factors.
Alt being alts on my alt account
That could be a good 283 million talent factors mixed. Nancy, named for my spouse as a result of they wished a personality title for her go for EVE Vegas again in 2015… bear in mind when that was a factor… after which become a utility alt pilot for delivering subcaps round house. She can also be a impartial most locations, and can’t on-line many of the weapons or modules for doctrine suits, however can transfer stuff round properly sufficient.
So it goes, one other pile of talent factors earned, which results in the everlasting query of EVE On-line, “What ought to I practice subsequent?” For Wil I tossed Leap Freighters on the pile as a result of I may already fly freighters for 2 empires and the fee for the Leap Freighter talent… it was in all probability costly again once they have been launched, but it surely appeared fairly low cost to 2024 me. There are abilities that value billions of ISK, so one for 130 million? I’ll take it!
I’ll in all probability by no means fly one, a lot much less personal one… however you by no means know when the chance may come up.
